The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-22
HOW TO ENTERTAIN.
Mrs. John Sherwood on the
Celebration Of Easter.
: DELIcHTFuL olNNER MEMu.
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In the early days of ecumenicai councils
It was mooted point when Easter should
De celebrated. The converted Jews kept
the feast on the same day as their passo-
yer. the 18th Of Nison, the month CORE
spending to our March or April, but tho
Christian church observed the first Sum
day following this because Christ rose
from the dead on that day. 1t was not
until the fourth century that the Council
OF Nice decided upon the first Sunday after
the full moon which happens next after
the 2lst of March. This contest waged
long and heavily, but the western churches
were Victorious vote settled it.
Perhaps this victory decided the later
and more splendid religious ceremonials
Of Easter which are now much more OBJ
served in Rome and in all Catholic coun-
tries than those Of Christmas. Constan-
tine gratifed his love Of display by causing
Easter to be celebrated with unusual pomp
and parade. Vigils and night watches
are instituted, people remaining all night
in the churches in Rome and high wax
tapers being carried through the streets in
professions.
People in the North, glad Of an escape
from four months of darkness, watch to
see the sun dawn on an Easter morning.
Egypt and is akin to the legend that the
statue OF Memnon sings when the first ray
of the sun touches it.
d he IL No& A1sn
churches the world over. In early days
the fasting OF Lent was restricted to one
day, the Friday of Passion week, Good
Friday; then it extended to forty hours;
then to forty days, showing how much
fashion even in churchly matters has to do
with these. One witty author says that
people who do not believe in anything will
observe Lent as it is the fashion"
Certainly the little dinners of Lent in
fashionable society are amongst the most
agreeable Of all entertainments. For the
creme d erivisse, the oyster and clam
soups, the newly arrived shad, the Goldfish
a la royal and other allurable dainties are
very good, and the dinner being small and
at s O'Clock, which gives long twilight
for the drive in the park, all are very en-
joyable.
A pope of Rome once offered prize to
the man who would invent 1000 ways of
cooking eggs. for eggs can always be eaten
in Lent, and let US hope that he found
him. The greatest coxcomb of all the
cooks, Louis Ude, who was prone to de-
mand carriage and 5000 year, was ia
nous for his ''little Lenten menus and
could cook fish and eggs marvelously. The
amusements of Lent have left for us one
joke in New York. The roller skates, then
q very fashionable amusement for Lenten
afternoons, now gone out, had taken Irv-
ing hall for their playground, and "Festina
lente" (hasten slowly for their motto,
a very witty motto, but some wise mala-
prop remarked: What very happy Sc
lection: festivals of Lent"
However, Lent passed with its sewing
circles and small whist parties, the diges-
ton of the boiled peas which the labor
saving pilgrim wore in his shoes; then
comes the brilliant Easter with its splen-
did dinners, its weddings, its christenings
and candle parties, its ladies' lunches, its
Meadow brook hunt, its asparagus parties.
and the chickens of gayety Matched out
of Easter eggs. 1t is q great day for the
confectioner. In Paris. that city full of
gold and misery, the splendor and luxury
of the Easter egg bonbonnierre is fabu-
lous. A few years since Paris house
furnished an Faster egg for Spanish
infanta which cost $780,
Easter dinners can be made delightful.
They are simple, less heavy, hot and stuffy
than those of mid-winter. That enemy of
the female complexion. the furnace, is put
out. 1t no longer sends up its direful
sirocco behind ones back. Spring lamb
and mint sauce, asparagus and fresh dam
delion salad replace the heavy joint
and the canned vegetables. A foreigner
said of us that We have everything canned,
even the canvas back duck and the Ameri-
can opera.
Everything should be fresh. Primrose
dinners, the ice cream man deyises allie
gorical illusions in his forms, and there
are white dinners for young brides, and
roseate dinners for debutantes.
For q gorgeous ladies' lunch behold .
menu. This is for Easter Monday.
Little Neck Clans
Chablis, Beef Tea or Coneomme in Cups.
"Cotelettes dc Ccrvelles la CARDINAL
Cucumbers.
Little Ducks with Fresh Mushroom
Champagne. Artichokes.
Sweet Breads q Ia Richiieu.
Asparagus, Hollandaise sauce.
Claret. Roman Punch.
Pate de Foie Gras.
Roast Snipe.
Tomato Salad. Lettuce.
Iiqueur.
Ice Creams in Form OF Nightingales' Nests.
Strawberries, Sugar Fruit Nougat Cakes.
Coffee.
OF course q season of such rejoicing when
christians stand praying. each in an ex-
allied attitude, with outstretched hands
and uplifted faces expressing JOY and glad
ness, is thought TO be very propitious for
marriage. There is generally wedding
every day except Friday during Easter
week. The prettiest flower for an Easter
wedding is the daffodil, which can be
massed in great quantities with delightful
effect. Lilacs, lilies of the valley, white
roses and wild flowers are all appropriate
We have not the primrose. unluckily. that
A favorite spring travelling dress for an
Easter bride is fawn colored cashmere with
a little round hat and bunch of primroses
A number of choir boys singing an
epithalamium walking up the aisle before
the bride is new and very beautiful
Easter fashion. A favorite entertainment
for Easter is christening. Christening
parties are becoming very important func-
tons in the art of entertaining. Roman
Catholics are MANY of them so anxious for
the salvation of the little new soul that
they have their children baptized as soon
as possible; but others put off this impor-
tant ceremony until mamma can go TO
church. when little master is five weeks
old. Then friends are invited to the cere-
mony very much in this fashion:
MIR and Mrs. Hamilton request the
pleasure of your company at the baptism
of their infant daughter at the cathedral,
Monday. March 50, at II O'Clock. At
home after the ceremony, Ia West Ellicott
square"
Monv wealthv Roman Catholics NOW