The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-11
EASTER SUNSHINE.
The Jersey City Girl, Like
Her Sex the World
Over, Longs for a
Bright Day.

The average Jersey City man, no doubt,
feels a great deal of interest in tomor-
rows election. but he certainly cannot
feel more interested in its result than the
average Jersey City girl does in whether
next Saturdays weather predictions read
warm and fair" or rain and colder"
The latter would be almost as cruel as If
Edward 7. Mclaughlin were elected
Mayor. We wish it might be as unlikely.
at any rate, every mothers daughter will
plan, and anticipate In the hope OF fair
weather until the great Easter day ar
rives.
There is no holiday Of the Church or
State which is SO essentially a day of re-
joicing, a day of bidding one and all out
ms Easter day. Nature harmonizes with
the sublime act of the Lord. and shakes
off her cold, heavy burial garb. She
bursts her bonds and 10, spring has
come. Out of the grave has q Saviour
arisen, cut of buried seeds have beautiful
flowers come, from the cold earth nature
in all her glory has burst forth to greet
the risen Lold. And il q few showers
mai the day, they almost seem symbolical
| of great rejoicing aud overlooking joy.
o ALL IDLE VANITY.
When one considers then, that all ma
| ture will vie to celebrate The day in her
newest and brightest, surely it will not
| seem idle in woman to admit that she is
! keeping her best of fine array to come
forth in it next Sunday. She will keep it
| buried until then. There Is hardly Il
woman who will not confess TO a super
| stition about wearing something new on
| Easter; il she can get nothing else she
| will get a yellow garter.
- r @ arSutn N ba n1aoft0n nf dracgin ~
up on Easter with an ardent church wom-
an recently, her opinion on the subject
was thus given:-
II try to keep Lent faithfully, giving
up much OF which l am especially fond. l
always look forward with pleasure to
Easter splendor in art as well as nature.
A few years ago at Easter l realized that
I was too conscious OF the attractions of
dress at the morning service. Since then
| have made a point of going to the early
communion service at half-past seven
o'clock, in my plainest gown and oldest
bonnet. Thus | can give all my thoughts
| to the service and When, AJ The Later SER
vice. my eyes and thoughts wander some
what, l do not feel quite so culpable."
BoNNETS.
And now to the practical part of the
day. We have discussed spring gowns
and wraps recently, but have left the bon
NETS and hats, really the most important
l utlAll VI II eS"AA~p ~ hHH AN1Cs
It's a little thing. u bonnet. but volumes
might be written about 1t, and many u
woman's happiness may be materially
| lesseped or Increased thereby.
In the beginning of tho season many
| women rebelled somewhat against tie
| long streumers of heavy ribbon worn at
the back of hats and reRcaiDg below the
waist line. Having grown accustomed.
however, to seeing them, many have cou-
sented to TRY them" The writer's pre-
| iudice against them has been so far over
come as for her to believe that for peo-
| nile who like that sort of thing. that's the
very sort of thing they would like"
Generally speaking. all hats have wells.
The latest styles are very pronounced
and need some assurance for the wearer
to look unconscious in them. The Hading
veil has been introduced in white. Very
large wells of the heavy mesh called tux
edo reach almost to the waist line in
front and are gathered III pIaits in the
back fastened to the hat and allowed to
float in the air. Ali black hats. bonuets
and toques, with color introduced in the
trimming, preferably in lovely Freuch
flower wreaths and clusters, still retain
their vogue for dressv wear. Leading
colors that run through all grades of fine
millinery are the yellow tints from cream
10 buttercup, green from the whitish
"Danish rose" green and maple-leaf to
moss and myrtle, including the range in
the yellow greens-willow, salad, etc.
and those OF the lizard or blue-green dyes.
There are scores of lovely gray tlnts, and
the roSeate colors deepen from cameo and
seashell to the dark English danask red.
The very newest shapes almost seem an
exaggeration of novelty and are rather
startling, as their names will show. Per