Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
STORIES OF EASTER.
How Marshall ,Wilder's Fighting Egg
Got to tho Pastors Plate.
TWAS FULLOFPLASTER OF PARIS.
How Q Millinsr's Mistake Made Miserable
Woman Very Happy.
THE HEAD OF A FAMILY OF DAUGHTERS
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH j

| WRITTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH.1
Easter Sunday is one of the days that car
arouse more varieties Of emotion in the
human breast than any other date Of the
calendar. There's. no difference as to the
meaning of tho day, but there's an awful
lot in the ways in which human beings take
it. To the good Christians, as we'll as to 9
good many very bad sinners, it means more
than words can tell; to lot Of other
Christians-and sinners, too-it doesn't
seem to mean much except the end of a 40.
day period of short rations and superabund-
ant church services Between these two
crowds there is multitude that thinks
only of what can be got out of it, and
another multitude that devotes itself to
wondering how to get out of it
For instance, there is the married man,
perhaps with lot of grown daughters, too.
Easter smashes his pocketbook as easily as
if it were an Easter egg that hadn't been
boiled long enough. I never see pater
familias going to church Easter morning,
with all the pretty faces of his family
topped off with new bonnets and his own
face covered with an expression of "How-
in-thunder-am-I-to-pay-a ay-all-the-biIls," with
out wanting to crawl into thenearest sanctu-
ary and thank heaven that I never ceased
to be bachelor. ..
It's Money Well Invested.
But why should men, grumble at paying
for anything which brings down upon woman
an actual avalanche OF Sabbatic satisfaction?
As never was a woman, can't know how
foa1 1o in n o. huk
if she feels half as lovely as she looks, I'd
borrow money from my worst enemy rather
than have her go without the handsomest
Easter crown that milliners could supply.
heard good story the other day about
an Easter bonnet. It seems that a lively
Young fellow who had an affectionate wife
was fool enough to 60 and give part Of his
heart to chorus girl at theater. to whom
he gave some presents also In the course
of time Easter approached, and the girl
hinted that she couldn't afford q new bon
net; so did the wife. Like most other
young fellows of the same kind, he ordered
the girls long enough beforehand to be sure
that it would be done in time and be put up
a lot of money for it; then he told his wife
that he would try to economize in some way
so as to give her money enough to buy some
thing that would do. He went out of town
for O few days, getting back the Saturday
afternoon before Easter, and also getting
blast from his wife for forgetting what she
most wanted for the next day, so he hurried
off to the club, first stopping at the miliner's
to make sure of the other woman's bonnet
being done.
Phenomena He Couldn't Understand.
It was; 1t had just been sent out. He
we went around that evening to see it tried
OH, but the young woman sent word she was
"not in," so he went back to the club to
drown his sorrows in the flowing bowl.
Next morning when he awoke his wife was
on her knees by his bedside, kissing him
and calling herself all kinds of beasts for
having been cross to him the day before,
when he had all the while been planning so
delightful surprise for her. While he was
trying to get wide enough awake to know