Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-02
THE EASTER BELLS.
HEY WILL RING OUT FROM TIE CHURCHES
THIS MORNING.
lone Random Thoughts Suggested by One Of lh'
Creates. Of Christian Fsshyals-Ihs
Demand Tor Flowers Bonnss
and Candy Eggs

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II there is one day in all the year
which II we could, we would have
made TO order it is Easter Sunday.
There Is hardly woman or man, maid or
child. that does not yearn, nay pine
FOR bright, balmy, sunny weather on
that day. This is especially true Of the
ladies. for it is the day Of all days when
thew are most DESTROYS Of exhibiting
their spring fnery, Of breathing once
moro the pure, outdoor air, or
feeling To ConSOnaDce with Iouh-
tlful, kind nature, which Is Just De-
ginning 70 empty her cornucopia Oh
splendid gifts over hill and dale. III IS
a day for which every rlght-minded lady
In the land has been signing for Several
months past-the day on which she
fondly hopes 20 triumph over her rival
or rivals. 20 outshine all other LADIES'
and especially that odious Mrs. Jones'
or that hateful Mrs. Smith, who
bv the way, are her dearest friendS-1
Won believe what she says. The weather
department has promised bright and
sunny day-a trile cool, perhaps, out
stiu pleasant day upon when
sDlinR raiment and the dainty
creations of the milliners, will not
be ont OF ulace-but who can say
how this hope and prediction VIII oe re-
alized9 Our climate is notably whlmSI-
cal aud uncertain, and the worst thas
is TO say, rain may happen Just along
about the time the church bells are
ringing out their joyous pesls THIS morn
ing and while the ladies Of the several
CONGREGATIONS are auXiously inQuirlng
II their several and individual hats are
on straight. But let Us hope for the
best and an go TO church, whether 10
rains or shines.
What rush there was for flowers,
Yesterday and last night. The buds
and blossoms Of early spring have been
in exceptioual demand for several days,
aud i'm anticipation OF big sales the flor
lists laid in unusually large orders, but
even the most experienced did not an
ticiDate the great demand which
set in Yesterday aud kept no
until a late hour last night and
the result was that soon after
dark the most desirable flowers were oil
gone, and one store was completely sold
out of everything by S o'clock. Roses
were particularly hard to get, and those
who put of their purchases or orders
until last evening, found they were TOO
late, or else had 70 do some tall hustHng
about the flower stores. Even Jacks az
s. per dozen were snapped up 10 short
order by despairing young men
or disappointed ladies, and the
few roses OF cheaper sorts TO
be had after Candle-light dis
apueared as if by magic. A small for
fortune must have been spent for
flowers in Wheeling yesterday, and they
will be seen to-day IN all their beauty
and freshness.
The average Wheeling lady took
large and angular package home with
her yesterday or last evening. Its out
lines often suggested a box about q foot
SQUARE. and likewise a bill. When the
package didn't look like box it par
took something OF the shape OF a
peck OF something or other, Of fragile
nature, and in every case lt
was carried with a care and cOnSidera-
tion which after betrayed itself In
most palpable fashion, These packages
each contained a new hat or bonnet,
and accounted for the rush and jam
and the hurrying TO aud fro observed IN
the millinery stores for some days past.
The crop of this sort of thing seems TO
have been an unusually bOuntiful one,
and the demand was equal TO the sup
ply.
one or the most characteristic Easter
customs, aud one very widely dihuSed,
IS the use OF Easter eggs. There can
be little doubt that this custom was
originally symbOlical Of the reviyicatiOn
OF nature-the SDringing forth OF life
I'm spring, aud all that sort Of thing. II
is also quite clear that this custom, so
far as Engiish-speaking countries are
concerned, is of pagan origin. The name
OF Easter itself was beQueathed TO Us
kv our Pagan ancestors, for 10 is a
slight modification OF the name OF the
goddess OstarG or EaStre, the personiii-
cation of budding life in the springtime.
The Anglo-SaxOn name for April was
EstormOnath, and In modern Germany
IL is stlll known as OStermOnat, the
name OF the festival itself being Ostern.
But the original idea was 20 talk about
egQs-Easter eggS-and not 20 discuss
hoary traditions or Pagan myths. The
Easter egg Of our childhood was natu-
raj. ordinary, every day egg; just q
common, plain hens egg. But 10 isn't
now; that is, our childhood
isn't now, and the hens egg
isn't in it. The children Of to-day take
rather more kindly to the egg brought
into being by the cOnfectioner's art, and
they were sold by thousands yesterday,
atall prices, from the little one for five
cents TO big, complicated and attractive
sorts Al a dollar each. People jammed
the confectionery stores last night after
these sugary substitutes for the natural
product OF the domestic fowl, and bar
rels OF them were carried of for orna-
ment and use to-day. The physicians
and druggists looked upon this Amor
mai demand for sugar in an unusual
form with entire cpmplacency. They
will have their innings iater-when the
eggs are eaten.
Strange as it may seem 70 some super
fetal minds, all this buying Of flowers,
and bonnetS and eggs and hats, &C,
has q connection with religlon-but, as
the lawyers say, it's pretty remote, gem
orally speaking. There is a religious
side to the matter, however, and 70
some 10 may be necessary 10 recall the
fact. and TO say that ther4 will be more
or less elaborate musical programmes
a. tho ohnrehoG TO-DAY thaf the nlopnS