St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-03
A GLAD, BRIGHT DAY.
Easter DaWned, Balmy and
Glorious, Crowned With
Spring.
A Vernal Sun Beamed Upon a
Conservatory Of Bon
nets.
Beautiful Picture OF the Cor
geous Day. in Churches
and Out.
The Glad Awakening OF All
Nature From Lent'S Som
Der Sleep.

Yesterday was an ideal Easter day,
and was more generally observed than
ever before. The bright spring sun
shine, the balmy air and that sense OF
light and Joy that the season always
brings. conspned to induce the people
of our city to don their "best bids ana
fuckers and come out of doors. The
streets were thronged as the hour for
morning service III the various churcheS
approached, with a moving crowd. whose
bright faces, gay tones and soil laugh
ter atteSted the pleasure all felt III the
return of spring. The crowd was very
well dressed. New bOnnetS, or OohhetS
not so new, but made gay with niue
knots of violetS, or other delicate How
erS, there were, of course, though the
dark shades of ribbon or velvet that the
last few years have made popular ma
terial for head gear, gave rather mo-
notOnOuS tone 10 every crowd. y lew
new bOnnetS that
Were New BOnnets
were seen. Airy CONNECTIONS, these, of
openwOTK. iace-like straw decked
with flowers so lifelike that even those
should stray that way might easily
mistake them for fields that would re-
pay investigation. Or, If one preferred.
there were bOnnetS OF graYer style
whose "tip-tited' fronts suggested long
gone days of yOre when bonnetS We're
things of weight; and the "Dunstable
straw or Milan braid" or rarer Leg
horn" expected and received re-
spect and many transformations
on the mIlliner's block. These
great, very great, granddaagh-
tiers of those economical styles
will never know why their sponsors
were so popular. The frall things are
meant for only one seasons wear ana
will not OutaSt their meaning. New
dresses there were also to be seen. All
the soft tints and pale colOrs, or scarce
" any color at all, i'll soft WOOL goods,
that fashion has decreed again for
spring wear, were TO be seen. ''Eml-
nence' is the name some shades or pur-
pie are called, and they are eminently be
coming to fresh faces with dark hair
and eyes. \ softer shade, a rosy hello
trope, in one dress noted, was lovely.
Soft browns. trimmed with deeper
shades. made in the new umbrella
styles,
Were Very Fetching
We may iibe at incoming fashions as
we will, but when they are here we all
admire them. 1t is not the fashions
themselves that offend, but their eX-
aggeratiOn and caricature by some soul
less wielder OF the Faber. who delights
in nothing so much as to take the wind
out OF our sails" of satisfaction IN our
purely feminine belongings.
With whatever gown she wore, the
average woman wore flowers yesterday.
Flowers Of all kinds and colors, from
tiny spray of lilies of the valley with
its waXy bells, or fragrant bits of shaded
purple heliOtrOpe, to roses slngly or IN
punches, yellow datfodils, waking
memories Of Old-fashiOned gar
dens. caught like prisoned sun
beams on beauty's breast; spicy
punches of carnations. red or white; and
ever welcome. never tireSome viOletS.
n or had any man a monopoly Ill new
clothes. Our brothers or husbands, or
SONS or sweethearts came out in new
spring raiment. and looked with their
trim coats and natty hats and pretty
ties, lust lovely" as heard a pretty
girl on cable car tell the one beside
her-her sweetheart If mine eyes de-
ceive me not. And they also wore
flowers and carried canes in their newly
glOyed hands. and loOked-well, very
English, | suppose they would like to
have me say, as they strobe along With
those aforementioned canes grasped
about the middle, as if in search of
some "dastarG knight on whom to
Wreak Dire Vengeance.
Truth, however. cOmpels me to say
that the dear fellows looked only like
what they really were, the handsOmeSt,
incest, dearest, most delightful and
courteous Of created beings real Amer
lean men. Could they desire or the
gods confer more?
At the church door crowds were gath
cred for an hour before the time an
nounced for opening services. Pew
owners, as rewards or merit, or perhaps
in the spirit of the declaration that ito
him that hath, more shall be
given" were allowed to slip in
at side or back doors with their
special friends, and newspaper people.
and be comfortably seated before the
front doors were opened to the crowd.
And this crowd, taken as whole, was
arather irreverent crowd, most OF whom
were moved by spirit of curiosity to
see how other people. not perhaps of
their faith, kept this joyful anniversary.
Some OF them forgot that they were in
the throne room of the King, and acted
more as if they were at the play. Here
and there, however, earnest faces were
seen, strangers perhaps, these, who
sought to show their loyalty to the Mas
Ter by coming to His house, even though
filed with stranger children, to keep
His feast in memory of that Sabbath,
more than eighteen centuries ago, when
the sunshine of
m
frightened not only the narrow streets
and the gentle hills of old Jerusalem,
but shot a ray on into the ages. that
lights the shadows cast by loss and sOr
row today. Then how beautiful the
churches we're What wealth of green
and bloom. Looking at the altar we
thought
in the beauty of the lilies,
Christ was born across the sea-"
And half paraphraSing continued:
LAS He died to make men happy,
Let US strive to make them free"
While for a moment, perhaps, faint
hint of the beauty and Solemnity, the
power and magnitude of the event we
celebrated stirred both heart and mind.
Then the music-sO different from
that of the last sorrOwful weeks. Even
those Of our brethren who do not strictly
keep Lent as a time of religious OBJ
servance had prepared special service
of song. Don't YOU remember such a
little while ago, when people objected
to allowing the worship of God 'by ma
chinery." as they bluntly put it, and
even refusel. poor things, To sit In the