St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-29
HOLY WEEK FANCIES.
Some Of the Social Observ-
ances Demanded by the
Present Season.
Pretty Ideas Of Table Deeora-
ton and Appropriate
Menus.
Stumbling Blocks in he Week
Which Precedes Easter
Sunday.
Easter Cards and Presents
and the Decoration Of the
Churches

This Is the mld-Week day OF molly
week-the week sacred to the memory
of the trial, sufferings and death of
Jesus, the hope of the world. There
are certain observances that make holy
week difficult one to master. Human
weaknesses are never as paramount;
the tleshy things of life seem to US
necessity. The brain feeds upon Itself
and becomes torpid. Serenity of speech
ana manner is attained only by the most
strenuous efforts. After all, there are
only six days In which penance must be
done, but each day seemingly has in
it forty-eight hours, and when
Saturday arrives, if it were not
for the promise and hope of
new life to be found with
the dawn of Easter. existence W ould
indeed be uncomfortable. The most i'm
mortal social achievement is success
fully to entertain in holy week. Our
friends will visit us. you know, even at
such time, and food must be provided
for them. The season demands OBJ
servance, and yet social duties deserve
recognition. The decorations of table
should be mathematical. and the menu
appropriate to the season of fasting.
Only white linen should be used. The
china as nearly white as possible.
Violet and amethyst, significant Of Suf-
fering, are the only permissible colors.
If any green is used with such flowers
as violetS, purple hyaciDths, clematis
or orchids it should be in small guam
titles.
Green Suggests Spring.
hope and victory, which makes 1t inap
propriate. Gold dishes, spoons or forks
are not allowable. The inventing or
even finding of suitable edibleS is a
complicated and perpleXing task; an
early Easter makes 1t dOuDly so, for the
markets are in transition state and
daintieS of all kinds are difficult to pro-
cure. st. Paul is never so far from the
sea as during Lent Oysters and clans,
however, are in moderate state of eX-
cellence and serve we'll to use for a first
course. Bisque of lettuce as a soup.
Next, broiled slad roe, and with it Gu
cumbers. An artichoke with a sauce
hollandaise as an entree. A yol-au-vent
of lobster substituted as meat course,
followed by caulifi0wer salad. Omelet
Souff1e la creme as dessert. Purple
Hamburg grapes as fruit.
There are many stumbling blocks in
the week preceding Easter. One is
unfit for work and effort of any descrip-
ton, but the Easter offerings have to be
purchased, and they must be selected
with judgment. The gifts certainly
have to be compatible with the senti-
ment of the festival. and to have them
such one has to think deliberately. If
this shopping could only be accom-
plished after Easter, it would be done
with zeal. There is literally everything
under the sun to choose from. Above
all other gifts flowers are the most
lovely, for they represent a new life.
All flowers are beautifully appropriate,
butyellOW and white are most 50. yell
low,
The Emblem OF the sun,
which is the goodness of God. White.
purity. The shops are full of pretty
offerings. Dainty handkerchief china,
with panSies and VlOletS gracefully
dropped, as it were, on their highly
glazed surface. There are to be found
in this ware, which is Berlin or MeiS-
sen. cups and saucers, wall pockets,
inkstands, picture frames, calendar
holders. pen trays, penhOlders and can
dleStcks. Books of all kinds. in bind
ings of white and gold. lig hit spring
green covers with band-painted punches
cards with Easter sentiments in illu-
minated letters; but cards are mis-
take; it is deplOrable waste of money.
One can buy book with sweet and last
ing thoughts that may blend the senti-
ments of the day with lasting infOrma-
ton for the same sum of money as that
expended for the card, which has only
transient existence.
Remembrance in Silver
are always in vogue. There are many
novel, yet useful. examples. Tumble
cases in the shape of eggs. also tape
measures and emery balls; little eggs of
white wax lncased in silver and eggs for
darning stockings on. Positive works
of art are found in the enameled crosses;
they are both white and violet in color,
with a row of rose diamonds imbedded
in the outlines of the cross, the stones
only showing when the cross moves.
BonbOn boxes are as fantastic and end
less in their variety as ever. Straw
baskets tied with gorgeous bows of
satin ribbons, and punches of flowers
of the same tonality. There are violet,
buttercup, rose, jonqull, daisy, hello
trope and lily of the valley boxes gar
nished with the blossoms they repre-
sent. The custom of decorating churches
at Easter is the I1Ost lovely Of churchly
sentiments. The banking with flowers
Of memorial windows is an exquisite
establishment, and it can be accom-
plished artistically in many different
ways. The ivy leaf with its immortal
green is always beautiful. Ferns used
as foundation background. with yellow
and white tulips, jonquilS, yellow roses
or the white-centered narcissus, are
most appropriate and effective.
The Easter Lily
in all its regal dignity is 1T this festival
the queen of flowers. Easter is the Sun
day of all others that is given over to
entertainments; it is in every meaning
OF the phrase feast day. Luncheon
and dinner tables should be decorated
with yellow. Gold dishes of all kinds
used in numbers, as well as the gilt and
white china and the English glass. with
its band of gold. The linen ought to be
embroidered with, say, design of but
tercups or an open work damask over
yellow silk. The effect of the table
Should be veritable sun nimbus and
the menu chosen with an idea~of yell
low tone throughout, which can be ac-
complished in the garnishlng of dishes
with rose petals and little of the foil
age: also by the use of fruits.
Faster is at least one day on which
hospitality assumes command and occu-
mes in truthfulnesS its honest position.
A smile of good will lights up everyone's
face. UnselfiShnesS is not assumed; 1t
is matter of natural instinct. No one
is allowed to feel uncomfortable. Hob
bies are fOrL often; unkindlineSS crowd
ad ont. hanDineSS is universal.