Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-18

light ought 20 bring them into blossom
for the next Easter. They can also b.
grown in water in hyacinth glasses
The water is kept sweet by & lew D1I
of charcoal
Keep Easter pansies until May in
doors, then set out in good. vel
drained soil. in southeast exposure i
possible. Hot sun is bad for tn,
pansy; also earth that dries quickly
Sandy loan, mixed with leaf mold anC
rotten manure. is best. Keep plant:
well watered. Young plants Civ,
larger blooms than old ones. Pansie:
can be multiplied by pegging dow1
new ShoOtS-that is, fastening then
under the earth by a wire or peg.
and covering the place with sand. The
tops project. When growing we'll sep
arate from old plant. Seeds can b.
sown in fall for winter blooming ant
in April for summer blooming.
That Bonnet.
What a bonnet it was, The very
bandbox that it came in seemed to ap
preciate the value and magnificence i
.contained-sucha substantial. we'll var
nished, responsible bandbox. Up t.
the steps the messenger carried it anC
rang the bell. Her husband felt 6
chill come such as that we experience
when. according to the old gossip
somebody walks over our future grave
1t was Easter, and if one can't have
a new bonnet after the Lenten depri
walton and abstinence, when is one
entitled to one anyway?
Mrs. Frontpew tried it on in the par
lor and said her husband was duck
Never was there a husband so gooC
and kind and with such taste.
The doorbell rang again. Another
messenger boy came up.
This is Mrs. Frontpaw's bonnet,
said the messenger. The other one
was left by mistake. 1t should have
gone to Mrs. Slyly, next door,"
With a blanched face she gave bach
the bonnet and looked at her own
Bird for bird, feather for feather
flower for fiower-it was the same as
the other.
That is why Mrs. Frontpew was not
in church on Easter and why Front
pew has been taking supper down
town and looks like a man upon whom
great woe is fallen.
How could he tell? The millinel
merely showed him pretty headdress
and he ordered one made up like it,
But that's like a man.
In Gay Paris.
In the great Catholic churches a
beautiful old custom is revived. The
men Of the congregation form a process
sion during an interval in the mass and
with lighted tapers in their right hand
move slowly toward the altar, slowly
chanting the hymn Christ Is Risen
The altar rails are decked with fine
cloth and garnished with flowers and
green's. Behind them are a number of
priests in stately robes, who admins
ter the sacrament to the members of
the procession as, in passing, they
kneel down on the communion steps.
1t is a great democratic demonstration,
in which the deputy elbows the blouse
man and the petty storekeeper
fraternizes with the senator. After
vespers the "grande pelecrinage" to
MOntmartre takes place Hundreds
and thousands of men, women and
children toll up the steep streets in
solemn procession TO worship at the
shrine of the Sacred Heart and receive
the benediction from the loggia Of the
Basilica.
The Eas .er egg is in Germany a ma
tiOnal institution, an inheritance from
the heather Teutons, sanctioned by
Martin Luther, who pronounced the
egg IAN emblem of the rising I'D out
Of the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ"
'In the same manner as the chick,
entombed, as it were, in the egg, is in
due time brought to life, so did our
Lord arise from the grave to give us
life said the great reformer.