The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25
LENoRE SHERWOOD
Tells About Easter Sunday in New
York--The Trilby Fad
Cocktail Drinkers.
SPECIAL coRREsPoSpEScE TO THE NEWS.

The great Easter parade is one Of the sights
Of New York and one of the oldest customs ON
record.
II originated in the old Dutch and early
Colonial days, when the fashionable elements
Of the city lived on the Bowery. then lane
running along the farms, or "Beweries," on
the northern out skirts of the city.
On Easter Sunday the quaint lassies and
laddies walked home from church, attired in
their new garments, and paraded ON lower
Broadway from City Hall to Bowling Green.
Gradually the parade ground shifted up to
lower Fifth avenue, extending finally to the
limits Of Central Park.
They say there is nothing in the world that
compares to the Easter procession on Fifth
avenue after church for utter gorgeousness
and magnifcence.
Between the hours oftwelve and two Easter
Sunday, there was hurrying, surging crowd
that reached high tide at about one o'clock. /
think am safe in saying that there was q
hundred million dollars represented in that
famous parade.
Such marvellous creations in silks, velvets
and rare stufis, such diamonds and precious
stones, and wonderful hats with their import
ed flowers, buckles and plumes, such gorgeous
wraps such dainty laces, jets and passamen-
terie, such fine gloves and shoes and unique
walking sticks, such ultra fashionable clothes
of the latest English cut!
Then the wealth of Spring flowers that were
worn filling the air with their perfume; great
punches of violets, pansies deep hearted roses,
rare orchids and fragrant lilies! moving
panorama, waving line of color, and an ever
changing rainbow of shades and tints as far as
the eye could reach; a symphony in color,
hot-house garden in rose perfumes
A something that can not be described and
only remembered as brilliant calvacade, be-
wildering and sparkling and teeming with
life and art.
About two o'clock the elite leaves the pro-
cession and from then to the close of the day
the avenue is given over to the upper strata of
working people, who only differ from their
forerunners in the texture of their attire and
the manner Of wearing it.
THE TRILBY FAD.
New Workers are called the most tickle peo-
pie in the world; swayed to the widest enthus-
iasm by every craze, only to surpentitiously
drop II for new sensation.
The Napoleonic craze which for a time
reached such heights, is now utterly forgotten
and nothing is left of it but few gowns of the
Napoleonic people and an occasional piece of
furniture of the First Empire.
The Trilby fad is still holding high carnival
and received fresh impetus by the dramatiza-
ton of the novel. The play is meeting with a
tremendous success here.
"Are you going to Trilby2" "Have you
seen Trilbyf' "What kind of foot has Tril-
by2' "Do you like Trilby2" rs
Trilby the play equal to Trilby the
novel;" etc, etc, are the principal topics Of
| conversation.
People are now Trilby mad, and the ques-
ton is will the book live and become stan
dard, or will it sink into oblivion, like thou
sand others2
ROLLER SKATING REVIVED.
Sometimes old, old fads are revived after
years of retirement. This is now true of roller
skating which has taken on new lease Of
life.
The Thursday Evening Club, composed of
fashionable men and women, have taken II up,
which means the roller skater craze in short
time.
Visions of abandoned skating rinks, promis-
ciOus airtations, miscellaneous assemblages,
gum chewing, dilatory school girls, fresh
youths and bad orchestras haunt me, but of
course, roller skating in New York eventually
means skating everywhere.
HAVE YOU HAD THE MUMPs?
There is quite an epidemic of mumps here
now, and strange to state, il is confined almost
entirely to grown people. 1t is almost as COM
mon as grippe was during the early winter and
physicians are puzzled to account for it.
went to visit some artist friends and three
of them leaned over the banisters as l went up
stairs and called down.
'Mumps, don't come up"
But had had them-it is hard say had it
and went up. Three handsome girls, swollen
beyond all recognition and in spite OF their
misery had to laugh.
/ did not laugh SO heartily, however, in a
| few days, when | awoke one morning with
one side of my faceOut ofproportion. 1t seemed
that had only had it on one side before.
SKIRT DANCING CHILDREN.
Skirt dancing among school children is as
popular here as hoop rolling and rope jumping
is in the West. After school hours groups of
children may be seen in front of every avail
able hand organ on the street, dancing the
skirt dance to the organs tune.
| There are always crowds of spectators, be-
cause some of the children dance very prettily
and it is always amusing, and l have discov-
cred some of the spectators are expected to pay
for the music, If you do not offer to pay,
some young miss will ask you to please contri.
butte.
DRINKING COCKTAILS.
Associated with cigarettes is the cocktail
habit among New York women. This is a
custom that has been growing within the past
ive years. Formerly 1t was considered dis
grace for woman to drink cocktail in pub
lie place; now it is quite the thing.
Women not only drink at dinners and in
company, but alone at lunch.
Maillord's ON Fifth avenue, one Of the
swellest places in New York for confectionery
and light lunch, is great resort for fashiona-
BILE shoppers at noon.
dropped in one day for cup of chocolate,
for which the place is famous and which every
body used to drink there. l think / could
have counted the number Of cups Of chocolate
drank that day.
Nearly every woman ordered her cocktail in
stead, and often followed with champagne
with her salad.
Women also drink very extensively at din
ner, not simple glass of claret and water, but
whole course of wines, beginning with the
omnipresent cocktail.
/ You are supposed to drink the cocktail while
the dinner Is cooking. Then follows sherry,