Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05


porary relief fund. If ever an aDDro-
pirate hymn should be sung a. coming
Easter services in this city, it ought 20
be the one beginning Teach me to feel
anothers woe" and ending tina, mer-
cy I to other show Cha. mercy shown
to me-"
EASTER SEASON IN HISTORY.
Easter, It's tide is beginning 10 over
flow as write, and it is Easter hisn tide
TO the reader. How few know thai She
word Easter" is simply an Angiicized
form of the name of an ancient Teutonlc
goddess, the goddess CT spring. AID, al
though the name occurs once in the
New Testament, it is there by a Curl
Gus anachronism: for 1t was unheard Of
in the Church until hundreds OF years
after the New Testament was written
Known and long familiar in me Church
when the Bible was Translated, 1t MAS
put there to stand for the Greek, be-
cause it was the popular word that was
familiar TO the people.
RESTRICTIONS N ANCIENT
TINES.
The Rev. Minot J. Savage, D. D., has
had the courage OF his Episcopal thao-
logical convictions TO say this Of Easter:
It's idea is old, widespread and hui
name. There are some twelve or MI
teen supposed divine beings, most OF
whom were virgin born, many OF whom
lived, or were supposed to live, as oid
Jesus, in sympathy with the sorrow
and the suffering of the race; who
fought against evil, and in their early
youth, like Jesus. were put to death by
the combined forces Of the opposing
evil of the world; who, in some cases,
after three days, and in others after
longer period, were supposed to have
risen fronRthe grave. to have burst the
bonds Of death, TO have shown them
selves again 10 their friends and to
have assembled at last bodily into heav-
en-. Krishna, one of the inc2rnatiOns
Of the supreme god of India; Rama, an
incarnation of Vishnu; Buddha, sup
posed to have risen from The dead and
assembled into heaven; L3o-Niun, Osiris,
AescuapiUs, AdOnis, whose name in the
Old Testament is TammuZ; Osiris and
Horus in Egypt; Atys in Phryeia; NTH
ras in Persia: Bacchus and Hercules in
ancient Greece and Rene; Frey in
Scandinavia, and QuetZalco2u in Mex
leo; are some Of the resurrection di-
whites. 1t is simply historic trU.h,
then, that all over the world, hundreds
of ycars-in some cases thousands Of
years-before Jesus was born. the Eas-
ter idea not only was in the thought
and heart OF the race but the Easter
festival was kept; so that, leaving ont
the peculiaritics of race and time, we
might suppose that We were in the
midst Of ChristenGom. If We could still
join in such a celebration as used TO be
held.
EASTER AND MA1iMON.
But Easter has an intensely worldly
side. Easter season has become a sort
Of Kaleidoscope. Turn it one way and
You see parterres Of flowers; lilies,
azaleas orchids, hvacinths. tulips. not
to say two lips, tantalizingly every
where under new bcnnets. roses. genes
tas with canary yellow blossoms and
delicate fragrance. acacias. yiolets aud
Scotch heather plants Turn this Eas-
Ter A2l kaleidoscope and Won VIII see the
cOiOIs of scores of weddings. forty DAVIS
deferred hopes making many hearts
sicH. But under no turn viii the old
Easter card be seen. Easter cards
have been baDished by the New York
Goddess Of Fashion in favor Of bon5ons
and bouquets.
EX-PRESIDENT HARRIcON'S NUP-
TAILS.
Many are to be the Easter weddings
next week. Yet one overshadows an
the others in popular attention-the
wedding that viii ensuc when ex-Presi-
dent Harrison. In the chancel of Firth
avenue ST. Thomas Church. viii take
from Lieut. Parker. the O4o.a,r-u-law
of Mary Lord Dimmick. her hand. and
lead her to the altar when coclnay
cynic5 pronounce as the halter
THE BRIDE DESCRIBED.
have interviewed a feminine ac-
quaintance of the widow bride. Who
thus eXpatiated. Her childhood oul
m2idenhood was passed i'm Princeton.
where she was noted for her personal /
charms. and where two Or three ur0- /
fesscrs still remember and tax c her
beauty. Married young She ws not |
wife long enough 90 realize ,he .lii joys /
of the martial state. for before her we'd |
ding wreath had fully faded the con- |
queror who rides the White Horse Of |
the Apocalypse gaZeJted her as widow !
For years sine has been the aptithesis
OF the so-calied new woman.
THE BRIDES LIKES AND DISLIKES
Can the majority of her sex realize
that she usually dresses p,aia'y and ia
dark col0rs and chooses soft fabrics
that cling 10 her in an att ct.-U1-a way.
as if part of herself and NO, "pUt 0n?'
Only what is becoming constitutes her
fashion. She is passi0uaa.y fcnd of
music, embroiders beautifully. and Is
an excellent nurss-fOr that Ellas att
tracted the President. who Is 20 wed the
friend Of his first wife, precisely as cid
Gov. Merton, whose No /. in dying
placed in his hand that
Of his present wife and gave TO their
future welded happiness-it has been
fully that-an ante-pOrtem blessing.
1t is to be hoped the Presidential bride
groom leaves Wagner, for his bride has
the notes of Isolde" "L0hengrin' ald
"Gotterdammerung' ever trembling I'm
her brain. She never played tennis, or
mounted a bicycle and detests the
sight Of one: never emulates Mrs. Oel-
richs. as a driver Of horses nor Virginia
Fair as an equesTinne. nor Lady Ran
d0lph Churchill as a skater. for MIS-.
Dtmmick is ignorant Of harness, saddle
and skates. Books. embroidery and tie