Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-04-14

On Easter some people go down to
Trinity and after service walk around
in the quaint old churcbyard. Some
drift into Trinity chapel or find them
selves 10 Grace Church or listening to
Father Ducey at st. Eeo's or In the
cathedral saying prayers amid all the
magni6cence OF architecture, OF flowers
and Of music. Perhaps II you are
young and very gay you 60 to tho
church. that ia controlled by very
fashionable preacher, known as "The
Church Of the Holy Filtration" whore
the taxi aud the sermon are always tho
same. Love your neighbour and the
onu question asked, who 10 my neigh-
bor?i'
You nod and laugh as you meet the
Hewitt girls. Everybody who knowa
than calls them that. for everybody
who knows them likes them. Pretty?
Not at all. but SO altogether delightful
and full of fun that they are something
better than pretty. Near them aud
evidently talking about some now
scheme of Amusement ia Mrs. Burke
Roche. Such beauty dainty, delicate
and refnod She ia especially the Amer
lean tyne. and beside her and very
good duplicates of her are her little
W lhiu bohS.
A great many of the fashionable
women, my friend make very good
mothers. They never make the mistake,
made too often by women who cannot
afford il, OF oysrdressing their children.
The child OF the millinnairs is certain
to he dressed simply it's clothes being
! chosen with an idea of fitness and good
| sense.
From the cathedral comes one of the
most popular women in Nav York. Mrs.
| Nelson is as dark as her brother, Fred
| Gsbhard, hut she Inns face full of
| animation, while her eyes sparkle like
| twin stars. She has hume reds of friends,
and IL is said OF her that no woman in
| the fashionable set dies as much good
among the poor, for Mrs. Nelson does
not allow her charity to 60 through the
| hands of a third person, but she visits
| the sick and those in trouble hersalf
and secs that they are helped as they
| should be. II was she who started the
fashionable sewing Glass; the 30. N,
which many thought applied to popu-
lar brand Of cotton: hut, no, it stood
for "Oerichs aud Nelson. !" Mrs.
Charles Olerichs, Mrs. NELSON'S bosom
friend. having been her partner in
founding 1t. This sewing class did
great work during Lent and sent over
800 little garments TO the foundling
asylum ami so made 500 little children
comfortable aud happy. There is many
fashionable woman this Easter morn
ing who during the Lenten days has
worked hard and denied herself many a
luxury that her pet charity might gain
by it.
Every third person on the avenue is a
messenger boy carrying pot of flowers
for nowadays 1t is the growing plant
that comes with somebody's compli-
mentH. although the special body has
flowers, that my lady may wear them at
dinner. Is it Vanity Fair to which this
procession 10 vending it's way2 Per-
haps, but there is much that is good
in Vanity Fair. How do you know and
how do / know the kind acts done by
the clown as be iipgles his bells or the
dancing girl as she tionta around on the
tips of her toes? Many a good act ia
concealed behind jest. Many good
act 10 laughed off as il it amounted to
nothing. / wonder what your Easter
sermon WIS. Mine seemed to have for
it's text, "fhink we'll of everybody. :"
The preacher told OF the pleasure that
would come If we always credited our
fellows with kind acts, and then be
said that from continually thinking
we'll of others we grow to be good our
selves. Undoubtedly that is true.
When you and allow our thoughts tc
linger ON the good and beautiful. how
can We accept any beliefs but those
which make all the world good and all
tho people il il lovely?
That was the sermon heard, and III
walked along, making one in thu
Easter procession, l was glad to be
there, because L lows to look at pretty
women and dream of lovely things. Ant
! there are so many of each in this worlt
--this great new world, so rich in every
J thing that ia good Somebody near m,
whispers that in little while it vii
: all be changed, others will form thu
} procession, and you and | will be-
whsrei To-day we are not thinking o
! that. We are thinking Of the sunshine
. and the prstty women, and the flowers
and we are glad that the FASHIONABLE
D colors are the CUES that permit th,
wearing OF violets and roses and gor
Q gsous yellow blossoms. Then you re
member, or whisper to you, what
r poet, pnet OF frills and frivols, wrot
0 about the fashionable shade of pink:
This forck, when it's made with most ez
qnisite taste
8 And fits like glove on the shoulder,
Q With yoke and full plaits and band at TIL
v waist.
a Will gladden. the passing beholder.
With lace and with buttons of mother {
il pearl
u You'll saw on mgturest reflection
y The best OF all CARDS for pretty youn
n girl
d No doubt is the pink of perfection.
}. And when you meet her-but 20
10 have met her. On this Easter mornin
o you are walking with her in the procei
d aion. All well, belief in humanity is
10 necessity on Easter morning, and no
IS what you want to hope for is that alb
Is may find you the "piuk of perfection.
d and I--well, wish you happy Easts
10 day and trust that you got up earl
er enough to see the sun dance. Oh,
ir did ! 1t did / assure you it did on tn
a word and honor of Bah.
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