Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-06
AN EASTER HAT.
Adapted From Iiarpcr's Baznr.
With Variations FOR 1901.

With my muse in good humor, I'm
gong % sing
OF q curious, strange and remarkable
'Tis the puzzle The women this year call
Ii might BE- most anything, 50 let it be
that.
First there is the gfoundwork-we call
eThe shape Doesn't matter, no two are
Then oceans Of ribbon made up into
bows,
Wide, narrow red, yellow, mauve-
everything goes.
Next these ribbons and bows are draped
oyer the crown
In fron, and behind, wrong side out, up
side down.
just put them on blindfold, or any old
way,
And the bong-tong of fashion will call it
Then come the gay gaTlands Of marvel
Gus hue
Green roses, pink roses and roses of
blue.
Placed up in hig punches wherever
there 3 room,
And the thing is turned into garden
of bloom.
The hat is get jauntily back from the
face,
The front is skewed up with some chif-
fon and lace.
Then add few birds, some bugs and a
wing,
And your friends will pronounce it "a
love of q thing
You now have bonnet that none can
surpass,
1T will give you fright if you look in
the glass.
And if you've good taste you will throw
II away
And ge, neat "sailor'to wear Easter
day.
The Easter season is now In its full
glory; We have spent ourselves in fast
ing and prayer, repented and been abb
solved from our many sins; have laie,
aside for another year or sackcloth
and ashes. and are ready to don again
the royal robes of joy and feasting. And
Sunday our good resolutions will all be
swamped under the glittering pomp and
parade of flowers, music and millinery
We give TO our brothers due warning
not to go to church expecting to see
anything beyond and outside the Devil
derng and gorgeous array of bowers
and showers of lace and chiffon and
flowers, and dozen to one that Of all
the women who are accustomed to re-
moving their hats during service, not
one will do 20 on Easter Sunday unless
She belongs 10 the unfortunate class I'M
able to purchase an Easter display
shall remove mine.
financia! expert who attended a
fashionable church in one of our cities
last Easter estimates that the parson
preached to $2,450 worth of Easter hats,
and now We are figuring on the whole
value of the Easter hats in the various
local churches to be preached at this
Easter Sunday. A. d. 1901.
go
The choirs in the city churches have
been practicing their anthems and ora :
torios during the week, and on Sunday
the musical stars will break loose and
their voices will soar to the seventh
heaven in their efforts to drown out the
melodies OF the starry hosts on high.
That's all right. We love mueic, and
we are going to be there II we can get
thru the crowd of men. women and bon
nets and would like to make sugges-
ton to the singers: 1t would greatly en-
nance our enjoyment and prevent the
usual narrowing up of the feelings OF
the congregation to place in front a bull
letin board containing all the words in
tended to be prolonged. SO the people
may grasp the connection while the
choir is ringing the changes.
Some OF us are not too young to re-
member the queer anthems sung in the
old fashioned churches OF our mothers
and fathers. close my eyes and recall
without effort the strange misxiving,