Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-18
BONNETS FOR MY LADY
WHAT FAMOUS PRIMA DoNNAs
SAY ON THE SUBJECT.
Stories and Articles Which the Sun.
day Magazine Offers to It's Ever
Increasing Patronage.

"Recolections of Easter by seven
prima donnas. and a cOlored cover de-
! sign from painting made especially for
The Sunday Magazine by Alice Beard are
two attractive features in The Sunday
Magazine of The Sunday Star tomorrow.
April 10. that appropriately commemorate
Ea Ster Sunday.
1t is a curious Old World legend. never
fully explained, that links the rabbit. or
| more properly his cousin. the hare, with a
hidden nest full of Easter eggs. Thou
| sands of little ones in Germany seek these
| tabled treasures of the rabbit every year
on this memorable day and great is their
! joy when they are able to startle the rab-
bit and recover the various colored eggs
which some kind and indulgent parent or
! friend had provided for their delightful
surprise. Miss Beard has wandered far
| from the original legend in designing her
Sunday Magazine cover. The abbits are
| there. two pretty little pets. and their
charming mistress has just introduced to
| them not a nest full of Easter eggs. but
something that is far more to their liking.
| a nest full of lettuce leaves.
To be obliged to wear an old unbe-
| coming bonnet on Easter Sunday is a
penance. it is said. which few women
| forget The woman who is without new
| find much sOlace in what some of these
prima donnas have to say, for a prima
donna, of all women of the world, Is sup
posed to have. and really does have about
as many of the good things of life as can
be crowded into any one persons exist
| ence. And yet Mary Garden deliberately
writes that she has never cared for the
much-cOveted Easter bonnet, and has
never made sacrifices to that end. and
yet to her Easter has always been the
l,o1{ nf 10, Of oil oth tI,a
And two other prima donnas found their
greatest discomfort in two Easter bonnets
they tell about To Nine Schumann-
Heink occurred in Chicago one Easter a
most amusing experience. The wind lift
ed her new Easter hat and carried 1t
away without her knowledge, and she
even walked into church truly conscious
that the hat was still there. She had
noticed that her appearance attracted
considerable attention, and attributed ii
all to the bonnet, but after the service
one of the elders greeted her with that
celebrated quotation from PaulS epiStle
to the Corinthians. rs It comely that a
woman pray unto God uncovered?" Rails
ing her hand to her head, madame was
humbled beyond expression to find that
she had no hat. Geraldine Farrar. Lou
Use Homer. Lima Cavalieri. Nine. Gadski
and Rena Vivian also contribute to this
little symposium.
WHO is My Neighbour" the leading ar
ticle in this issue presents John Hubert
Greusels views as to Jane Adams and
her Hull House work. This is the third
in a short series of articles Mr. Greusel
has written for Sunday Magazine readers
under the general title of Helpful Ameri-
cans.
There is another Uncle Tom Andy Bill
story In this issue. OF course, you read
the first and enjoyed it. but this second
story. entitled THE Wolves and the Pow
der keg." is far and away more intere ST
| ing than the first. Moreover, it Is preface
with two delightful little incidents in the
life of five-year-old Nab. the youngest
member of the circle to whom Uncle Tom
Andy Bill originally told the stories. She
was very delightful little tot and won
derfully wise for her years.
Sewell Ford. with Shorty McCabe at his
elbow tells the story Of Handing Bobby
| Blank Who is Bobby? What is a
blank? And who and why was it handed
| to Bobby? There is q start for Shorty
McCabe yarn that is unexcelled
The Friend That Never Was" by Mary
| Heaton worse. is just plain. straight for
ward story of little child OF the rich
that is, the over rich. The week 8