The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-26
Fashion Show
AT Eastertillle
Two Displays Seem PART of
Seasons Cbservances.
Atlantic City's Boardwalk

With virtually every communl-
ty throughout the civilized world
c0mmemorating Easter, it is not
until the following Monday that
perhaps the most picturesque OF
Easter celebrations-the annual
egg rolling on the White House
lawn-takes place.
The White House grounds on
this day are not exactly barred
to adults, but the guards at the
various gates are instructed to
hermit no grown persons to en-
ter the grounds unless they are
acting as chaperones for young
STEERS. In other words, child and
an Easter egg constitute tickets
OF admission on this day OF days
among the $50.
Most of the egg rolling, egg eat
ing and egg squashinS- and OF
the latter there is great deal
occurs on the spacious Sreen-car-
peted lawn to the south of the
executive mansion. Here the
gently rolling slope is eminentiy
adapted to egg rolling, while the
beautiful trees, shrubbery and
flower beds provide truly sylvan
surroundings, with the broad Po-
tomac glistening in the picture.
Famous Band Entertains
On a grassy elevation before
the south portico is the famous
United States Marine band, and
while the little ones MUNICH hard
boiled eggs, or crush those which
should have been hard boiled. but
weren't, they are entertained by
a selected program of music.
An exception to the general
rule regarding the admission of
the adults to the grounds is made
in the case of the President and
Mrs. Coolidge, who appear for a
while, to enjoy the music and
greet the children. For half an
hour OF more they pass among
the little ones, often pausing to
chat with them, and happy to be
singled out for conversation by |
the presidential couple.
Though the commemoration of |
the Easter festival prevails !
Christendom, and is
observed in some manner in every
village and hamlet of the United
States, particularly now that sun
rise services are becoming more
and more popular, there are at
least two observances of the sea-
son without mention of which no
account of the festival would be
complete. These are the annual
fashion display on the Boardwalk
1t Atlantic City, and the fashion
parade on Fifth av., New York
city
Last year, despite somewhat
skies, it is estimated
that no less than 100000 persons
paraded the Boardwalk in their
Easter finery, and Fifth av. made
an equally impressive showing.
Commerce Takes Hand
Aside from the apparently friv-
,lous aspect of these fashion dem
onstrations, however, they are
coming to have very real COM
nercial importance. 1t is in these
parades that styles tor the COM
ing season in both male and re-
male wearing apparel are set, and
il probably would be found that
a startling percentage OF those
in the throngs of the Boardwalk
and Fifth aV. were in some way
or other connected with the
clothing, haberdashery or mil
linery industry.
Manufacturers, designers and
buyers from the great department
stores and exclusive mode shops
are there, as we'll as less affluent
but no less earnest, village dress
makers and milliners from the
nearby towns, all eager for the
dernier cri in styles.
BY the same token, the artist,
with pad and pencil, has become
so common a sight at these gath
erings as to pass almost unno-
ticed Let a mannikin from some
exclusive women swear shop APP |
pear sporting the latest creation |
of its chief designers, and she is |
likely TO find herself with a self /
appointed escort of four or five +
OF these sketch artists, welding |
their pencils for dear life, and ut |
terly obliyious of the rest of their |
surroundings,
The week following, the houses /
they represent, and by whom they |
are often paid relatively high sal
aries, will be able. thanks to the
sketches, to offer the same model |
at perhaps lower figure than
that quoted by the original de-
Signer.
Where Distances Are Shortening
(From the Philadelphia Public
Ledger)