Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — AN EASTER TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

AN EASTER TRAGEDY.

IT was awful, as they tell it in the town of Genesee, Of the fate of poor Miss Wiggles and her brand-new Easter hat; It Is very, very seldom that we find a tragedy That contains so much of horror as was brought about by that. Miss Wiggles was a lady with a millinery taste That was truly quite remarkable; I nbver knew its like; She could make a splendid bonnet from the merest bit of waste, A bonnet that e’en Virot at her best would hardly strike. But it latterly did happen—oh, how sad a tale to tell!— Miss Wiggles gave up ribbons and laid in a stock of wings, Little wings of little birdies, and the larger ones as well — She didn’t even spare the little yellow bird that sings. And then on Easter Sunday, with her hat upon her head, With twenty-seven pinions snuggling all about the rim, Miss Wiggins went to service, and, as usual, she led In the saying of responses and the singing of the hymn. Now how it was it happened I confess I do not know, A miracle I doubt not must have been the cause of it; But as she sat demurely in the very foremost row Those wings began to flutter and to wobble and to flit. And before the poor dear lady could take out her bonnet pins And free herself, the bonnet hauled her upward by "the hair, And with sundry pirouettings and with several dizzy spins She floated up the steeple and out in the open air. —Harper’s Bazar.