Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Page 2

FLOWERS FOR EASTER

EXTENT TO WHICH THEY ARE USED IN CHURCH. Kladsof Floral Beauties that Are Moat Cmploycd—Potted Plants the Correct Kaater Presents— Snitjieatiooa that 'May Be Helpful in Various Ways. Variety in Decoration.

ASTER is the time fgg) tival which is It* r_A some respects the kSLJKT greatest in the enTencjlfjll dar of the Christian S .JT typifying, as does, the risen Christ, comes in the early spring, when nature, frqed from RCj the pressure of the snowsand frosts of winter, is making an

effort to show her gratitude for balmy air end warm sunshine. She sends forth her •aHiert and most beautiful flora! treasures, and they inrrrrthg- frcshness and ■rigor of youth and the fragrance that goes srvth the first blossoms. The dainty and fragrant violet is then at its best, and the same is true of other flowers that might fee named. J The observance of Easter by the churches balls for " The mipldytnent of ■ large number of flowers in the decorations of altars and chancel' rails. In Washington it is-rare that any formal de* Wgn carried out, -hot aussses of fl. 'v. r- and palms are banked la profusion wherever they <-nn be placed most cffectiveiy. The Easter lilies —‘those familiarly known as the St. Joseph’* lilies, as well as those of the calin variety are most frequently employed, but besides these there - are used hydrangeas, feoth of the pink and white variety, daffodils, rhododendrons, the yellow genestn, lilacs, hoth purple Slid white, the spires Japoniea," arnicas and tulips. These, with palms and ferns in pots, can be combined Vo make beautiful and artis'tic effects, aud many thurchcs spend a good deal of money for their Easter decorations. It is cot usual in this city for the church authorities to give an order to a florist and then throw upon him the responsibility for the Character of the work. It is eus- . tomaryfor the iadies of a church or a committee of them to- undertake -the Easter adornment. and they make their purchases of the flowers required from many different places. Easter decorations are growing each year. The custom is-so beautiful that congregations that forar.erly paid no special attention to the observance of Easter now look forward to that festival with pleaapriWe anficlimnon iof the joyous appearance that their houses of worship will preaent decked*su fragrant flowers and graceful palms on„rhe day that commemorate** the last act in the consummation of the acheme of salvation. J ' ' Hoses are largely employed In tirilt Ussier decorations, although roses are Bowers that are obtainable the year tound. Those that reach tiheir best development at this time are the Magna Charto, the Bruner and the Baroness Rothschild. Then, too, there are the Hlies of the Valley, the Scotch heather and other flowers that might be named. AH these •re employed in church decoration, either In pots or in vases, and go to make up beautiful harmonies of color. Tbo custom of making Easter presents fens found a new avenue for the employment of flowers. The old habit of sending ordt is ous of date, and instead the gift Ik now something of beauty or utility. If the former, nothing is more welcome to a lady than a l*ox of cut flowers or a blooming plant. The giving of flowers at Eraser time'is now very general, and its observance in this city is constantly' Increasing. Flowers are no beautiful, «o graceful, eo fragrant, so suggestive of all that is tender and refined that they indicate the culture and good taste of the giver as vcelL-as furnish satisfaction and pleasure to the recipient. Many a hard feeling has been softened by a gift of Rowers, and many an estrangement has been healed through the medium of roses •r other floral presents. Formerly it was in good form to send flowers either loosely cut in a box or arranged in a bouquet or basket. Ihis is •till allowable, only if they are workedInto a bouquet or basket or any other set design they are ornamented with bows *nd streamers of .handsome ribbon, the colors to be either in harmony or contrast with the colors of the flowers, as the taste of the giver may suggest. The most elaborate of floral gifts is probably found in a large deep basket with great long handle, which can be''painted and gilded, go as to heighten the richness of the wfc«i<e thing. •Rim basket is either filled with earth or moss, and a border of ferns or Scotch feeajfcer Jams tic; then can be placed a rose bush, an azalea, a lily, tulips, a big rhododendron or a hydrangea, or, in fact, •ny number of flowers that the basket will bold, all with roots, and a good prospect •f continuing life. Then the handle of the basket can he ornamented with ribbon in wy way that may be desired. It is good form now to send a l*dy • potted plant of any kind at Easter, and (hose who are able to indulge themselves extensively in this manner leave orders #or flowers to be sent to their friends, selecting roses for some, or a pot of lilies •f the valley for another, and patois, azaleas or any flower already named for others. A novel idea that will be employed AMs year is to place bows of ribbon between the blossoms of flowers, the color fla-contrast with the color of the bloom. These bows nre attached to-long wires Aat are wound around the branches and ■talk of the plants, so that they are held ■rmi/ in. pia .-e and make a very pretty affect Perhaps there may be some who think that the flowers f hemselves growing ta their strength and beauty are sufficient without the ornamentation of ribbon, but, as this is the latest fad, it must go with but who desire to be considered in the •wim. Hpwever, although this may be (fee fashion, it need not deter a "man whose taates lie in that direction from sending bis beat girl a growing flower without any •Aar decoration than his own card.— /Washington Star.

The Easter Wedding Gown.

The material used ds -white satin, heary and lugtrous, and the skirt, which flares weii, baa « medium train, full and fanlike in effect, but not ns long aa those •worn tairt season, writer Isabel A. hfatlaa la the Ladies’ Home Journal. The feodiee is a draped one coming to a short point in the front and at the back and arching over the hips. Vbia portion of it is outlined

THE PROUD ROOSTER AND THE MODEST. GOSLING.

I. Oh, the Helds were green and the skies were blue. For the spring had come again; And over the. fenee a rooster flew, A rooster proud and vain. - His coat ana feathers were fine and new, And shone-in the Sun with Ctaangtng bus, “Cocky, doodle, doo!*’

,\1 '■ , 11. And a little gosling with coat of yellow Stood there In the, warm sunshine, And the rooster laughed at the little fellow—- “ Comparing your coat with mine. You look like a punkin ripe and mellow. Why, the sight of you It makes me bellow “Cocky, doodle, doo!”

111. “Call those feathers?” said the rooster. "Yah!” And the gosling hung his head; The rooster laughed like a proud Pooh Bab, As he flapped his wings and said; “Was that suit marked down? Hoi ho! ha! ha! ry Young feller, you'd better run home to your ns, r —= '• “Cocky, doodle, doo!”

by small pearl beads. The skirt trimming consists of wide folds of tulle draped in curves as high up as the knees, each curve being caught by a bunch of orange blossoms. The very full sleeves shape h» to the arms, and come well over the wrists In sharp points defined by small beads like those on the edge of the bodice. Tulle is draped across the corsage and caught by very small bunches of the bridal flower, while a knot of tulle and a bunch of the blossoms hold up the fullness of each sleeve near the shoulder. The hair, which is arranged high on the head, is dressed with orange blossoms.

HER EASTER BON NET

How ahall pea of poet picture What the tranced eye may test ’Twere, I fear, a cruel stricture. The most ardent simile! Burely never song or sonnet Was by any rhymer writ That could sing her Easter bonnet— Ail the mntchless mode of lti To the little bird-Ilke poses Of her head It adds a grace. And tt doth enhance the roses In the garden of her face. While the ribbon loop that lingers Lovingly amid her hair Makes one wildly wish one’s Angers Were the ribbon nestling there. There’s a sinner somewhat hardened. Who has trod In saintly wise, In the hope of being pardoned, Since that bonnet met his eyes; And though oft he thinks upon It, All bis doubts wili- be at rest When he feels that bonnlc bonnet Soft against his shoulder pressed.

ORIGIN OF EASTER.

Disputes Which Arose in the Early History of the Church^ The (Observance of Easter is connected with the history of Christianity itself. And while there hgs never been any difference of opinion among Christians as to the general observation of the festival, in the early church the Asiatics kept the feast on the day of the Jewish Passover, while the western Christiana observed it ofi she first Sunday after the Passover. Hence arose a great dispute ia the Second century, and Victor, tha Bishop of Rome, excommunicated those churches which did not keep it on the Sunday. The controversy was brought before the Coun-

A Story of Fnso and Feathers.

IV. Out from the house came a prety maid. And the rooster he turned pale; Good cause had he to be afraid, For she pulled the plumes from his talL On crest and wing she made a raid. She took every one go proud displayed With hta “Cocky, doodle, doo!"

V. For feathers are style this spring, you know,, And goslings they have none; And the maid had enough for her Easter boa, When the plucking all was done. And then she let that rooster go, Who hurried away nor stopped to crow . “Cocky, doodle, doo!"

VI. Yes, a very sad roster he crept away, Bedraggled and plucked aud bare; And he hadn't another word to say To the gosling musing there; “Better,” he thought, “by far to stay Modestly clothed on a bright spring day,_ Than to lose your feathers so bright and gay— Cocky, doodle, doo!” _ - v~

cil of Nice, in the year A. D. 325, and it was decreed that Easter Day should b« kept on the Sunday following the Jewish Feast of the Passover, which Passover Is kept on the fourteenth day of the Jewirii month Nisan. At tfoe same time, to prevent all uncertainty, it was made • rule of the church that the full moon next to the vernal or spring equinox, should be taken for the full moon in the month Nisan, and the 21st of March be accounted the vernal equinox. Consequently, Baxter Day is always the Sunday following the full moon whidh falls on, or is next after, the 21st day of March. The day is still known as Pnscha in the eastern -church, as well as in the various churches in Europe, the English title of Easter being probably derived from the did Saxon word “Oster,” spring. Some, scholars have suggested that it had its origin in the wprd Eastre, the'name given to the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn. For the church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen. fSSlVoofc 'fhe pagan. Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday. And she took tho pagan Eastre and made it the Christian Easter.—Buffalo Enqufrer.

Its Eggs and Legends, with Their Origin and Significance. Ae Easter represents a new birth into the beat life of all, it is easiljoseen how the pagan idea that the egg was the beginning of all kinds of life should become purified in the minds of the typical offering of good wishes and emblematic of pleasant hopes between believers in the glad Easter Day. The egg in some form or other has been the unquestioned type of new life from the veoy dawn of the Christian era. In Russia as early as 1589, eggs colored red, typifying the blood of Christ shed aa an atonement for oijf sins, were the most treasured of exchanges at Easter. Every believer went abroad at this season with his pockets well supplied with Easter eggs, as the society man of to-day attends to his well-filled card case. When two Russians met for the first time during tha Easter holidays, if they had not met on the day itself, the belated Easter compliments were passed, first fry solemnly shaking hands in silence; then the elder (or the younger, if he out-ranked the elder) would say: “The Lord is risen," and fala companion would reply: “It is true;” then they kissed each other and ceremoniously drew from their respective pockets the Easter emblem, and exchanged eggs. The Chinese claim that the world was formed of ,the two parts of an enormous egg. From the yolk of the egg stepped forth the human being whom they call Poon-too-Wong; he then waved his hand and the tfpper half of his late castife, the egg shell, went upward and became the Ooorava haav«a* of blue, the lower baW fell reversed, making the convex earth, and the white albumen became the seas. Nothing Is so strong as gentleness; nothing wo gentle as real strength. -»

CUSTOMS OF EASTER.

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

A Water Bulwark. The new ram Rafahdlh, of the United States navy, Is so shaped 1 hat her deck In front curves down to the waterline, and as she rushes ahead a huge wave is raised oyer her bow. It has been suggested that this Wave would be a means of protection to the ship from an enemy firing at her as she approached. She lies very low in the water, and with the liquid wall at her bow is practically behind a kind of fortification. The Secret of the B|rds In a recent review in Science of a new book on birds it Is stated that “there is as yet no proof that the muscles of birds exert any unusual power; on the contrary, birds which, like the larger petrels, have mastered the problem of sailing flight, not only have small wing muscles, but have very Tittle strettgth ln .them.’’ —If men of science could only talk with birds, as the farmer in the "Arabian Nights” did with the animals in his barn-yard, the secret of flight might be revealed.

Horseless Carriages. Special efforts are being made in France to popularize tile use of carriages driven by small engines enclosed in the body of the vehicle. It is proposed, if the consent t of the city authorities can be obtained, to place these automobile carriages on—the streets of Faria for hire at the regular rates now demanded for cabs drawn by horses. In England the use of horseless carriages on highways has been opposed on the ground that they are, in effect, ‘-locomotive engines, - ’ and as such cannot bo lawfully used on public roads without the special authorization of an act of Parliament. Mount Washington's Inhabitants. Mrs. Annie T. Slosson lias captured on and near the summit of Mount Washington belonging to no less than eight hundred and thirty different species. While many of these species also live in the valleys below, some are peculiar to this mountain-top and never leave it, their relatives being found only in northern Canada and Labrador, where similar climatic conditions prevail. It is an old theory that the ancestors of these Mount "Washington insects, as well as certain peculiar plants found there, came down from the north in the glacial ages, and were left behind when the ice disappeared. How Streams Rob One Another. The Schoharie Creek, which in many parts of the world would be called a river, rises in the heart of the Oatsklll Mountains aud flows northward until ft joins the Mohawk. The Kaatersklli and Plaaterskill creeks also rise in the Catskills, but flow eastward into tha Hudson. At a recent meeting of the Geological Society of America Mr. N. H. Darton showed how the two lastnamed creeks have robbed the Schoharie of some of its head-waters by gradually wearing away the mountain slopes behind them until the watershed inclining toward the Hudson has encroached on that which supplies the Schoharie. About Brains. Professor Ranke lias recently brought out a new fact concerning the brain of man as compared with that of other animals. It has long been known that the brain of a man does not weigh as much as that of a whale or an elephant, and that there are birds and apes whose brains are heavier than man’s in proportion to the weight of •their bodies. But Professor Rauke showed at a recent. meeting of the German Anthropological Society that the way to reveal the actual superiority of the human brain is to compare its weight with that of the spinal cord. Measured in this way, man’s brain Is proportionately far heavier than that of any of the lower animals. Singnlar Discoveries. A very strange thing happened to the Prince of Monaco’s steamyacht Princesse Alice, near the island of Tereeira in the Azores last summer. The prince has devoted his yacht to the study of the ocean and its inhabitants, and many important facts have thus been gathered for science. On the occasion referred to a sperm-whale, or cachalot, about forty-five feet long, was harpooned by some fishermen, and In its dying struggles it made direct for the Princesse Alice. If it had struck the little yacht the consequences might have been very serious, but just when the collision seemed inevitable the whale dived, and coming up on the other side of the yacht, turned upon its back in the death-agony. At this instant the bodies of three gigantic ceplialopods—the class to which cuttlefishes belong—were ejected from the whale’s mouth. These were secured by a boat from the yacht, and later the bodies of.a number of curious Inhabitants of the sea tyere found In the whale’s stomach. The cephalopoda belong to a new spdcles. Other captures that the whale had made were so Interesting as to lead Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, the naturalist, to .remark in a recent number-of Nature: “The cachalot whieh was killed by NW’ Wfiatere of Totcetr* almost under tihe keel of the Princesse Alice seems as If It had been guided In the pursuit of its food by a desire to devour nothing but animals which, np to the present, are completely unknown.’’

Home Seekers’ Excursions

In order to give everyone an opportunity to see the Western country and enable the home seekers to secure a home in time to commence work for the season of 1886, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pan! Rail w t ay dm* arranged'to run ascries of four home seekers excursions to vari-. ous points in the West; Northwest and Southwest on the following dates; March 10, April. 7 and 21 and May 5, at the low .rate Of two dollars more than one fa,re for the ror.nd trip, Tickets will be good for return on any Tuesday or Friday within twenty-one days from date of sale. For rates, time of tra.ins aud further details tapply to any coupon ticket agent in the East or South, or address F. A. Miller, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ilk

A Spring Trip South.

On April 7 and 21 and May 5, tickets will. be sold from principal cities, townS aiid villages of the North to all points on the Louisville and XashriHe Railroad in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky .“at one single 1 fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good to return within twenty-one days, on payment of $2 to agent at destination, and will, allow stop-over at any point on the south-bound trip. Ask your ticket agent about it. an,d if he cannot sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent. Louisville, Ivy., or J. Iv. Kidgely, N. W. P. A.. Chicago, 111.

Getting Something to Eat.

“Kind shy” said-the wayfarer, “if you will add 25 cents to the dime I already possess, I will go and get a meal, the. first I have had in three days. - ’ “If you have a dime why don’t you go aud get something with that?” “Ah, sir, I require that to fee the waiter with,”—Harper’s Bazar.

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He Loves French Dishes.

The Emperor of Austria dislikes German cooking and cares only for French cuisine. When his relatives of the house of Tuscany visit him, to please their tastes, he has Italian dishes served." On certain occasions the Empress, who t is a Bavarian, orders Gorman dishes.

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We Never Saw It Advertised.

Mrs. Wiggles—What make of typewriter does Mr. Waggles think is best? Which one does he have ip his own office? Mrs. Waggles—Well, I’m> hot quite sure, but I think t overheard him tell Mr. Wiggles the other.evening that he had a Daisy.—Somerville Journal.

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