Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume], April 04, 1901, Image 3

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E,aster Flowers.
Easter day is tie great floral festi
val o; the year. For weeks past flor
ists throughout the country have been
preparing for it, forcing their rarest
blooms to blossom in time for the
springtime's beautiful holiday. Mil
lions of gorgeous roses, lilies and vio
lets have been shipped from *he hot
houses to provide for this year’s feast
of flowers. Miles of dainty ribbon
have been specially woven to knot
about these flowers, and thousands of
boxes, baskets and jardinieres manu
factured in readiness for their pack
ing.
In the metropolitan hothouses the
growing plants for Easter are the
finest of their kind. There are rose
bushes nearly six feet high, and
Marguerite plants laden with blos
soms. The azaleas are of especially
fine color and have abundant bloom
Rhododendrons in full blossom are
also a novelty this season. The lily
is, of courseihe queen flower of Easter
time. The Easter or Bermuda lily,
imported la the bulb from the south
and forced in northern hothouses, is
the most beautiful specimen of the
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New Easter Orchids.
lily family. The plants are unusually
plentiful this year and show numerous
blossoms. The lilies come from the
hothouses with the buds carefully
packed in cotton and tissue paper.
The bulbs are planted about a month
before the holiday and are so as to be
in full bloom for Easter.
If the blossoms show signs of open
ing too soon, the plants are placed on
their sides, and in this way the blos
soms are kept in bud until the proper
time. The plants shoot upward with
marvelous quickness and are most
graceful and artistic, each stalk bend
ing under its white weight.-
The Japanese lily is in the New
York market this year and is a gorge
ous flower, the petals touched with
tawny spots and the perfume heavy
and beautiful. The petals of this lily
curve slightly, and the stamens are
long and tipped with yellow. If you
select a lily to send as an Easter gift
it is well to have as many buds as
blossoms. This will insure a succes
sion of flowers, whereas if all tho
lilies are in bloom they will wither in
a few days. There are many handsome
novelties in the way of jardinieres
and baskets for the Easter lily. The
basket work, made up in cases, boxe:-
and jardinieres of all descriptions, is
extremely pretty and is shown in all
colors combined with gold. Some of
the jardinieres are mounted on tri
pods of bamboo. Those of violet and
gold to hold the growing violet plants
are very handsome.
Last year the growing violet in full
bloom made its appearance upon the
Easter market and proved such a suc
cess that this year it was made a
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specialty. The plants are small, but
have a number of blossoms of great
fragrance. For table decorations these
plants are potted in silver and Bo
hemian glass and also in basket work
cases. One of the table decorations
for an Easter dinner will consist of a
basket boat filled with these plants in
full bloom. The boat will rest upon
a mirror lake in the center of the
table.
Orchids are out in as great profu
sion as ever. But the Easter lily
holds its sway over them all. English
though it is, for the bulb flourishes
best in Bermuda, in narrow pauches
often alongside of the wholesome but
unsmelling onion and the useful but
homely potato. The bulbs are shipped
to New York in great quantities dur
ing the autumn and winter, and
placed In our greenhouses to be de
veloped into the lovely plant which
has become symbolical of Easter.
The soil and climate of Bermuda
are especially adapted to the growth
of the lily. Our florists had all kinda
of ideas of growing this flower in Cali
fornia, Georgia and Florida, but with
•no great results as yet. The lily,
like many other of the most beautl-
ful flowers, improves on its stem by
age. Not till the second year Is it
now thought advisable to ship bulbs
from Bermuda to the United States.
Many growers prefer to wait until the
fourth year, when the bulb is hearty
and strong enough to produce beauti
ful flowers even with careless treat
ment. The number of these bulbs
now- produced in Bermuda and ship
ped to the United States for Easter
purposes was between ten and fifteen
million last year.
Germany's Easter Games.
In Germany it Is the oster hase
(Easter rabbit) who gives the Easter
eggs and all the goodies found in the
Easter nest. The nests are made in
various ways: sometimes out of twigs
interwoven with ivies and those pecu
liar gilt and silver leaves, laces and
flowers one sees nowhere else but in
Germany. Again, a pretty nest shaped
basket is chosen. This, lined with
bright colored silk or cambric and the
outside decorated with paper flowers,
wreaths and bows of ribbon, bits of
lace and many shining ornaments,
makes a very attractive looking nest
for the Easter rabbit.
Inside are a goodly number of eggs
of different colors, also small sugar or
cake rabbits, chocolate lambs, mice
and chickens; confections of every
queer sort; cakes baked in the shape
of pompous looking soldiers, sailors
or wood choppers; cake women with
funny poke bonnets or caps; sugar
children with all sorts of odd or fanci
ful dresses; toy animals, fat little
pigs, and plump biddie hens with their
broods of tiny Easter chicks —all
more or less elaborately decorated
with spice, seeds and fine sugar drops,
nuts, etc. Playing marbles of every
delightful color, size and variety, are
a part of the nest’s treasures, also
books, games and toys, if the nest
happens to be large enough to hold
all.
The eggs are first boiled a half hour
or more to make them very hard,
then they are dropped into a solution
of cochineal dye, a strong dye giving
a deep red color, a weaker sqlution
pink or light red. Blue, yellow, orange
and green in different shades are also
colored by using simply dye stuffs
well heated. Sometimes the eggs are
painted in pretty fanciful designs
specially suited to please the chil
dren.
Early on Easter morning the chil
dren start on their hunt for the Easter
nest. They frolic through the house,
peeping under sofas, chairs, tables
and in odd corners. They scamper
up stairs and down: then out into the
garden they rush among hedges and
grasses, climbing trees, fences and
walls in their eager search.
The child who finds it first cries
'‘Oster Hase! oster hase!” Then al!
the children flock to the spot, eager
for a peep at tt- pretty nest and the
cunning rabbit that sits upon it.
The finder is privileged to take the
nest from its hiding place and to dis
tribute its contents among the other
children. Everything is labeled with
the name of the child for whom the
gift is intended, so the division is al
ways amicable. Next to Christmas
and New Year's, Easter is the most
delightful holiday of the whole yeai'
for the children.
The German children have many
unique games which belong exclusive
ly to Easter. Among them is & game
of marbles played thus: The Easter
eggs are cut off squarely, perhaps
one-third of the distance from the
broad end. They are then set up, say
three or four feet from the wall and
in triangle positions. Three or four
may be set at once. Sides are chosen
if there are more than two players.
Then the children roll their marbles
with a deft thua against the wall or
base board. If in the rebound a
marble touches one or more of tho
eggs the same become the property of
the side to which the marble belongs.
Then the opposite side must “set up,"
and the game is only w-on when all
the eggs are captured by one side.
Candy animals and cake people who
are able to stand alone are often vic
tims in this war of marbles.
EASTER EGG-ROLLING.
Annual Frolic on the White House
Grounds.
In the Woman's Home Companion
Waldon Fawcett gives a lively de
scription of the children s egg-rolling
carnival w-hich takes place every year
in the president’s yard:
"The event of the day—the climax
looked forward to by the older folks
as well as the Juvenile visitors
comes when the president, who has
from time to time all day peeped out
at the glad gathering, steps out on
the veranda of the w-hite house and
bows In greeting to the sea of little
upturned faces. Then as the band
strikes up some patriotic air the
youngsters all shout lustily and clap
their hands, and as likely as not tes
tify their appreciation in some of
those unique, unconventional ways so
dear to the hearts of youth, and
which are prone tc make the digni
tary on the portico laugh outright.
Mrs. McKinley, whose love for the
little ones is warm and earnest, usu
ally sits almost all day Easter Mon
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day at one of the south w-indows of
the white house, watching with
smiling interest this gigantic frolic of
the romping children. Usually a num
ber of her acquaintances spend tho
day with her sharing in the enjoy
ment of the novel spectacle.
“The one element of seriousness
which characterizes this great outing
you may discover as you stroll down
to the little building which ordinarily
serves as a ‘central station’ for the*
policemen who guard the white house
grounds. For this one day, however,
the watchmen's house is transformed
into an asylum for lost little folks.
Hither the big blue-coated officers
bring the little tots who change to go
astray in the great medley of hu
manity, and here a nurse soothes and
comforts the tiny weeper until the in
evitable anxious mother appears. At
the last egg-rolling festival there were
twenty-seven ‘lost children’ In the lit
tle habitation at one time, but mothers
and nurses so universally understand
where to seek for missing little ones
that scarcely any confusion is caused
by these separations."
Inconsistency.
A man will wear a gaudy vest,
All broidered like the flowering
mead;
His hat, it is a turbaned crest.
With colors flaunting fine Indeed;
His shoes with leathern trickery
Arc- trimmed. (They have a splen
did sheen.
While on his hose a fleur delis
Blazoned in dainty silk is seen.
With striped wear his chest is gay;
His necktie puts to blush the bloom
Which glorifies a summer’s day.
His aspect dissipates all gloom.
And yet this man will show distress
And utter maxims sadly pat.
And vow his wife is fond of dress
Because she wants an Easter hat.
—Washington Star.
An Easter Wedding.
He had been so ecstatically happy
ever since she consented to be mar
ried Easter week that she was a bit
startled when he came to see her the
other evening looking disturbed and
serious.
“I have come to tell you something,’*
he stammered. “And to—to tell you
—to know if you would mind—“ he
stopped and sighed, "doing me a fav
or.” He looked at her. but she sat
waiting for him to continue.
“It's—about the—the wedding,” he
went on. "I met Nell In the street,
and she told me you had asked her to
he one of your bridesmaids. Yes, I
know It was I who insisted that we
should have a big wedding. I want
you to have all your friends around
you, dear. I want flowers and music
and merriment I don't want to Ik self
ish. You know I don't But—but I
had forgotten about the rehearsal. Is
It possible, would you or could you get
on without a rehearsal? Oh, If yon
[ must have one, couldn’t you get on
; without me?’”
He was quite pale and anxious wait
ing for her answer. She did not kpow
whether to laugh or to he angry.
“I think we can manage without
you,” she said at last. “But I hope
you won't mind taking part in the cer
emony proper, will you?”
“You see how it is.” he explained,
when the great weight was olf his
mind. "I’ve been to more rehearsals
than I can count, but it’s hardly neces
sary to say 1 never played leading
man; best man once or twice; usher
usually. I've always pitlel the poor
bridegroom, and I’ve always thought
I hat ”
“You know, dear,” she Interrupted,
with seraphic gentleness, “it Isn't too
late yet. You need not play bride
groom even at the church ceremony if
you are so timid. We can have a lit
tle wedding at home or In a police
court, or at. the city hall. A rehearsal
would be unnecessary then.*’
“I knew I'd put my foot in It if I
spoke. I knew it. Hut you must ad
mit, my dear Mildred, that it Is undig
nified and—er—unsentimental and
worldly.’”
"It would not be particularly effect
ive or dignified to have the girls walk
down the aisle with the wrong men or
have the bridal procession a blunder
ing parade, would it? And that's what
unrehearsed bridal parties are al
ways. But you need not attend. The
best man does all the work at a wed
ding anyway. I will walk down the
aisle with him at rehearsal. We can
get on very nicely without you, dear.
Now, let’s talk of something else. I'll
ring for tea.”
He sjpperj hlB oolong in silence
while she ehattered about flowers and
friends and golf and hooks. As he
rose to go he lingered Irresolutely,
his hat in his hand. ”1 think, ” he said
“I have changed my mind. It's awful
ly good and considerate of you to let
me off. but I think I will go to that re
hearsal after all.
A few minutes later, when two of
her prospective bridesmaids happened
to come In. he would, could he have
looked In on them, have heard mysti
fying merry peals of laughter.
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Crowns and Titles.
Dumb animals worship Queen Alex
andra, and though she never rides
I now, she has her favorite horses, and
I visits them daily, going into their
ttxili.. and giving them sugar. When
she visits the kennels she wears a
white apron with the pockets bulgin'
>ut with bread. She is also very fond
of flowers. It is no unusual sight to
see her in spring and summer carry
ing a bunch of flowers which she ho
herself gathered from the fields and
hedges.
Among Queen Wllhelmina's numer
ous wedding presents a very simple
but highly-prized offering was two
pure white doves, with bows of
orange ribbon tied about their necks,
whieh were brought to the palace in a
basket by two little girls, and smiling
ly accepted by the young queen, who
is very fond of Jjirds.
There is at present to he seen In
the British museum an extremely
curious bonnet, once possessed by the
late queen, and presented to her by
that institution. It was made some
years ago expressly Tor her majesty
by the natives of the Bainoan Islands,
who have their own ideas on the sub
ject of fashion.
The widowed Queen Margarita of
Italy keeps the bullet that killed her
husband, King Humbert, In a beautl- 1
fully jeweled reliquary of crystal and
silver gilt, and it occupies a con
splcuous place just above the prie
dieu in her bed chamber.
Sir John Millais' "No," In which the
figure of the young girl was a por
trait of Miss Dorothy Tennant, who is
now Sir Henry M. Stanley's wife,
was sold In London- recently for
$7,150.
PATTI’S ESCORT.
Noblemen Who Received Diva Were
Hired for the Occasion.
Tlif re is but one Patti, and that Is
Adelina, whose 58th birthday fell, as
usual, on February 19.
An amusing story Is told of the great
Hlnger by M. Schurmann. Patti was
making a tour of Europe, and was due
at Bucharest on a certain date. Ow
ing to Inclement weather, however,
Madame -Jet lined to budge from Vien
na, and the poor manager was nearly
distracted. As storming had not the
slightest effect on her serene highness,
the manager set his wits to work.
Soon afterward a telegram arrived
from Bucharest, stating that a bril
liant deputation of Roumanian nobles,
with a torchlight procession and mil
itary band, was to receive th diva.
The message was handed to Mme.
Patti, who was enchanted, and at once
made ready to start. On arrival, the
hand played and the torches flared,
and Madame was put in the best of
spirits by being escorted to her hotel
by the Roumanian nobles. It is not
known what she would have said had
she been told that the "nohleB” were
hired from the streets and dressed up
for the occasion by a representative of
the manager!
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
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Madison, March 27. —The Hall
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment permiting the use of voting
machines was recommended for pas
sage to the senate. An assembly
amendment was concurred in to
Senator Gaveney’s bill authorizing
persons to change their names by fil
ing a declaration with the register of
deeds. The bill re-apportioning the
state into assembly districts came u>
the senate from the assembly and was
re-referred. Senator Martin’s bill, de
signed to suppress the sale of the Po
lice Gazette in Wisconsin, was orde* i
to engrossment and third read rig.
Senator Miller’s bill providing for a
cottage for women students at the
state university, to cost $20,000, was
reported unfavorably by the commit
tee on claims, and Indefinitely post
poned by the senate today.
The assembly ordered to third read
ing the bills taxing pedlers $75, to
prevent docking of horses, appropriat
ing money to state institutions for
current expenses and pensioning
members of police and Are depart
ments who have served 25 years and
attained the nge of 65.
Madison, March 28.—Senator Weed
of Oshkosh delivered himself against
what he called the republican gerry
mander of the assembly districts in
Brown county. Under the apportion
ment bill as passed by the assembly,
one of the districts in Brown is demo
cratic, but Senator Riordan offered r>u
amendment which would make both of
them republican. It was over this
amendment that the senator com
plained. The bill was sent back to a
committee. The bill appropriating
$20,000 for a cottage annex to the
ladies’ dormitory of the university
was killed. Among the bills passed
was one by Senator Gaveney enabling
people to change their names by filing
various data with the register of
deeds.
By a vote of 51 to 32 the assembly
yesterday morning concurred in Sena
tor Krcutzer's hill to raise the salaries
of the supreme court justices from
15.000 to SO,OOO and those of circuit
judges from $3,000 to SI,OOO. The
Ainsworth bill requiring peddlers'
license was advanced to a third read
ing after a running debate. Several
amendments wore adopted. As It
now stands the hill provides to license
peddlers nnd fl\es the fee at from SSO
to SIOO. Senate hills were concurred
In forbidding the placing of adver
tisements on the flag and authoriz
ing the governor to confer the title
of colonel on Capt. C. A. Curtis, uni
versity professor of military science.
Madison. March 29.—The bill reap
portioning the state into assembly dis
tricts came back to the senate from
committee with the ehanges'in Brown
county, recommended for adoption.
They are expected to give the county
two republican assemblymen. Sena
tor Weed dissented, tint the senate
adopted the amendments and then
concurred in the bill by unanimous
vote, the two democratic senators,
Jacobs and Weed, voting "aye” with
the republicans. There will be a
contest on tlie floor over the anti
cigarette bill. tt came back from
the judiciary committee with a ma
jority report for concurrence, the
committee being divided five to four.
The minority dissenting from the re
port was composed of Senators
Itoehr, Mills, Weed and Oaveney.
The Hail resolution providing for a
constitutional amendment authorizing
the use of voting machines in Wiseon
sin was passed and Senator Mosher s
hill appropriating $5,000 for the pur
chase of hooka and pumphlets for the
state historical library was also
passed and was likewise Senator Hat
ton's bill appropriating $25,000 for the
completion of the normal building at
Stevens Point and Oshkosh One as
sembly bill .concurred in prohibits the
killing or catching of any wild Birds
other than game birds.
In the assembly Senator Riordan's
lull reiut.ng to the conveyance of
lands of the Sturgeon Hay and Michi
gan canal grant to Ephraim Mariner,
C. F. Pfiater and L. F. Vogel was re
fused concurrence, 41 to 37. Among
the hills passed were Root's permit
ting more than $35 to be expended in
the- burial of indigent soldiers and
forbidding the docking of horses tails,
'lhe bill to establish an Inebriate’s
home was killed. Barker’s bill pro
hibiting remarriage within one year
of divorce, was debated by Its author
and finally ordered to third reading/
Both houses adjourned to Wednes
day at 8:30 p. rn.—over election
How It It Made.
The maiden takes a little straw,
A ribbon and a feather,
Some flowers and an eagle's claw,
And sews them all together.
Each thing In turn, ahe pulls and
naulg,
I hen jams them all down flat
Yet the resultant wreck she calls
A lovely Easter hat.
—lthaca Journal
PLACING ADVERTISEMENTS
I ho best place to put an advertise
ment is i.i the paper that enjoys the
confidence of the community. I be
lieve that the standing of the paper re
flects on the advertisements it carries.
Charles Austin Bates.
Bay, mamma, how mucsi am I
worth?”
' ou are worth a million of dollars
to me, my son.”
Bay, mamma, couldn’t you advance
me twenty-five cents?”
J. Ogden Armour has cornered the
Ghicago pork market.