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Show EASTER BONNETS Among many of our women folks, the all-important duty of this week is to get a new hat for Easter. There's something very necessary about that new hat. If you observe women walking to church on Easter Sunday, you'll see that those who are wearing last year's hat have a sort of an apologetic apolo-getic look about them, as if they didn't want to be noticed, while those with a new hat, and perhaps per-haps a corsage, have an air of wanting everyone to look at them to look at someone who is happy and gay and full of the spirit of Easter. That feeling of having to have a new Easter bonnet bon-net is more than just a custom or a silly notion. It is a form of rejuvenation. The Easter spirit, the Easter music, the sermons in the churches, are all aimed at freshening up our minds and souls, and it takes a super-woman to feel that freshness inside if her clothes are shabby and out-dated. It may be the soul of a woman that really matters, but in most cases a woman's soul is warmed and expanded immeasurably by the admiration ad-miration or approval of others for her outer appearance. ap-pearance. The purpose of Easter is not to hold a fashion parade, but the fashion parade is a woman's way of harmonizing with the Easter season. We hope there will be plenty of new Easter bonnets in our town this year and that the Easter Eas-ter spirit will be expressed inside of heads as well as on top of them on Easter morning. |