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Show HOW IT CAME ABOUT. : A friend asks us why the papers put out Easter editions a week in. advance of Easter. That is through an innate mingled piety and benevolence, characteristics so eomrtion among newspaper men : that they are no longer a theme of discussion. Lent , is a period of sacrifices, wherein the flesh is to be rrortified for the soul's exaltation. The newspaper men sacrificed themselves, and took a chance of present and future punishment, in order to spread before the people the desire of the merchants to explain to the good'bow they could, daring the present pres-ent week, make sacrifices and still not be altogether ; rewardless.,, For instance, if some lady, oppressed by the burdens of her own shortcomings, desiies to make good by devoting her money to a holy purpose, and ! decides-to give to some, needy merchant, say, $30, ' the merchant will in his thankfulness give the lady ; a trifling souvenir of remembrance in the form of j an Easter bonnet, which the lady can gracefully accept, it being the season of broiherly and sisterly sis-terly love, and with the thought thiat she can afford to accept, because the merchant will not be out so very much. . ' .'And the lady can afford to wear the hat on Faster, such a little thing, to show in bright colors Jier joy that the Lord is risen. As to the. mortification, that will come to the old man when the bill comes in after holy week . Is past. To bring all these benign things around is why the newspapers anticipated Easter by a week. |