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Show weekly meeting and lun'cheon. Mrs. Line made reservations for a bridge luncheon for four, on Wednesday. Thursday, Mrs. Frank Nally arranged ar-ranged a bridge luncheon for eight. Mrs. C. F. Gilmore completed reservations for eight for a bridge luncheon, Thursday. ! FASHIONS 3q Xidawrigri't For some time now( the lovely colors of spring have been featured j in the new fascinating clothes seen 1 in all the shops, and Easter eggs and bunnies intrigue the little i ones, for Easter is nigh upon us. Thoughts of everyone are turned ! to the miracle of spring and of throwing off the old somber clothes of winter to don new colorful color-ful apparel, just as nature does. Psychologically, the custom orig-i orig-i inated solely in the desire to dress I up at the period when all nature blooms with new life, and at the I period when it is said Christ rose I from the earth and was resurrect- ! ed. One writer says, fundamen- I tally, this custom of discarding old ; clothes and appearing in attractive new apparel at Easter is part of our primitive instinct to place the 1 old year behind and step forth fresh and clean into a new year. The egg has been regarded as an emblem of life by many peoples since times of antiquity. Easter was a time when all things were I renewed, and so the egg was re garded as a fitting emblem. The Christians borrowed the egg as an -i emblem and made it part of their Easter festivities, but to them it was emblematic of the Resurrection. Resurrec-tion. One writer, in 1700, remarks that the egg at Easter is an emblem em-blem of the rising up out of the grave, in the same manner as the chickf entombed, as it were in the egg, and in due time is brought to life. i The custom of coloring eggs I appears to be exceedingly ancient. The original purpose of coloring f eggs was to imitate the colors of spring and the blossoming of the flowers. When the original custom was taken over by the Christians, j the eggs were principally decor- ated in red to denote the blood of j Christ. J The rabbit's part in Easter festivities originated with an old j superstition that rabbits lay pggs I on Easter Eve. This superstition J is Teutonic in origin, but no one I seems to know what started it. The old superstition of the 'lucky rabbit's foot' grew from-this old Easter idea that rabbits were given supernatural powers on Easter Eve, which enables them to lay eggs. Then there is the well known Easter Bonnet. Did you know that this originated in the popular superstition that to wear a new bonnet for the first time on Easter Sunday was to be assured happiness happi-ness in love during the year? What a nice thought! With all the' new intriguing hats to be seen on fair ladies this Easter Day, there should surely be a lot of happiness during this coming year, |
