Easter Bonnet Trends Face an Elegant Revival in Fashion
The piece surveys spring millinery with bright Easter bonnets, noting a shift away from Salvation Army style toward social leaders influences. It highlights English walking hats, light spring hats, toques and turbans, and describes standout detailing such as blue shot tafetta toques, velvet rouleaus, and ostrich plumes alongside violet and blue color stories and pale grays for new season headwear.
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Salvation Army
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Forty-sixth Street
Lexington Avenue
America
French Union Syndicate of Flowers and Feathers
Chinchilla
Palmyra
Siberia
Emeranda
Easter Hare Myth and Moon Goddess Connections
This essay traces Easter hare legends to ancient moon worship and pagan rites. It links the hare and Easter eggs to lunar symbols, sun god imagery, and various mythic cycles from Egypt Greece and Saxon sources, noting shifting gender of the moon and enduring beliefs about the hare’s powers.
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America
Gland
Germany
Egypt
India
Eastre
Easter
Astarte
Ashtaroth
Mas
Typhon
Osiris
Llywy
Kreiwy
Demeter
Persephone
Vinata
Kaden
Musset
Pliny
Plutarch
Euphuists
Elizabeth
James
Beaumont and Fletcher
Easter Song of Hope and Spring Renewal
A poetic meditation on Easter joy and the return of life. The verses describe crocus buds, birds, and Robin song as symbols of resurrection and renewed warmth. The speaker urges faith that death is overcome and summer’s procession begins with bells from Bethlehem. By Joel Bewton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Joel
Tim and Digil Enter Public House Trade
An 19th century quip from Phil May's Winter Annual frames Tim and a character named Digil heading into a public house. The exchange centers on drinking costs and social banter with dialect phrasing.
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Tim
Phil May
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Hapgood
Stow
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Horace Tuttle
Victor Hub
J. W. Henderson
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General Jobling
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Ernest Hosmer
So. Acton
Ima
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