Why They Go to Church.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, 10 July 1912, Page 62

Why They Go to Church.

“No, I didn’t get out to church Ont Sunday,” said Miss Lillypadd to Mifl’i Giddylove. “I had such a perfectly, dreadful, awful, terrible, horrible eol<i that I couldn’t go. My nose was a IoW ster red. I was awfully annoyed because! I couldn’t go- Was the sermon our newl rector preached a good sermon? Tell md about it.” "Oh, it was lovely! So eloquent anti so full of—of—you "know what I meafl-i I just loved every word of it. It was on the text I wish you could have) seen the hat right iq, front of me. It was the strangest combination of purple and yellow and pink and magenta and blue and red and half-a-dozen othen colours, and yet it had a certain air abouu it that gave it—well, what you would eall tone. And the woman with he# had a perfect dream of a hat in three shades of green, with five blue plumes. As a rule, I don't like a combination! of blue and green, but this was ever so fetching. But, as I was going to say, the rector took his text from—— What under the sun makes Katie La A ellerst ■wear blue with that coffee-tinted complexion of hers, and sky blue at that I] Honest, her hat was a huge thing in sky, blue. It was enough to set one’s teeth’ on edge above a complexion like hers. It was as bad as a woman who sat near! us with a positively yellow complexion and a Royal purple hat! Think of it— Royal purple and a yellow complexion ii Not one person in a thousand can wear. Royal purple and But the new rector did preach beautifully. So eloquent and so—let me see. what was hi? text ? I made up my mind to remember it, and I—it was front either Matthew qr John, or it may have been front Luke, but it was all about The! soprano in the choir had a white and green and gold hat that was a perfect! beauty. How some of these ehoiß singers do dress, anyhow! That han never cost less than five guineas, and—t I wish to man that you could have seen! the spectacle Maizie Highflyer made ot herself in a flame-eoloured red velvet! hat with a bushel of flowers and feathers of the .same tint! It was enough tq eau.se someone to ring in a fire alarm) That hat was fully a foot and a halt high, with a flame-eoloured feather a foot long above it all. I saw people nudging each other when she earns down the aisle with it on! Trust) Maizie to go the limit in hats or any other fashion. It might have done foe a horse show or a country race meeting, but for church —mercy on us! How, (anyone could have serious thoughts about their immortal souls with a thing like that on one’s head! lam sure we shall like the new rector if all of hiS sermons are as good as the one we had on Sunday. It was so—so, well, . soi full of uplift—that just expresses it-, uplift! It was from Do you know that red seems to be the prevailing colour this season? I counted no les? than twenty-nine red hats in the congregation—all red, and nineteen with a touch of red in them. Too bad yous didn’t get out. The new rector’s sermon was lovely, just lovely!”