The Easter Promenade

 

 

Easter Promenade
It's Easter in Washington, late though it comes,
So blare on the trumpets and beat on the drums,
And pin on the orchids so fragile and scentless,
The Easter paraders will move on relentless.
Three hundred and sixty-four days we've been striding
Because of an A card that won't permit riding,
But prop up our feet today? We will have none of it!
Easter's for walking-and just for the fun of it!
Forego that long hike and stay home to put soup on?
Conserve precious leather and 17 coupon?
Ah, no, let us join the Sunday morn marches.
Up with the chins, girls, and down with the arches.
On with the dress with the frou-frou upon it
On with the maddest of mad Easter bonnets.
Add all the touches to prove that we know style,
Watch for the cameraman-give him the profile.
For it's Easter in Washington-on with the strolling.
It's for the pedestrians bells will be tolling.
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Futuristic Fashions Parade Easter Morning

Illustration by James Henry Daugherty from a newspaper published in 1915.

      James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 Asheville, North Carolina – February 21, 1974) was an American modernist painter, muralist, children's book author, and illustrator.

      He lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art. Later, he went to London and studied under Frank Brangwyn. During World War I, he was commissioned to produce propaganda posters for various US Government agencies, including the United States Shipping Board.

      Daugherty wrote and illustrated several children's books during his career. In his book Daniel Boone won the Newbery Medal. His book with Benjamin Elkin, Gillespie and the Guards, won the Caldecott Honor in 1957. He was also the author of Walt Whitman's America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty.

      In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, over Daugherty's depiction of Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project for the town hall, and installed in the school in 1935. The mural was restored, and revealed a scene, filled with violent and richly-colored imagery, including snarling animals, tomahawk-wielding American Indians, and a half-naked General Putnam strapped to a burning stake. School officials objected to the violent imagery, and ordered the mural removed to the Greenwich Public Library.

      Daugherty will be included in the exhibition The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America at the Yale Gallery in 2010.

More Related Content:

• The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, Yale Gallery
• Heroic America: James Daugherty's Mural Drawings from the 1930s
• WPA Mural Studies
• "The Mural in the Gym", Collecting Children's Books, November 3, 2009

How You Wear Hat Key To Character?

Read a person's character by how they were their hat.

       

Character reading by hats is a new and interesting pastime...

• The girl or woman who wears her hat firmly and squarely is called the girl or woman who has determination and ability to do things and does them.
• The girl with a flabby hat set so it seems ready to blow off any minute is said to be of the butterfly variety, without aim or ambition. Hat at a dangerous angle means the wearer is liable to be fickle and to like flattery.
• She with the bonnet tilted back on her heard, according to fans in character reading by hats, is prone to self-indulgence.
• Then there is the secretive kind, hiding her eyes behind a curtain and pulling her hat down to her eyebrows.
• The girl who is continually rearranging her hat and primping her hair may have a fitful mind.

note: Now that we no longer wear hats often, people can never tell what our personalities are like by just looking at us.

What do you think these bonnets reveal?

from Abiana Studio