Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-03-31
EASTER NOVELTIES.
THE WEALTH OF BEAUTY IN THE LAS.
n CASTER STORE WINDOWS.
The rnappropriatenessa and Expensiveness of the
Afsasn Easter roken-A sigh for the
Old Days--Among the booksellers,
Druggists and Confectfoners.


Druggists and Confectioncrs.
The rage for novelties at the great holiday |
seasons Of the year Is something curious to |
study. In recent years the desire to remem- |
ber sweetheart or friend at these times has |
become so universal that publishers, drug
gists and confectioners with an eye to busi- |
ness, have spent great sums of money in OBJ
tsining the latest and most exquisite designs.
Any one of observation who takes a stroll
along the principal streets of Lancaster. now
must and himself occasionally brought to
standstill at the wealth of beauty that gazes
At kim from the prettily decorated shop
windows in his path.
And If he is given to much inward medi-
tation be must find himself often at loss to
understand how some of the novelties he
sees are typical of the great idea of the Resur-
rection. He will for instance wonder where
the Easter thought comes in with adecorated
egg, or party of playful rabbits. Or what pos
sible relation exists between a 1915 satin and
plush card, having summer landscape,
trimmed in oriental lace and the great key
the chief Easter tokens that the moderns
buy. A prominent bookseller informed
representative of the 1NrELLIaENCER that
the present call was for souvenirs like
sachets punches of French artificial flowers
with an Easter card attached, and banneret
cards.
The prices of the various cards aud knick-
knacks that are considered proper for Easter
remembrances range, from five cents to four
dollars, the latter being the extreme limit
While the high priced souvenirs often show
much good taste albeit sometimes without
particle OF Easter appropriateness, it Is pity
that their prices place them beyond the
reach of the ordinary purchaser 1t would
be well ii return to the old days could be
inaugurated when cheaper cards with fitting
designs might pass from friend to
friend with no serious eXacton on the purse.
Then the Easter and other holidays would be
brought home to more people and their sig
nificance have a wider appreciation.
The bookstores of G. Luther Ton Dersmlth
Chas. II. Barr, John Baer's Sons l.. NJ
Flynn, and l.. B. Herr abound in pretty
trifies suitable for the season, with cost that
can be made to suit all variety of purchasers
These exhibits are all so pretty that the
casual visitor who enters their stores merely
to alook around " finds himself purchaser
almost before he understands the process by
which he reached that situation.
There is no more attractive window on
East King street than that of High & Martin,
and although they do not make an exclusive
display of Easter goods, there are many
pretty novelties in glass and queensware that
have special reference TO Easter.
THE DRUGGISTS KEEPING UP THEIR END.
Longs drug store, North Queen street, is q
kind of headquarters for brilliantly colored
eggs of all sorts and sizes, from pigeon eggs
up to those of the roc. There are many huge
porcelain eggs, o foot in diameter, made o
porcelain, and in one of these is nest o.
live guinea pigs and in another nest o.
young rabbits. In large glass cage Is Z
family of live rabbits, and i'll vase a family
OF white mice, that have been dyed various
colors by Longs dyeS Suspended from thu
ceiling inside one of the windows is bambo'
stand, filled with eggs, that revolves on al
old fashioned English spit, that was used il
old lnv, tiY,Nn t..rt tnyl m N
- front OF fire of live Goals. 1t is quite
curiosity, being run by clock works. In tn
other front window is a revolving pyramid q
beautifully dyed pampas grass
Kauffman's drug store on North queer
street, also contains remarkably hne col
lection of brilliantly dyed eggs, large AM
small, and in addition there is am attaroo
display of stuffed birds-including. =, youn
of young ducks, brood of p9rtTii. Kaufman
chick, wEies ucks etc with which his egg
acre colored, and has his exhibits very taste
fully arranged.
Hulrs new drug store on West King stree
is also very pretily arranged, and althoug
the display of colored eggs is not so large a
those above named, there are enough OF theI
to attract much attention, while the artist
arrangement of other fine goods in the iron
windows surprises all others in this line {
business
Cochrans drug store, North Queen street
also contains very pretty display of colore
eggs dyes, and other objects of interest
WHAT THE CONFECTIONERS HAVE DOM
The confectioners vie with the druggists i
their exhibit of Easter articles. If their egg
and their rabbits are not quite so Brilliant
colored, they are in greater variety, and the
possess the merit of suiting the palate as wei
as the eye Of the juvenile aesthetic. The win
dows of John c. Spaeth, North Queen stree
are piled fun of eggs and "peeps," and rat
bits made of all sizes and colors and ther
are stuffed birds and limitations of stuffe
birds, and boxes and baskets of egg-shape
candies in endless variety.
Sheetz's candy store, on North Queer
street, where the display of candies of hi
own manufacture is always large aud al
tractiye, looks unusually pretty just now
the egg and the rabbit for the time being al
most monopolizing the pretty baskets wit
which the show window is filled.
JOS. r. Royer, West King street, has
world of Easter novelties in his windows, IN
Guiding candy eggs of all qualities, sizes an
colors and rabbits of all colors and in all att
tude. The fruits and confections are fine an
prettily arranged.
The confectionery of Samuel Demuth, EaS
King street, is very tastily fitted up. In tn
windows there Is complete menagerie
animals Of all kinds, climbing over mountain
of Stag. Against the plate glass of eac
: window Is placed a large magnifying glas
through which passers by may look and Sc
the show greatly enlarged. The arrangemer
& is very pretty and attracts much attention.
GruePs, George Erisman's, Sharp's, an
some other confectionery and toy stores al
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