Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-18
PRETTY EASTER CARDS.
some of the New and Novel Designs
Seen in Stationors' Windows.

Seen in S~tatfOners'
Eastertide's advent, bringing in its
wake the close of the p%enitential season,
will be announced from the pulpits to-day.
And with the close Of Lent the thrifty
tradesman mrns an honest penny, which,
a few years baok-before Easter cards
were-he aid not see the color Of.
Like coming events do by their shadows,
Easter does by its cards, casting them ten
days TO two weeks ahead. Local dealers
rave the greater part OF their stock un-
packed and displayed IN windows and
cases. There was a fair trade IN the cards
last week, but it was no business at all IN
comparison with what is expected from
tomorrow morning until next Saturday
night. There is no scarcity of new de-
signs this year, for the manufacturers
know very well that in novelties and Cd
dities there IS more money than
in old designs. Consequently fewer
manger and stars Of Bethlehem, and
comets and shepherds tending 1Ocks are
seen this year than in seasons past.
Yesterday afternoon a NEWS reporter
went through a stock which the prOprie-
tor tr|uthfully said was the most varied in
the city and not a suggestion in cOlors Of
the Babe-In-the-manger idea nor the sheep
oD-the-starlit-hills was seen. True there
was a lambs head worked in nov and
then with some such scriptural quotation
as worthy is the Lamb" Crosses are
plentiful, but OF course there must be a
reasonable mount of designs suggestive
Of Passion week.
Flowers that bloom about this time
Of the year are frequently found as bOT-
ders on cards that have some other pic
ture for the main design. Gala lilies and
liiies-of-the-yalley are fayorites. Bells
and eggs and banners and doves are not
altogether shut out, but the tendency Of
the designers seems to have been To get
out Of the old Tuts even il some of the
subjects were far-fetched. Crosses and
crowns of thOrns, and the like, are closely
enough associated with Passion week for
any n to eaten the idea. Eggs have a
certain dietetic relation to the season that
lends a sense Of Appropriateness to a card
with an OVal-shaped design. If a spoon
and an egg-glass were only added, the
association would be much stronger. As
yet the artist mas not awaited himself Of
this last idea, but after bringing up before
the MINDS eye the poached or soft-botled
article, and awakening the appetite
through the imagination, he gives his de-
sign another turn, breaks a hole in the
shell and sticks on a newly Matched and
uniedged chick. One Of these young poul-
try ideas is a very yellow and
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of and gazing in a bewildered
sort Of way at the hollow shell from which
he has just stepped. Another conception
in this line is five gilt cOlored chicks
standing in a row chirping. Above their
heads in silYered letters are the words
EASTER Greetings"
A third card on the low priced counter
where the spring chickens are bears a lit
tie red Tipped. woody headed youngster,
urbn raunorIu that ho haa no 1hfOlraru -,
his hat. The hat turns on a pin, and
when turned upside down reveals nearly
a dozen heads and bills. BY another year
or two the artist will probably work in
the incubator on his Easter souvenirs.
Everybody that buys cards will be glad
to learn that prices are much lower this
season than last. Five cents will buy a
card with real silk fringe" and s. will
get the best in almost any Of the stores.
Some OF the prettiest are landscapes
n water vie VS. Ga satin. Something
especially appropriate is the figure of a
woman leaning on a tomb, and below the
verse, 'He is not here. He 10 risen" The
picture suggests the visit of Mary, the
Holy Mother, to the tomb after the resur-
rectIOn.
A cheaper card shows two babes astride
a crescent looking down from their high
perch upOn the earth.
A novel Easter offering is a hollow sec
ton Of tree trunk, lichen covered and old,
with half a dozen broken, ragged twigs
growing out of it. On the largest is
perched a crow looking almost as though
alive with its unfathOmable expression,
and down in the hollow below, bedded in
a mass of flowers, is a nest containing six
eggs.
Another pretty idea is the placing of
tiny eggs in baskets of flowers and white
down intended for Easter presents.