The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
THE SPRING FESTIVAL.
Easter Season and Its Recommendation
to Color Eggs, Etc.

Easter Season and Its Entertainment-How
to Color Eggs, Etc.
Easter is coming and thousands of
children all over the country are eagerly
clamoring for Easter eggs. A great many
grown-up children have been known to
spend whole evenings at the delightful
task of ornamenting egHs with ridiculous
devices. Heads are the most amusing TO
do. For a Chinese mandarin the egg is
first painted latter the features have
been sketched on with pencil)
with a yellow tinted skin, the hair
and pig-tail are then made of black sewing
silk which. with the yellow and blue cap,
are gummed to the head. Stiff white pa
per fastened together in cylinder shape
and notched at each end, which enables
you to fasten it 20 the end and to a visit
ing card which holds it erect, forms the
neck. This is concealed by a knotted tic
of tissue paper. Bopeep's head is treated
In the same way except that you must
make her as beautiful as possible. Give
her a white and red complexion, n pompa-
dour coitleur made OF white cotton wool, a
little straw-col0red hat, trimmed with
pink tissue paper roses and blue tissue
paper ribbons. The neck IL arranged in
the same way and Ia hid by sti1 ruiz,
which is also very becoming Many
heads can be made in tho same
manner, among them Cupid,
Topsy. nun and quakeress
An Easter egg evening" is exceedingly
entertaining. Provide half dozen cheap
paint.boxes (y0u can get small ones with
moist colors for 30 cents); squares OF col
ored tissue paper for each person half a
dozen bottles Of mucllago and an egg
apiece. Put a dozen people around the
cleared dining table and let each one or
nament his or her egg as seems best 10
themselves, reading them first these direc-
tons TO give them n hint of what is ex-
peeted. Have prizs for the best and a
BOBBY prize for the worst, both TO be
voted upon. Give an hour and half by
the watch 10 tho decorations, and YOU
will have an amusing result, whatever
the artistic merits Of the performance
may be. Cards, by the way, must also be
furnished 10 fasten the necks 10, so that
they may stand upright; and-but this
goes without saying-the eggs must be
carefully blown first. You know how 10
do this? Make a pin-hole in each end,
and with a straw-children do il with
their mouihs-blow through one aperture
and let the contents OF the egg escape
through the other. Let them be perfectly
dry before beginning 10 paint them.
The prettiest shades can now be OBJ
tanned in from three TO FIVE minutes FAC
cordinR TO the size Of the egg). These in
clude rose-pink, sky-blue, violet and car
mine. ANY good drug store will furnish
packages Of harmless egg-dyes" at very
low prices. Directions for use are print
ed on the outside OF each package and the
contents OF the egg can be eaten without
fear or injuay. Various methods OF Orna-
menting the colored eggs can be applied.
For instance, cut from gold paper a small
sun and crescent, and gum one at each
end Of the egg. powdering the space be-
tween with the tiny stars OF the stamped
gilt paper purchasable at any paper store
where fancy papers are sold. Very pretty,
too, are the rose-pink eggs whereon the
glued little silhouettes (all sorts OF designs
IN black can be cut from papers and cata,
logues). Only be careful to choose the
smallest designs, for 1t is no easy matter
to glue the paper upon the curved surface
OF the eggs II the pictures are too large.
There are some kinds of hens that lay
cream-colored eggs. Whenever you GET
any Of these among those purchased for
household use, blow out the contents and
keep the shells for Easter decorations.
They can be very prettily ornamented by
cumming on them a little spray OF flow
ers, forRet-me-n0ts or lilies OF the valley
In such way that II frames verse OF