Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-29

| bow and flowers, real or ARTIFICIAL. and
filled with candles. Thrve OF TIN
may be tied together and venous.y
and all three filed with the choicest bon
hons, but the Easter symbol OF eggs OF
fuzzy chick or two nnust accompany q. a
child will be delighted with one. OF these
mounted like nest on twig siivereu or
4 giided. Line il with tinsei paper cur nne
| for. the nest, fill this with candy eggs ana
add tiny downy chick.
An Easter booklet made OF sheets OF
ragged-edge paper Of various delicate tints
tied with handsome ribbon, can be paint,
ed with flower sprays or have. texts an1
quotations PRETTY illuminated with red
and black ink, or done with ilne Gamers
hair brush dipped IN gold or silver liquid
paint. A shaYing-case made from drawing
/ paper is in the shape of a huge tiger,
hly-tinted gold and black or rose color
with pinkish-winte edges. the leaves
dotted with brown and gold ike great
Illlum auratum. A narrow satin ripoon
drawn through at the part indicated tor
the stem, serves to hang il up by and TO
| confne many sheets OF thin tissue OF ia
panese rice paper. A pond lily or clover
leaf is pretty design. aud either OF these
may be used for a perpetual calendar by
running through at graduated distances,
one above che other, and little TO one
side. three lengths of ribbon. containing
the days of the week. the names or the
month. aud the dates of the month.
sAs AcHEr
made Of wide gold-colored satin ribbon. in
the form of cross, is painted with Easter
lilies or Scripture text. The ribbon Is
doubled and has layer OF scented wad-
ding placed between. The ends are
! fringed. lady has just completed a gift
for friends baby made of three bureau
drawer sachets- They are made to tit the
drawer easily, Of scented wadding laid be-
tween cheese cloth. the upper side covered
with violet China silk. The little ones
name is outlined on each in pink, white. or
old rose silk. These are pretty made OF
white linen, with the upper side decorated
with the flower whose perfume - used.
These may be finished withri5bon bows at
| the corners.
In short there is nothing trife or costly,
quaint, elegant, useful or decorative. that
| YOU may not send friend appropriately
on Easter, provided only you can manage
IN some way TO combine It with on Easter
sentiment or symbol Last Faster dear
friend sent me an exquisite Seyres vase.
| the cOstliness Of which would have rather
panied than pleased me had 1t not been for
| the great bunch of pure Easter lilies which
| II held.
USES FOR EJG-sHELIs.
There are numberess devices tor making
| the little ones happy ut Easter. Calling on
lady the other day. | found her with
dozens of empty egg-shells OF oil the
| sizes and tints in which eggs are found. in
Guiding the delicate blue OF ducks eggs.
| As we chatted she worked with tiny scis-
sors. pencil. brushes, and paints, and be-
| fore the close OF the afternoon her table
| with charm
| ing collection of gifts. 'On one shell
she had painted prim and Pris-
| cilla-like maiden with demure. heavy.
| fringed, downcast eyelids; on another
u meek and modest nun. A priest
all shaved and shorn, an Italian bri-
gand, a dusky-skinned Spaniard, an old
| farmer. a church deacon with spectacles
on his brows. sweet little choir-boys and
| coquettish little misses we're all portrayed
| with few deft turns Of the brush. Then
| from bits of paper, white or colored, she
| fashioned suitable headgear for each, and
mounted IL on a square piece OF bristol
| board, bearing an Easter greeting in one
| corner and her own initials IL the other.
| Still other shells were clipped and
cut with the sharpest of scissors
| into miniature tea-sets. A cream
pitcher of the sQuatty, oblong, old
fashioned shape of long ago, with bit of
| twisted gold wire glued on for handle--a
sugar-bowl of corresponding design with
gold beads glued on for feet; pigeons eggs
were cut into tiny cups; andsaucers, albeit
somewhat deep for their diometer, were
cut from larger shells. The edges were all
clouded with gilt, and gold wire formed
| the handles. The outsides were decorated
with the tiny roses and buds which was
| the fashionable china decoration in the
| days Of our great grandmothers. For
| tray, wooden butter plate was gilded on
the outside and painted ON its inner brown
surface with border of forget-me-nots
and sprays of trailing arbutus in the centre.
coLoRrNa EAsTKR-EdGs.
But the greatest event Of the day for the
children lies in the coloring of the Easter
eggs. The aniline dyes will color them
with the least trouble-and with the least
satisfactory results from an artistic point
of view. If, however, You do use them,
dissolve the dye-stuffs first in O little
alcohol before adding water. sufficient
| TO well cover the eggs. Cochineal will
give any shade, from the most delicate
pink to the richest and deepest Grim
son, according TO the quantity used. Log
wood chips or powdered logwood will give
different shades of purple, and If enough
| be used larger quantity will make them
black. but YOU will not want many black
eggs. Vinegar added TO the logwood dye
will give crimson. and sulphate OF iron
added later bright blue. Eggs boiled in
strong coffee will be brown; IN decoction
made from onion Feelings yellow. What
ever coloring matter ia used the eggs
should never rest on the bottom Of the
saucepan, but should be placed in q
wire egg-boiler. Use an old sauce
pan. They must always be kept we'll
covered with water. If rubbed with
sweet oil or bit of butter after
they are boiled, they will have glossy
appearance. Names or designs traced on
with nitric acid before boiling. will remain
white. Another way to effect tracery or
etehinps is to heat the egg for few mo-
ments in hot water, and then write on 1t
with a sharpened tallow candle, or
pointed stick dipped in melted tallow. The
parts touched with the grease will remain
uncolored, and will seem simply magic to
the little tot who sees her name written in
white on pink or violet egg. Very pretty
effects are obtained by boiling the eggs Tor
an hour, then brushing them over with
strong glue or painters size, and SPHINX
ling with gold or silver dust, such as book
binders use.
AN EASTER GAME.
At delightful Easter party for children
eiven by q society lady last year game
was played which afforded infinite amuse-
ment. A number Of eggs had been pre-
pared by emptying them of their contents.
10 do this, pierce small hole in each end
with q needle and blow into one end until
the contents have all run out of tho other.
Then with pair of small scissors enlarge
the hole at the small end TO the size OF a
silver dime. The shells may now be gild-
ed. silvered, bronzed, decorated with de-
signs in water eolors, boiled in dyes or or
namented to suit the fancy. Cut small
circle of guilt paper, fold it twice and cut
an eight-polnted star. In the centre OF
this cut round hole and through this
push bit of narrow ribbon three inches
long, doubled TO form loop. Turn the
two ends back and glue them to the wrong
side of the star; then glue this star and
loop securely TO the large end OF the egg
shell. In the other end drop triflng
gifts-a silver thimble, tiny pen-knife.
a gioye-buttouer, &c. Some OF them
may be filled with little candies. In
one put a slip of paper on which Is
written first prize Indeed you. may
have a second and third prize If you
think it will add to the excitement. The
small eud is then closed up by having bit
OF white paper pasted over it, cut in points
TO make II fit more closely. One egg Is re-
auired for each guest, who Is provided with
a light wand or bamboo walking-stick.
TO which is attached q piece OF twine a
ward long with large hook made OF bent
wire. A number of toy hoops are covered
N III stout brown paper tackled ON. and IN