The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-08
BASTERTIDE GIFTS.
Society Is Taking Them
Up as a Fad to Super
Sede Christmas.

Especially 1CrttteR for the Jerse1 C1ty Netos.)
The custom Of giving gifts at Easter
tide deserves to become general and Is
rapidly getting its deserts. If we really
believe what we repeat in church. that
the whole fabric of orthodox Christianity
rests on the resu ERECTION of the Savior
from the dead, surely the day of His rig
ing should be more a season of rejoicing
thai Christmas, the day OF His birth. AS
the custom of gift making on the twenty
fifth of December grows more aud more
of a dreaded duty until even now society
is on the verge of announcing IN the
papers, "Please omit presents" the
custom of Easter giving has grown more
general aud silver shops and fancy goods
stores blossom out wonderfully along
towards April.
A good authority on the subject says
that Easter gifts should be simple or
silver" That is, if bought, they should
be silver; If handmade, simple. This is no
time for petticoated piano lamps or EN-
broidery red with the blood of murdered
tune"-whatever the quotation is. Butt IL
you buy, buy silver, aud don'@ let tne
clerk persuade you that great egg shaped
inkstands and clocks with rabbits cllmo-
Jug up the sides are Just the thing for
Easter gifts" because they are no
such thing. There are professions
where q man is not expected to
tell the truth, aud a saiesmans 1s
one of them. If the gift is for Il
adjective ''daipty."-a glove-bnttoner;
mo woman can ever Keep track OF this
article longer than three weeks, so you
will be safe in bestowIng one whenever
you wish) a viniagrette, curved to slip In
side the glove; a slender chain to holt up
evening gloves, with a heartshaped
pendant. II for a man, these are pen:
trays, book-marks that fit the corner or
the leaf, postage stap boxes; none or
which he will ever use. but which Will
brace up his self-respect when be reflects
that they belong to him. There was
once q man who became a social leader
by trying to live up to his silver backed
hair Drusn,-but that is another story.
WHAT YOU CAN MAKE.
II you have quick fingers and q thought
ful mind, the money question need not
concern your Easter gifts. Your friend
wears wells? Then she will bless you for
making her a veil case like this. A strip
of Powered silk twelve inche square is
lined with silk of a solid color, with q
thin layer Of wadding between. AS it
lies lowered side down. turn the opposite
sides over until the edges meet, thus
bringing the creases three inches from
the centre. Catch down the sides with u
silk cord and flat button forming two
pockets. Fold once more through the
centre and tie with broad satin ribbon.
Those fluffy yellow chickens that can
be used as hair-pin balls are made thus:-
Cut two circles of stiff board, each three
inches In diameter and in the exact CEN
tire of each pierce a round hole one inch in
diameter. Place the two pieces together
exactly. and wind one ounce of yellow
worsted over the cardboard and through
the hole in the centre. Wind until 1t Is
Impossible to put another thread III tough
Iusert a sharp scissors through the wor-
sted between the ~rdboa and cut the
Worsted all round. Separate the W
pieces of board to enable you to pass u
strong thread between, wind round II
tie as tightly as possible, then cut the
board aud pull out. Trim into shape
with scissors. This is chickey's body.
Attach "a similar though smaller bali for
a head, ornament it with black beads for
eyes and a cardboard beak, aud give him
a pair of wire legs wound with worsted.
Then put hair pins in him.. With the
head and accessories omitted. and hung
by a narrow ribbon, this makes a fair inn
itation of an Easter egg.
SACHET BAGS.
Everyone knows the dangling punches
of tiny sachet bags hat used to bump
into one's eyes from parlor chandeliers.
A bright young New York art student
recently made an Easter novelty on this
plan. substituting for the bags egg
shaped bits of cardboard. covered with
white satin, and bearing Que a name,
another d bit of sketchiug, another II
tiuy portrait head, each with some per-
sonaI interest. The triple b~ook-narks
for prayer books are prettiest made of
three Il YER chains Joined by a small
clasp, one ending III a cross marked
Communion" another a heart, Col
lect," and the third an anchor, "Psalm;'
but a Hasbrouck student the other day
showed the writer n marker of this kind
made in the last century, with the en-
blems in ivory. attached to RIBBONS bear
ing such wonderfully fine embroidery as
modern eyes and hagers could never Ell
dure or initiate.