The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-04
EFFECTS IN EASTER EGGS.
How to Produce Some Vary Beau
tiful Ones at q Slight
Expense.
Sweetheart Holders, Cigarette
Gases, Egg Fin Trays and
10 s@ TT#4f44h TE&--F.@ II &C.
Numerous Devices.
They Gan 10 Easily Fashioned Out of
EsEs-Fulls Directions How to
Make Them.

Written FOR THr HELENA INDEPENDENTLY
-AslER IS COMING TO BE MORE
TX and more y season for gift giving.
lsA The field, hewever, lies in altogether
different directions from Christmas Civ
iuc, and is confined for the most part TO
offerings which are in some way suggestive
of eggs, which entsr so largely into our
celebration of the day. 1t ia difficult to
discover where the custom of Introducing
eggs on festive occasions originated. We
know, TO DO sure, that Christians copied
the custom of tho Jews, in whose feast OF
the passover eggs were eaten. The CHRIS
tiass added tho brilliant dye to symbolic
the savior's blood. But lonR before that
the old PersiAns and Hindoos used to pre-
sent one another with celored eggs at their
feast of tho sum So we can lay no claim
to originality on that score.
Bat dvsinc has come to be such an old
story that We sesk acme newer WAY Of pre-
pairing eggs, and the entirely original suG-
%pestiona given in this article will show how
some very pretty and acceptable gifts can
be made by displaying a little ingenuity
and care in the making.
In the first place, II you propose making
any CODSiA&Eau4@ EQulDtI u El1eH, Az ~
be well, before you stars to blow out and
clean thoroughly q number Of clear, bsauti-
full white eggs. The brown ones are never
SO pretty for decorating Or combining with
~colcfs. Now, to maks the frat gift ! have
in mind, take a piece 81 p~rettily colorsd
surah, or other soft silk, almost any light
shade; the required size 10 nine by sight
inches. Put the two sight inch edges te-
ssther and seam them. then turn the top
over one inch and hem it. This makes q
heading for \ drawing airing Or ribbon,
and a little spEcs must ba cat open At the
hem for it TO rass through. Nsw, get y
buttan mould, not very large and cover it
smoothly with silk. Th~n take thelans raw
edge OF the silk and gather il neatly. and
draw is through tbs broad end OF the egg
whiek, before this, must have been broken
out int 4 wids northumberland sine eRg
and ont at the lower end. which has q ranch
smaller hole, only la GO enouah to allow the
silk to PASS. This gathering must Rsw la
neatly fastened to the cove, ed mole, which
.conceals it entirely and makes u finish at
the bottom. Now, run r drawing string
through the heading at the top, I'll your
egg with sweets, paint = dainty spray on tbs
egg, and you have an e1trslnsly pretty lit
tie oift shat you can o2er to almost any
one.
Take q piece CT thin board eight inches
square. For tAis you must have four eggs
10 nearly alike III color and slzs as possible.
Now cut four holes in tbs bcafd, one in
raoh c~orner-rather far in from this edge
lust large enough to allow she egss to slip
in and deep enough fer them to stand up
straight. lhsn cover the board. either By
clusing or sewing, whichever you can do
tho neater with q handsome piece Of dark
plush. Rsa gives the bast effect. In order
TO manage about the holes, cut the plush
ovsr each one Of them. with q penknlfe, into
long meat Sits or strips, and bring ths1
through this hole to the back OF ths board,
where they should be neatly fastened with
glue. Then the back of tbs board should
be lined with some material to conceal all
the other glueing and sewlna. Now got
.our of those little brass feet and screw
them into each corner of the board, SO that
it will stand sufficiently high to enable the
eggs to slip tn ouRh, after you have deaora-
ted theE, to your taste. This makes = very
pretty table stand and will hold all sorts of
little k~nickknacks. OF course tho eggs
must be broken open considerably.
For she aext device the eggs must be very
prettily painted, as nnost OF the beauty of
the gift will lie in the decoration OF shs
shell, although it's utility will be at once
apparent. After the eggs have nsen p
propriately adorned a hole should bs
broken in She narrow end large enough to
hold a fine Roft cork. A great dsnl Of care
must be exercised in the brssklas of tho
HDGI1uIG anu EE0 kEGut ing VI LIZ CGlAa, O1
else the plan will not be likely to succ sed.
Now pierce in ths other end. at equal dis
tances in some sort OF a design. hne holes.
and a considerable number of them. / un-
fortunately neglected to try this ons. go am
met sure that this will stand up of itself.
But I think if the cork iR fiat enough and
large enough there will be NO difficulty.
Should there be, however, one Of the molds
mentioned before may be fastened to the
cork, which will mako a Arm foundation.
Or soma very pretty wire stands,sinoxpen-
sive. can be secured for them. Make a
dozen of these. fill six with salt and si1
with pepper. and you will gladden. the
heart of any careful housskesper by sQoh q
gift.
Take = piece OF board and cat it into an
eighth triangle, all three aides alike.
Then In the center of it, ut a distance OF
two lnchea from one another, and also in
the shape of q triangle, bore three small
holes. Then get thrse tns sticks, euoh five
inches lnsg, smnnth and axan, and put them
through the holes after gliding or painting
them. Ihev should only be pat through
about half an inch. and then little brass
feet fastened to the thres corners of the
board, which will make it stand up vol.
Now cross tho sticks about two inches
above whers they pass Though the
board, and band them together firmly with
gold wi Q or something else pretty and
sttong. Then take three .eggg and open
them vol at one end, at the osher Just
enough TO allow the eggs to slip over thin
sticka. Put an egg on each ntick, paint it to
match the other doool alton; also paint the
main beard ON the same order. and on hava
q little cigarette stand. One egg for cigar
cites, one for matches and the other for
ashes.
Hare is another useful and dainty CON
triyance: Start with q piece of stiff card
board, cut in the shape of a circle, four
inches in dismetsr. Take another pises of
cardboard, one and r. half inches high and
about seven long. Then join it together by
paste or glue, tapping the end we'll owe
which forms a small, low cylinder. Now
stand this cylinder in tho center of the cir
eulsr shaped card and sew them neatly to-
gathsr st the baha of the cylinder. Take u
piece of prsttT eolored silk and cut il into
q circle ALTO, this time nine inchss in diam
eter. Place the combination cardboard
circle and cylinder right IN the centsr of it,
and then gather the edge toeethsr with u
running stitch. turning It over a llt.ls first
to form g heading. Draw it IN TO exactly
tho slze eff the cylinder, ana thea bring It
~ and faEtaR it 2found this edge of tho CYL
inder. Allow the littls heading TO stand
out TOR q finish. Now get someone tia
understands how to break eggs and haya
ono broken exactly ia half Ter you. ANY
good housewife can do il. Then put one
of tho halves into the top OF the ey!in1ar,
and there is a dainty littls pin tfay fo7 sou.
1t ia we'll. kewsver, bsfo YOU start to SOC
that your cylinder cardboard ls going to fit
your hnIf egg. ss agps litfsr 80 much that
seven irckes may not always be the right
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