The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-04-03
FACES FOR EASTER
Some Novel Decorations for
Easter Eggs.
LITTLE ONES AMUSED AT
Funny Drawings in Many
Fancy Colors:

If you want to get up some really
novel Easter eggs, and some that
will send your boy or girl friends
wild with delight, try the following
plan:
Divide your eggs into three
portions; color some of the dark
brown (seal), some yellow and
leave others white, merely boiling
them hard.
Take paints and brushes (water
colors are best, because they dry
at once, and if plenty of megilp is
used they will not lub) and outline
faces on them.
Take a dark-brown egg, outline
nose and eyes on it in black, touch
in ihe nostrils and corners Of the
eyes in red, and paint a very thick
Tipped African mouth in the same
color Put the whites of the eyes
IN with Chinese white, and the iris
and pupil with black, then out
line pair Of heavy trimmed
glasses over the eyes with your
Chinese white.
One-third of these brown eggs
may have white, woolly side
whiskers put on with cotton. Just
dab on bit Of glue, press your
cotton against IL, and trim off any
that seems too long or ragged,
The hair is arranged ir the same
way, and it looks funnier to leave
the whole top Of the head bald, and
put only a fringing Of it at the
base.
On the Others Of your brown
eggs put a gay little turban Of plaid
China silk, and gum big bead
earrings at the side.
The rest, on which no spectacles
should be painted, may be fixed
up as smart young men and girls,
using a flamboyant hat made Of
pasteboard and trimmed with paper
ribbon for the young women.
A baby, too, is apt to please.
Make its eyes rounder, draw its
mouth wide open, filling in the
open portion with black.
These eggs are all to be mounted
on little circles or squares Of heavy
cardboard, being attached to them
with thick glue.
The mems heads are finished
with tall shirtcollars, cut from stiff
white paper, and neckties Of narrow
red ribbon, the old aunties with o
crossed kerchief like her turban,
the young woman's with a white
ruche, and the baby's with q wide
white ruffie.
The yellow eggs are for China
men, there features are put ON just
as the negroes are, only that the
eyes must slant, the mouth must
be small and red, and a tinge of
color rubbed into the cheek is an
addition.
Queues may be braided Of black
silk or linen thread and added, and
wide hats made Of thin yellow
cardboard or heavy paper, cut in a
circle considerably larger than the
cardboard case, slit up the center
and passed little to make it slant
down.
A Chinese or japanese lady is
effective, if one has the skill TO
manage the elaborate hair dressing
necessary. Ifjute or mohair, such
as imitation hair switches are made
of, can be had, the little coiffure is
quite easily put together and gum
med on. The Chinese baby is the
funniest Of all. Make him looking
out of the corners of his absurd
slant eyes, and give him little
fringe of black hair arranged as you
see it on the heads Of Japanese
dolls.
OF the eggs left uncolored make
young women with rosy cheeks, or
children with curly bangs, if you
can get a bit Of flax for these latter;
but the most effective will be the
baby heads. Draw them laughing
and crying, with blue eyes and
brown, leave the funny egg heads
bald, and put big white ruffles
around their necks for finish.
A bunch Of the heads of Blue
boards wives can be made of these
too. Draw the eyes shut, put little
beard earrings on, and gum on