The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-02


If you want to get up some really
set your boy or girl friends wild with
delight. try the following PLAN
Take paints and brushes water colors
are best. because they dry at once. and
if plenty of megilp is used they will
rub and outline faces On them.
Take a dark brown egg. outline nose
and eyes on it in black, touch in the nos
trils and corners of the eyes in red. and
paint a very thick-lipped African mouth
in the same color. Put the whites of the
eyes in with Chinese White. and the
irs and pupils with black. then outline a
pair of heavy trimmed glasses over the
eyes of heavy Chinese white.
One-third of these brewn eggs may
have white, wooly side whiskers put on
with cotton. Just dab on a bit of glue,
press your cotton against it, and trim off
any thai seems too long or ragged.
The hair is arranged in 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 other of your brown eggs put
a gay little turban of plaid China silk.
and gum big head earrings at the side.
The rest. on which no spectacles should
be painted, may be fxed up as smart
young men and girls. using a famboyant
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,
fling in the open portion. with black.
These eggs are. all to be. mounte on
1ftlo oirc1aS ny co11aroc of haaru aar.1.
board, being attached to them with thick
glue.
The mems heads are finished with tall
shirt collars, cut from. stiff white. paper,
ard neekties of narrow red ribbon, the
old auntie's with a crossed kerchief like
her turban, the young woman with a
white rGche, and the 'baby's with a
wide white ruffle.
The yellow eggs are for Cinnamon;
their 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 in addition.
Queues may be braided of black silk
or linen thread and added, and wide hats
made of thin yellow cardboard paper, cut
in a circle considerably larger thar the
cardboard case, slit up-the center and
pressed a little to make it slant down..
A Chinese or Japanese lady is effective
if one has the skill to manage the elab-
crate hair dressing necessary. If jute
or mohair, such as imitation hair switch
es are made of. can be had the little
couture is quite easily put together and
gummed on. The Chinese baby is the
funniest of all. Make him looking out
Of the corners of his absurd slant eyes,
and give him a 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 fax
for these latter; but the most effective
viii be the baby heads. Draw them laugh
ing and crying. with blue eyes and brown;
leave the funny egg heads bald and put
big white rufaes Ground Their necks for
finish.
a bunch of the heads of Bluebeard's
wives can be made of these. too. Draw
the eyes shut, put little bead earrings on.
and gum on hair. bringing it up to the
top of the head and braiding it in a braid
dUouL lWO 1iS4leS lOIlE.~ nSSC DIE llOl
mounted on the card board circles, but
are,put in threes and hung by the braids.
which should be tied together by a bit of
bright ribbon.
Take a small china dolls head, gum it
to the top of one Of the eggs. which is
already firmly fixed upon it's cardboard
base, cover the joining with a broad.
white ruf1e, paint the egg a gaudy plaid,
cut a pair of hands and feet from stiff
cardboard. make little puffs like sleeves,
coneealing the upper end under the neck
ruffe. and putting the cardboard on at
the other end, setting the arms comically
akinsbo on the balloon-like body: put the
feet on the base. hiding their joining yith
the egg by a tiny white frill; paint a cou-
pie Of red triangles or the cheeks; put a
pointed paper cap on the head, and you
AVE a very ridiculous looking clown for
the babies to laugh at.
In this work your glue must be thick
and strong, and your painting must be
given time to dry. or you will find your
eggs topping to pieces and smeared be-
fore they are completed.
These eggs make pretty favors for an
Easter party or tea.
Two women sat in an intelligence Office
the other day and from one to another
went the individual member of a motley
procession which filed from the inner
room to the outer. each disappearing fig
ure being but the signal for another APP
pearance.
Each of these ladies was vainly trying
to persuade some one-any one, almost
of these females to brave the wilds of
suburban life. Each having started out
with the absurd idea of demanding GER
tain qualifications in her chosen hand
maiden. was reduced to a proper state of
humility, for not one member of this con-
temptuous company of the unemployed
could by any means be induced to forsake +
the attractions of city life. One of the la
dies must reiterate the confession of her
final humiliation in answering the I'M
failing questions: "And do you kape a car
rage, munla'' To the other was revealed
her lbenighted estate by this oft-repeated
exclamation. varied in form, but in senti-
ment un~changing: tive miles from the
station, indadel Sure. you oudn' expect
a girrul loike ms to bury herself that way
mlm!' Finally these would-59 employers
looked at each other and burst out laugh.
ing. Then, after such an exehange Of ex-
periences as may be imagined. they both