The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-25
NOVEL EASTER DAINTIES.
Candy Eggs Giving Forth Muxic and
other Marvellous Connections

The chocolate hen has laid a candy
egg that il the most wonderful thin.
you ever heard Of. II is a musical egC
and capable in its turn. of Matching
out sounds that will ill the neghbor-
hood OF the small boy owner with cha
grin and establishment The candy man
wondered and wondered what 10 make
this year that would be new. that would
cause the other candy men 10 omen
their eyes and perish with trade eny,
and the customers 10 Sreedily buy And
that is how the musical egg came about.
1t is 80 hard that surely a Plymouth
Rock hen must have laid it-though
they say the big chocolate one that
weighs fourteen pounds did bring about
this curiosity. At any rate there il is
"a glorious preparation of sugar that
makes your mouth fairly water But
yOa mustn't let it-for that would mean
death and destruction to the magic egg.
Every boy who gets one-and as il is
somewhat expensive. few will be the
proud possessors of the wonder-will
straiShtway want to gobble it up, in
stead of getting its secret from it in
the form of beautiful sounds. That is
IL VIII be beautiful sound if the boy is
Il musician-otherwise il will probably
drive the Eeighbors out Of the opposite
hat II 1t is eaten, that will kill the pi-
ano that lays the golden notes for mu-
sic can only be produced from the inyen-
ton when it is intaCt-and that's all
there is about it,
OF course, it will be hard to stand and
just look at that egg and not bite it. or
50 much as take a teenty weenty lick
but any selt-denying young man ought
20 be able To do that much for the sake
OF the saccharine sounds that will issue
If properly coaxed. There never was
such strange little egg-not even the
ko1 fabulous one was as weird-for
this can make sweet sounds-"Sweet
Mario" and Sweet Rosy O'Grady.'' or
whatever her name was-and this is the
way ii seems to be made:
1t is hollow inside, of course and on
the outside in one end there is a de-
preston, across the mouth of which,
there are stretched half dozen paral-
lei bars of brass, something like a jews
harp, and when blown upon they emit
melodies more or less enchanting-most
ly less. | am afraid. unless you happen
to bo an ebryo Holman.
There is another novelty this year II
is rabbit that goes by clock-work, and
never misses n stroke of time He is \
school teacher, and a more solemn and
Stateiy faDDlt II would be hard to find
He is rare old fellow, full of choco-
lates and vanilla and good will. that
fairly beam behind the glasses on his
ridiculous nose. Why do rabbits always
look as If they had colds in the head?
He has a rattan. and the rabbits i'm his
class look more frightened than intellect
ual, but then they are not in the Joke
They think he is really awful and Sc
we're, and truly a Dogberry, but you
know better. You know that he is run
by a ticker. and not so very, very deep
after all When you come right down to
facts, he is really a hollow mockery and
his rotundity is merely for the sake of
appearances.
Then there are ducks with a uuack.
Every time they open their "goody''
bills they give forth a strange sound
as much as to say that they can tell
You all about their kind of speckled
green eggs They know where the can
dy eggs grow that they have laid.