Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-15
FAVORS OF EASTERTIDE
CHICKENS AND EGGS SHARE
HoNoRs WITH DUMMIES.
Tiny Jeweled Pendants in Papier
Mache Eggs for Brides
maids Luncheons.

Written for The Evening Star.
Easter gifts and favors for Easter week
functions seem to have touched the top
notch of extravaganza this season, yet there
are many little trifes to be picked up at
small figures which are eninently appropri-
ate to the day, without slavishly initiating
the high-priced novelties offered in jewelry
and French confectionery shops.
1t is no longer considered essential to
carry the semblance of an egg or a wee
chick into every Easter souvenir, still some
exquisite designs in decorated eggs are to
be seen. From an exclusive woman's eX-
change comes a novel jewel box. 1t rests
upon low, circular pedestal, an egg, eight
inches at it's greatest length, covered with
satin, painted in a Marie Antoinette design,
and lined with tufted silk. The lower half
of the egg, resting on the PEDESTAL Is d.
vided into three compartments for brooches,
rings, ETC., and in the lid are bands of silk
elastic into which bracelets or jeweled
combs could be slipped. The same needle
woman Is making similar eggs in tapestry
and fine cretonne coverings to match
boudoir fittings
A girlish bride will present her brides
maids with the wedding souvenirs at an
Easter Monday lunch. At each cover will
be a wee papier mache egg, showing yell
low and white daisies delicate green
ground, and hidden in the cotton within
will be the pendants which the bridesmaids
will wear, slender gold chains, in the
wedding procession.
AS it is prophesied that the summer girl
will accumulate quite store of pendants
to match her delicately-colored tub and
slken frocks, trinket for the neck chain
will prove an acceptable Easter remem-
brance, if sent In dainty egg-shaped box.
In real gold and genuine gems, these come
very high, but there very dainty little
limitations of silver gilt and semi-precious
stones as low as fifty or seventy-five cents
or one dollar. For seventy-five cents a
shopper may pick up pretty little pendant,
showing amethyst above fresh-water
pearl or vice versa. Topaz and coral are
also popular stones for this summer.
Stuffed With Sawdust.
For Easter luncheons, wee velvet Dummies
stuffed with sawdust, make cunning SOU
venirs, which afterward utilized for
pin cushions. The velvet is white, delicate
ly tinted with tapestry paint to occa-
sional pinkish flush. Pale pink beads are
used for eyes, and the tips of the ears and
toes should also be tinted pink.
Flat, round boxes for holding candy are
hiuden in delicate green fringe, cut from
crepe paper, and the lid shows an Easter
lily also made. from paper Exquisite little
boudoir or desk candles can be bought for
fifty cents each in bisque or tinted glass,
in the form of Easter lilies. tulips or cro-
cuses. They make the daintiest of Easter
Baby faces in cherubic colorings and deli
cately tinted butterflies appear on the
lids of Easter candy boxes The baby faces
are of bisque, and, instead of the ordinary
halo of golden hair, they rise from silk or
paper lily petals. Paper butterflies form
the lids of boxes shaped like the wings
and body of the angelic little creatures, and
the wings are sometimes in layers being
made from delicately tinted paper with
markings of silver and gold.
An exquisite little dinner favor shows a
gilt basket tied with narrow lavender and
green ribbons. 1t is filled with egg-shaped
candies, wrapped in silver paper, and COW
cred by-a tiny paper lace doyley. Lavender
ribbons are much used for trimming Easter
baskets, and pale blue and certain shades
of lavender cleverly combined for the
same purpose.
The great high-handled baskets used in
winter to hold American beauty roses are
reproduced in miniature, filled with moss
In which wee fern is planted, and, tied
with proportionately narrow ribbon are
used for Easter remembrances.
A Fuzzy Bunny.
For a ehildren's party, most effective
centerpiece is a big bunny made from
rough, fuzzy brownish cloth or plush. He
sits on his launches, and his forearms are |
encircling wicker basket, filled with candy |
Easter eggs, tiny downy chicks, which !
cost a cent each.
For the Easter Monday dinner table or |
AoT Inc Cuilufeu party COME french snap
ping notices In white crepe paper, thickly |
fringed at each end and encirced by silver |
lace. A wonderfully natural lily. in white |
paper. is used for a finish instead of the |
usual embossed picture
Among the paper favors shown for the |
Easter cotillon are wands, tipped with Eas- |
ter lilies or butterflies. wonderful gauzy |
wings in net and tinsel. which could be |
fastened to the back of the frailest dancing |
frock. Silk and velvet bunnies whose |
heads can be lifted off to uncover dainty |
French buttons, and pin-balls of white |
satin topped with Easter lilies in silk.
Unquestionably the Juvenile novelty is |
the candy box which shows a husky po- |
liceman in full uniform, compressed into |
egg shape and set upon very thin wire |
legs. Nearly all the familiar figures of |
the Sunday comic sheets are compressed |
into the same ridiculous shape and utilized |
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