Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-13
GIFTS FOR EASTER.
Nsr York sua

a from 81, 900. 600 20 81, 900, OOO
To spend sl5 Tor an embroidered
box filed with bonbons, or for a box
IF roses. may be extravagant, as some
folks think, but it is good for trade,
say the people who grow the roses and
embroider the boxes.
There are New Workers who II
they couldn't buy satin hand painted
eggs at $40 wouldn't buy eggs at all, ~
observed a retailer OF all sorts Of
beautiful Easter novelties They
wouldn { even look at the paper colored
sort costing half a dollar each, and
che artificial egg industry would soon
suffer; for, as most people know, Just
o. soon as manufacturers let up on
high class specimens of any article, be
the article useful or ornamental, the
ching generally, drops out Of fashion.
From this point Of view there is not
the slightest indication that Easter
eggs ana boxes are going out of fash
.on. On the contrary, never before
we're they so numerous and so artistic.
There are many sorts Of Easter gifts,
out none so popular this year as the
ornamental variety which ls useful
too, as for example boxes which may
be used afterward for trinkets, or
eggs mounted ON gilded supports which
In Fifth avenue shop noted for
French novelties is twelve inch
Aigh figure Of youth garbed in white
satin trousers. blouse and cap, and
holding in one hand sheet OF music
end in the other hand a baton. Before
him on a tree branch are two small
birds being taught to sing. This pretty
trifie costs eS, candy filled.
rowboat in size eight by five inches,
apparently filed with flowers and moss
on which is perched "a humming bird,
was in demand at $40. Underneath
the layer Of artificial flowers the craft
was loaded with bonbons
A wagon min us shafts or pole and
mounted quite high on four wheels
had a surface load Of eggs packed in
moss, beneath which was candy. This
cost g.
A como shaped basket ten inches tall,
covered with grass and decorated with
red geranium blossoms and small
bird, was tipped enough from its foun-
dation to show row of eggs peeping
out. This ornament was suspended
by satin ribbon and the price was
si0.
Gorgeous decorations Of flowers, birds
and ribbons are seen on most Of the
best selling novelties. An egg perhaps
eight inches by six is made entirely
Of green straw and decorated with
flowers, ribbons and a bird. IL sells
for 50, because, as was explained, the
egg holds Learly four pounds of candy.
A purely decorative article much
admired IN this collection is birds
nest of natural color on a tree branch,
the nest filed with candy eggs
There were fancy egg shaped baskets
Of tinted openwork straw interwOven
with ribbon, which open in the middle,
and are suspended from ribbons and
satin covered, hand painted and em-
broidered eggs mounted on small gilded
knobs.
One Of the most striking Of the newer
Easter designs Is an auto car of braided
gold and white straw trimmed about
the edges with flower wreath a
white satin egg, painted in pink roses,
occupying the body of the machine.
From end TO end the car is perhaps
twenty inches long.
Fancy straw boxes, square, round
and oblong are among the smartest of
the Easter novelties and feature Of
these is a pyramid Of ribbons and
flowers rising from the centre. The
varieties of the straw, OF what looks
like straw, used in their make up is
astonishing.
10 is IN the satin covered boxes.
though, that the great advance in this
class Of Easter goods is most noticed.
Never before were there SO many
varieties and such beautiful specimens.
The queen among the collection in one
Broadway store was about twelve inches
square and four inches high and
covered with white satin embroidered
In clusters of single wild pink rose
and two green leaves. Or, TO be ac-
curate, the green leaves were npplied
the edges curling up trine from the
satin. This box costs $40.
There were oblong boxes of the same
style; octagon, heart shaped and round
boxes OF all shades Of satin, all sorts
Of oolorschemes of embroidery.
Women buy Just as many boxes as
do the men TO give away, - said "a sales
woman, and from $40 to $40 is the
average sum spent for sntin covered
box Of any sort The basket boxes
are lower in price -
Fortunately for shor pers with slim
pocketbooks there is multitude of
small articles patterned after these
more imposing ones, which retail for
less than 81, including eggs which even
IN the higher priced confectionery IS
may be had filed as low as 60 cents.
Naturally there is not n florist in
town who Is willing TO admit that the
increased display Of Easter eggs and
lother novelties at the confectioners'
means falling of in the custom of
giving Easter presents of flowers. On
the contrary, say they, every year the
florists, receipts 60 up.
Perhaps l don't make more sales
now than 1 did three OF four years ago,
but take in more money for the
reason that my customers order more
extravagantly, said one. Moreover,
flowers bring higher prices now than
formerly.
Take the gardenias, for example,
and the florist held up white bios
som big as bride rose-''a few wears
ago, when they were of ordinary size
and society had not taken them ur
1 could hardly sell them at all. Gar.
denias We're seldom or never ordered at
Easter. Now i get 81 each for this
variety and already / have a nnmbe,
OF Easter orders TO fill. Corsage bou.
quets Of half dozen gardenias are
sent TO young women. Often the order
calls for one dozen. Gardenias are
practically young peoples flower
Cut lilies, lilies Of the valley anc
roses are the principal flowers. in
addition 20 gardenias. sent Just now I'd
young unmarried women Niolets and
yiolets in pots, orchids and carnation.
go to married folks. Roses are alwav.
an all round favorite. Carnations are
not really an Easter flower, no matter
how handsome they are.
We have taken TO growing lilies of
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