The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-07
CASTERS IN
DUSTRIAL SIDE
UNITED STATES WILL. CONSUME
sO,OOO,OOO EGGS ON HOLIDAY.
With Christmas, Festival supports
Fifty Per Cent Of Business-Sale OF
Hats Alone Means Mammoth
effort of Many Trades.

Hats ALONE meHuH MAEA0oth
effort of Many Trades.
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Chicago Chronicle March, 81
Easter, in its religious aspect. stands
first and above everything the most
marvellous, the most astounding, the
most remarkable holiday in the world.
Equally wonderful Is the Easter feast.
when viewed from its industrial aspect.
The average person has never stopped
to think, perhaps, that-at most con-
servative estimate-S0,00O,OO 900 eggs Will
be eaten in the United States on Easter
Sunday. This figure is low and 1T is
more likely that the consumption Will
be about l60, 1000, 900. This means that
it would take 100000 hens 100 days
to provide the eggs necessary for this
one days enjoyment.
And how do we get these figures?
Easily enough. There are in the
United States about S0.000,000 people.
If every man, woman and child, there
church holiday we have the first
figure. IL, however. every man,
woman and child eats two we get the
latter. 1t is true that there are
chronic dyspeptics who never touch
an egg and there are babies too young
to enjoy them, but to counterbalance
this there are thousands OF IRON stom-
whom the consumption of a dozen eggs
on Easter Sunday is a matter of easy
accomplishment. A man with fond
ness for figures has estimated that II
all the eggs that are to be eaten next
Sunday were rolled into one egg they
would make a mound bigger than an
ordinary mountain and the she'll would
be large enough TO hold all the popu-
lation OF a city the size of Chicago.
The probable size of the bird that
would be required to lay such an egg
offers enticing possibilities for those
mathematically inclined.
Holdings That Help Business.
prominent preacher who has in
connection with his work made
thorough study of economic conditions.
Is authority for the statement that IL
1t were not for the two great church
holidays-Easter and Christmas-50
per cent of the business enterprises in
the United States would fail within one
year. At first this statement seems
rather strong, and it must be admitted
that 1t can not be in any way verified.
When, however, one considers the vast
army of men and women that are en-
ployed the world over preparing for
these two holidays the statement seems
more reasonable. A careful canvass
among a host of the smaller retail deal
ers in the city of New York brought
out the admission that in many in
stances II was the Christmas and Eas-
ter trades that made thet existence of
the stores possible. From Christmas
to Easter business is dull People are
recovering from the extra drain on the
pocket book caused by one. and are
preparing for the unusual drain that
win be caused by the other. There
W hats to be trimmed, new spring
fN'cks and coats to be purchased and.
OF fnr h., ,ht And
let it be understood that this latter
item is one of no small moment.
Easter Favors COstIier.
No longer does the simple Easter
bunny" with the colored egg baked IN
his side suffice for the rising genera
ton. The Easter bunny has kept
fully abreast Of the times and makes
rem in an automobile. Easter novel;
ties are in many cases fully as clabo-
rate as the Christmas toys and cost
as much. The days when children
were satisfied with a few eggs boiled
In coffee TO make them brown or in
onion peel to make them yellow are
gone forever-gone with the days of
the crinoline and the old horse car.
Magnificent creations of sugar and
paste and chocolate have taken their
place, and who can say that It is not
for the best? The world has been
growing and expanding. The people
in 1t have waved plentiful and continue
to multiply. Mon must work that men
may live and out of the supnlv has
grown the demand for 1t is a fact
that in holiday trade a reverse con-
dition exists and tho demand does not
create the supply.
crafty baker or confectioner or
maker of toys finds competition prettv
keen and in order to bolster IN his
trade steals march on his competitors
and fills his windows with some new
creation in the Easter line Young
America or young Germany Of young
anybody secs the beauties thus tenpt-
ingly displayed and instantly desires
them. And the demand is created
There are in Germany whole families
yea. whole COMMUNICATIVE work
six months of the year creating and
manufacturing Easter novelties their
time for another six months being oc-
Cupied I'm making Christmas toys In
the Glands Of the Bcrmudas where
there are fields Of lilies. hundreds of
acres in area, almost all tho population
of certain localities finds its living
raising Easter lilies for the markets
of the world. It takes n whole rcGi-
ment Of farmers to raise enough chick
ems to lay enough eggs to supply the
Easter market: 1t takes an army OF
dressmakcrs to make the new frOcks
that will be worn on EaStrr day: the
number of people who find employment
in the millinery trade as Easter day
approaches is enlarged % per cent
every tailor in the Christian world
probably is called upon To make one
or more Easter suits Of clothing. the
hatters have their hands fun. drivers
of carriages and livery men reap a
harvest driving people to and from the
Easter-time receptions, dye works are