Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-23
Attractive Displays in Shop
Windows Show Approach
of Spring Holiday.
BY ADELINE STANLEY cARRIcK.

YESTERDAY, recognized by the cal
endar as the first day of spring,
was perfect. The sky was blue
and the air was so clear that you could
see for miles and miles. Vastly en-
c%ouraged, the trees shot forth multitu-
dinous buds and the grass turned green
right before your eyes, while scarcely
a field was visible put had its con-
tingent of fat, saucy robins.
Let us hope that Easter Sunday Will
be as inc. Everywhere are prepare
tons being made for the great festival.
The florists shops are dreams of beau
ty. Down on South Broad street there
is a big window filled with pale pink
and white ramblers, some growing, some
in huge ribbon-tied baskets and some
in graceful vases, all massed against a
background of bright feathery ferns
and sombre palms. In other shops are
displays of tall, nodding Easter lilies,
dignifed Gala lilies, pots OF flaming
azaleas, sweet marguePites, S~elf-satls-
fled tulips, demure h%yacinths and jolly
yellow daffodils, all coaxing in their
various ways for you to come and
buy, come buy.
Inside will be found the daintiest of
corsage bouquets, for we're all going
to wear flowers ON Easter day. This
year orchids are the particular fad.
Naturally, only the few will wear them.
Most of us will be we'll content with
those perennial favorites. the bonny
violets, and of course there'l be quite
a few who'll incline toward lilies OF the
valley. Some like combinations, and
often they're pretty. For instance, an
orchid looks right well from the centre
of a violet cluster, and so does just
one pink rose.
Giving at Easfertime.
The custom of exchanging tokens at
Eastertime has grown and grown until
now as much attention is paid to the
day in that respect as at Christmas,
though the variety of gifts is o near
~ as great. Gold and silver crosses,
inexpensive brooches, little framed pic
lures, prayer and hymnbooks, rosary
beads, baskets of fruit, choice candies,
and above all, flowers, cut or growing,
are the things to give.
For the children there are PAPER
mache rabbits in all sizes, most of them
hollow inside, to be filled with teeny-
weeny eggs; rabbits covered with real
fur. with real ears cooked up in life-like
manner: big eggs, little egs and middle
sized eggs, in all the colors of the rain
bow; fancy baskets, filed with brilliant
green straw and containing more eggs;
teams of rabbits drawing tiny carts,
also straw-flled and containing still
more eggs; big chicks and little chicks
and ducks, "sculped" and painted; real
little, dead little stuffed chicks, looking
as downy and fluffy as on the day their
brief lives We're sacrificed. 1t hurts a
little to see them. So cunning are they
now that they must have been wonder
full before they We're deprived of the
power to peep.
Do not believe because of the abund-
ance of Easter novelties that the good,
old custom of dyeing eggs at home and
hiding them in for the children
to find has gone out. If you have any
doubts. ask the druggist on the corner,
| and he'll tell you how many packages
of dye he has sold lately.
The Easter parade seems to have lost