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ounded by tiny china chicks, each likewise hollow,
to hold eggs. A third represents a china hen
trundling a gilded wheelbarrow in which are held
the eggs. Another is in the form of a
baby carriage, the eggs playing the part
of the baby. Some of the Easter conceits
are in every way excellent, and in most of them the
egg plays a prominent part, being the excuse, as it
were, for the conceit, the egg being presumed to
give to the conceit a peculiar "Easter flavor" which
it would otherwise/be without. One of these con-
ceits represents a cradle with two satin eggs, one
large and one small, united in the middle and
surrounded there by a satin band. The two eggs
are laid in the cradle as if they together formed
one baby, the smaller egg seeming as the head and
chest or the aforesaid infant, the larger egg forming
the trunk and lower limbs thereof, the satin band
encircling the waist ot the joint egg or infant. The
cradle is of fancy plaited straw, covered with blue
satin, and the eggs are likewise blue and elaborately
painted.
One very clever and "brand new" conceit consists
of a wild duck, presented entire, with all its teath-
ers, but turned into a bag inside, an elegant bag,
lined with blue satin. There is a slit in the breast
of the duck admitting into this bag, and permit-
ting of the entrance of enough jewelry or bonbons
to render this novel "duck of a bag" very delightful
and valuable.
Another clever conceit or "happy thought" is a
'happy family" of stuffed owls-a father and
mother owl, with spectacles; an old maid aunt or an
owl, very glum; a "girl of the period" owl, in silks
and satins; a Broadway swell of an owl, with cane
and eyeglass. Each owl acts as an egg holder, and
the parior, which contains them all, is covered
with eggs as with a carpet.
Among the conceits is a lien with a lovely wax
doll's head. This literally "lady hen is all teathers
and fuss, and when the head comes off reveals the
prettiest bonbon box in the body of her henship.
Another conceit reveals "the old hen that lived in a
shoe and had SO many chicks that she didn't know
what to do." The hen is stuffed, the shoe is of
wood and the chicks are of cuina. There are flax
straw baskets with lattice-work tops, with hens and
eggs lying on the straw, raising which elegant bon-
bon boxes are disclosed beneath. There are fancy
gilt straw baskets, trimmed with pink bows, with
handles wreathed with French flowers, these baskets
being filled with delicate lace for straw, on which are
laid delicately painted satia eggs; silk handkerchiefs
tied in triangular knots, with a pigeon's head peer-
ing through each of the three corners, the whole
containing 2, boubon box at the bottom; ostriches
of satin, covered with real ostrich feathers, the
neck of the ostrich opening and the whole bird
being free-a box for honbons-and, as the bills of
the show say, "other attractions too numerous to
mention."
Hens can be seen playing on the hand organ or
going to market, or sitting down selling eggs; roos,
ters are be witnessed returning home irom a suc-
cesstul shooting expedition; in fact, think of almost
anything elever and curious and you can find it or
its equal among the Easter conceits which are the
rage at present in New York.
A COMBINATION BONNET.
But this article would be incomplete if it failed
to review some "novelties" which are destined
to find grace in the eyes, if not on the head, of
every lady in America. There are at present on ex-
hibition at a Broadway establishment contrivances
which are bonnets, baskets and bonbon bags, all
made in one. The lucky possessor of one of those
"contrivances" can display her bonnet at church, or
theatre. or promenade to the admiration or envy of
the world. Then she can hang up her bonnet, or a
fancy basket filled with household treasures, or
she can go to the confectioner's with it, under
her arm, and return with a bag laden with confec-
tionery almost as sweet as herself. One of these
bonnet-basket-bags is composed of the finest Pan-
ama straw, profusely trimmed with Algerine silk,
with a blue teather and French flowers, and is held
by the "dear" one to be "cheap" at $50.
Certainly enough has been written in this article
to prove that elegance, taste, ingenuity, labor and
capital have been united to a high degree in the cele-
bration of the Easter festival.
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