If you want speckled eggs, dot about with white wax or oil, as you
did for your mottoes, and the desired effect will be produced. A neater
way though, of engraving eggs is to dye them first whatever color you
wish, and then with a penknife scrape upon them any device that
occurs to you, leaving thus a tracery of white upon a colored ground.
Logwood chips will produce a dark purple dye, to be set with a small
bit of copperas.
A good yellow may be got by boiling the eggs in onion skins, steeped in
hot water, or by taking two parts of black oak bark, and one part of
hickory and boiling in water, with a lump of alum for the mordant. Or,
if you wish some eggs yellow, and some green, first dye your eggs in a
pan of hot water colored with turmeric tied up in a little muslin bag, and
when you have dyed as many in that way as you wish, stir into it enough
of druggist's blue indigo✪ Easter Eggs to produce the desired shade of green. Some
children are satisfied with simply boiling their eggs with grass to color
them green, and Scotch brown blossoms to dye them yellow.
The aniline dyes are very good for this purpose and yield fine results
with little labor. They are soluble either in water or alcohol, and
impart their brilliant hueswhen applied cold. A few cents' worth will
color as many as you wish.
A pretty way to arrange these for the table is to put them in small
fancy baskets, among mosses and ferns, autumn leaves or grasses.
50 EMBROIDER Y.
There can be a deal of taste shown in the arrangement of these, and
they make a very pretty table ornament. The scrapbook pictures are
very pretty for this purpose, and should be pasted on with the white of
an egg. Tiny flowers and figures are best for. this purpose, and one
sheet will decorate quite a number.
Rustic work of twigs and mosses, arranged on the table in the form
of a bird's nest, filled with the variously colored eggs, and supported
on boughs of rustic twigs covered with green or gray wood moss, or
the silvery gray Southern moss, is an odd conceit, and also a very charm-
ing one. Above the nest may be perched a stuffed bird, either of large
or small species, according to the size of nest, which addition adds
greatly to the general effect.
An old German custom, and one that is now being followed by the
Americans, is that of making Easter cakes and sending them around
to intimate friends, with the compliments of the giver. A late Ameri-
can fashion is to send out illuminated or water-colored cards to inti-
mate friends, with the name ascribed thereon, and sometimes a motto
is added.
In Norway and Sweden the salutation on Easter morning is " Christ
has risen." " He has risen indeed," is the response.
EMBROIDERY.
APPLIQUE WORK.
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If you want speckled eggs, dot about with white wax or oil, as you did for your mottoes, and the desired effect will be produced. A neater way though, of engraving eggs is to dye them first whatever color you wish, and then with a penknife scrape upon them any device that occurs to you, leaving thus a tracery of white upon a colored ground. Logwood chips will produce a dark purple dye, to be set with a small bit of copperas.
A good yellow may be got by boiling the eggs in onion skins, steeped in hot water, or by taking two parts of black oak bark, and one part of hickory and boiling in water, with a lump of alum for the mordant. Or, if you wish some eggs yellow, and some green, first dye your eggs in a pan of hot water colored with turmeric tied up in a little muslin bag, and when you have dyed as many in that way as you wish, stir into it enough of druggist's blue indigo to produce the desired shade of green. Some children are satisfied with simply boiling their eggs with grass to color them green, and Scotch brown blossoms to dye them yellow.
The aniline dyes are very good for this purpose and yield fine results with little labor. They are soluble either in water or alcohol, and impart their brilliant hueswhen applied cold. A few cents' worth will color as many as you wish.
A pretty way to arrange these for the table is to put them in small fancy baskets, among mosses and ferns, autumn leaves or grasses.
50 EMBROIDER Y.
There can be a deal of taste shown in the arrangement of these, and they make a very pretty table ornament. The scrapbook pictures are very pretty for this purpose, and should be pasted on with the white of an egg. Tiny flowers and figures are best for this purpose, and one sheet will decorate quite a number.
Rustic work of twigs and mosses, arranged on the table in the form of a bird's nest, filled with the variously colored eggs, and supported on boughs of rustic twigs covered with green or gray wood moss, or the silvery gray Southern moss, is an odd conceit, and also a very charming one. Above the nest may be perched a stuffed bird, either of large or small species, according to the size of nest, which addition adds greatly to the general effect.
An old German custom, and one that is now being followed by the Americans, is that of making Easter cakes and sending them around to intimate friends, with the compliments of the giver. A late American fashion is to send out illuminated or water-colored cards to intimate friends, with the name ascribed thereon, and sometimes a motto is added.
In Norway and Sweden the salutation on Easter morning is " Christ has risen." " He has risen indeed," is the response.
EMBROIDERY.
APPLIQUE WORK.
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