EASTER EGGS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 30 March 1936, Page 2

EASTER EGGS

GAY DISPLAYS IN SHOP WINDOWS Accepted as a symbol of Easter the Easter egg lias been growing in popularity and at the same time has been becoming more elaborate each year. A glance at this year’s shop window displays gives the impression that extra care has been bestowed on the manufacture and adornment of the eggs. These range from the small chocolate egg which can be bought with the humble penny to monsters of confectionery art, which are retailed either singly or in prettily decorated boxes. The single eggs are gay enough—wrapped in bright paper, tied with dainty ribbon and crowned with a fluffy chicken or maybe a rooster—but the larger “creations,” boxes and caskets, are “a thing of beauty and a joy forever.” But one would be rash to say that such toothsome sweets “will never pass away.” Placed in pretty caskets, and set in the midst of a nest of small eggs are large eggs which are artistic productions. Gold or coloured paper, ribbons, artifieal flowers and chickens, which themselves are becoming more elaborate in colour and design, are used for their decorations. Chickens' eggs and even bunnies peep from egg cups, china fowls and half-shells, and here the übiquitous cellophane, plain and coloured, has added to the gaiety. Strings of eggs wrapped in coloured cellophane paper, though having a rather sausage-like effect, and unwrapped hut fancily shaped chocolate eggs, are also seen among this year’s displays.