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Show 1'rosents ut Knitter. The custom of giving Easter presents grows every year, and now this festival is second only to the supreme one of , Christmas in this regard. A few years j ago an Easter card, or at most an egg I shaped boubonniere filled with Bweet-j Bweet-j meats, was the height of a giver's ambi-, ambi-, tion. Now the limit is difficult to set. j A palm in a hundred dollar jar, a price-: price-: less Wutteau fau or an old miniature, rare and costly, may do duty an an Easter offering if the shrine is especially worshiped and your purse is in keeping with your desire. Tho egg element has been conniderably eliminated in the modern Easter, bonbon boses having suddenly taken on an almost al-most indefinite variety. Those in Dresden Dres-den china are undoubtedly the most to be prized. Certainly porcelain candy boxes are the most sensible, as they outlive out-live the confections and the duy. One hears, however, of $150 paid for a hand painted bonbonuiere exquisitely decorated deco-rated wfth ribbons, feathers and real lace all of which, barring the luce, is wickedly wick-edly perishable, considering tho price. Beautiful gifts are the small portrait screens which are copies in miniature of Lonis Seize designs and the Sedan chairs in Dresden. New York Times. |