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Show ILLIONS of dollars' worth of candy Faster eges, of fluffy, feathery chicks, of fuzzy funny rabbits adorn the homes of America today, Yet perhaps not a score of persons in all the United States know where they came from or how they are made Most of them come from Germany, for, in small things, in paper, and candy, and pastry arts, the Germans lead the world. Within the last ten years, however, America has entered upon the manufacture of its own Easter novelties and has learned from the quaint factories of Germany. France, Austria, ind Holland the secrets of making these dainty little Easter offerings-symbols of the greatest holiday of the Christian world-symbois of reawakening life-the embodiments of quaint, queer, old world Easter customs. 2 Great Machines Make Candy Eggs. In the United States the commonest form of the Easter symbol is the colored egg and-partly because there is a great trust that keeps the price of real hens eggs so high, and partly because the children prefer sweets-the candy egg has, to a large extent, replaced the real article. The old custom of chipping eggs still survives in some places, but the daintily colored solid candy egg has taken its place These eggs are made by machinery First a soft, jellylike mass is bolled in kettles and then, when still soft, it Is cut into cubes of many different sizes by machinery, and these cubes are thrown into huge copper kettles, with wide open, gaping mouths. In these kettles is powdered sugar, mixed in some cases with corn starch and when the soft cubes are thrown In the kettles begin to revolve and the cubes, rolling around and around shape themselves Into eggs. and grow harder and harder, although the inside still is soft, And, after the "shell" is formed, it is colored to suit the taste The great fancy eggs-really works of art-are made of sugar crystals The crystallized sugar Is molded into ege shape in molds the shape of just half the egg, and then the two halves are sealed together, and the delicate sugar flowers and scenery are put on and colored by hand. The delicate tracery is done by molding, although in the finer ones men who approach real artists in ability finish them by hand into most exquisite designs Candy novelties of all kinds are made in molds which yermans The are designed by skilled workers. mostls molds are of wood, and the sugar is pressed into them after they have been coated with fine powdered sugar and there they harden a Chicks Made of Real Feathers. The fluffy little chicks are made of real feathers which are glued to a body which generally ts made of papler maché, although sometimes of wool, or cotton, or even wood. The putting on of the feathers is a delicate task-and mostly is done by girls who stand all day pasting little soft feathers on to the forms, as the bodles pont AND SRALING THR: CRYSTAL SCENBRY EASTER BOGS are called. Then the bodies are turned over to the man or men who color them, after the glue has dried These men are excellent workmen and seem to take a delight in their work. Most of them are Germans, who came over: to the United States to teach the work to others. They sit with their brushes and paint chicken all day, sometimes using an air brush to color the del) eate little feathers. After they are colored until they look exactly like a crowd of fluffy little chicks-so much so that one almost expects to hear them all start to ‘cheep," "cheep" because the 01d mamma hen Isn't there -they are dried again and then placed in long rows shelves, where a young man comes along and puts litt chocolate eyes on them. z BOY e rs a aeeh ae HICKS ae MOULDS POR RASTER CANDY NOVELTIES | nc IS BO paw ele -a - a ; Srna eg Princo caer aae le REVOLVING VATS IN WHICH THR SMALL AND LARGE SOLID EASTER, EGGS ARE, MADRE, BY THR. THOUSANDS PER, HOUR> PUTTING CHOCOLATR, ON RASTER. CHICKS BYES LE a aa ee aS eth iy se CDeT |