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Show l'reaents Rt Easter. The custom of giving Banter present! crrows every year, and now this festival id second only to the supreme one of Christinas in this regard. A few years ago an Easter card, or ut most an egg shaped bonbonniere filled with sweetmeats, sweet-meats, was the height of a giver's ambition. ambi-tion. Now the limit is difficult to set. A palm in a hundred dollar jur, a priceless price-less Watteau fan or an old miniature, rare and costly, may do duty an an Easter offering if the shrine is espociidly worshiped aud your purse is in keeping with your desire. The egg element has been considerably eliminated in the modern EaMer, bonbon boxes having suddenly taken on im 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 day.. One iears, howtver, of $150 paid for a hand painted bonbonniere exquisitely decorated deco-rated with ribbons, feathers and real lace all of which, barring the lace, is wickedly wick-edly perishable, considering tho price. Beautiful gifts are the small portrait screens which are copies in miniature of Louis Seize designs and the Sedan chairs In Dresden. New York Times. |