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Show WAY TO COLOR EASTER EGGS. Here Is a recipe for coloring Easter eggs which we have used successfully for years; Fill ;,ii iron kettle half full of the dry brown hulls taken from th onion. Cover with water, drop In white eggs, which have been carefulh washed. Allow to stand ovor night In the morning boil until the eggs are hard and then set aside until cool. The eggs will be a beautiful brown color. Polish them with a soft liii on which a little lard has been rubbed. rub-bed. We used to make fancy eggs by placing a pretty chrysanthemum leaf on either side of the o;;K .-mil Mp n wrappin; the ceg tlghth in piece cheesecloth before dropping them In the onion water. Wh.-n unwrapped ' lie shape of the leaf will be left on the egg In a delicate ellov. color and the remainder of the egg will be brown. We always sae the onion hulls several weeks before Faster, but if we did not have sufficient onr gro cer gave us hulls from the basket In the store Arranged in a pretty little basket In n nest of grass, these egss would sell readily and delight a chil I The dye, of course, is harmless, and the child may eat the eggs, which is half the fun of Easter time. MISS P I) |