Painted Eggs and...Dead Birds
From "Easter Eggs," The Strand, vol. XIII (1898):
"Push Rhodes - knock him down as many times as you like - and he bobs up again, protesting furiously."
Painting eggs is still an Easter tradition, of course, but the article also features a holiday craft that has gone out of favor in more recent years.
"The next photo shows an amusing novelty. It was made by Messrs. Buszard, and would cost two or three pounds. A very perky pigeon, wearing a smart hat, is wheeling an elegant little wheelbarrow, in which is a beautifully decorated and painted egg filled probably with perfume or sweets."
"The next photo shows another of Mr. Hartl's designs - a real chick dressed up as a milliner's apprentice, and carrying in her hand a box of eggs. The donor can, of course, buy an expensive hat or bonnet and place it in the box, to be delivered, as it were, by the gay little chick."
"Push Rhodes - knock him down as many times as you like - and he bobs up again, protesting furiously."
Painting eggs is still an Easter tradition, of course, but the article also features a holiday craft that has gone out of favor in more recent years.
"The next photo shows an amusing novelty. It was made by Messrs. Buszard, and would cost two or three pounds. A very perky pigeon, wearing a smart hat, is wheeling an elegant little wheelbarrow, in which is a beautifully decorated and painted egg filled probably with perfume or sweets."
"The next photo shows another of Mr. Hartl's designs - a real chick dressed up as a milliner's apprentice, and carrying in her hand a box of eggs. The donor can, of course, buy an expensive hat or bonnet and place it in the box, to be delivered, as it were, by the gay little chick."