The Archive · 1925

Eggs of AMI Varieties

Another fascinating spot to visit these days is Blanchi's, 23 Nanking Road, where one may begin one's investments with a 16-cent egg and on up as far as one likes. The Adorable litle chocolate chicks, coa cocks, sabots, logs of wood teceietn pga tom ind eta and the two big windows, topped with a frieze of Easter bunnies and filled with every description and size of eggs have an admiring throng in front of them constantly. The egg-shaped boxes are found in many styles and sizes, bright cardboard, hand-painted silks and satins, artist tie porcelains, silver plate, and even alabaster eggs, which make lasting souvenirs of the season. One of the happy features of this display is the reasonableness of the prices asked for even the most elaborate of these containers. It will be a ood idea to leave your orders for the Hat Cross Buns and Easter cakes now, #9 as to be sure of having what you want.

Tt would be a bewildered hen who Tooked in at the Chocolate Shop windows, for besides the fact that the eggs shown there are large enough to have been laid by a roe or a giant ostrich at the smallest, there are some marvellous decorations which the most artistic of hens could never have imagined. Pink eggs, too, and fluffy little yellow chicks, eggs of sugar candy, bunnies of chocolate ud of marzipan, eggs of every dimension and of a great variety of flavours. And here too the toothsome Hot Cross Buns and delectable Easter cakes may be had for the It is surely remarkable the cliffes ent ways in which the Easter note in decoration is sounded. At the Sweetweat Castle on Szechuen Road tone window holds a large chocolate basket filled with Easter eggs, while the decorations of the other centre $2.

Jabout a chocolate ship with a mariner: who might well be Christopher Columbus, meditating on the success of his famous egg trick. Inside are eggs of many sorts and kinds with egg-boxes as well and some attrastive baskets and nests filled wit eggs. And yer, Hot Cross Buns, to

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