Vintage Easter Congratulations Card with Anthropomorphic Hen

The artist's decision to dress Mama Hen in a blue apron and brown polka-dotted jacket — transforming her into a Victorian governess who just discovered the concept of discipline — sets an unsettling tone for what should be a cheerful holiday card. She looms over her chick-headed children with unmistakable authority while one dutiful chick-child presents a basket of Easter eggs and a bouquet of flowers. Another roots around on the ground in a red dress, because apparently even in anthropomorphic poultry society, someone always has to be the disappointing one. A fourth tiny figure lingers in the background, presumably in time-out. The phrase 'Easter Congratulations' hovering above this family portrait raises the immediate question: congratulations on WHAT, exactly — surviving another year under Mama Hen's iron talon?