Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — Easter Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Easter Eggs.

The use of eggs on Easter Day, sometimes called Fasche, or paste eggs, has come down to the present time, writes Jane Searle in an article on “Easter and Easter Customs,” in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Eggs were held by the Egyptians as a sacred emblem of the renovation of mankind after the Deluge. The Jerws adopted them to suit the circumstances of their history as a type of their departure from the land of Egypt. They were also used in the feast of -the Passover. Hyde, in his description of Oriental sports, tells of one with eggs Itmsng the Ghristians of Mesopotamia on Batter Day, and forty days afterward: “The sport consists in atriking their eggs onq against another, and the egg that first breaks is won by the owner of the one tiuit struck it. Immediately another egg is putted against the winning egg, and so on s till the last egg wins all the others, which their respective owners shall before have won.” In Germany, sometimes instead of eggs at Easter, an emblematical print is occasionally presented. One of these is preserved in the print-room of the British Mqfeum. Three hens are represented as upholding a basket, in which are placed tbrssa eggs ornamented with representations Illustrative of the Resurrection; over center egg the “Agnus Dei,” with a chalice representing faith; the other eggs beAring the emblems of charity and hope.