The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee • 55

living The Jackson Sun, Jackson, Tennessee, Wednesday, March 18, 1981 7E KANSAS CITY, Mo. AP) Easter eggs and Easter cards evolved from the same ancient gift-giving custom, according to an expert on the history of greeting cards. Some of the earliest Easter cards published, in the mid-19th century, featured eggs as the primary Eas-ter symbol. Today, the egg is still one of the most popular symbols on Easter cards. And Easter is now the third largest card-sending occasion in the United States (after Christmas and Valentine's Day) with more than 150 million cards exchanged each year.

i "The egg as a symbol of spring and new life dates to antiquity," says John Dinardo of Hallmark Cards. "The ancients decorated eggs and presented them as gifts to celebrate the coming of spring." Early Christians adapted the custom by staining the eggs a deep red to symbolize the blood of Christ, says Dinardo, adding, "But the custom declined as populations grew and spread out. "The Germans solved the problem around the middle of the 19th century by designing and sending the first Easter cards. The Easter card-sending custom so popular today is really just a modern variation of a very old tradition." Many other 19th-century Easter-card symbols have weathered the test of time. Then, as now, religious scenes were extremely popular.

Christ in various tings, winged angels in the sky, crosses and Bibles entwined with flowers, were all used to convey the" reverent nature of Easter. Like the egg, children were favored symbols of new life. And baby chicks and rabbits, so popular on modern-day cards, were widely used on the first Easter cards. 'The most popular series of cards in recent years feature floral designs in soft pastel colors laced with gold," said Dinardo. "They're die-cut cards in the shape of eggs." Easter cards a mode rn variation itioh SAVE $3 to $2(D) cm Gci of trad S6ars Most items at reduced prices iiifSSSlS A.

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