One-Shot Wonders: Speaking of Easter Customs by Art Young, 1893

 

Here we have a back cover of the Chicago Inter-Ocean’s Illustrated Supplement, the very first newspaper to print colour using high-speed presses. 

This Art Young page is from the Easter number of the supplement, published April 2 1893, and offers up some interesting Easter customs from around the world. I had never heard of “matching” (upper right), but I think he’s perhaps talking about the Bulgarian custom of tapping Easter eggs together until one cracks. I don’t find a reference to this tradition being called “matching”, though, so maybe I’m guessing wrong?

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