IN GAY VIENNA
A LINK THROUGH THE AGES In the old, gay Vienna of pre-war days Easter eggs, for the rich, were something to talk about. Made of silver, bronze or enamelled metal, they contained jewels, trinkets of value, or money. There is no ground for supposing that these rich "yolks" were symbolical of the richness of Nature. . . . But when, this year, people in Australia. America, England or Europe buy those Easter eggs, which are as much a part of Easter to them as are the Good Friday and Easter Monday holidays, they will not know how this action binds them in a long, unbroken chain to those rejoicing people of moro than two tliousaud years ago. Civilisations may come and perish, manners and morals change, but fertility, the inexhaustible power of Nature to bear fruitfully, will be, for long, the ultimate object of mankind's reverence. And its symbol is—the Egg.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)
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151IN GAY VIENNA New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)
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