Show students turned easter time to good account As soon as there was a university clerks and students were running the streets of paris at easter time seeking their eggs as gifts from substantial householders and singing lauds in well known modern style lads working in machine shops stores etc neer learned the trick of running the streets for foundations and endowments some time in the year 1100 was revived the forgotten art of scratching decorations on red eggs or of pasting on designs to keep them free from color underneath initials dates fishes circles crosses lambs and good shepherds to one and all the easter egg did represent the life to come clear certain not the vague hope of the pagan in the palace of the kings of france where easter was a grandiose fete every mothers son to the least page and kitchen boy had eggs to nick and compliments to exchange |