{"id":7896,"date":"2024-03-30T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T23:30:53","slug":"four-strange-easter-cards-from-yesteryear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/four-strange-easter-cards-from-yesteryear\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Strange Easter Cards from Yesteryear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Paw<\/a>
There may be quite a story behind this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’d planned on posting this today, with an ‘Easter’ post tomorrow. But, although I’m not feeling as awful as I did Wednesday morning: that’s not going to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s “nothing serious”. Probably the same “nothing serious” that’s been plaguing this household for a month and more. My temperature’s stayed below the 103\u00b0 F threshold, so I’m a comparatively happy camper. And that’s another topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, about these cards: the first three are Victorian-era, part of this selection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Quirky Victorian Easter Cards Reveal Surprisingly Twisted Humor<\/a>“
Racing Nellie Bly (April 19, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“…As with any art form, humor relies on knowledge of its social and historical context. Military motifs appear frequently in these quirky Victorian Easter cards. As Europe edged toward world war, is it possible that people needed to laugh at that which worried them sick? Humor generally doesn’t travel well to other cultures, not to mention other eras. Even so, these Easter cards are amusing, if not a little disturbing….”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don’t find them disturbing, but my teens and the Sixties overlap almost exactly, and that’s yet another topic. Topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Three<\/a>
“\u2026Beatniks and politics, nothin’ is new. A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view\u2026.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Rabbits,<\/a>
Rabbits riding chickens, led by a military hare. So many questions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The fourth one: The text is “Happy Easter!” in Russian. This card was apparently published in the Russian Empire during the early 1900s, the Wikimedia Commons description dealing with intellectual property rights runs to nearly 300 words \u2014 but I’m pretty sure it’s in the public domain over here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Russian<\/a>
“Take me home, country roads”???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Easter is a very big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve talked about that before, and probably will again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n