EGGS IN CHINA. 149 
eggs, and when a child is born the family and 
friends celebrate the event by a feast of dyed 
eggs. All told, the egg-industry of China 
gives employment to many thousand people, 
and forms one of the important specialties of 
this very busy nation. 
It is one of the triumphs of Chinese cookery 
to pierce and blow the eggs and re-fill them 
with vari-colored and vari-flavored custards and 
jellies. The apertures are sealed, and the out- 
side of the shells painted like a nightmare, with 
dragons, griffins, ete. 
fot _ ee” 
