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Show i; STUNTS FOR HALLOWEEN 1 - - q : Many Unique Tests of the Charms I of This Celebrated Night. BY EDNA EGAN. ,j (fSH ROM a festival once surround- i I M e( y elaborate ancient rites i lUal and sacred observances, Hal- I lowe'en has popularly come I to mean a time when the small boy Indulges in innumeiable mad and E 1 merry pranks, from tying no the 1 ') doorknob to bobbing for apples, and I .1 when bachelors and maids test all the B j iraglc rites and mystic symbols of this 9 momentous night to discover what Sii their fate will be. I'll It 1b the night when fairies danqe, IIA witches ride and ghosts walk, strange M l di earns foretell prosperity or adver- M Bity, and when lovers' dreams and I divination are most potent. Even in I -k this erudite aud advanced twentieth ra I century the same omens and tokens 5 of the Hallowe'en of yore are tested and the very up-to-date young college B . woman is quite ready with the re3L to R ' fling aside dignity and learning and Q i play at all the familiar tricks and I ' charms and feel again little primeval H r thrills of terror course up and down Hit her back, as the hour grows ghost.y. El On Hallowe'en, nuts and apples are, I and have always been, popular means I inr oiiint fnrfiinpR. 7n earlv Ennlish days nuts Avere used so much that tho 31st of October was dubbed "Nut-crack "Nut-crack night" Bobby Burns in hi3 poem of Hallowe'en tells how The auld gu id-wife well-hoordlt nlfs Are round and lound , divided. And mony lads' and lasses fatts Are there that night decided. Some kindle, couthle, side by side, And burn theglther trimly Some start awa' wi' saucy pride. And jump out owre the chimly, Fu' hlch thaL nlchL The charm referred to is one of the oldest of the spells, "tried and true," for testing the constancy of one's sweetheart. Two nuts aie placod about three inches apart on the bars ot the grate or on the stove, one being for the fair questioner, the other for her sweetheart. If his jump or ciack, he is fickle, but if both nuts cuddlo up to each other and burn brightly, Bide by side, the man and maid will marry and be happy ever after. Sometimes thiee nuts are used, one leprescnting the girl, ihe others two rival suitors. The nut which burns longer and more quietly betokcn3 the more constaut lover. ,- If you take a caudle, go alone In a dark room at midnight and cat an apple ap-ple before a look:ng-glass, the face of your future husband will appear over your shoulder and you can see his reflection re-flection in the glass. So they say. Another way to get a view of your husband or wife-to-bc is to go to bed on Hallowe'en with a glass of water, in which a small sliver of wood has been placed, standing on jour table by your bedsido. In the night you will dream of falling from a bridge into a river, and of being rescued by jour future husband, whom you uill see as distinctly as though Iewed with making mak-ing eyes. Or, wet a shirt sleeve, hang it up to the file to dry and He in bed watch- Ing it till midnight when the apparition appari-tion of your future life pailner v.' Ill come In and turn the sleeve. An up-to-date Hallowe'en test Is to hang up ribbons representing the various vari-ous colleges. The girls are blindfolded blindfold-ed and each picks out a ribbon, the colors of which will indicate the ?lma mater of the husband-to-be. This trick could be can led out with raids painted In -water colors with the various vari-ous college colors or names Children born on Hallowe'en are said to be able to see and converse with tairies. witches and other supernatural super-natural beings. Sir Waller Scott makes use of this idea in "The Monastery." Mon-astery." If on this evening you shake hands with a very blond man you will have a pioposaf but not necessarily fioin the blond before the bells shall have rung in the new year. If your loer should, under thi potency po-tency of the magic evening, propose marrlago on this night, let him bind ou at once by tying a blue ribbon upon up-on your wedding ring finger tbat Loth ho and you may be true. It might be well whon dressing for the evening to see that you have somewhere about jour person the requisite bit of ribbon. Just at midnight and you must bj no means rotiro before that magic hour on tho 31st of October listen for the sound of bells from the neaicat church steeple (it there arc none in your neighborhood j'ou can't do this). Should you hear a full and distinct peal, begin on your trousseau: but if there be a dull and muffled sound, possess pos-sess your soul in patience for another year By the .a, have jou a four-lacd clover? It doesn't matter If it be a dtied or pressed one. Put it in jour shoe on the morning of the, 31st and near it until you retire at night. It will bring you good luck through the following year. - . ' . . |