Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-06-20 | Page 14 | Observances of St. John's Eve Section

observances of st johns eve outside tie saints calendar st john bye or midsummer night which meant ro much to our boea practically unnoticed among the great majority ot their descendants we are not so poetical a people as we were once we have grown prosaic and liberal with the years old beliefs such as that qeeen laband her maidens danced in the meadow under the maou and left magic on the dewy grass that oberon ruled hla court with a balry rod that spectral horsemen cantered down the high thaila and witches circumnavigated circum navigated the air on broomsticks are only belt to the very young or extremely credulous the maid of however hlll clings to any rite that promises to give a hant aa to the personality of the coming man and at many ot the girls colleges st johns eve la duly celebrated along the game lines a those in connoisseur an publication ottlo cn ago 1 I and my two titters run th account tried the dumb cake together you must isnow make it wo bata it two break it and the third put it under each ot their pillows but you roust not a word all the then you will dream of the man you are to hav till we did and to t sure I 1 did nothing all night but dream of mr blossom the tame night exactly at 12 1 in our backyard aud said to ayelt seed I 1 BOW hempst 1 hoe and he that la my true love come a her TOO adamow will yon believe it I 1 looked back and saw him aa plain as my byc could see him maid betty tella me that if I 1 go backward without speaking abord into the carnen upon a ere and gather a it in a clean sheet ot paper without looking at it till day it wll h a fresh aa in annc and it I 1 then it anto my bloom ac that la to b my burband will come i and take it out