Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-01
ALL HALLOw ZEN.
The Small Boys Evening Out.

The Small Boys Evening Out.
To-day is AL Saints Day, and last
night was All Hallow Zen, Hallow
Fen. Hollow Eve, Holler Eve, or what
ever you hBve q mind 10 call it. Very
few people know why it is so called and
here might be a good opportunity for
the genius of the local columns 70 air his
learning, but, unfortunately, he Is
among the few mentioned above. But
really there is very little to say.
To-day is celebrated in honor OF all
the saints mot otherwise specified, y
and the Scotch called it All Hallows
Day. Hallow Fen is contracted from
All HallOw Even. There it is in nut
shell. But, gentle PARENT. ask your
boy, this morning, and he can tell more
than can be expressed in a volume. Ask
him where and how he he spent last
evening, and see what tale he can UNI
fold. All HallOw Fen is the night he
celebrates, il you don't happen TO re-
member it, and fill his soul with des-
pair by keeping him in all evening.
Ii YOU let him out and could follow
I him. YOU would disown him-until
morning. Your good little boy that de-
/ lights in churches, revels IN sunday
| Schools and is always ready with q
| Scriptural text, can wiring of door bell,
/ throw bricks into an. area and howl like
a Comanche Indian, as well as your
| neighbor's boy, who never saw the in
side of a Sunday School, except near
| Christmas, when his morals were i'm
| proved by his taste for candy. Ask him.
| at breakia {, what he did last night, but
first prepare yourself for Munchausen
| tale that will take the hair off.
Then ask your daughter, il you have
/ one about sixteen or twenty, how she
passed the evening, and perhaps you
| may learn that Hollow Fen has ITS
uses for her, also. For from some
/ mystic cause, the fortunate mortal
whose soul is a stranger 10 fear, car
push aside the great veil OF the iutsre
/ peer beyond the mighty perhaps and
read the great unknown, You
did il Yourself, fond mother, with
all your mothers love and tenderness
and you, proud father were, in YOU
; Youthful DAYS, as wild little MOhawE
as there was in your block.
The boys were abroad, last night, anC
/ il they did not make Rome howl II
was ONLY because they couldn't. Ash
/ Joe Lee how many bad Chinese words
ne how.ed at them, in response to th'
pile OF bricks that laid in ms area. Yes
! the gamin was certainly loose ant
! i'm the outskirts of the town, fan
from the claws Of the policeman, wht
was only made to agonize his life, h'
changed the position OF every movable
his small dirty hands could touch, anC
occasionally shriekingout some barbara
/ chant, known only 10 boydom, som,
! Runic rhyme relative to "Holler Eve.
/ "Holler Eve. holler Adam,
] HOller Miss
Gimme a kiss"
The girls were not idle either. Some
thing under thousand fortunes wer,
/ told and horoscopes cast, and as they arr
| 50 manpuvred as To suit the wishes o
! the seeker into the unknown, 1t is rea
Sonable TO suppose that a correspondent!
\ number Of maidens were made happy
/ Besides all this, it is estimated that no
I less than 500 gallons OF New Orleans
/ syrup was last night converted into tina
| sticky sweet known as tatiy, and which
was given 10 their friends in more forms
/ than one.