Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-01
HALLOWEEN FRANKS.
Boys Who Played Tricks and Lovers
Who Sought to Read the Future.


II there is any night that the small boy wants
night Then the police allow them more liberty
than usual. The old custom Of hanging dead
animals on doors and throwing them in houses
has about died out Nor is it now customary
to throw cabbages and turnips. It was only q
few years ago that the cabbage patches about
the city had to be watched for several evenings
priorsto the last day Of October, and often
many persons Toasted ON cabbages stolen from
their neighbors and thrown into their door
ways by the boys. Flour has been substituted
evening the small boys made their appearance
on the streets before dark with boxes and
bags Of flour. Then, with their coats
and hats turned inside out, they ran
TO and fro, and sprinkled many an unsuspect-
ing pedestrians with flour. The young folks
held many gatherings last night, and played
games Of fate. The tub Of apples was one of
the favorite Halloween devices, The stems
are taken from the fruit and pieces of wooden
tooth-picks are placed on either side. Then
the girlsa las well as the boys dive for the apples,
and those with long tongues can sometimes get
an apple without getting their heads wet. The
roasting OF chestnuts and the making Of meal
balls were also amusements largely INDUCED in
last night. The names of several girls or boys,
as the case may be, are written on pieces of
IL.
then put in pan of water and dissolved. The
name which comes to the surface first is the
fortunate one. Sometimes three or four names
will start for the surface at the same time and
make it appear as though they are running a
race for the fair one whose fortune is being
told by this automatic Device
Another favorite Hallow-E' en- fancy is to take
cup OF flour and turn it out on plate. Then
gold ring is placed on the top of the mound.
The guests pass by the table each cutting a
slice of flour from the mound. The person who
causes the fall of the ring is obliged to take the
ring from the -four with his mouth. When he
succeeds some one slaps wet towel across his
were many such pranks played last night.
THE POLICE AND THE BOYS.
Last night, about o'clock, a party Of boys
went through Marion street throwing bricks at
doors. One of the missiles struck Thos. Weaver,
a lamp-lighter, on the head and he fell to the
ground. The boys were not satisfied with
knocking him down, but they grabbed him and
would probably have dragged him through the
street had not Mr.. Reese arrived and placed
one of the boys, Geo. Meyers, under arrest.
The boys then determined to resist, and two
revolvers were drawn by them, but were not
discharged Policemen soon arrived and the
boy was taken to the station. The injured man
was removed to a drug store, where his head
was dressed. He was afterward removed to
Freedman's Hospital charge of assault
against the boy was continued in the Police
Court to-day. Florence Graham, a young col
ored girl, who enjoyed the evening throwing
flour on other persons, was arrested at 18th and
M streets by Officer Blaisden. Florence was
with some other girls when the officer first saw
her, but the others were fortunate enough to
escape. Judge Miller, in disposing of the case,
thought of his own boyhood and took her per-
sonal bonds