Evening journal., 1890-11-01
HOW HALLOWEEN WAS Spent
The Many Methods Employed by Young
stsrs TO While Away the Festival.

The Many Methods Employed by Young
stsrs TO While Away the Festival.
Last night The little boys succeeded in
painting the town red Early in the day
| they started out with bags half filled
with sand, and after exhRusting them.
| selves In an attempt to beat each other
down, began to use the bags on the doors
OF their neighbors A few hours of this
and they tired and the ringing of door
bells was INDUCED in. or course many
persons were fooled and many old women
lost their tempers, but the bsys did not
care, and up against the window pebbles
were thrown to anger them still the
more.
Meantime while their brothers were
thus employed the little girls were not
idle. Small masquerade parties were
formed, and the number of eolored people
in town last night was far greater than
at most times OF the year. For 364 days
Of the year the colored man tries TO imi-
tate the white man, but on Holly Eve"
the 365th, the case is reversed and the
white man uses every effort that he may
be taken for ''nigger." The number of
red Indians Ia town would convey the
idea that Buffalo Bill had arrived and
given his men permission to roam At
large. Thsse were carried on inside Of
doors
The boys in the vicinity Of Third and
Washington streets conceived the orig.
inal idea of mixing gates, and accord
ingly all the gates In the locality were
carried to a vacant lot, piled on top of
each other and their owners had each to
picF out his own to day. The gates lead.
ing to Calvary Church were among those
that had been carried of Door steps,
not well fastened, sometimes met worse
fate than this. for bonhres were lighted
with them aud to day many cripples have
to be helped from their houses TO the
street.
But during all the racket and mischief
where was the blooming sweet sixteeng
Thinking over some spell or charm by
which shs might be enabled TO see her
future spouse. Oh but she was in
predicament. Women, II is said, cannot
keep s secret, but she will be bAbbling
maid indeed, who to-day will tell all the
plans which she thought over last night
and few indeed will know about how
many girls went to sleep with a glass Of
water by their bed side But last night
was especially enc on which courtship
was not to be forgotten. When the
H4Aei iuetauc was OVER anu bue run HAQ
ended, the swain sought the habitatiop
of his lady love to while away few hours
on Halloween in the presence OF "one
so good ID true, and she it may be
presumed, was not loath to sit up with
him in the dimly lighted parlor.
By the bye, it is. too bad chat the
cold man" is sometimes so peevish that
Bessie is compelled to slip out and set
upon the doorstep in the cold. freezing
night, with nothing to protect her but
the arms of her lover. This morning.
about l o'clock. notwithstanding the
frost and cold, reporter saw many OF
these doorway hirtations in several parts
of the city. lie was more than ever i'm
pressed with the potency of the love that
held those warm hearts together while
his teeth chartered as a result of the
cold There are a greas many colds to-
day, especially among the girls, and
mamma does not know why Clara,
Mamie or Alice has not come down to
breakfast. but she does not know the
cause and will undoubtedly tell her
neighbor Bessie caught cold on account
of her bedroom window being raised. -
All. Halloween, You have yonr charms,
and like Christmas
Come but once year
But while you last You bring good cheer"