The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-29

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bourags; wealth and happiness. prosperity,
marriage or single blesssdnsss is foretold in
Various ways. and the youth and maiden
hnxious to peer into the dim and misty fu-
eurs can try some of the following on All
Halloween.
The simplest and best known of these
games consists in learning tho initial OF
hour future wife or husband through the
medium Of an apple pairing. Pare an apple
hs smoothly and evenly as possible, and in
d long piece, without breaking it. Stand
before a mirror; twist the peeling thrice
around your head, and with the last twist
drop it over your left shoulder; as it falls
npon the floor behind You, the initial it
Forms 10 that of the one you will marry.
Another way to find thename ia to write
~several names Of persons whom you like Of
the opposite sex on separate slips of paper;
fold these papers and place them inside
small balls of dough made Of cornmsal
vet with water until it will roll into balls.
Have q bowl Of water ready, and drop the
balls all together into the water. In a lit
tie while one of the balls will burst open
Ind the paper it contains will float to the
bop. This settles your fate; the name
upon that slip of paper is the name of your
future wife or husband. Leave one of the
slips blank, and if your future spouse is
still a stranger this paper will como first:
Place three saucors, one containing dry
meal, one water and the third empty, in a
ROW on a table; blindfold the person whose
Fortune Is to be told, lead him or her to the
table, and instruct that a finger ia to be
placed in one of the saucers.
Tf hn a = aha chOoaa the ono containing
meal, wealth and happiness 10 the future
portion, If the one with water is touched. it
signifies marriage; but the empty one
alas!. single misery awaits the unfortunate
swain or damsel. The saucsrs should be
trial.
For maidens alone a pudding is made,
and has dropped into it while stirring a sill
yer thimble, q gold ring and a bit OF ivory.
She to whom the ring falls will be q bride
before twelve months have passed; the
thimble comes to the "uncrowned queen"
Whose sceptrc fails to reach her grasp and the
fortunate fair one who fnds the ivory within
her portion will travel to the uttermost
ends of the earth. After the eating of this
pudding, let each maiden go in silence to q
separate room, and at the witching hour OF
midnight, in perfect darkness, stand before
q mirror and eat an apple. She will surely
SEQ the face of the one she loves best look
ing over her shoulder, j. e., if she sees any
thing under such benighted conditions.
The naming Of chestnuts and roasting
them. noting which pops from Its satlny
she'll first; the roasting of an apple whole.
all, counting each seed with the jingle.
One l love. two I love. three l love, I say,
Four / love with all my heart,
Five / cast away
Six he loves, seven she loves,
Eight they both love. @
will occur to many WHIT have practiced these
mysterious charms on all occasions without
remembering tina 'tis the day that does the
deed.
A rather to be deprecated charm is that
of walking backwards down the cellar
stairs. with a mirror in the left hand and a
candle in the right; this is to be done alone
and at midnight, and the mystic invoca-
ton,
Appear, appear. my true love dear.
Appear to me tonight.
repeated three times. At the last REPETITION
the face of the beloved should appear re-
the mirror, but at this stage a scream, a fall
and a swoon too often end the charm alarm
ingly. as a nervous girl can see anything
under such circumstances.
Perhaps a better, certainly . pleasRnter.
and no doubt equally efioacious method of
night, 10 to prepare some melted lead-a
spoonful Of old solder from the lids OF
fruit cans will answers; while hot and soft
enough to pour, drop through the handle of
a key into a fiat dish of cold, clear water;
the imagination that can read the reveal
ings Of the weird, fantastic shapes that
lead will take upon itself, can read futurity
for O year to come. Houses, money, cof-
fms, each and all with portents, comforting
or otherwise, appear ready for the wise sybil
to solve. There are other games, with no
especial significance. excepting that their
Among these the dncking for apples is a
popular sport, productive OF much amuse-
msnt. Place a number of apples in a tub
of water and pick them up with your teeth
without touching them with you hand.
This seems easy enough until you try it.
when the elusive fruit goes bobbing AWE
as soon as you approach it. Still another,
somewhat similar, is to suspend an apple
on a string in the middle of a room, hold
your hands behind you and try to catch it
with your teeth as it swings to and fro.
Much msrriment is created, as the least
movement sets the apple to swinging, and
it takes an expert to catch it on the re-
bound.
snap-dragon Ia perhaps too familiar to
need explanation, but may prove new to
some. A lot of raisins are plucked from
their stems and placed in a fiat dish. Al
cohol is poured over them and set on fire,
and the fun lies in snatching them from
tAN 0hAO
Every girl knows that her dreams on the
night of All Halloween como true, but per-
haps she does not know That she must name
the four posts of tho bed. and must not
speak a word to anyone after she begins to
disrobe for tho night. Nor must she drink
u d rop or eat a morsel after naming the
bed posts. If these precautions arc duly
observed and that hardest of all endenyors
at lenst SO we are told-the holding ones
tongue, suffers no LAPSE. the muiden may
rest assured that Prince Charming will
surely Woo her in her happy dreams. and
ii he fails to do 80, twill be because there
is to be no Prince Charming tor her, or else
let her ohoose--she may believe TINT tho
pudding and tho apples and tho raisins and
the fortuno-tolling, and tho mirror, and in
fact all tho combination OF pagan charms
have proved too much for her healthtul
alumbers, and that "he'' will come anyway,
spite Of Halloween predictions. irene H.,
in 81. Louis Republic.