The National tribune., 1892-10-20
Some merry. friendly countra folks
Together did convene
To burn their nits an pou their stocks,
An baud their Halloween.
E,,j ~ yti hat NIGHT

To burn their nits an pou their stocks,
An baud their Halloween.
Flu blythe that night.
On the night Of the 31st-All- Halloween
fairies play their most mischievous pranks, as
do also the small boys, and spirits, disembodied,
roam over the earth. 1t is the night when
lovers try many charms to find out what the
future has in store for them. For it is on this
| night above all others that such charms sue
coed, and maidens try the same ones that CEN
turtles ago maidens tried and believed in.
Throwing the apple-peeling and trying its
seeds, burning chestnuts and watching in the
looking glass are ceremonies as familiar to our
girls as to any of Burnss Scotch lassies. Nuts
and apples have always played an important
part in these trials. In some parts Of England
the night is often called "Nutcrack Night" for
this reason. Bobbing for apples" and trying
to bite into one suspended from the ceiling by
long cord are sports nearly as dear to the
boys as changing buggy wheels, removing gates
and signs, and ringing door bells. The I" bob
bling" has great deal of fun in it as it is
played genuinely-that is, with tub of water
into which lot Of apples are set floating The
apples must be secured with the teeth. 1t is
and splashing and wet clothes may produce
colds, and some careful mothers insist on the
children securing the apple by dropping fork
from certain hight with an aim at spearing
the apple. This is fun, too, but not so hilarious
as bobbing. The swinging apple is not in any
way injurious, and makes quite good deal of
merriment
The maiden who peels an apple so carefully
that long, even, winding strip is the result,
can use it to devine the first letter of the name
of her future husband. She must twir it three
timer over her head and then drop it to the
floor behind her. Its curves and lines will form
in letter. -7hich will be the one sought. The
seeds, too, can be used. They must be named
and placed on the cheeks or forehead. The
one that stays on the longest will be the most
faithful lover. But the charm that ought to be
tried first of all is the pulling the stalk Of kale
Two, man and girl, blindfoded, hand in hand
go out into the garden and pull the first kale or
cabbage stalks that they may find. They then
return to the house to examine the stems and
roots. If the stem be short, then the life part
ner will be So According to its hight or
straightness so will the wife or husband be, and
the taste of its stalk indicates either the sweet
ness or bitterness of temper, whilo the amount
of earth clinging to the roots signifies the
amount of money that will be the marriage
portion.
Burning the chestnuts may be performed In |
two ways. Either the girl can put several nuts |
on the crate, naming each after a lover, or she |
can put two in, naming one for herself and one
for her lover. The true love is shown if the |
nut burns quietly and steadily. If it LOUNGES
cut or burns up very quickly, then the love will
not be lasting.
The aud guidwife's weel-hoordit nits
Are round and round divided,
AM monte lads and Iassies fates
Are there that night decided.
Some kinde couthe side by side
An burn thegher trinity;
Some start ava, Wi saucy pride,
An jump out-owre the chimlie
Fu' high that night.
Eating an apple in lonely room, all the |
while watching the mirror for the face Of the !
lover, a candle shedding the only light in the |
room, is charm that some girls are too timid
to. try. To dip the left sleeve of shirt into |
water and then hang it up to dry, watching it |
until midnight from the bed, will surely bring |
the destined one to turn it, before the midnight |
hour Eating egg, and then filling the |
shell with salt, which also must be eaten, pro-
duces thirst that will be relieved by the lover,
who will bring glass of water. The last and |
most powerful of these charms must be per-
formed with particular accuracy. Get ball Of |
blue yarn, and after dark go to the nearest |
kiln and throw the ball in, unwinding it. |
When it is all unwound beg in to wind back |
again. When the end is reached hand |
will hold the thread, and if the question be |
asked, "Who are your" the answer will be |
the name of the one who for life will share the |
joys and the woes of the trier. Many other |
spells might be suggested. Some are however, |
not practicable or particularly pleasing. Cakes |
made important part of the feast for |
Halloween. Burns in his poem " Halloween "
mentions sowens, sons, kind of oatmeal |
pudding, as a specially appropriate dish.
On this eve they were eaten with butter in
stead of with milk. The festivities finished |
Off
WI merry sanGs an friendly cracks
wat they did ne weary;
And unco tales an funny jokes,
Their sports cheap and cheary;
Till butterd sons WI fragrant lunt.
Set "a their CABS siecrn
Syne, wi social glass o strunt,
They parted aft careerin'
Flu blythe that night.
So
The drawing shows very dainty bed.
Some, if not all. of its pretty touches can be
easily copied. The curtains and canopy are of
thin white null over green sateen. Around
the canopy is a band Of white canvas embroid-
cred with large scrolls aud green leaves. The
bed itself is of iron, painted white, with few
gilt lines for decoration. 1t is covered with an
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