, 1892-10-29
HOBGOBLINS
viii Hold High Carnival in Olym-
pia Monday Night.

SuperstitiOus Customs Attending
the Advent of HanOwe'en--DI-
rectiOns for Tearing Asunder
the Ven of Futurity.
All Olympians who are abroad in the
city at 12 O'Clock Monday night may ex-
pect to see witches, devils, fairies and dis
embodied spirits stalking about in unnum-
bered legions. Love-smitten maidens
should be ready to embrace the opportu-
mites offered upon this occasion to learn
what the future has in store for them in
the way of connubial bliss. Charms and
divinations will then attain their highest
success with all and any who wish to try
them.
The boys care naught for spirits and hob
goblins on Halloween. They will doubt
less employ themselves in trading gates,
dissecting wagons, erecting scare crows
and turning the city topsy turvey gener-
ally. All ordinary restraints are suppos ID
to be Withdrawn and no questions asked,
no matter what happens, so long as no
crime is committed.
But, after all, the unrestrained hilarity
and mischievousness so prevalent on Hal
lowe'en is queer way in which to COM
memOrate an event of historical import
ance and religious significance.
Halloween is the evening preceding
Hallow-day, or All Saints day, in the &C.
clesiastical calendar which is celebrated
November 1, in honor of the conversion, in
the seventh century of the heathen Panthe-
on at Rome into Christian place of wor-
ship.
Popular superstition has given the 31st
of October a peculiar character of its own,
no other day of the year having so many
and such peculiar customs attached to it.
Although in some parts of the United
States and Canada, Halloween customs
prevail, North England and Scotland are
said to be the birthplace of the festivities
usually indulged
Nearly all the customs are of senti-
mental character. The maiden who wishes
to know which of her lovers is faithful
puts two nuts on the bars of the CRATE
naming them after her lovers. If either
nut cracks or flies off the CRATE into the
fire, that lover will prove unfaithful; but il
either nut blaZes or burns, the lover is
faithful, loving and true. There are a
number of comfortable homes in Central
Olympia where this test of lovers will
doubtless be made.
Another custom is to go alone into q
dark room with a burning candle and eat
an apple before looking glass. The face
of the future husband or wife will peep
over the left shoulder, and will be plainly
reflected in the mirror.
An amusing Halloween pastime is to
take three saucers; ill one with clean
water, one with inky or foul water, and
leave one empty. Blindfold a person and
lead him Tor herr to the dishes, where he
dips his left hand into one of these. If by
chance he touches the clean water he will
marry a maid the black water, widow,
and the empty dish signifies that he will
live and die bachelor.
Girls who are brave may try a different
method. Go alone at midnight to the
nearest brick kiln taking with you a ball of
blue yarn. Hold the end of the yarn in
your hand and throw the ball over your
shoulder. Then begin to wind the yarn in
to new ball. As you near the end some
one will hold the yarn and prevent you
from windingan any more of it. Ask: "Who
holds2 ?" and in answer a voice will give the
christian and surname of your husband.
If you run you will spoil the charm. The
kiln on East Fourth street would be a good
place to try an experiment of this kind.
The ground is even and easy of excess.
Apples are in demand on Hollowe'en
night. One use to which they are put is
to suspend them from the ceiling by a
string, and attempt to take a bite without
holding them. Much laughing can be pro
vOked by placing a number of apples in a
tub filled with water and then trying to
pick them out with your teeth. This GUS
tom frequently ends in somebody in the
crowd getting free and involuntary bath
by pitching head first into the water.
Children born on HolloWe'en are said to
be able to see and converse with FAIRIES,
witches and other supernatural beings.
1t is hardly probable that all the GUS
toms enumerated will be observed in Olym-
pia, but it is reasonably certain that the
occasion will be tittingly celebrated by the
young folks of the city.