The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-25
HALLOWEEN Night
Franks Parties May Indulge
In On this M%erry-mak-
ing Occasion.
is YOUR LOVER FAITHLEsS?
Go Out Into the Garden, Maude.
and Learn Who Your Nus
band Will Be.

Halloween merry making has grown
considerably In popularity in the last few
years, and a revival of the curious cus-
toms attendant upon the occasion is csr-
tainly in progress. For these reasons
publication Of a list OF games appropriate
to the evening is quite in order. Many
of those giVea are we'll known TO some,
but are entirely new to others aud vice
versa. All-hallow e'eu seems TO be a
relic of pagan times, as there is nothing
in the church observance of Ali S2iuts'
Day. which is the next after Halloween.
to warrant such extraordinary notions as
have clustered around the latter festival.
Halloween falls on the night of October
30. which will this year be on THURSDAY.
The leading idea is that it Is the time OF
all others when supernatural influences
are most potent. 1t is the time of ali times
in the whole round year for the walking
abroad of spirits aud for sammoning
them. Not ouly the dead may be aroused,
SO go the legends, out u live person may
depart temporarily from the body and
float about in space to his or her hearts
desire The night air Cd this particular
evening. therefore. may be very fittingly
said to throb with tue whlstlfugs OF
RAoSNAy - VIC VI
unearthlv voices.
Nuts and apples play an aIl-important
part IN the festivities and are responsible
for all sorts of amusing aud uncauuy
phenomena. The festival is ever callei
a "Nut-crack Night in some parts of
Great Britain. A hearth of some kind
seems almost indispensable for the pro-
per observance of Halloween. II one
hasn't an open fire. the open CRATE of a
stove may suffice. Very probably y gas
stove maj be fully as efficacious. Some
of tie most popular pranks appropriate
to the festival are the folio wing:
is YOUR Owe FAITHLEss.
Place as many chestHuts as you have
lovers (f you are a young womsn) on the
hearth. Name the nuts with the coguo.
mems of your suitors. If a lover nut
sputters and hies away That particular
lover is faithless. If any nut rsmaius
beside the nut TO which you have given
your W nsme that lover you will wed.
II anyone of the lover nuts blazss or
burns that lover has regard for you, SO
that In case no nut remains beside your
own nut representative aud Que burns
You at least have the satisfaction of
knowing that some young man cares for
you dearly. Yours may fly away. you
know, so it may be by your own incon-
stancy that you lose a faithful sutton.
Throw chestnuts in the fire, one for
each person. Nuts that burn br lightly
mean prosperity for the person who's,
name they bear. Nuts that turn black
ana crackie foretell misfortune.
Suspend a stick from the ceiling with a
lighted candle on one end and an apple on
the other. All present, in succession,
jump up and seek 10 bite the apple with
the teeth. The hands must notbe used. AS
the stick gyrates and the apple Is always
elusive, and the candle persists in getting
where the fruit ought TO be, any amount
of fun results.
stRoPpTNc, Fnp Appt nc
"Bobbing" for apples is a very familiar
custom. The apples are set bobbing
IN a tub OF water, and one must catch one
with his teeth. Apples with stems are
most easily captured. Small apples eau
be sucked in" sometimes. Dainty folk
who fear a ducking can get around it by
using a fork. Hold the fork some dis
tance above the tub, and in letting it drop
Try spear an apple. Fond mothers who
live fn constant dread of pneumonia aud
kindred ailments infniteiy prefer the
latter method of ~"bobbing" when their
little people bring out the washtub.
If anybody has a garden and wishes co
celebrate Halloween they have an inn
mense advantage over those less for
tunate persons whose territory is limit
ed by the walls of a city dwelling. Gar
dens, fields and woods wsrs the theatres
where many of the most Important Hal
loween rites were performed in the old
days. 1t will need comparatively little
stimulation of the imaginative faculty
to transform the garden Into q dim and
shadowy woodland or an uuoanny stretch
OF meadow, at will.
FUN IN H GARDEN.
One OF the most potent halloween out
door ceremonies is the gathering of cole
wott. The chances are no one has cole
wort in their gardens here ID Outs. hut
any kind of weed will answer Let the
mem ers OF the party go hand in hand to
the garden bllndfoldeu. Each plucks up
a weed, and together they return to the
lreside. II the weed you have plucksd
be big or little, crooked or straight, fat
or lean. SO will your cousort be. IL
The weed has a quantity of earth
adhering to the roots, your part
ner for life will haye much Of this
worlds growth. If the weed fs compare
lively free from earth you better half 10
be will have but scsntv possession. Hav-
ing settled the physical characteristics
and the financial condition of your com
ing husband or wife, you can further de-
termine what his or her nature will be
by tasting the psth of the weed. If il be
bitter your corsort will be of sour dis
position. morose and gloomy. II tue pith
tastes sweet your partner will be good
humored and merry. By all means pluck
"a weed with sweet pith. When ali this is
done the stalks are placed over the door.
one by one, ana the Christian name of the
first person who enters by chance aud no
AZ u OPpooA'V SDA ~ bDP DGISOu WHO
plucked the weed. will be the name of The
future husband or wife.
PICK o A CABBAGE.
Another way to determine the figure
and size OF ones future husband Is to pick
out a cabbage from u heap blindfoldsd.
The selection OF a cabbage is not highly
complimentary to the sterner sex, to say
the least. but this process Ct diviuation is
said to be infallibls. III the cabbage Is
big and solid, SO will the husband he. If
it is small and thin, SO will be the hus-
band. If it is withered aud yellow the
J husband will be venerable. 1t is young
and tender the husband will be youthful
land gentle-hearted.
Youths can tx On their future wife by
7 finding an even-leaved spray of ash.
Having found ir, call out "Cyniyes.D
The first of the gentler sex to answer will
be the bride-elect.
Still another. aud it seems a much
pleasanter way to 6nd the partner of
one's joys, is the following:-Go alone to
a barley stack and fathom it around three
times-that is, see how many full : D rus
81 of the ar M it will take to measure its
circumference. On the third time around
the right maiden will, in some delightful
ly mysterious manner. find her way into
you arms. This game ought to be very