The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-27
ALL HALLOWEEN THURSDAY.
Ten Private Cars Will Garry Ten House
Parties Away to Ten Country Homes.
AMELIA RIYES'S EORlUNE-TELLEa.
She Was from the Swamps anu fofe'""
Lucky In Fortune. tniuchy IN
Ioye"-New Things For
Halloween Teasts.
1convrieht lso5. for The Times.)

| ten great country hJuses are allVe WIN
the steps OF hurrying servants, zen pa
ties OF merrynakers are packing tIl'hNS
and slowing away armfuls OF Oh hher''
Next Thursday night, Ali Haliow Even.
there Will be- ten OF the largest English
house parties ever known III thiS couh-
tfy. ,
is an institution like our thanksgiving.
1t is planned itOm year TO year. ana eacn
celebration is more riotOus thal the iiist.
In this country IL Is loss than genera
tlOn since merrymakins al hahoN -teh
became an established thinS win the
sTOwn-up ones.
HAEYLsI-gOME WELCOME.
All ten of the house parties have pro-
grammes prepared in advance for the
celebration ii halloween. They board
the special car. steam away 10 the couh-
try, are met eby coaches ana ar SOM
within the country house. Here HallOw-
cen is visible the minute they enter the
front portals. A festoon Of apples. green
and red. hangs from portal TO portal. The
pcfi.eres are ripe nuts strung on cords,
the inches are nlled with sheave5 OF corn
and wheat. ana al night lamps from the
inside, of hcllOwei-Out pumpkins, tell that
il is the season OF the fall boyle man.
halloween Is divldtd n It's festivities
In the early part OF the evening come
the games and the old-timc tricks. and
Later come the dances and Iev-idDgled
ell, and this is the reason tFat the Hai-
lowecn house party Is the pleasantest or
the year
A rev cotillon for Halloween Is plan
ned by celebrated caterer, whose bust
LESS II is 10 invent cOttilons am conform
his menu car! 70 them. This dance has
six figures, and each Is Halloween fig
ure. one has ripe caDbases for iavors,
red. white nd yellow unged- To each
ca bbage is tied a verse or sentiment, and,
as the cdbbdges are grabbed through
paper screen by the young women, the
full mysticity of fate is attached TO the
selection.
When the men choose their fayors they
crgb through another screen the punches
of grass lettuce. water-cress, curly cab
bage and red beet tops These, too, con-
Ney an envelope with a sentiment inside,
carefully prepared according 20 the signi-
icanct OF the vegetable, and so the merry
bail - kept rolling. The caterer Tor weeks
before is busy selecting small specimens
OF the vegetables and grass, ami in the
country the gardener has them marked
from early in the season.
MARLBOROUGH HALLOWEEN.
In the English country houses the older
games are stil played. though little later
touches are given TO them. Depedene, the
country house of Lady BeresforG, is filled
up now with a merry party OF guests who
are enjoying their last entertainment IN
this country place. Depedene Is 10 be sold
by Lord Francis Hope, the owner, and
cut up into building lots. Lady Bcresford
surrenders her long lease for over LOO
pounds consideration but in the few
weeks left she will have one final country
house party that viii leave the home
deep in the memory Of those who have
enjoyed her hospitality there, even though
she may have 10 hold her celebration be-
fore Halloween.
Last year her Halloween favors cost
$1,000. There were only twenty Of them.
but they were Of solid gold set with jewels.
one very appropriate Halloween favor.
given at Depedene was worn here last
summer by a young gentleman who made
ii a watch charm 1t was a tiny twist OF
apple peeling Of bright red gold with
lining Of seed pearls 10 initiate the pe&y
whiteness of a ripe apple. The charm
was not over half an inch long. and the
spiral so tiny that one had TO finger IL TO
see he pearls shining I'm the lining.
very small yellow gold walnut with a dia-
mond tip was another of the favOrs, and
a chestnut of dull material. cracked 10
show a golden nut inside. was another
While this merrymaking was going on
at Depedene there was quiet house party
a: Blenheim. the old castle that has had
it's Halloween party since the days oi
Queen Anne At that time, just a year
ago pow. Miss COnsuelO Vanderbilt, thcn
seventeen, and not quite q bud i'm society
vet was visiting the old castle with her
mother. at the invitation Of he mother
of the Duke of Marlborough. ON the last
night of October there was a party IN the
old kitchen Several young ladies OF the
British nobility were visiting az Blenhciin
for the Duke has been entertaining on
large scale the past year. and on Hal
loween all went to the Dig kitchen which