The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-31

will elapse before you marry; but have
seen this prove indefinite, because a per-
son aware Of an inch or two more of
stature will be sure to dodge 1t.
If the day of your birth was pleasant
and Halloween stormy or vice versa, you
will have great trials through the year,
but if the weather should be the same as
that on the day of your birth your life
will be peaceful.
If your lover proposes marriage on this
evening let him bind you al once by tying
a blue ribbon upon your wedding ring tin-
ger, that both may be constant and true,
a precaution by no means to be neglected
in these days of easy divorces. It will be
well, when dressing for the evening, 10
have somewhere about your person the
requisite bit of ribbon.
If on this evening you shake hands with
a very blonde man, you will have a pro-
posal-but not necessarily from the blonde
before the bells shall have rung In the
new year of 49,
Just at midnight and you must by no
means retire before that hour listen for
the sound of bells from the nearest church
steeple, and if they reach your ears in a
full and distinct peal. you may get ready
your wedding finery; but if there is a dull
and muffled sound, possess your soul in
patience for another year. If you are not
quite decided in your own mind as to
which of two lovers you prefer, think of
both just before you fall asleep and if
you dream of one your fate is decided.
Perhaps nowhere in this country is Hal
loween observed with so much interest as
in the South. The superstition and mysti-
cism so natural to the negro has extended
itself to a degree among the young peo-
pie who prepare for their solemn rites
laughngly, it is true, but all the same
with a delicious shiver down the Verte-
brae.
If reouires some rer,,a and a s,ira foot
ing to go down stairs backward, with
mirror in one hand and match in the
other, and, still walking backward, to go
into the most remote corner of the cellar
and there, striking your match, to gaze
into the mirror on the face of your flu
ture husband, which will be reflected
there. 1 might add that imagination Is
a very happy faculty at such times.
Still more thrilling and dangerous is
it to read ones future in a we'll Lean
backward over the curb but be very sure
of the strength of the curb as well as that
of the person who grasps you around the
waist, hold in your right hand mirror
so that it shall reflect the water and
read in it some event in your future life.
With the right sort of fancy your may
see anything which vot-wish to have hap
pen. If you see "a ship a sailing, a SAIL
ing on the sea- you will go to Europe;
a church betokens a marriage; a funeral
cortege a death; a train of cars and you
will take a journey. But all this requires
q moonlight night.
This is for very dark night and can
only be practiced out of doors, with a
shed or summer house handy. On one
side build a bonfire to make the black
ness beyond more intense; throw out a
ball of cord, keeping one end in your
hand, and peering over the fire into the
black depth of the. night, begin to wind,
chanting solemnly-
Slowly l wind, I wind,
My true lover to find.
The proper sort of Imagination will show
you your true love before you get to the
end of the cord.
An appropriate design for an invitation
to a Halloween party Is the pen picture
of witch in one corner and apples and
nuts in the other. 1t will be we'll. too
to make this a calico party, for among
very young people ducking for apples is a
game by no means to be left out of the
evenings merrlment. Pretty little SOU
venirs for the guests are booklets of vel
lum or drawing paper appropriately etched
with descriptive pen sketches and quota
tons from Bobby" Burns
The games with apples are many. An
anple, pared I'm one long, narrow ribbon
sWung three times round your head and
thrown over your left shoulder will fall
into the shape of the initial of the name OF
your husband or wife. Close the eyes.
press an apple seed on the lid of each.
first naming the seeds, wind spasmodicaI-
ly for a second and the one which sticks
on will stick through life.