Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-27
ALL HALLOWEEN.
The One Night in the Year
When the
Eye Ga s., - Inc Future Charms
and Spells, Ghost Stories Before the
Fire, and Many Quaint Custom.

nv anu many q HaoiuA SuoNoms
Next Tuesday night is All Hallow-
cen. This night is especially friendly
to those who are curious about the
future in love affoirs.
The evening can be very pleasantly
spent by the young people in the fol-
lowing manner:
The first one calls for an open fire,
but perhaps The kitchen stove will do,
with its gas fire, and little ingenu-
ity will solve objections. Hazel nuts
are full of witches, blessings and
banes. Take two nuts, name them
for a young man and young woman,
and set them where the fire will touch
them. Ii they burn quietly together
the pair will have smooth course of
true love. Ii they jump away from
one another they won't. Sometimes
they do both.
guests learn little of the fates.
Place three dishes, one containing
clean water, one muddy water and
one with nothing in it. Blindfold
the candidates and lead them each in
turn to the dishes. He who touches
the clean water will marry spinster;
the muddy water denotes that wild
ow will get him; the empty dish fore
tells life of bachelorhood
Into dark room let each unmar-
ried girl &C clone, carrying candle
She must walk backward to the mir
ror and place the candle between her
and the glass. Now she may either
take down her hair and put it UP
again, or eat an apple, looking always
backward at the mirror. BY and by,
if she has luck and her hostess is clev-
er, she will see in the mirror the face
of the man whom she expects to see
This has been considered in all ages
very potent charm, and likely to re-
suit in wedding invitations.
Pare an apple so that the peeling is
in one unbroken curl. Wave it slowly
thrice around the head and let it fall
behind you. 1t ought TO form some
thing very like the first letter of the
future brides or husbands name.
This always comes true on Halloween.
If any girl walks around a city
block with her mouth full of water,
on her return to the house she will
meet the man who is destined for
her
The day is the Christian festival
for the souls Of the departed, but it's
origin is older than that. The Druids
at this season celebrated terrible rites
n M fl1n tnS pof Of ha
tion of the world, and to this day
customary fires lighted in Ireland,
Wales, and Scotland are survivals of
the Druid days in Britain The Peru
vians and the Mexicans, as well as
the ancient Persians, celebrated at
the elimination Of the Pleiades On
this date, feast for the dead. The
custom started, probably, with the
food Even the sayages in Australia
have the same commemoration. The
Egyptians at this time of year sent an
image of Osiris to sea in an ark
The numerous young women who
want to know cannot do as they do
in Scotland-go out ana pull a kali
stock in the dark to see if the man
will be straight or crooked but she
can learn more by the following meth
cd, taking care not to burn her fingers:
Melt some lead and pour it through a
brass key into vessel of water. The
shake of the hardened lead will de-
note to good guesser the condition
| in life of her husband to-be
Another way to find out-only the
answer is not known until morning
is the s'nine pilules of dreams. .
Take hazel nut, walnut and nut
meg. Crate all and make a paste
with butter and sugar. Divide the
mass into very small pills. Let each
girl swallow nine of them as the
evenings farewells are said. What
dreams may come of it should be in
terpreted thus: OF riches or sumptu-
Gus surroundings, a rich husband: of
white linen, clergyman for a hus-
band; of darkness, lawyer: of noises
and tumult, man of business; OF
thunder and lightning, a soldier or a
sailor; of rain, an unhappy marriage.
Try to lay two fine needles ia pan
of water SO that they will float. 1t
can be done. If the needles, named
for persons, float, all is we'll for their
prospects in love. If either or both
sink, the match is off.
There is lively fun in trying to
catch apples in tub of water with
the teeth or biting an apple hung
from the ceiling by string, with the
hands held behind the back in both
cases. They are old and honored
Halloween tricks, and should be done.
A Halloween party without ghost