El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-28

love 1 say; four, I love with all my
| heart; five, 1 cast away; six. he loves:
seven, she loves: eight, they both love;
nine, he comes; ten, he tarr1es; eleven,
he courts, and twelve, he marries.' AS
most wise people know, the number OF
seeds the apple has, indicates the ex-
act point of the love affair between the
two people, the one who Is trying the
charm and the one for whom the apple
is named.
All-Hallowe'en tests require candle
light aud freight. Gas and electr1c1-
ty are discOuraging to the 1mps,
witches, elves, spirits and ghosts who
help the humans to glimpses OF the fu-
ture. An ancient and bonorab' e
custom for romantic girl. is to walk
alone to the attic with only candle 10
light her way to eat an apple before
mirror watching intently in the glass.
There she will see the spirit face of
the man she is to wed. She must per-
form the rite alone and in perfect sill
ence. Authorities differ as to whether
she musical an.apple during the mystic
in the mirror.
Folding her petticoat under her head
and placing her shoes in the form of q
1T, )" will bring the maiden visions of
her. true love in her Halloween dreams
To melt lead solder and drip it from
a big spoon into pan OF cold
water where it assumes fantastic
when a clever guesser yields the drip
ping spoon and interprets the leaden
fantasies. A girl comes up to try her
fortune, q spoonful of the lead is drip
ped into the water, it vaguely suggests
a shoe-the girl is to marry shoe
maker forsooth. Another time it seems
to suggest sail and boats outline,
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has asked to have his fortune told Is to
be sailor or else is to become so veal
thy that he has yacht of his own.
The lead falls into hammer shape
the girl, whose fortune is being tried,
is to marry a carpenter. A Run-the
boy is to go to war, and perhaps the
wielder of the spoon can find q sword
and shoulder straps and promotion for
him.
A Halloween party must be jolly
and informal. The costumes properly
are sheet and pillow case and q white
cotton mask. The lights should be
from candles, firelights, alcohol burn
ing in blue flames in dark corners and
from great Jack o'lanterns. The re-
freshments should be nuts. raisins,
cider, fruits, and nothing more formal
or modern than sandwiches. The de-
corations should be leaves, grasses and
stick at the threshold of the front door
that evening that the guests may jump
over it as they enter and bring good
luck to themselves and the house.
Miss Edna Mcclellan, of Denver, has
started daisy chain letter subscrip-
tion fund to buy q house for Schley and
has had a great deal of success, the
rear admiral having friends in all
corners Of his country.
Evening frocks of fine soft materials
skirts, which fashion is supposed to
be the thin edge of the wedge, the
wedge being the change to full skirts.
AT the present rate the full skirts will
not be here for six months or more
though.
Baby bear, that is baby polar bear
fur promises to outstrip baby Persian
lamb in feminine favor this season.
The pelt of the baby bear is fine and
silky and can be bleacbed a soft ivory
tint that is generally becoming. Err
mine is always fine and elegant, but
its white is one very trying to any but
perfect compilations. Fox Is next to
bear in popularity, the blue fox hold
ing its own we'll. 1t Is rare enough
and expensive enough to still be the
treasure of ladies of fashion.
Plaid haunels-the plaids ranging in
size from the shepherds check to
squares SO big that it takes two girls to
wear one, are made up straight, with
only the pointed yoke in the back cut
bias. The yokeis cut little differently
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ever, but is cut out to be very shallow
as it nears the armholes, giving the
broad effect at the shoulders that is
still so greatly desired. The blouses
may have'a pointed yoke infront also or
be shirred, shocked, gathered, tucked
or arranged in box pleats. Plain fian-
uels have bands, cuffs, and yoke en-
broidered with dots, knots or a running
vine pattern.
Mrs. EDDY, the Christian scientist,
is being sued for undermining the
character of one Josephine Wood bury.
character of the plaintiff but also that
of Mrs. Eddy and of her claims to
divine assistance: of her chief fol-
lowers: of the Christian Science church
at Boston, and threatens to bring the
very belief itself into the glare of tn e
courts. Mrs. Woodbury. sues for $780,
OOO damage 80 she must have had pref
ty much of a character before Mrs,
Eddy called her the worst names she
could find in the bible.
The meteorological bureau of Paris
announces that Spain has three
thousand hours OF sunshine q year: It.
ally, twenty-seven hundred; France,
twenty-six hundred; Germany, seven
teen hundred, and England fourteen
hundred-less than half of Spain's al