The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-30

everything well in hand before the com pany takes a part. The baketin will be greased, everything measured. but ter and sugar creamed, eggs beaten. etc. Any recipe may serve for the cake. and it Is allowable for the maid to watch It's baking.
 pretty trick which is not common Is that of finding ones true love by hits of candles in boats made of nut shells. Take halves of English wal nuts and fasten In them, by softening the bottom, little candles, the smallest to be found. These fairy boats with their freight are placed gently upon tubs of water. and each is named. one for each guest and one for his or her choice. which. of course, need not be told. A guest may even have several boats if she desires, and Is of a nature to be happy with either" The sur face of the water will look charming when the candles are lighted. There should be no other light in the room. The bits of ships must not be stirred by breath. and there Is a meaning in everything connected with their voyage, and sometimes one will pair immediate ly with neighbor. and sometimes one will resolutely hold aloof from com panionship. It is quite amusing to watch their vagaries.
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 Another test with candles is intended to reveal what the coming year has in store. Use for these the half-leneth size, and arrange them some distance apart on the floor. Each candle typi- fies a month. The trick is to jump over them in turn without extinguishing any. If one can dc this the year has only good in store. Each light that goes out means one unlucky month.
 After this the guests will probably be ready to consult the oracle, who may be man or woman. but whose person. ality must be unknown The costume should be the weirdest possible, and the face should be yelled. The abode Of the oracle should be a room not seen until the time for consulting her has arrived. There should be no light other than from candles, and by putting green or blue shades over them one may produce light that only a spook would willingly patroni:e. Cabalistic symbols may be hung around the closet or tent that is given over to this use. ana the more uncanny the effect the better. Only one may enter at A time and the dictum must be given in a deep hollow tons. as spooky as possible Ii does not matter whether the oracle uses cards, the hand or crystal gazing. or invents something else for her story or the future, but she must be a person who will not tell horrors even In play for many of those who openly scorn all approximations are in reality deeply in- fiuenced thereby.
 After all who will have heard the de- crees of the oracle there will be a sup per. Any menu made up quite consid. erably of nuts and apples will be ap- propriate. There may be nut sand wiches. nut and apple salad, nut cakes, and the cake of fate. Cider Is the drink for this night. and the supper should give more than courtesy re. treatments, because the evening will be long.
 After supper all will proceed to the room with the open fire. Here, without deliberate purpose. the guests will soon ind themselves sitting meditatively about the fire. and then someone will begin to tell a story. That is the eff feet the open fire has on humankind, so the hostess will turn this disposition to her purpose. There will be no other light in the room. and that In the fire place will flicker and become low, so that 1t will give great effect to the ghost stories.
 Perhaps the hostess may have gath
 
 she will have the most beautiful blues, gold and greens in the flames. If beechwood cannot be found there Is a chemical imitation which is nearly as brilliant and which Is just the light for telling ghost stories iE. As there will | De twenty in the room, even if the story teller does not become "scary," 1t will not be too severe 8 strain even upon the most nervous, but 1t does produce an effect which is out of the ordinary, these young men and women half dis Guised by their quaint costumes in the aim light of the fire, and it adds thrills to stories that might not be moving were they told in the sunlight. IT preferred the oracle may be intro auced at this point instead of earlier l when the tension of the party is at JSy highest nervous pitch let her appeo.f. silently and unexpectedly, clothed Sfn shapeless white (two sheets). a poinked