The Washington times., 1906-10-28
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ruper~ iltfbH~ So iHh2 as man htuu
is-though hc may pretend ever
so hard thar hes not. And ~o il
chances that the combination Of
love, and belief ian powers more
than human has brought down TO
today In Halloween. festival as
hoary as recorded lime. vet
feast still ycneratcd.
Ii has become royvdyi~h go he
sure, but the street houEry~ are ljt
from those with which the ancient
DruidS Warded of the evil spirits
of primeNal Britain Its false
faces aud begging groups ~
clamOrOu~ Youngsters are deScend-
ed straight from maequerS i'm Ger
many, when the Middle Ages Vet
lay iu the future. Old anal solemn
dignity may seem metumorph"Se'l
to spirit Of pure chatting. but still
The holiday recalls the times OF
witches and lamentations. and still
ut this ecric season of leUgthening
evenings, does credulou~ man dip
into the mystic ritual of diTnarion
on that greatest of all questions
love.
Seldom does swain OF sweetheart
stop TO think OF the almost world
old origin of The night The
harvest festival Of the Roman god
deSs Ramona. the dreaT religions
rite whereby the DrUjdical ~amHu
was propitiutcd the fantastic rev
els ~ the medieval "WilpurgiS
Night" the uncanny ceremonies
Of Scotland's "ShonE such
mythology and tradition is as thor
oughly ignored In this pro~aic
twentieth Gentry as arc hobrublin
tales of elf and spook. Octoher's
final night has grown 10 he, first
and foremost, the time when true
loves charms become invariably e.
fcctive. She may peer into the fu-
ture; he questions his fateS-and
both shall ussurcdly read their an
-verS clear!
Antiquity hands down ON even
score o. such sure tests
Double double toll and trouble.
frr huru and cauldron bubble.
What would You lmow2 shall YOU
marry2 And when? And whom?
Merely pay due regard 10 the long
prescribed rituals of the mystic
night and there shall come sure
reply 20 each petition.
With chcstnuts and halenut~ is
thc first trial 10 be made Oldest
of love-tests and certainly most
houored ia observance. Let the
sentimental soul place TWO nuts
louc for ihv She ahd one for the
IIcl on The hot bars of the CRATE
7r we'll forward amoug the Goals.
1t tires cook and -izlic coziiy. all Is
we indeed; - they iHaE apart
sputrrriug. martial squalls are 10
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cious jingle
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on irzn each either. wildly -l1ft
lut -eg tu- raury Harrg pair
-0f EeauU' love aud truth sincere
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From fir. to waiter and from
ANS to lead Peer iufn futu-itv
nv LETTING molten lead rnId spoous
win ~er,. the mrpo-r. or bits Of
uipcf. fall into "a basin of cold
water. and read with ready SYM
HoTiem the forms which rhr. metal
assumes g~ fr ruuaral~ Does fl
,prcad out cyeuIla-~o viii your
life run and tuur Ipyr. Should 10
shape itself to Iumpl-H ~mutm-
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