The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-29
HALLOWEEN
HOSTESSES
Find Various Ways to Amuse
Guests.
MANY PARTIES PLANNED
Occasion will be Most Fit
tingly Observed.
Conclave of Ghosts and Witches 10
One of the Possibilities of Unique
Entertainment.

| Although Halloween falls on
Thursday evening there will be many
parties tomorrow evening given by
Marion hostesses in anticipation OF
the event. AS this is time when
fairies, ghosts and witches are sup
posed to hold high carnival an enter
tainer has a rich mine OF suggestions
to draw from. One Halloween party
! is described at which the guests were
admitted to a silent house, lighted
only by grotesque jack o'lanterns
and blue burning alcohol by an equal
ly silent maid. They took on their
wraps in dimly lighted room, and
were received in semi-darkness by a
witch hostess. Such tableaus as the
three witches of Macbeth, Hamlet and
his fathers ghost and their hostess
riding broom served to entertain
them for space, until they were
swept by witches. armed with brooms
into another room. where all the
regulation oracles of fate were prOvid-
ed.
On another occasion the door was
opened by a ghost. Other ghosts mo-
toned the guests to the dressing
rooms, where more ghosts were wait
+, ing to wrap them in sheets they had
been instructed to bring. The fur
niture was draped in white, and
skulls, bones and skeletons, prob
ably artificial, were used as decora-
tions. Blood-curdling tales were told
in the semi-darkness, and every one
unconsciously spoke in whispers.
When supper was ready a ghost led
the way to the dining room, saying
''This way to your DOOM" This
room was brilliantly lighted, and here
masks and ghostly garments were
removed, Afterward there was a
dance in a properly lighted and fur
nished house.
One of the prettiest OF Halloween
ceremonies is the burning OF the
nuts. The maiden who wishes to
/! know her fate names one for her.
self and others for the young men
for whom she has preference. The
one which burns evenly and without
jumping away from the nut represent
ing herself indicates that the one
whose name 1t bears will become her
husband. Jumping about indicates
unfaithfulness, and blazing brightly
betokens ardent affection.
Ducking for apples-that is, catch
ing them In the teeth as they float in
a tub of water-is fun, a part of the
evening's sport sometimes relegated
to the men The one who catches the
greatest number is assured of success
| in love and may be crowned with ap-
pie parings.
| "A simple feat is the catching OF an
apple with the teeth as 1t whirls on
a horizontally suspended stick to the
other end of which lighted candle
| Is attached.
The spell of the three saucers Is de-
signed to indicate whether one Is
to marry. and II so. whether we'll or
| H. The person who seeks to know
her fate Is blindfolded and placed be-
fore three saucers. one empty. one
holding clear water and one muddy
water. II she puts her hand In the
empty one. single blessedness Is por-
tended. The one holding clear water
foretells happy marriage and the
! one with muddy water an unhappy
one.
The unbroken pairing Of an apple.
| II cast over the left shoulder, on
Halloween, Will, as everyone knows,
form the initial of the name of the
future husband or wife.
To the one wEo can cast an apple
through horseshoe suspended In q
doorway all happiness II promised.