New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
FUN ON HALLOWEEN.
old Tricks Tie 7Cith Ne1c on Pro
grammes for the "Mystic EUe."

No holiday in all this year is so we'll adapted
for merrymaking Halloween. the time when
the fairies dance. the ghosts are abroad and
the witches are in power. It's associations are
a limitess mine of suggestions TO the enter
tainer.
Everything AT a Halloween party should he
as 'spooky'' as possible. beginning with the in
vitations which may appropriately be decorated
with black cats, witches riding on brooms.
merry little devils. At one party the guests
admitted to n silent house lighted only by
grotesque jack O lanterns and blue burning
elcohol by equally silent maid They took of
their wraps in a dimly lighted room, and were
received. also in semi-darkness. by witch
hostess. Such tableaUs as the three witches OF
Macbeth. Hamlet and his fathers ghost and
their hostess riding a broom served 20 entertain
them for a space until they were swept by
witches armed with brooms into another room.
where all the regulation oracles OF fate were
provided.
on another occasion the door opened by
ghost. Other ghosts motioned the guests TO
the dressing rooms where more ghosts were
waiting to wrap them in the sheets they had been
instructed TO bring. The furniture was draped
in white and skulls bones and skeletons. prob
ably artificial, were used as decorations. Blood
curdng tales told in the semi-darkness.
and every one unconscously spoke in whispers.
When supper ready ghost led the way 20
the dining ROOM saying: This way TO your
loom" This room was brilliantly lighted. and
here masks and ghostly garments We're removed.
Afterward there was dance in a properly
lighted and furnished house.
one Of the pretticSt Of Halloween ceremonies is
the burning Of the nuts The maiden who
wishes 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 repre-
sentng herself indicates that the one whose
name It bears will become her husband. Jump
ing about indicates unfaithfulness and blazing
brightly betokens ardent affection.
This ceremony is thus described by Burns:
The auld guidwife's well hoardlt ni's
Are round an, ana .,d round slyi divided; s,es
Are then that night decided.
Some kindle couthie side BY side.
And burn thegither brimly;
Some start ava vi saucy pride
And jump owre the chimly.
Ducbing for apples-that is catching them in
the teeth as they float In tub of water-is fun
part of the evenings sport IS sometimes ree-
gated to the men. The who catches the
greatest number is assured of success In love
and may be crowned with apple parings.
similar feat is the catching of an apple with
the teeth as Il whirs on a horizontally suspended
stick to the other end of which lighted candle
is attached.
The spell Of the three saucers is designed to
indicate whether one is to marry. and IL
whether well i'll The person who seeks to
know her fate is bIndfoded and placed before
three saucers, one empty, one holding clear water
and one muddy water If she puts her hand in
the empty one single blessedness is portended
The one holding clear water foretes happy
marriage and the one with muddy water un-
happy one.
The unbreken pairing Of apple If cast