The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-10-24
Merrymaking for Halloween.

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Merrymaking for Halloween.
(By Mary Dawson in Chicago Inter
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This is the plan of an exceptionally
pleasant and inexpensive Halloween
entertainment which some one may
ike to copy for the mystic eve so soon
to be celebrated.
AS the home of the entertainer was
in the city where fruits and other dec
orative country treasures are more
difficult to obtain, quite a little of the
decoration was accomplished with col
ored paper, the results being really de-
lightful
"Chains" Of red and green tissue pa
per were suspended like a cobweb
across the ceiling of hall, parlor and
dining room. Through this web were
dropped artificial lanterns in the shape
of pumkins, while Oriental lanterns iii
red and green helped out the illumina-
ton.
The chandeliers were decorated with
a few boughs of autumn leaves which
the entertainer lad been able to get
from the country. The evening being
one Of the chilly ones somewhat fire.
quent in October, a wood fire cracked
cheerily in the hearth
The first frolic of the evening was
that of fortune telling teacups, a new
means of divination which anyone
can get up at short notice for a Hal
loween revel. The cups, the number
of which exactly equalled that of the
guests, were arranged on a table at
one end of the room. The table was
presided over by one of the girls of the
family dressed as a witch. Each man
and girl in turn was blindfolded and
led up to the table. Without remov-
ing the bandage, he or she selected one
OF the cups. In each cup brought
away was a morsel of paper folded
No one was supposed to open the pa
per drawn Until all the cups had beer,
gathered up. When all had drawn the
papers were opened and were found to
contain amusing fortunes written in
rhyme and different in every case.
These prophecies were then read
aloud 10 the great amusement of the
assemblage. In some cases, though
necessarily the work of chance, the
hits were palpable. Thus, a young fell
low Of the party known to have an alb
sorbing passion for acquiring wealth,
read aloud:
Beware, beware
Ambitions snare:
Love seeks for thee:
Seek Love and happy be.
Wealth oftentime is dross:
Loves death, life's loss
While a pretty girl whose secret en-
gagement was supected found herself
compelled to blush prettily over
This eve can cast no spell for thee.
Thou knowest well who thy Fate will
be
And covered close Loves secret flame,
All whisper and suspect the name
Again, one of the young men found
that his slip hit off to perfection "the
dearest girl with
Big blue eyes, a merry laugh.
A tendency to jest and ''chaff."
On Halloween by this know me
Thy first and true affinity.
Reading the fortunes and discussing
their respective merits passed half an
hour merrily. The teacups with han
dies tied with ribbon were retained as
souvenirs. For the game it is best II
have the fortunes written impeFsCnally
so as to apply either to man or girl
Or where it is considered difficult to
get rhymes to fit either sex the witch
ties one-half the cups with blue rib
bon, half with pink and does not BAN
dage the eyes If the fate seeker. The
man chooses one of the pinktied cups,
the girl one of the blue.
The Halloween cardle was a pastime
on different order, but equally di
vertiu in another way. Here the play
ers sat in a circle and the person who
was to commence the fun was given a
rounded stick which he thrust into the
open fire. The flame was blown out,
leaving the embers. and the person to
begin the fur commenced a Halloween
story. The narrative was opposed to
be im2romptu and wis discontinued
IL
die was passed to another player. who |
continued the recital according to his
or fer own invention to a second eli |
Inaxand passed the Halloween candle
on.
This continued until the ember at |
the top of the stick was extinct. The |
person holding the candle when the |
ember died out was understood to be |
a bachelor or old maid ac- |
cording to Halloween prognostica- /
tons
The supper table was effectively |
with a strong flavor Of the |
eve of fate in its decorations. The CEN
terpiece was a witch tall as the /
average doll. To make her part of
oroomstick had been fitted into solid |
block Of wood so as to stand erect
The head fastened in place at the top |
was a tiny pumpkin lantern with
candle end inside and features cut to
give a face. The witch hat which
this was Of black cloth
with hole at the top to serve as o
vent Black tissue paper was used in
4 pleated fr;ll to form the skirt. A red
,loak drawn in all around the base of
he pumpkin was of red crope paper.
At either side Of the witch short
distance away from the center Of the
able were large pumpkins used as
'ruit diches. The edges were crimped
inside was followed out and q fringed
lining Of rec crepe raper added, which
lung down over the sides. Fruit of