The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-01
ALL HANDS HAIL
ALL HALLOWEEN
MERRY srRrTEs SPEED THROUGH
HIGHWAYS AND nywAYs AND
JOY REI6NED.
Nj S NC G ATE S
GRiNNIsG PUMPKINS SPREAD con
STERSAFHoN AMONG SEEK ERs
AFTER LOVES SWEET FOR
TUNE--wiTCuEs NIGHT.

All Halloween Was duly observed
here last night.
The welkln hereabouts rang mer-
rily, until long after the mystic hour
OF midnight. when the ghostly sym
bols OF love and luck present them
selves to the maiden who dares to
glance into mirror over her left
shoulder ia dark collar with a can
die in her hand
Mysterious sprites silently and
sometimes nolsily sldcd through the
streets, and there WAS scarcely IA
house in the entire city In which
there was not some spice of the mer-
ry tide In which the young man and
the young maid tied themselves Cup In
gladstone confusion while seeking
vis ons Of the future through rubbing
the black cat behind the kitchen stove
and walking downstairs backward.
Poor Old Gates.
Chubby youngsters, aTrayed in fan
tastic garb. with merry laughter,
gra bbad helpless gates from Their
fastenings. and cast them into wrong
yards. while the inceused old BOBBY
Of q. man at the door tried To grab
the ieeting sprite W tn his big lunch
gra bbers. TO hold and lick with q
switch, which would better have been
left hang ng in the weodshed.
No lessons were learned last night
Professor Chandler might Just as wei
have let his children of for the day,
for what with the fun of last night
aud the ant cipation of the circus pa
rade tomorrow. there will be little
doing In the classroo n.
/ The merriment was not confined en-
tirely to the infant class.
| Some very large girls and some
great big boys got into the spirit of
the occasion. and when they sat In
/ the parior and the hallway with the
GRIM ng faces of the human pump
ktns and the light from the sulphGrous
eyes casting weird Eimmer DER the
scene, the feel ng that each must
have the other for protection fer bet
ter or worse melted into a kiss md
the witch and the brick cat would
stink away feeling that they had car
ried their point
Small Boys Delight.
And that In what All 3affows f1tt II
for. .~s '.sss's>''
II is also designed for smell boys, 20
| they can do naughty things without
being caught. The small boy upon
this one occasion Of the year IS per-
mitted to go about tire streets ar
ayed in any old thing. and with
black and white paint smearec al
over his face to scare his little baby
sister
MANY reasonable parties We're given,
and the youngsters had lots II run
Teasing their big sister ana her beau,
Some Of the late hour providers " no
got home after midnight rad trouble
I'm locating their own homesteads.
! Gates were on wrcngside out. up
side down and not at ali Door heits
were out Of whack. and piles OF bricks
were found in many porches, Whl'e
stray fellnes were chained IT, door
bells and door knobs.
The nurses at Memorial hospital
g-va a fine party In the house across
the street" AT this party prizes Were
given IN. most Enthusiastically dressed
ana there was music, games, song
and laughter enough TO last 70
Thanksgiving Day, .>.........,... 50,
The police had little trouble. And
what trouble they did have, they en-
loved as mueh as anyone else, TOT
teyen n rough, big, clumsy poticefhao
was once boy, and All tfHffowe CT
has been on the map many years