Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27

think but that ho Will never be mar
| ried?
| The Scotch delight in pulling cab
| bages to foretell the future. To follow
| this method one must blindfold ones self.
| wander out to the cabbage patch and
pull the first plant stumb. ed upon. 1t is
believed that If there is considerable
earth clinging to the root the ma den S
dowry will be large, she will see in the
s &c and shape of the root the height
and from the flavor of the heart and
stem she may learn his dispOS ton. In
the cd Scottish form each person took a
stalk back to the house and placed 1t be-
hind the outside door. Then the first one
to enter in the morning would be his or
! her companion of the future.
Another Scottish test consists IN going
alone to the barn and thrt mes making
the motion OF winnowing corn as with
a wnnowing machine. Thereupon the
future spouse must ob-igingly walk
across the barn.
Concerning the superstition of the wal
nut tree, an old rhyme has the fol Lowing
informal on to offer:
Last Hallow eve l sought walnut tree
In hopes my trne loves face that l mi hit see.
Three tines / called, three times ! walked apa G;
Then in the tree saw my true loves face.'
LAY in his "Pastorals'' has put into
verse an old English Halloween practice.
He writes:
II pluck this locs Of hair from off my head
To tell whence comes the one that ! shall wed.
Until you reach the spot where my true love Is
found
The expected person must appear IN
the direction from which the hair wa:
blown.
The, Irish experiment of finding Icvels
by the use of a BAH Of yarn is said tt
give sat sfactory results. Throw 4 bal
of yarn from the window, holding fast tc
the end of the yarn Then while rewind-
ing repeat the Pat.r Ncst7.' backward
The future husband muse appear near the
ball of yarn. Burns says tina: n Scot
land the yarn must be blue. and. more
over. that the person trying he test
must throw IL, not from Il Win9ow, but
into limekiln.
An experiment Causing great n Ariiment
in Il company is carried ont bv placing
three dishes on the floor. H,ita one emf
ty, one containing clean ana one foul va
ter. Some one is then blindfo.ded and
told to put his hand in one of the dishes
They who dip in the empty one shall re-
main unmarried; they who Zip in the fcul
shall get one that Is widowed, and they
who dip in the clean shall be joined to Il
virgin
Other ways of deciding what otherwise
might be a question m years IS done by
cutting letters from a newspape- 3nd put.
ting them in q dish Of water, thus let
ting those whch float spell the name of
the future companion; or suspenGing q
wedding ng by a silken thread, Inside
a glass. slowly commencing to repeat the
alphabet, and each time the ring hits the
SIDE of the glass return ng to the first
letter OF the phabet, in this wise also
spell! ns the name of the loved one. Or
if one chafes at the slowness OF this
process. she may put 4 raisin n the mid
die of "A string one yard length; then
two persons will each take an end in his
mouth and chew toward the raisin with
all his might. By this unusual procedure
the one first reaching the ra.sin will be
the first of the two to marry
\ test NOT SO popular some others,
since 1t interferes with sleep. Is accom-
plished by wetting the sleeve Of &. shirt
and hanging 1t i'll front Of a fire 10 dry
At midnight the experimen-er viii rise
and view his spouse who will enter the
room and turn the drying s,ecve.
But despite the liberal nJmber Of divi-
ma tons already described. there are 9TH