Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1914-10-24
A Halloween
Party
At Which There Was an
Episode
BY ESTHER VANDEVEER


What's Halloween"
"Oh. papa, how ignorant you are!
Halloween is the evening when young
folk bob for apples blindfolded. strike
at suspended bags fun OF nuts or can.
dy and throw Feelings over their shout.
ders."
what 10 they throw the pcelings
over their shoulders for:"
why. the skins in falling will take
the shape Of letter That letter IS
the initial Of the person the one throw.
Ing It will marry II a girl looks into
a mirror she'll see the face OF her III
ture husband
Halloween IS FOR girls. presume"
"Not at all It's for boys the same as
for girls"
well. what about your partyf"
Mamma says that II you consent
we will give il ut the Ccdars."
The Ccdars IS our country camp. We
had returned to the city after Labor
day. month before. and now II was
proposed to 80 back for IIelcu's party
She looked 1t me wistfully. rcmcm
bcrcd what such things were % me
when ! was youngsicr and melted
before that look Indeed always me.t
before that look gave my consent
This Is what happened at the la
lowcen party 1t came under my oh
seryatlou: hut. not having woman's
pcrccpiiyc faculties. saw nothing in
IL The story was told me by my wife.
and tell Il here rs She told il 20 me.
The young persons assembled for
Halloween nj the Ccdars were between
sixteen and twenty-five years Of asc.
though those above twenty were men.
some ~ them being too old 10 bob for
apples or knock down bags when blind
folded. It occurred 10 my wife TO I'M
wife sort Of Questioning CnirVoyIGt
or something Of the Kind, who was to
tell weirl stories suitable to the DC.
casion. She was a Miss Somers. thlr
tv-fve years Old aud altogether an odd
person
On Halloween after dinner the young
folk assembled in tho large apartment
used for n living room. at one end of
which WAS mn enormous fireplace The
night was cool enough for blaze. and
logs In plenty had been provided The
room was sealed the raftcrs above he
ing loft bare. on tho walls were the
heads Of animals which something
OF n Nimrod had slain. while several
skins from the same source covered
the pine floor
Miss Soncrs seated herself IN the
center of the group before the ire.
which gave the only light IN the room.
and began her stories. They an pur
ported To have come under her own
observation and were Intended 10 'how
that FOR every boy and every cirl there
was somewhere In the world a mate.
II dld NOT seem to matter to her or
10 the Youngsters. especially the girls.
that this was impossible Unless the
mir were horn nj the same moment
There were several other big gaps
which were not filled. Int this did not
seem 10 trouble any Of the listeners.
Miss Somers had an eye on her lis
teners ana observed on her right a
youug man loci Ilarher. In whom n
love for the marvellous. Judging from
his features. was strongly developed
ON her extreme left. partly in shadow.
sat n girl Marjorie Winthrop one ~
those feminine creatures made c~pc
chilly 10 love and be loved. IIarker
was twcuty.oue years old Marjorie
Winthrop Vas not quite eighteen
To close observer it was evident
TINT Miss Somcrs was casting or try.
ing 10 cast a spcll over these two This
was noticeable since. while telling her
warns. sic would first look III Joel,
whose eyes ms indeed tie eyes 81 all
were fixed intcntly upon her and then
turn 10 Marjorie ], seemed that she
WINS ALTERNATING bv viii power To draw
these two together At times willed
by her. joel wound look from her 10
Marjorie, then after an interval Mario
RE would look At Joel and always with
something Of the expression indicating
that she REGARDED him as her own IS.