The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

dicauve of the natural temper or dis
position
One OF the best known charms is
that Of eating an apple before a look
ing glass II IS done in this manner
a young woman takes a lighted candle
and goes alone to a looking glass.
There she eats an apple standing be-
fore the glass. at the same time comb
IN her hair. looking steadily in the
glass meanwhile In a short time a
shadowy face of the man destined to
be her husband will appear in the
glass. looking over her shoulder
The water charm is not SO well
known, perhaps, but Is equally posi-
1 tive In its results Take three dishes.
put clear water in one, soapy in an
] oLner and leave the third empty
/ Bhudfold a person and lead him Cor
herr to the hearth where the dishes
are arranged He Cor she) dips with
the left hand in a dish If It IS the
clear water the future husband or
wife Will never have been married
/ If it is the soapy water, widow or
WIdower- while II the empty dish is
the one touched. it foreteIIs with equal
certainty no marriage at all This IS
repeated three times. the arrangement
/ of the dishes being altered each time
A ring, Il penny and q bodkin are
baked in a cake The cake IS cut in
pieces and served Whoever gets the
ring will wed before the year is out
The penny foreteIIs the inheritance of
a fortune, while the drawing of the
bookfn doons one TO a life Of single
olessedness-
The unbroken peel of an apple
thrown over the left shoulder viii, in
its fall. form the initial of the hus-
band or wife.
A charm never known 10 fail is the
following A young woman goes to
a vacant house Just at midnight She
throws a ball of yarn thru q window,
keeping the end in her hand she
begins winding. and at the stroke Of
twelve her future husband appears.
holding the ball in his hand
Attraction for Witches
As Halloween night has always been
supposed to have a special attra action
for witches. COLLINS and mischievous
fairies. all nlishaps occurring on that
night are laid at their door. Does the
cream sour over night? The pixies
are blamed Does the old mare go
lame and the COW lose her cud2 A
witch flew over the barn on her
broomstick-
The custom OF playing pranks of
various kinds. by boys and girls on
ming many years ago in the desire of
some venluresome youths to add to
the fame OF the witches and fairies.
at the expense of their more guIlible
nSigEDOrS-
Before civic law put a stop to Hal
Ioween pranks. nothing was safe from
the hands of boys. and sometimes
men who committed all sorts of mis-
chief that would not have been over
looked at any other time. Gates were
unhinge and carried away, wheels
were removed from vehicles; anything
movab BILE was moved The APPARENTLY
impossible was accomplished Wagons
were found on the tops of barns One
instance was reported of a man miss
ing his cow in the morning and find
ing her in the belfry OF a church
At Manhattan. some years ago. an
artfcuIated skeleton from the agricul=
tura1 college was hoisted 70 the top of
a telephone pole on Halloween and
was not located until some time had
eIapsed-
But such esca padeS are now things
of the past and safe and sane Hal
Ioween is the order of the night