My sweetheart's letter on the ground
is read."
A noteworthy trick in Scotland is
known as "Pulling the Kale," which
is carried out by a girl going blind
folded into a patch of kale and pulling
up the first one she finds. If the
item be straight her husband will be
tall and handsome, but if it is crooked
the husband will be likewise.
Still another is for the girl to take
two roses to her bedroom and before
retiring intert wine the stems, naming
each one tor a lover. uurmg me
night the one that grows darker will
be the faithful swain.
Only a few years ago Hallowe'en
was a night when bad boys threw
corn about and covered pedestrians
I with flour, threw dead cats on peo
i pie's doorsteps and worried household
1 ers by ringing their doorbells. This.
j however, has gone out of fashion for
(two reasons-
first, because the police
felt that the housekeeper should not
:be annoyed, and secondly, because the
j h:;jh cost of corn and flour kept the
boys from wasting these edible prod
ucts. Costume parties where the partici
pants appear as witches, devils, ghosts
and various fruits are popular, and
the once pagan tests are made in a
joking fashion. Few people realize
the real meaning of this festival
which is a strange mixture of the an
cient pagan and the early religion, as
are many of our festivals which when
first celebrated were pagan, but in
some way have been turned into feasts
of the Church.
eves, blistering the skin, or causing
great distress in breathing.
Fright fulness Of Mustard-Gas
"Of ail erases used during the war.
