The Hawaiian gazette. [volume], November 29, 1895, Page 7, Image 7

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'TIS FAIRIES' MGHT.
ALL Halloween, when to youb
sight may be, i ween,
BernUM Tour Fntnrv Spouse's Fsw, la
All IU Cgllneas and Grace That's 'What
Think In the "Anld but
Hardly, I Trow, on This Sldn the Sea.
A Scotch writer who contributed an
article to an American newspaper about
Halloween last year declared himself
"very much impressed by the almost
universal observance of Halloween and
its old customs in America." Ho added
that the forms most taken by tho observance
of tho nigh there were, and equally
to his interest, rather Scotch-Irish
than English. Farther on ho says that
"Halloween has always been and still
trrmcG at lugging or gates.
is the feast of the year, when gentle
and simple meet and enjoy themselves
together, irrespective of social barrier
and caste, so rigorously observed on
other occasions. "
This view of Halloween will perhaps
be entirely new to a majority of those
who read this writing. Halloween is
observed in the United States, to be
sure, and perhaps in some parts of the
country with some of the same superstition
that marks its observance among
tbo&e who dwell on the British isles,
but this is rarely the fact among those
of the ' 'old time American stock. " This
is especially true of those descended
from the Puritans. Thoso sturdy old
iconoclasts cast out all sorts of belief
regarding saints' days and pagan festi
vals, including even Christmas and the
Eastertide, in their prohibition of celebrations
that savored of either the Roman
church or the Druids. Tho observance
of Halloween is a mixture of
both, and I have no doubt that there
are many thousands in the United
States, some of whom will read these
words, who were in as dense ignorance
of Halloween in their childhood as
was a business man of one of our
largest cities with whom I converted
the other daj.
"I never heard of Halloween" at all
when I was a boy, " said this man. ""'1
never heard of Easter either until I
was 17. of 18. Full knowledge of both
did not come to me till I 'went away to
school' with money I had earned work
ing in the hayneld and the apple orchard,
and then I read their history in
the 'Book of Days.' But I knew all
about Paas (I used to spell it Pees) and
cabbage night. I used to hide eggs in
the haymow for days, waiting for the
first, and the standing cabbages and the
winging gates of the neighbors used to
suffer on the second, I tell you.
Cabbage night! That's the title the
American boy applies to Halloween.
And a right lusty, sturdy savage the
American boy is like to be on that night
It must be confessed that the joys of
cabbage night, its breathless exertions
and runnings here and there in the darkness,
its pulling of bells and knocking
at doors, its lifting and lugging of gates,
its stretching of ropes across paths to
trip the unwary, all seem rather flat
and silly to the man whose hair is getting
gray and who is beginning to be
fat or rheumatic or perhaps both. But
they weren't flat and silly some 20 or
SO years ago, were they, old fellow? Do
you rememberwhat fun you had stealthily
tying two cabbages to Deacon Ellis'
front door knob on cabbage night
in 186? or 1868? How you then knocked
at the door and dodged behind the
big cherry tree in the yard where Tom
Waters was hidden before you? How
you then saw the young theological student,
who was "settin up" with the
deacon's pretty niece, when he opened
A LITTLE SERMOX.
the door? How he was so angry when
he saw the joke that he began to say
something that sounded very much like
a "big, big DV How you snickered so
loud that he heard you, and darting out
into the darkness caught you both and
dragged you into the parlor, where he
stood you, nearly helpless with mortification,
before his sweetheart, preached
you a little sermon, smiling the while,
which sounded very funny to the young
lady, but very serious to you? And how
at the windup he confessed that he had
himself done such things when he was
boy, but thought them rude and suggested
that in future you spend
een going about restoring unhinged
gates to their own and t'ie commission
of other similar good ikeds?
If that reminiscence be not one of
yours, then one somewhat similar probably
is unless yon were a city boy, as I
was not. I suppose there is no docbt
that town born lads havo quite as much
fun in their weak way and manner as
counrry lads, bet I must confess I have
never been able to understand how.
It is not patting it inaccurately, I
imagine, to say that Halloween, observed
according to the methods that
are time honored across the ocean, is a
new institution, comparatively speaking
at least, in America. It was brought
here by settlers who came latter than
tho Puritans, by immigrants who came
to better their condition and not for
liberty of conscience. In some sectiocs
where the population is largely made
up of this latter element the old English,
Scotch and Irish legends undoubtedly
obtain, yet it is extremely doubtful
if there is one-tenth of tho Halloween
superstition anywhere in the
United States that exists in the mother
country unless it is among tho negroes
of tho south, where, since the extreme
observances of the occasion resemble
those of the "voodoo doctors" so closely,
it has been completely assimilated
into the system of superstitions held by
the children of Africa.
A sort of half belief in Halloween
superstition has been widely disseminated
by the boarding schools of the
land, and it is safo to asmno that there
is far more of Halloween observance
among the children and young folks of
the rich and well to do than among
those whose parents work for wages
throughout the land. It is quito customary
nowadays for parents to plan
Halloween parties for their children, at
which many of the sports of tho season
are entered into.
Bobbing for apples, throwing apple
peelings over one's shoulder to see what
initials the peelings will form, pouring
melted lead into water for a similar
purpose and the like are favorito diversions
at these little parties. As diversions
they are harmless, but in all seriousness
the inculcation of superstitious at Halloween,
or any other time, for that matter,
should be avoided, for the human
creature is desperately inclined to be
superstitious, no matter how modern,
and there is nothing more torturing
in life than to bo a victim of some belief
in the significance of omens and
signs and presentiments, even if the victim
knows in his inmost heart that
there is nothing at all to justify such
belief.
As a study the folklore of Halloween
is most interesting. The origin of
the observance is unmistakably Druid-
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two nAZL snrrs i threw bto the flame
ical, and, although the date was shifted
to that of All Souls' night when Christianity
usurped heathenism among the
Teutons, the Anglo-Saxons and the Celts,
there is nothing about its legends and
ceremonies that does not savor of the
pagan. Pulling the kail (or cabbage) to
find if one's spouse to be will be stout
or lean is one, and from this no
doubt came the hilarious phantasies of
the American cabbage night. Hazel nuts
and chestnuts play an important part in
English Halloween observances. The
poet Gray tells of this most delightfully
in these lines:
Two hazl csu I threw Into the flame.
And tOTOch nut 1 cvb a sweetheart's name.
ThU with the loudest bounce me Bare amazed.
That in J flame of brightest color
As bl&zea nut so marth7p&rtsion grow.
For 'twas thine own that did so brightly glow.
In the old days it was believed that
witches did travel abundantly on Halloween.
The fairies, too, did then disport
themselves most friskily, and spells
then worked that worked no other night.
The burning bf bonfires was general in
Wales and Scotland on Halloween, and
lads and maybe lasses, too, then went
out masked and dressed in garments of
quaint design.
-There were also many games on Halloween
in other times of which nothing
is preserved, save in tradition.
Some of these games were such a3 would
not be admissible now, for the refine
ment of those old days was much less
than that of today, no matter how they
may have excelled the present in other
directions. Those games which had for
their object the discovery of a future
husband's or wife's identity were naturally
most popular. Here is a recipe
for securing an answer to the question
(apposed to bo most important to every
girL It is from an ancient publication,
entitled "The Tree Fortune Teller:"
"To know whether a woman will
have the man she wishes get two
lemon peels. Wear them all day, one in
each pocket. At night rub the four posts
of the bedstead with them. If she is to
succeed, the person will appear in her
sleep and present her with a couple of
lemons. If not, there is no hope."
Here is one from the latitude of Chicago
It i adapted to city observance,
but it is not warranted: Fill
your mouth with salt and run around
the block, when your true love will of
a surety show himself.
Eva Lnvett has put this one into
rhyme. It is an old favorite with all
Halloween devotees:
At midnight lone hempseed is thrown
(The peeping elrei can see).
"I sow hempaeed, my love, indeed.
Cia. garner after mel"
1L L Dezteb.
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1S03.
PRESENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
An Endless Variety Awaits Generous Flayer
What These Gifts Cost.
As the holidays approach tho buyer
of gifts has this one question in her
mind: What presents shall I buy and
how much money will they cost? So
when shopping is to be done for the elderly
man or woman what is butter than
a good martin silk umbrella, in which
black silk, with natural stick tipped with
silver, can be purchased for the sum of
$10.50 to $12? If this is too expensive,
then a lighter one can be procured with
natural handle for the low price of $3
to $5 or a red silk one with cover and
tassel for $4.93.
For a lady's desk there is a now cut
glass stamp moistener, long and nar
row, with silver top, in which a fine
sponge at the openingserves as a brush.
This dainty affair can be bought for
Gold plated pen, with mother of pearl
handle, at the small cost of $1.65 to
1 1.75, and any number of silver ones
for 1.50.
Of fancy noto paper there are boxes
ad libitum. English cream linen at 30
cents a quire, with envelopes. The
"Post Boy" is much in vogue this season,
an excellent papeterie, well boxed
in cream whito, tied with white ribbon,
at 36 cents. A charming souvenir of the
great day.
Then there are the new reading
glasses, with silver handles and outer
silver rim, in which a slight decoration
is given. They range in price from
?3.75 to $6. 75.
For my lady's boudoir there are endless
monclioir cases, in which pink and
yellow chiffon does excellent duty as
outside puffs, tho center being of thin
totting cloth, of which figures in gay
attiro are tho scheme. They are of fair
size and range in prico from $ to $11,
according to decoration. Bonbon boxes
of gilt, embossed with fine enamel, exquisite
in design, at the low price of
$3.50. Then there is tho now departure,
the cornucopia bonbon box of Dresden
china. At tho top of theso flowery novelties
there is a silk bay, with tassels.
At its back is a hole for banging against
the wall This device is 3. 50, and well
worth it.
Pin trays there are of Turkish bras3
which range in price from GO cents to $4.
For the ambitious honieniaker there
are endless designs in pottery, the Doul-ton
ware taking the lead this season.
Small teapots at 80 cents, sugars at
75 cents and pitchers at 45 cents. All
rich in shades of browns, with cream
decorations of figures and flowers. Some
good sizo water jugs, with admirable
mottoes: "Welcome, the Best Cheer,"
"Better Must Be tho Cup That a Smile
Will Sweeten." Any of these quaint
pieces at the reasonable sum of $1.60 to
$3. Oatmeal sets for tho little ones in
all kinds of flower decorations from 66
cents to $1.
For the town or country hall the new
umbrella jugs are wonderful in beauty,
particularly those of equal shape, in
blue and white, the edges in rococo
style and at a value of $20. Of the
newest, the Trenton ware takes the Jead,
made like a huge china pocket, which
sets against the wall, in colors' and design
of the chrysanthemums, set off by
an abundance of gilt. For window sills
jardinieres of Bretby ware, in grays,
browns and yellows, can be bought from
$5 to $6, 'and so the endless variety is
at every hand for the generous buyer.
Mks. Ouveb'BellBdnck.
Eyeglass Cleaner.
Ton cannot see the world aright
If yon do not kxep your glasses bright.
This legend can be proved by those who
are obliged to use them. So to correct
the dimness a design is here reproduced
batyyjl See j
yThe World
C if you do not Kpepyoup
COSVEflENT ET20LAS3 CL2AXER.
from the New York Tribune for a convenient
little eyeglass cleaner that will
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It is made of three leaves of soft
chamois skin tied together with a bit of
narrow yellow ribbon. The upper leaf
has the lettering done in liquid gilt
The edge is also outlined with the gilt.
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SOME BEADING THAT "WILL PBOVE
INTERESTING TO YOUNO MOTHERS
HOW TO OtJABD AGAINST THE DISEASE.
Croup is a terror to young mothers
and to tbem concerning the cause,
first symptoms and treatment is the
object of this Item. The origin of
croup is a common cold. Children
wno are eublrct to it talce cold verv
easily and croup is almost sure to fol
low, xne nrst symptom Is hoarseness;
this is soon followed by a peculiar
rough cough, which is easilv re
cognized and will never be forgotten
by one who has beard it. The time
to act is when the child first hpcnrnw
hoarse. If Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy is freely given all. tendency to
croup will soon disappear. Even
alter the cranny couzh has develoned
it will prevent the attack. There is
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