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uj;uU| w bvv uvt kmiAjpThe fashion of trying charms la now nearly ontgrowji, among English-speaking piDple. It survives in- America os a pleasant frolic for a social gathering In our own day young people sow hemp-flood, “eat apples bofore the gloss, “go down the collar stairs backward,' holding a oandlo and a mirror. They also “pop chestnuts, “launch walnut-shotls holding tapers, aud try tho “throe-saucer” test of the future.In some of our cities the boys, on Halloween collect old-tea-kettles, boots,inrgerBtoiiM. etc., Wit dupualt: thJusL ..iii. -Ql#an,vestibules, ringing tho .doorbellMtid rnnnTng Sway. ’rTlttw * 3la* of October -j^/JirigjrtbV a Pope as a religious festival—be-^• oatno, in superstMtcu* Tho-Ij (.Witches’ th« as a• «Jnds * with a[ street-boy’s joke.—Olivo Thorne, inSt. Nicholas. ‘ '
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Alden Times
Alden, Iowa, US
Fri, Oct 10, 1879
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