Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — Hallowe'en. [ARTICLE]

Hallowe'en.

Hallowe’en is a festival that should be especially honored by young people. There are so many amusing and good-natured tricks, and so many innocent bits of ‘ ‘white magic” appropriate to the time, that no selfrespecting youngster should allow its observance to be omitted by careless “grown-ups.” There, for instance, are the “snapdragon,” and the “bobbing for apples,” and the blowing out of a candle hung at the end of a stick suspended on a twisted string and balanced by an apple so contrived as to deal a smart blow upon the cheek of the too lingering candle-blower. And there are the many charms and contrivances that, once consulted in honest faith by rustic lovers, are now the pastime of boys and girls during an autumn evening.