Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Hallowe’en. [ARTICLE]

Hallowe’en.

Hallowe’en is a festival that should be especially honored by young people. There are so many amusing and goodnatured tricks, and so many innocent bits of “white magic” appropriate to the time, that no self-respecting 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 candleblower. And there are the many charms and contrivances that, onoe consulted in honest faith by rustic lovers, are now the pastime of boys and girls during an autumn evening.— Louise Willis Snead, in November BL Nicholas.