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of the war. There is angor, Indeed, against the National Socialist regime, and horror at the methods of war practised in Poland, but no feeling such as there was in 1914 against Germans ag Germans,
man.
At the beginning of the World War the populace could at a word ba inclted to demonstrations against anyone or anything Gor- Persona supposed to be of the -enemy race were booed, traders of Gorman origin were shunned, and persons who had ever bad...letters..from Germany. were watched by their neighbours as possible spies. There is noth- ing of that kind to-day. There is little evidence of any hatred of the people whose Government has made war, no diaposition to accept atrocity stories until they are proved, and not a word about the vengeance that might be taken when the war was won.
The fcoling
expressed now against Hitlerism is not a new thing that has emerged with the war. It has been stendily mount- ing for years, increasing with each assault upon a weak country and with each fresh persecution
Ducking for Apples in the 'Seventies
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Duck
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an uncle who was so sensitive to luck in love, the sign of this the prussic acid in nuts of this being a premature popping of kind that, even after he had one of the nuts. He feels a faint eaten a single almond, his eyes pang of jealousy as the two nuts would close and he would subside of a rival burn brightly in uni- into a coma, a poisoned man. son foretelling happy marriage. For most of us half-believe in The child, however, hía
courage heightened by the occa-superstitions for a moment, even sion, dismisses such stories from if they are only part of a game; on Hallowe'en Wo all his mind and cracks shell after and shell, till he comes on one that practise in childhood the art of contains the desirable double nut divination with a pleasant mix- associated with the excitements ture of apprehension and hope.
There is one form of divina- .of philippina.
tion which, I believe used to be (My young friend in his popular, but which seems to me twenties had never heard of too morbid for a children's game. "philippina"")
Four plates are set down, one An infant from a doctor's containing a ring, another home may narrate a hazy myth money, another salt, and another about a man who got a mys- earth. If a blind-folded child terious affection of the throat touches the first, he will marry; from cating Brazil nuts; but the if the second he will grow rich; healthy-minded child, ignoring if the third he will live single: such gloomy lore, takes up and, if the fourth, he may ex- hammer and cracks his Brazil pect death. If this kind of nu (if he is permitted) on the divination is still in use, I fancy hearth. His only complaint the dish containing the earth is against Brazil nuts is that so omitted.
many of them turn out, when the Half the games of Hallowe'en. shell is cracked, to have however, have lost any prophetic mouldered.
significance they may once have had. Children, their hands be-
The walnut is, perhaps, his hind their backa, trying to seize favourite nut, for not only is it with their teeth or lips apples good-to cat but the shell divides floating in a tub of water, are itself into two pretty little boats engaged, not on a voyage of ex- ploration into futurity but in. that might have served
a contest as to which of them triremes in Lilliput.
shall get an apple, out of the Eating, Indeed, is not the only water in the shortest time.
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pleasure associated with the nursery Hallowe'en. Nuts arg
not merely a delight to the palate Even hore, however, the but guides to the dark secrets superstitious may indulge in of the future. On the night of their hobby; for, if the peel is October 31 the child consults removed from the apple without
MET a young man in He pauses only in order to nuts for this guidance as an a break and thrown over the left shoulder on to the floor, it his twenties the other decide whether the next nut astrologer consults the stars.
The ordinary small boy may will fall prophetically in the day who was so ignorant shall be a Brazil nut or a walnut, on the subject of Hallowe'en 4 Spanish nut or an almond. He not yet have thought seriously shape of the initial of a destined
of marriage, but he experiences sweetheart's name. that he did not even know may have been warned against a certain sinking of the heart if I have never heard of any an excess of almonds by his the nuta containing the key to superstitions, on the other hand, on what day of the year it elders and been told by them of his destiny condemn him to ill- associated with the practice of
of Jews or Christians. About falls. that, Indeed, there is burning in-
He had never in his life dignation; there is amazement that this should be possible in the ducked for an apple floating twentieth century. But accord-in wator-had never burned ing to those who have been study nuts on the bar of the grate ing British opinion, the people And little satisfaction in the pros- in quest of fore-knowledge pect of seeking redress through of his destiny as a lover. victory and do not think in terms This, surely, is evidence of a of humiliating the German people. misdirected childhood. Fifty A great growth in international years ago it was as impossible sentiment in Britain since the for a child to be ignorant of the World War is noted. It In no date of Hallowe'en as to bel longer generally believed that the ¦ ignorant of the date of his birth- prosperity of Germany Is antago-day or Shrove Tuesday or nistic to the prosperity of the Christmas Day. British Empire, or that Britainį All these dates were associ- will become richer if Germany beated with the pleasures of eating comes poorer. The defects in the of eating with a rapture un- Treaty of Versailles are ́es will known on common days. ingly admitted in Britain as any- where, and those who already think In terms of a future pence say only that Hitloriam, with its aggression and persecution, must
go.
The normal child always en- joys cating, but there are certain days of the year on which his mouth waters more lavishly than usual at the prospect of food. Greediness becomes al- The lessons of bitter experience most a virtue-a form of good have not been forgotten. The humour; and the more he eats spirit which inspired the concep-on such occasions, the more he tion of the League of Nations Is feels his heart expand with love not dead. There are millions who
of his fellow-creatures.-șt believe that though armaments must be used to the utmost the On Hallowe'en he performs war will not be won by arms or used to perform-with nuts. ments alone, but that victory will feats of overeating that, might| fall to the side which proves that lead a stranger to suspect him It is fighting for justice, peace, of being an infant vegetarian and in the last resort, generosity, gono mad,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
eating apples suspended ÒN. strings from the celling. This, By Lichty whatever its origin is now a
mere race to finish one'a dancing apple, while not touching it.ox- cept with the mouth, before the other competitors.
There is also an unodifying variant of the game in which the child may find itself biting soap instead of an apple, but this is not recommended by modern humanitarians.
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Still, children, if they do not like tasting soap themselves, like to aco other children tasting it by accident. At least, they used to do so in the prim days. of Queen Victoria.
Whether Hallowe'en is as popular with the modern child as it was with the child of the nineteenth century I do not know. I find it difficult to be liave, however, that children have allowed one of their few Saturnalian festivals to fall into ~e: disuse, ma
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haven't the slightest idea where you can reach my husband... he told me he was staying late at the office to finish some work.
If it has done so, I suggest that, in this age of growing superstition, there is much to be said for its revival.
Superstition itself becomes R pleasant thing when it is an ex- cuso for eating and laughter,
And the only day of the year on which this can happen seoma to be "Hallowe'en. "