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At the beginning of the World War the populace could at a word be incited to demonstrations against anyone or anything Ger- trit. Persons supposed to be of booed, the
race were enemy traders of German origin were shunned;"-and-persons-who-had. ever had 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 Government bas people whose
made war, no disposition to accept atrocity atorics until they are proved, and not a word about the vengeance that might be taken when the war was won.
The feeling
expressed .now
new against Hitlerism is not a thing that has emerged with the war. It has been steadily mount-
is
Ducking for Apples in the 'Seventies,
Duck
On
an unde 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- sun foretelling happy marringe. into a coma, a poisoned man.
For most of us half-believe in his however, The child, courage heightened by the occa- superstitions for a moment, even We all Hallowe'en sion, dismisses such atories from if they are only part of a game; 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- nssociated with the excitements ture of apprehenalon and hope. There is one form of divina- of philippina.
tion which, I belleve 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.")
on
Four plates aro set down, one another 2 ring, An infant from a doctor's containing 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 eating 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 a and, if the fourth, ho may ex- hammer and cracks his Brazil pect death. If this kind of nut (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 no omitted. many of them turn out, when the shell is
to cracked, mouldered.
Half the games of Hallowe'en, have however, have lost any prophetic significance they may once have had. Children, their hands be- The walnut is, perhaps, his hind their backs, trying to seize favourite nut, for not only is it with their teeth or lips apples good to eat but the shell divides Routing in a tub of water, are itself into two pretty little boats engaged, not on a voyage of ex- that might have served s ploration into futurity but in 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.
M
the
pleasure associated with the nursery Hallowe'en. Nuts are
however, Even here, not merely a delight to the palate 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 The ordinary small boy may will fall prophetically in the his twenties the other decide whether the next nut astrologer consul's the stars. left shoulder on to the floor, it -day who was so ignorant shall be a Brazil nut or a walnut,
GRIN
AND BEAR IT
,cating apples suspended latrings from the ceiling. This, By Lichty whatever its origin is now a
on
of marriage, but he experiences sweetheart's name.
I have never heard of any ing for years, increasing with on the subject of Hallowe'en a Spanish nut or an almond. He at yet have thought seriously shape of the initial of a destined cach assault upon a weak country that he did not even know may have been warned against a certain sinking of the heart if
elders and been told by them of his destiny condemn him to ill- associated with the practice of and with each fresh persecution on what day of the year it an excess of almonds by his the nuts containing the key to superstitions, on the other hand, of Jews or Christians, About falls. that, indeed, there is burning in-
He had never in his life dignation; there 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
in quest of fore-knowledge And little satisfaction in the pros- pect of seeking redress through of his destiny as a lover. victory and do not think in terms This, surely, is evidence of n
misdirected
or
childhood. of humiliating the German peoplo.
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 to be World War is noted. It is no duto of Hallowe'en ps longer generally believed that the ignorant of the date of his birth. prosperity of Germany is antago1 day or Shrove Tuesday nistic to the prosperity of the Christmas Day. British Empire, or that Britain All these dates were associ- will become richer if Germany bented with the pleasures of eating comes poorer. The defects in the of eating with a rapture un- Treaty of Versailles are as will known on common days. ingly admitted in Britain as any- The normal child always en- where, and those who already think joys eating, but there are certain in terms of a futuro peace any days of the year on which his more lavishly only that Hitlerism, with its mouth waters aggression and persecution, must
go.
than usual at the prospect of food. Greediness becomes al- most a virtue-a form of good humour; and the more he eats on such occasions, the more he fools his heart expand with love of his fellow-creatures.
The lessons of bitter experience have not been forgotton. The apirit which Inspired the concep- tion of the League of Nations le not dead. There are millions who bellovo that though armamenta On Hallowe'en ho performs--|
or used to perform with nuts feats of overeating that might lead a stranger to suspect him of being an infant vegetarian
must be used to the utmost, the war will not be won, by arma ments alone, but that victory will fall to the alde, which proves that It is fighting for justice, peace, and to the last resort, generosity. gone mad.
Doạt 1138 by Tading samen Ryskani
7-10
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."
mere raca to finish one's dancing apple, while not touching it ex- cept with the mouth, before the other competitors.
There is also an unedifying 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.
Still, children, if they do not. like tasting soap themselves, like to see other children tasting it by accident. At least, they used to do so in the prim days. of Queen Victoria.
*
Whether Hallowe'en is at. popular with the modern child jas it was with the child of the nineteenth century I do not know. I, find it difficult to be lieve, however, that children have allowed one of their few Saturnalian festivals to fall into disuse..
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 a pleasant thing when it is an ex- cuse for eating and laughter,
And the only day of the year.
to be Hallowe'en. on which this can happen ecome