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War Without Hate
One remarkable fact about the war so far is the absence of hate. Many observers in France and Britain have commented on the fact, and letters from England describe un attitude there that is very interesting and may affect the of the war. There Is Course anger, Indeed, against the National Socialist regime, and horror at the methods of war practised Poland, but no feeling such as there was in 1914 against Germans as Germans,
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At the beginning of the World War the populace could at a word incited to demonstrations against anyone or anything Ger- man. Persons supposed to be of the enemy race
booed, traders of German origin wore 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 Ittle ovidence of any hatred of the people whose Government has mada war, no disposition to accept atrocity stories until they proved, and not a word about the vengeance that might be taken when the war was won.
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Ducking for Apples in the 'Seventies
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an uncle who was so sensitive to luck in love, the sign of t the prussic neid in nuts of this being a premature popping of kind that, even after he had one of the nuts. He feels a fain caten a single almond, his eyes pang of jealousy as the two nutĄ would close and he would subside of a rival burn brightly in uni- son foretelling happy marriage. into a coma, a poisoned man.
For most of us half-believe in
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The child, however, his courage heightened by the occa. superstitions for a moment, even sion, dismisses such stories from if they are only part of a game: Hallowe'en we 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 twenties had never heard of popular, but which seems to me too morbid for a children's game. ***philippina.”)
Four plates are set down, one An infant from a doctor's containing 1 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 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, he may ex- hammer and cracks hia 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 so omitted. many of them turn out, when the shell is cracked, to 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 bind 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 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 triremes in Lilliput.
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a contest as to which of them
Eating, indeed, is not the only shall get an apple out of the pleasure associated with the
water in the shortest time.
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nursery Hallowe'en. Nuts are not merely a delight to the palate
here, 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 ir October 31 the child consulta removed from the apple without
left shoulder on to the floor, it The ordinary small boy may will fall prophetically in the
The feeling now expressed MET a young man in He pauses only in order to nuts for this guidance as an a break and thrown over the against Hitlerism is not & new his twenties the other decide whether the next nut astrologer consults the stars. thing that has emerged with the
day who was so ignorant shall be a Brazil nut or a walnut, war. It has been steadily mount-
on the subject of Hallowe'en a Spanish nut or an almond. He not yet have thought seriously shape of the initial of a destined ing for years, increasing with
of marriage, but he experiences sweetheart's name.
I have never heard of any each assault upon a weak country that he did not even know may have been warned against a certain sinking of the heart if
an excess of almonds by his the nuts containing the key to superstitions, on the other hand, and with each fresh persecution 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-
dignation; thore is amazement He had never in his life that this should be possible in the ducked for an apple floating twentieth century. But accord-in water-had never burned ing to those who have been study nuts on the bar of the grate Ing British opinion, the people
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find 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 is no date of Hallowe'en as to be longer generally belloved that the ignorant of the date of his birth- prosperity of Germany is antago- | day ΟΙ 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 be- ated 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 sa any- The normal child always on- where, and those who already think | joys eating, but there are certain In terms of a future peace say days of the year on which hin only that Hitlerism, with its mouth waters more lavishly aggression and persecution, must 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 sucly occasions, the more he tion of the Longue of Nations is feels his heart expand with love pas dend. There are millions who of his fellow-creatures, Gallave that though armakar
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muni be used to die utmost, the On Hallowe'en he performs~~ | war will not be wild by :mima. Or usod to perform with "nuta i mienda njone, but that vlolory wilt, fonts of overeating that might Ffall to the shida whileħi proves, that ; fund a stranger to suspect him
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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cating apples suspended strings from the ceiling. This, By Lichty whatever its origin is now a
Tik ja Ophilor for Junties, ponen, of bolag an Infant võgetarian] "I haven's the slightest Idea where you can reach my husband
And in the that ivairt, golieromity, gone mad.
ha told me he was staying fatu at the office to finish some work."
mere race to finish one's dancing apple, while not touching it ex- jcept 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, flike to see other children tasting it by accident. At least, they used to do so in the primi daya of Queen Victoria.
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Whether Hallowe'en 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 lieve, however, that childron have allowed one of their few Saturnalian festivals to fall inte disuse.
If it has done so, I suggest that, in thla ngo 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 on which this can happen scoms to be Hallowe'en,
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