The Junior Dominion

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 28

The Junior Dominion

Dear Boys and Girls:, ’ Tow were so busy thinking about picnics and a holiday last week-end, and now you are so eager for the crackers and bonfires of Guy Fawkes’ Day that perhaps you have forgotten the great evening that comes between—Hallowe’en. Last Thursday was All Hallow's Eve. Years and years ago, when most people were superstitious, they > thought that there were more witches wandering abroad on that night than on any other night of the year. Houses were decorated with strange signs, and equally strange games were played by the young folk. Even now it is great fun to 'have a Hallowe’en party. Would you like to hear about the one to which I went on All Hallow’s Eve? The house where it was held was very large and winding with a little twisty stairway. And all around the winding walls and up the twisty stairway were grinning pumpkin faces, moon men, witches on broomsticks, black cats, and ever so many weird things—not real ones of course; that would have been too terrifying. . Anyone who went through a door or up a stair without going backwards would have bad luck all through the. next year, so you may be sure nobody forgot—and there were so many stairs! At the top of the twisty stairway in the turret sat a wise woman, who told me my fortune.after I had climbed tip to her backwards, looking all the time into a mirror. After that there were apple-ducking, nut-cracking and other Hallowe’en games toplay. Everyone cracks nuts on All Hallow’s Eve. That is why it is sometimes called Nutcrack Eve. So you see it was all very exciting. And soon it will be Guy' Fawkes’ Day! When boys with Squib's and crackers play, And bon fir e’s blase Turns night to day. . " “ " ...... KIWL