The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-01
WITH HALL OWE'EN GAMES
MIR. and Mrs. Gordon Harrison En-
tertained Last Evening.


tertained Last Evening.
A traditional Halloween party, in
which all the accustomed rites and
ceremonies were duly observed, was
given last evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon Harrison at their beautiful new
home on Thirty-sixth street.
The house was appropriately ecorat-
ed, so that their very entrance the
guests we're met with a suggestion of
the mysterious and uncanny. Ghostly
lights flickered through the rooms. The
hall lamps were shaded with red,
those of the drawingroom with yellow
and of the diningroom* with green.
Stalks of sugar cane decorated the
walls, and Jack O. lanterns, cleverly
contrived, were hung about among
them. The only resemblance to every
day arrangements was to be found in
the vases of beautiful crysanthemums,
which stood about the rooms.
Most of the ceremonies incident to
the feast took place in the rear rooms
of the house, in the kitchen, the pantry,
and the cellar. A dozen or more clever.
Halloween games were introduced and
created no small amount of fun. There
was bobbing for apples, jumping to
catch them where they were swung
on strings overhead, and spearing cram
berries on long pins. Balls of metal,
each with name inside, were flung in
to a tub of water, to sink or float and
thus indicate the future married or
unmarried state of those for whom
they were named.
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the party darkened library, and
through a small hole in it each girl
looked in turn, only her eyes being
visible to the men on the other side,
who in this way had to guess who she
was. In another, box of red and yell
low Irvine, tangled together, was pas
sed about, each man taking an end of
yellow and each girl an end of red
They then proceeded to unravel the
tangle, each girl amid much laughter,
nnding at the finish, a man on the
end of her string.
What caused perhaps more sport
than anything else was the divination
of fortunes in the cellar. Each girl
with a candle in her hand. was led to
the cellar door, and told to enter and
look for the face of her future husband
IN the mirror. The men, in the mean
tlme, had been secretly advised of the
pan and had been led by an outside
entrance into the cellar to await the
arrival of the seeking maidens. At the
opportune moment each, in turn. stole
up behind a girl and looked over her
shoulder. They had been provided
with false faces Of a terrible descrip-
llon. and the result was all that could
be desired.
supper was served late In the even
ing, and even here paper caps with
inottoes were pulled to carry out the
ldea of the entertainment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison's guests were
M MT and Mrs. Mayhem Cunningham,
mr. mr. and Mrs. Pierre N. Hoist. Mr.. and
mrs; Robert Ellington. Miss Helen
IDosnnaln, Miss Bessie Denham, Miss
Edlth Johnson, Miss Frances Bradley.
MISS Georgia Wayne, Miss Ethel Tay-
lor' Miss Catherine McIntire. Miss
vary Conner, Miss Angle Cubbedge
MISS MISS clifford West. Miss Eileen Hunter
MSS Parrish of Portsmouth. Miss An
IA Hunter, Mr.. ]. Moultire, Jr., Mr.
John Morris, Mr.. Thomas n. Denmark,
UT Mt Remer Denmark Mr.. Furman
fierce, Mr. Edward G. Thomson, Mr..
IlArrls ". Cope. Mr.. A. Pratt Adams,
or; nr. Lathrop Morehead, Mr.. William
i No. un. Mr. Robert Waller, Jr., Mr.. Will
ss wilder Mr.. Tracy Hunter, and Mr..
sidney Stubba.