The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-30
HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL
WITCH PARTY WITH GHOSTS AND
 WEIRD OBsERvANCES.
Suggestions for the Hostess of All Saints Who Would Get Away From Old-Fashi0ned Gus
 toms on Tint Evening.

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 New York Tribune.
 There is no night in all the year so altogether delightful for an evening party as the eve of All Saints, for, though the day is supposed to be one of prayer In memory of the dead. the evening before 1t has been devoted to revelry since long back in the centu- ries.
 One cannot be formal with ghosts, as no books of etiquette have prescribed a proper course of conduct to be fol- lowed when one sees them. So, natur- ally, party given on Halloween Is dis tinguished by its informality and its jolllty, even though the guests engage in the fateful occupation of learning whether they are to have the career of old maid, happy wife or widow, or their masculine equivalents.
 A Halloween Party should not be large. Twenty are as many as will find fun together in 1t, and the company should be friends rather than acquaint- ances merely. One can have the old time party devoted to burning chest nuts. bobbing foE. apples. and the better known ceremonies, or one can try something new. It may be, for in stance, a witches party, with guests clothed in the traditional witches garb. For this consult Mother Goose and copy the costume of the old woman who went to sweep the cobwebs out of the sky. The men can wear any weird costume which suggests wizardry, and the costumes are a great aid in turn ing the course of events along uncanny lines. One caution should be given, though 1t Is supposed that every one understands that all Is Illusion. Ab normally nervous persons should not have dealings even with pretended spooks and sometimes ones nerves do get little shaken by the observance of Halloween.
 The invitations may be cut in the form of the witch, or she may be sketched on one end of the invitation card, or several witches may fly on broomsticks across 1t. These drawings can easily be made by tracing the out line over carbon paper on the card. then marking over the tracing lines with pen and ink. It is interesting to have ali the cards different. If the invita- tion Is given by word of mouth. this form of ornamentation may be used for the supper cards, with a couplet ap- propriate to the occasion, either orig inal or quoted. The supper cards may be held by tiny witch dolls. and will make amusing souvenirs.
 The party to be a great success should be held where there may be an open fire. and should last into the small hours, when ghosts and astral bodies are travelling about, for on this night it is given to ordinary eyes to behold the astral body that each has but sell dom makes known to another. If it were not so how would the future true lover make himself visible2
 Some little time may be spent mer- rily in the usual rites which need not be described here. but one of the first things to be done Is to make the cake of fate SO that 1t may be baked for supper, and there is no reason why this should not be as delicious as If 1t told no secret. Each of the trinkets which are its reason for being should be wrapped in oiled paper. There will be ring to show who will first be married, thimble for the spinster. a wheel for the traveller who is never to rest in home. a pen for the author or for her who will wed one, and there may be tiny ship also, a sixpence or dime for the individual who is to know riches. tiny doll for the future opponent of race suicide. Any trifle suggestive of an occOpation may be baked in the cake. and Indicate that ShS Wno BetS IL VIII nave TOT ner Iulure partner one whose trade Is carried on by such tool. These things must be very small. so that they may not be found too easily. One person may put together the ingredients. but each in- dividual must give a stir to the dough and from the time the compromising is begun until the cake is in the oven not word must be spoken or the spell Is broken. The difficulty of following this one direction explains why the charm so often fails of its effect, and Is an additional reason for having