Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
Halloween
Fun for the
Youngsters
HALLOWEEN night of all nights
4 in the year should not be permit

TALLOWE'EN night of all nights
in the year should not be permit
ted to pass uncelebrated by boys
and girls. There is more fun to be
had in the celebration of this festivaF
than in half a dozen ordinary parties
It is a good time, too, for mixed par
ties when the small boys and girls
those of ten years and upward, may
ioin in the fun with their elder broth
ers and sisters and even with the
grown people. OF course, such party
should not last very late, although the
older boys and girls and the grown
people may stay on after the little
ones have been taken home or put to
bed. and they may then indulge in the
weird and witching rites which fore
tell the future.
All that is needed for refreshments
at Halloween party are apples ana
nuts. If more of a feast is desired,
doughnuts. gingerbread, seed cookies,
'nolasses candy, tea, berries and cider
are good things to add. Ice cream and
fancy cake seem hardly suitable for
the occasion.
A Halloween party should be very
Jolly, romping sort of an affair, and no
one should wear party clothes or any
thing that is easily soiled or torn, as
in bobbing for apples, etc, delicate
clothing may be ruined. At the same
time not to take part in all the games
and tricks that are played is stupid
and disobliging.
A Halloween party may or may not
be a masquerade. If masquerade cos
tunes are to be worn it is good plan
to set a meeting place and hour of
gathering for the party and when the
crowd is gathered it is lot of fun to
set out for a tour among ones friends.
This is rather difficult in large city,
where ones friends may live at long
distance from each other, but it is lots
of fun in a town or medium sized
city, where the neighbors are all known
to each other. At the different houses
refreshments will probably be offered
and some of the Halloween tricks
tried. The crowd of masqueraders may
then return to the house from which
they have started and unmask, after
which there can be other Halloween
tricks and games. OF course, if many
calls are made the evening will pass
without there being time to do all Of
the tricks or to return to the starting
place. Then the maskers may keep
their masks until the last, and it will
be part of the fun of the party that
some of the maskers will continue to
remain unknown. 1t is best in mask
party however, to take up cards of
invitation at the door where the crowd
first gathers. otherwise some undesir-
able person who is unknown and unin-
vited by the person giving the party
may take advantage of the occasion
TO intrude.
Even If the party is gotten up with
out any formality among a crowd of
boys and girls, and the guests are asked
in person instead of by written invita-
tion, it is best to give the guests some
token by which they may be known.
trtT ar1 Df. 1nf g.1
with the word Halloween, the date
and the place Of gathering or the house
of the hostess, is all that is necessary.
OF course, it should not bear the name
of the guest. If you wish to make the
card pretty you may tie little chest
nut or a branch of scarlet berries to
the corner of the card with scarlet and
yellow ribbons. You may paint jack
O'-lanterns i'm the corner. or write
verse from Bobby" Burns famous
poem on Halloween on one side of the
card.
If it is not desired to mask and go
from house to house. then the best
place to give a Halloween party is in
big kitchen, a barn, school room or
similar large, somewhat bare and
plainly furnished place. IF such place
can be secured it may he decorated
most artistically for Halloween, al
though the party itself should be such
a jolly, helter-sketer affair that the
decorations do not so much matter.
However it is very nice to have all
the lights iaCk-o'-lanterns. made from
pumpkins cut into queer shapes. Au-
tumn leaves in big branches and great
lunches of scarlet berries are the other
most suitable decorations for the room.
The table should have a centerpece oi
fruit and nuts-apples, grapes, walnuts
and chestnuts-with branches of au-
tumn leaves around it, and big platters
full of doughnuts and the other cakes
on either side
Among the many games and tricks
suitable for the occasion are four, in
which apples are used. There is, first
of all, bobbing for apples A tub Is
filled pretty well with water and the
apples are put in. The object is to