The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-10-28
FapOrS For Halloween
Make the Flesh Creep
All of This Years Souve-
mir Candy Boxes of
of Limited Capacity.

COLLINS of the good old fashioned
sort-the kind one used 10 dream about
when the evening shadows fell and il
seemed as II everybody had gone Away
for miles and left enc all aione-this
year figure in the Halloween favors
for the hundred and one parties that
will be given to mari; the Holiday.
Season after season there are special
days and nights when one celebrities CID
holidays that the world has known for
years. but rarely is there one about
which there is woven such picturesque
ass as that Of Halloween. IT is q.
time when everybody rejoices. AMI the
small boy OF the street, in lieu OF
chlldren's party. gathers tog=tncr a
great pile of leaves and sets fire To
them. Fires OF all kinds usually have
the same sort of a smell. but there
isn't a little boy, or a big boy, who
will acknowledge that a bonfire OF leaves
on Halloween night smells like any
other fire that was ever built.
Unique Halloween Favors.
Washington stores have placed on dis
pIav q UNIQUE collection Of Halloween
favors. Conspicuous among them is. OF
course, the fascinating little Jack o
Lantern, without which no Halloween
would be complete. II IS reproduced IN
a dozen different ways Sometimes II is
p bit Of a candle-holder and again
candy box. over here il is a wee little
one and over there one sees II big
enough to light up a whole room Al
ways there is the same CHEEKY grin
sending out a greeting to anybody who
happens 10 look Jacks way.
No one has ever known the signifi-
canoe of the black cat on Halloween,
but II is as sure 10 be included in the
provisions for that holiday as the little
yellow pumpkin itself This years cats
are about as fine "A breed "a one would
care to see They are the blacklist kind
OF black. and their fussy little tails are
] as straight in the air as the wOTkmen
could wire them. one might think that
there had been a terrible family row
| before they left home. for every
mothers kitten OF them has his back
4 bumped in high dudgeon. Their little
/ eyes glare and il gives youngsters a
bogie feeling TO meet with these mad
| looking little black things. II doesn
/ look as if there is a puTr in the whole
| lot Of them
| Ali sorts of spooky things are lined
up on the counters Sprites that might
have been some dearly beloved doll finG
/ form in the cutest little ghosts one ever
/ saw. They are robed in phantOnl-ike
white. with long shroud-like draperies
4 and a Notwithstanding hood that falls
/ down over a deaths face which just
/ sends the ereeps up and down your
spine until you've nothing but goose
flesh all over you. They stand of and
look at you, as if TO say, You're next.
Devilish Souvenir.
A sardonic grin. that might mean any
1 thing from a joke to a habit, charac
terizes the face OF Satan, who has come
up for the season. While one always
hesitates TO say unpleasant things abOu
people. particularly visitors. it certain
" looks as II Mr.. Satan had been i'm
billing a little too freely. for everywher,
one sees him he is leaning up agains
a lamp post. The lamp post is a might!
little one. but. then. Satan is so big thii
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