Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28
Honest urnpkir, Now a
Halloween Motorist

| @NE Of the quaintest Halloween IA
IL vors which has appeared in the
shops this year, and which may very
| readily be copied at home, is an automo-
| bile in fairly good size, made of a large
straight green squash or cucumber and in
which sits driver made of queer knotted
yellow squash. The chauffeur's face is
drawn on the squash and he looks very
much like motorist in one of those long
yellow coats. The wheels are made of cross
sections of mock orange or lemon and the
lamps of two bright red plums. 1t is sur
prising what complete effect can be pro-
duced by the use Of vegetables and fruits
mixed up in this way.
Nothing is better for making the pump
kin lanterns for the Halloween feast, If
real pumpkins are not to be had, than yell
low crinkled tissue paper, as 1t may be had
exactly in the pumpkin color and the
crinkled effect well represents the CORFU
gated skin of the pumpkin. The lanterns
are made first of sections Of cardboard
pointed at the ends and wider in the mid
die. These are, of course. as long as the
pumpkin is from stem to center. They may
be basted together or pasted with strips of
heavy paper. They must. Of course, be
nodded into shape by pressing with the
fingers. The yellow paper is then pasted
over the outside of the pasteboard pump
Kin, from which mouth, eyes anu HOSe nave
first been cut The outside paper is not cut
away, as the light should shine through 1t
to be attractive. The top of the punspkin
has round hole cut in 1t and through this
the lighted candle is put There should be
a candle holder, small tin one such as
may be bought in any hardware store, fas-
tened to the bottom of the pumpkin, on
the inside. Of course, by little clamps
Many Of the paper pumpkin lanterns
shown in the shops this year have noses
| of red glass which are electric light bulbs
sufficiently charged to remain lighted dur
trouble of candies. but the effect is not
| really SO good as when the light comes
| through eyes, mouth and nose altogether.
those night-stick electric lights and to put
| the paper lantern over 1t so that whenever
you choose to press the button the light
would shine through the pumpkins eyes,
| could be lighted in the same way, the only
change necessary from the usual pump
kin lanterns being the hole in the bottom
instead of the top. The hole, of course,
| would have to be just large enough to ad-,
/ NIT the electric light stick:
| For procession to be held on Halloween
| or If a large party are going anywhere
| together, it is good plan to make small
| pumpkin lanterns of paper and fasten them
| to the tops of canes or sticks. The little
| tin candle holder may also be fastened to
| the top of the cane and will then remain
| secure 1t will be found that these lanterns
| will be more convenient and will remain
lighted better than the kind that are car
| ried. Another thing for which they may be
! used is in Halloween dance In a barn
dance or a genuine Halloween dance of
| any sort an exceedingly pretty effect would
| be produced by the dancers holding up their
| cane lanterns with the lights burning In
| side them.
Black cats and witches are the most char
| aeteristic Halloween favors beside the
i pumpkin. The black cats are now to be had
| in all sizes at the stationery shops, with
| their backs raised in true Halloween horror
and their hair standing well on end.
| Witches may be easily made at home, all
| that is needed being a small doll with a
| sharp chin and nose, black tissue paper for
| the peaked hat and red tissue paper for the
! cape. The witches are very popular as
| souvenirs at Halloween suppers, each witch
| being accompanied by her black cat. The
| witches should be for the men guests, while
| the women have pumpkin toys or lanterns
| The proper table decorations for Hallow-
! cen functions are fruits, nuts, autumn
| leaves and distinctly autumn flowers, such
| as dahlias, crysanthemums, scarlet sage
| etc. Decorations of dollhouse flowers are
| decidedly out Of place, and, no matter how
extravagant or beautiful, are in bad taste