The Washington times., 1908-10-27
Problem Worries MANY
HoSteSseS Just at This
Particular Season.
AUTUMN COLORS ARE
USED ON THE ROOM
Jack-O'-Lanterns Play Time-Hon-
ored Role and Everything
Modern Must Go.

Every woman has an idea as TO how
and where to entertain her guests on
Halloween: she knows that, failing
barn, she must choose an attic filled
with weird shadows as the place for the
meTTymakug; or. failing that. she must
usher her guests either into the cellar.
a large bare hail. or the kitchen. The
drawing room. she knows, would, of
course, be entirely out of keeping with
the spirit of the occasion,
AS TO how her guests are to be enter
tanned, she knows without much cogi-
tatiug. that games claimed to reveal the
future are I'm order or a gathering Of
ghosts. witches and brownies. OF a fagot
party, at which everybody gathers
around a large open fireplace and gTue-
some tales are related while The teller
holds lighted fagOt in his hand.
Setting of Her Table.
These things she is naturally we'll
versed In, but the setting OF her table
is a question which is bothering her not
a little these days, or course. the deco
ratIons of the supper room are to be in
autumn Col0rs, mainly yellow and
brown, with perhaps httle green
thrown iu as a background.
If she is fortunate as 70 possess
plate rack, then IL should be oTna-
mentCd with pine branches and sprays
of autumn leaves, which latter should
also be arranged In festoons from pic
tUTe TO picture. Jack-O lantern faces
should peer out from unexpected cor
ners, and ears of dried corn should be
suspended from the chandelier, together
with branches of red and brown leaves
The leaves. the corn and perhaps a
few sprigs of pine needles, would look
we'll coming out in diagonal lines from
the Centerpiece TO the corners OF the
table. This latter should be spread In
the good Old-fashiOned way with
o. raF
ished table tops are far too modern for
the spirit of Halloween.
For a ceuterpiece one might select
pumpkin followed out and Ornamented
each side with eyes, nose, and mouth.
Within might be placed a lighted can
die which would shine grOtesquely
through the openings for the uncOuth
features. Apples and oranges, treated
In the same way, should be placed at
each cover, in this way lighting the en-
tire table just with the candles
Pretty Centerpiece.
A prettier centerpiece would consist
OF a cabbage head cut 10 the shape of
a rose. and a bowl placed inside and
nlled with OIL in which lighted can
dies should be placed.
If electric light or gas be preferred
instead of the dim Illumination so in
Keeping with the season, then cover the
globes with brown or yellow tissue pa-
per, and use either fruit or a flower
centerplece for the table. a followed
out pumpkin, instead of having eyes,
nose, and mouth scOoped out, could be
ulled either with cosmos or Chrysanthe-
NUNS or else used as a bowl and filed
20 overlooking with seasouable fruits.
or with ChCstuuts.
At each cover put a place card deco
rated with either witches or brownies:
ana as LOT IdVors. you might give the
women silk emery cushions represent
ing various fruits, such as apples
oranges, or tomatoes. while for the
men, pehWlpers or suckpins, if you can
anord them, shaped into the Ikeuesses
or hrooms. witches, cats, brownies, or
bats