New-York tribune., 1908-10-11
NOVELTIES IN PAPER
FOR HALLOW ZEN
DECORATIONS FOB Il FES-
TTVE SUPPER.
AttractiUe Color Scheme for Room
and Table an YeIlo1CS, BroCnS
and Green's.

A crepe paper Halloween has q fragile sound,
but it is perfectly practicable and nothing could
be pretter than the reality. Few people realize
how many things made out of crepe paper or
how tough and durable crepe paper manu-
factured is. A visit TO q shop dealing in these
articles Is revelation. Dresses mufrs. parasols.
hats vegetables, fruit and flowers, butterflies and
birds tabecoths, napkins, doylies-these are a
few Of the things made out Of crepe paper.
A crepe paper pumpkin and sunhower supper
can be made very pretty. Over the cotton silence
cloth put crepe paper cloth with a design OF
yellow sunfowers. Use napkins with sunfower
and pumpkin border and draw them through rings
10 match. The dcylies must have the same border,
and should be used 10 cover the bread plates, cake
plates etc The green and yellow japanese ware
is IN harmony with a sunfower and pumpkin
supper than any other. Cute little 'sUnhower
fairles- make effective place cards. perched upon
the rim of each wine glass The nuts and bonbons
can be served In crepe paper sun1Owers. which
come fixed on little standards, with recepacles for
the goodies hidden in the brown centres Of the
blossoms.
Put the olives in green and yellow striped gourds
and the celery IN big yellow cucumber shells The
fruit can be arranged IN large crepe paper pump
kin
The small sized pumpkin cases make dainty
dishes in which 10 serve fees, and for the salad
there are the individual haf-cucumber. half-carrot
or green tomato cases. The candles should be
deep yellow, and the very newest thing in shades
a picturesque trife Of black emery paper. with
Opaque yellow moons. stars and sunhowers
scattered over the four sides-is most appropriate
for Halloween.
For The oentrepiece Of the table use immense
suDfower Jack Horner" pie filed with luck
charms each charm having attached - II yell
low ribbon which runs TO one OF the plates ending
there in a dainty yellow pumpkin blossom These
crepe paper flowers must be seen 10 Ce HppTecl-
ated so deft have the makers become that Il Is
difficult to tell the paper flowers from the real
ones Sometimes perfume Is added TO the cotton
centres Of the flowers. make the Illusion perfect
There are crepe paper decorations without end
for a pumpkin and sunhower luncheon. For in
stance there are pumpkin vines with blossoms
and little pumpkins them. which can be fes-
tooned above the table and along tho walls a
Big crepe paper pumpkin into which an electric
bulb has been dropped makes an effective lantern
depending from the vines above the table The
little pumpkins can be utilized Sor lights. TOO. II
desired. and very pretty they look, shining with
a deep yellow glow among tho vines For the resi-
OF the decorations large standard gunhowers can
be grouped against the walls have boards covered
with narer grass and with holes bored IN them
and insert the stems OF the sunfowers in these
CornstaIks with yellow tasseis and ripe ears are
handsome. too. and may be arranged N tho same
way as tho sunhowers.
Something quite new "a the lattice screen IN
green with crepe paper pumpkin vines trained all
over t. Some OF the screens have three and even
four folds and be made very large There
are green window boxes. too, allied with yellow
hoIlyhocks. which at a little distance would oe-
ceve 4 gardener
Popular favors FOR Halloween entertainments
are the little siren horns with tiny pumpkins
on the whistle end Children love these horns
especially II they filed with confett. A bit
Of paper over the tip Of the horn holds the con
fetu in its place until It is desired 10 lberate the
shower Other favors the brown and yellow
sunbonnets Of which might be hung on tho
chair each feminine guest. on the back OF the
chairs in which the men boys 70 sit hang
cones 70 which brown and yellow night moths
might ba fastened
Below is a supper menu appropriate Tor hal
loween or any other harvest time festival:
Supper-Hot chicken bouillcn, whipped cream;
chicken salad olive sandwiches fruit salad. cheese
sandwiches. mushroom duck and hot biscuit; cof-
fee mousse topsyturvy cake, fancy cakes, coffee.