Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16
AUNT LAURIE is DISAPPOINTED
Dear Boys and Girls:


Disappointed! Why that doesn't ad-
equately describe my feelings this week,
for if you will notice on the eighth
page, where the artists usually show
their accomplishments-of which 1 have
always been so proud-there is not a
single picture by a Junior, not single
one. Is it because you have so much
work at school? 1 am sure it is not
because you do not love your Aunt
Laurie any more. Please do not disap-
point me again, and let me have many
pretty pictures newt week. "Hallow-
een'' and the woodland Party" both
seem to me to be easy topics, and ones
in which many ideas and pretty effects
may be found. You know, pictures
drawn in silhouette are especially sug-
gestive of Halloween-black cats,
witches, little black elves, jack-o'-lan-
terms, ghosts, and all the grewsome
mysteries of that day Halloween, you
remember, is supposed to be the even
ing when all the evil spirits, ghosts,
witches and wicked thoughts are once
more allowed to visit the haunts they
frequent while living. Perhaps know
ing better what it means, you will be
able to make more satisfactory pic
lures for your Aunt Laurie
Now is the time, if you were in the
east, that you would be going on nut
ting parties Big groves of hickory and
walnut trees are giving enticing invita-
tions to any one who will to come and
gather the rich fruit. Under foot
masses of beautiful colored leaves, such
as we in California never see make a
rich Persian carpet. The squirrels are
very busy, too, and chatter to each 9TH
er eXcitedly as they carry the nuts to
their homes for use during the winter
sThe wind is always rather chilly, and
sometimes when jolly party of boys
and girls is busy at work a snowstorm
will come and drive them home. They
usually come in big hay wagons,
though, and SO the trip home is not so
unpleasant after all-for you know
what fun it is to ride in a hay wagon.
Many of my nieces and nephews who
have lived in the east can show their
cousins who have not been so fortunate
one of these charming pictures.
Woods, to be sure, are not so easily
found here in the sunny southland
but each and every one of you knows of
some place where you have passed a
pleasant day I am sure I will never
be disappointed again, for you do not
like to disappoint me, do you? My
dear little writers are not doing as well
as they did during the summer. You,
too, must send me good stories of Hal
loween, because you do not know
what 1 have planned for you. Stories
of your exciting experiences and frights
while planning a joke upon some one
else will make fine stories
1 have never given you an opportuni-
ty before to tell me the ghost stories
you know. Every one of you knows of
some time in your life when some little
thing-such as the scratching of a
mouse in the walls, or the cracking of
electric wires which had become crossed
assumed alarming meaning and every
imaginable cause was discussed at the
breakfast table, between meals, at
lunch and at dinner. That was a
Mystery" don't you think? Tell me
all about it. I will be quite interested.
Weren't those twins in the unfin-
ished story the funniest boys you ever
knew? 1 would like to know what
happened to them, wouldn't you? Well,
you know as well as l do, so you tell
me what you think. Will you?
Be sure to write to your loving