The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
HALLOWEEN FUN.
Hints on Glow TO Make n Halloween
Party CO.

Hints ON "HOW 10 Make n HallOWe'en
Party Co"
A woman who wants to get up a
Halloween stunt that will be little
out of the ordinary is going to try
her luck at a chanteCler party. As
barn parties are popular at Hallow-
cen she thinks that "A chantocler barn
party will be particularly appropri-
ate.
Some of the guests have volun-
teered to represent chanteCler char
acters as well as they cana pea
cock, a guinea fowl, a blackbird, a
dog and a cat, and so forth Several
big black cats will also be on hand,
as IT would not seem like the old fes-
tival without them in evidence some
where, and among so many fowls they
will add to the amusement.
A barn naturally makes a most ap-
propriate setting for chantecler dec
orations. Gay colored cocks are to
be perched upon the rafters, and all
the barnyard fowls, which enterpris-
ing dealers this year are providing
in colored paper and cardboard, are
to be grouped realistically in the
corners. Stacks of corn, piles of
pumpkins and other vegetables, with
boughs of autumn leaves, will trans
form chantecler's usually barren
quarters into a most festive hall of
mirth. Black cats, bats and witches,
cut out of black paper and mounted
on yellow, will be used as wall dec
orations.
A barn is much easier to decorate
in this way than a house, for no care
has to be taken of woodwork or
wall paper, and the hostess can be
as lavish as she pleases without dread
of the morning after, when room
has to be put in order again.
The problem of lighting the barn
for an evening affair has bothered
her somewhat. A few real pumpkin
jack-o Lanterns are to be placed in
open spaces away from the hay, but
the owner of the barn is too sensible
to allow many. A fair substitute has
been invented by tying paper jack
o'-lantern faces over the globes of the
safety lanterns commonly used in
barns. Fortunately, bright lights are
never needed for Halloween games.
Bobbing for apples and fortune tell
ing are much more fun in a light
which is dim, if not religious.
In addition to these ordinary Hal
lowe'en stunts, chantecler games have
been invented The old-fashioned
donkey has been magically trans
formed into the cock himself, and
the company, blindfolded as in the
old game, will try to pin his tail on
in the right place. A cockfight be-
tween two members of the party, at
tired in rooster costumes which have
been obtained at a city costumers,
promises to be entertaining. Some
talented members of the company are
going to give burlesque of the real
Chantecler play.
After the games partners will be
chosen for the supper hour by pair
ing ears of corn and autumn leaves
numbered alike. Supper itself will
be basket lunch in the barn. Each
couple will secure their basket and
depart to a cosy corner of the hay
NOW for the feast.
The menu will consist of an egg
salad served in nests, chicken sand
wiches, pumpkin tarts and French
ice cream served in cases decorated
on the cover with a picture of the
cock hero. Small cakes in the shape
of eggs will accompany the cream.
Tiny cases in the shape of black cats
will contain a pickle or a relish of
some sort wrapped up in paraffine pa
per. The salad and the tarts, like
the ice cream, will be placed in pa
per cases covered with paper and
tied with Tom Thumb ribbon. The
sandwiches also will be covered with
the paraffine paper. The cream, ow-
ing to the danger of its melting, will
not be put into the baskets, but will
be served with the cake from a table.
To make the egg salad the hostess
has given these direCtiOns For a
single service place two stuffed hard
boiled eggs upon nest of friZzled
celery, with a square of mayonnaise
beneath. This jelly is made simply
by adding gelatine, melted in a little
boiling water, to an ordinary mayon-
aise dressing. The melted gelatine
should be beaten into the dressing as
fast as possible to prevent stringing.
Each nest may be formed in broad
bottOmed paper cup-about twice the
size of those that come for charlotte
russo.
The cakes will be covered with
icing varied in tone from a coffee
color to a creamy white to stimulate
the variations in the delicate tan and
cream color of real eggs. Coffee and
caramel fiavoring will be used in
these frOstings and the cakes will be
piled high in baskets to represent
market women's baskets of eggs.
Caleb Powers.
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