The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-02
A HALLOWEEN PARTY

I Kettle. The boys slowly followed their
strings. which led to two black paper
witch cats tied together.
Now follow up the string" com
manded the witch. land the girl who
holds the other emu IS your partner 49,
Every string led TO n girl and each
pair of witch-caps had the same de-
sign--that Is. there were two moons,
/ two stars, two brooms, and so on.
Then the witch disappeared through a
rear door, lights were brought in, and
other surprises awaited the young
folks. Paper curtains in all four cor
ners of the room were pulled down and
/ four immense jack oianterns with
/ lighted candles inside them Ieered out
with grotesQue grimaces, the pickering
candle lights making them seem to
wink.
Then an immense hollow pumpkin
was brought In by the witch" and
passed around. The top was removed
by the stem and every one reached
4 in and grabbed something Every one
had TO make a blind grab. and, bless
my heart! out came little witch
funny face. black cap and skirt. 1t
didn't take US long To discover that the
big skirt was a bag of candy and the
witch was made from clothespin
tied in the bag.
Then came the customary Halloween
gaTnes-bobhlng for apples. trying to
bite apples suspended from the cell
ing, trying 10 get a ten-cent piece cut
of n rub OF water with your mouth.
pinnIng the donkey's tail on. That
Louis Dahl had the honor Of winning
the booty prize, which was q penny
doll.
No Halloween party can be called
a success without trying that wonder
full test which consists Of walking up
stairs backwards Cup in the lotto, hold
ing a mirror In one hand and a lighted
candle In the other. The stairs are
dark, and II you do this carefully
without stumbling you are supposed
10 see your future husband or wife
reflected In the mirror. And what 81
thrill everyone got, For each saw
some image reflected in the mirror.
OF course. Aunt Nancy furnished the
reflected image, with a sheet over
broom at the head Of the stairs.
Then they played other games. A
peanut hunt which brought roars of
laughter. because every peanut had
most grotesque face drawn on the
shell with Ink. The one finding the
most peanuts won the prize. The
prize was book--1rving's "Ichabod
Cranes Ride" Nothing could have
been more appropriate than that story
of the ghost with pumpkin head.
The BOBBY prize was a doll made out
of a peanut The winner. I must con-
fess. was i.
Suddenly the witch appeared in the
door, chanting
You may work or you may play.
In winters cold and summers heat,
But witches old aid fairies gay
"a nd won all 70 coma and
A call to supper wrought n rush for
the dining room, an apartment fixed
off from the rest of the barn by red
and yellow crepe paper curtains trim
med with black cats, witches and Jack
o'lanterns cut out OF cardboard There
were three pumpkins in the middle OF
the table cut out like jack o'lanterns,
in which were burning candles
From every teacup grinned the fea-
lures of n black cat, cut out OF black
paper and stuck to the cups. Stream
ers OF twisted white paper came down
from the hanging lamp to the edges
of the table. and from these dangled
little cardboard pumpkins. little black
cats and little paper witches.
On the back of the chairs were en-
blems similar to those on the caps OF
the boys and girls. SO each found their
proper seat.
And the bill of fare! oh. my! the
things we had were too numerous to
mention. but those that we liked best
of all were these. At each place was
big carrot. This was followed out
and contained candy. In the center
was face made of white candy. and
there was a black witch's cap at each
place. When these were taken up a
napkin was found inside. They were
egg.cups with eggs in them and a face
grinning on each egg. When opened
we found out they contained a deli
cious disk made of minced hard boiled
eggs. with little finely chopped pen
pers and dressing Witches salad
II was called
pumpkin pics and fruits the three