Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-31
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On the eve before All Saints Day,
when the little devils dance and ev-
eryone is out masked and counting
jest and fun. There is IN impiShness
in human folks which prompts peo-
pie to play pranks and jokes tonight
and perchance on the morrow return
once more to u more or less sanity
natures. Tonight the blushing maid
invokes the midnight fates and chal-
lengeS her known or unknown lover
and urchins fly about the streets and
gates mysteriously disappear. Puck,
Cupid and Ariel combine as one to-
night and the world just turns to
them. Old Jack o. Lantern will have
a night tonight and the costumes will
be many and merry and droll.
Our little city here will do a big
share in making the world safe for
Halloween. The first dance of this
season was held by the Girls Club
"Wednesday night and the affair was
a fitting usher for the merry and
mysterious season. Last night the
Dolly Madison Girls and the Epworth
League put forth attractive and orig
inal entrees into the great contest.
Tonight the night of nights Hallow-
cen night and All Saints eve the
city is scheduled to have a record
breaking year. Once more numbers
of soldiers will be seen on the streets,
but in most cases these will be girls
wearing their brothers or their sweet
hearts uniforms, no more Will the
wicked Jack o. Lanterns wink at the
lasSieS whose dear ones are over the
seas. Among those who are launch
ing large affairs tonight are the
Daughters of Isabella, their barn
lance promises to be a merry, snappy
affair. The Elks affairs are well
known from year to year and this
one with all the young members back
from camps or overseas, promises to
surpass any for many's the year. The
Barbara Freitchie Girls are contribut-
ing this Halloween the straw ride
and browning glory of the night. The
churches too are entertaining with an
affair blythe Philathea Society of the
First Baptist church, one by the
Young Peoples Society of the Chris
tian EndeaVor of the First PreSbyte-
rian, and the Senior Luther League
of the Grace English Lutheran.
= Private parties will be held galore
be spent by all the little clowns and
elves. etc.
Halloween eve was celebrated by
one group of girls by getting together
and holding a masquerade festival in
the British and American clubrooms
last night. Like busy bees the dec
orators transformed the rooms into
the palace of Jack OLantern. Orange
and black, the colorS which tend to
bring hat festive spirit out to enjoy
the r~evels, formeds the color scheme.
In and out they were -twined IL
twisted. The lights were all covered,
giving that witchery, mysterious col
oring to the rooms which at once put
the guests into the spirit of the occa-
SION.
fuckers and novelty dances of all
kinds were the turns of, the evening.
Masked and many disguised beyond
the possibility of recognition played
pranks and leased other peoples
s~weethearts. AT 1920 o'clock the
order to unmask was given and two
long tables festooned to a holiday
pitch were carried to the center of
h DOR n a supper was served.
Toasts were made and many wishes
were made for the benevolent graft
~fication by Cupid of some secret
wishes.
Among those present were the
Misses Natalie Loder, Esther Satter,
Madeline Johnson, Lillian and Gladys
Arundel, Cora Larson and Messrs.
Harvey Dey, Einar Nielsen, Ira
Grouse, Herman Kurowski, Clarence
Hoagland and Frank Seel.
Those who knew about the suppers
of the Ladies Society and those who
told others made the Halloween
supper held al the chapel of the First
Presbyterian church last night one
great success. Over three hundred
hungry mouths were filed during the
evening. The rain kept very few from
attending the affair.
The chapel itself was worth the
trip in the drizzling rain. Corn
stalks, cabbage heads and new brooms
Immediately len hat air of Hallow-
cen and good cheer to the atmosphere
of the room. Pumpkins and autumn
nal leaves gave the finishing touches
to the walls and windows. The tables
themselves each had little candle
sticks with orange shades and in the
center Of each table was a lighted
lamp. This subdued lighting gave
that cosey home like touch to the
place that is rarely acquired outside
of the immediate home environments.
Nine tables were laid and relaid with
four women waiting on each they
were kept busy all during the supper
hour. Mrs. James Henderson was
chairman in charge of the dining
room, Mrs. Alfred Mullens chairman
of the kitchen and Mrs. George Had
oSbAJ Van
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The Misses Nicolena Petersen, of
Laurie street, Anna Beck, of Comp
ton avenue, Marie Hanko, of Cornell
street, Olga Fonskov, of Amboy ave
nue., and Esther Stark, of Grace ave-
nue., attended a costume Halloween
dance in Morgan Wednesday night by
the Ordinance Department. A prize
was awarded for the most unique cos
tune inc was won by Miss Esther
Stark. Miss Stark was costumed as
a ragged news vender and trotted
around with a real (mind you a real
lived pig tagging at her heels.
The Dolly Madison Girls held a
MASQUERADE dance last night in the
club rooms in the local public library.
The affairs that this club gave
throughout the war were almost
always merry affairs so no rain could
keep the guests away and the rooms
were nearly filed with interesting
looking masked ~personages whose
identity in everyday life was never
belied until after the unmasking about
ten o'clock.
The rooms themselves were chang
ed into Jack o. Lanterns den. Orange
and black that little saint or per-
chance devils colors were everywhere
in sight. The Misses Esther Linetsky
assisted by Gertrude ~Lowenkopf and
Rose Kochonovar had twisted and in
terlaced the orange and black stream
ers around the rooms making a lat
tice work overhead. Music throughout
the evening was furnished for dancing
at ten O'Clock following the unmask-