Evening star., 1947-10-14
HALLOWEEN PARTY
From Miss L. c., Washinqton.

cOIllel, eioulo ike TO make my
first contribution to the RICH by
sending in the following suggestions
for a Halloween party.
Refreshments: % Heap the sand
wich platter with funny-face cut
outs. Cut circles from Boston brown
bread and in half the lot make eyes.
nose and mouth with sharp-pointed
knife; spread remaining slices gen.
erously with a filling to contrast
with the color of the bread, then
press on the faces so the filling
bulges through cut-outs. A yellow
cheese mixture is good with brown
bread. Ham or tongue spread does
nicely on white. (2) Stuff celery
stalks with cream cheese, using
raisins for features, leafy celery
ends for the arms. the leaves to
f1utter as hands. Stand the celery
ghosts to guard the sandwich piles.
80 Fill orange shells with whipped
sweet potatoes mixed with orange
Juice and seasonings. Draw goblin
faces on shells, using India ink.
Top the potato mixture with a hat
made of marshmallows, then oven
tan. "a Top a hot-potato salad
with a white turnip ghost.
Spear the well-washed turnip on
q lolIipop stick or meat skewer; draw
on features for face. Tie a white
napEn to the stick just under the
turnip for a billowy shroud. (5)
Canned peach halves make nice
bogeyman salad. Turn peaches
curved side up, lay on black
berries or small bits of dates for
eyes; add apple-seed noses and ap-
ple-skin mouths, cut sawtooth fash
ion. Cream cheese provides the
curly, platinum blond wig. (6) A
green bogeyman can be made, using
a sweet pickle with toothpick legs
and ripe olives for feet. Half tooth
pick arms have green olive hands.
The toothpick neck holds a liver
wurst head "a thick. round slice)
set off by garden hat garnished
with a parsley feather. CD For
broomsticks, separate stalks of eel
cry, clean well, cut slender top ends
to resemble broom handles. Slash
root ends to make fine strips Ia
inches long, this for the brush. Place
In ice water with two slices of lemon
and the slashed strips separate and
curl. 90 Decorate the ever-favorite
pumpkin pie with ships of dates
and raisins to form face features;
outline with orange peel. 90 Make a
witch hat by placing an ice cream
cone, open end down, on a big
cookie. Cover both cookie and cone
with chocolate icing. Just before
serving, stuff cone with ice cream
and turn open side down on the
frosted cookie. Q0) For party fa-
vors which can be eaten, top big,
red apple with fringed paper hair;
cut triangular sections on the ap-
pie peel to form face; add a paper
cup hat with bright band of tape
around it, inserting a toothpick to
hold the hat. GD For black cat
faces, remove pits from prunes, the
opening forming the ears. Use
orange-tinted frosting for eyes and
mouth and bits of toothpick for
whiskers. G2) Black-cat punch
for the small fry is, of course, hot
chocolate. Orange punch for mid
dle-size COLLINS, made with two
quarts OF orange juice, chilled with
one quart crushed ice, then poured
into glasses three -fourths full. Add
ginger ale just before serving. Jack
o'-Lantern. punch for the big gob-
lins, combine fruit juice with cider
and serve in bowl fitted into
large pumpkin she'll Float orange
slices wearing clove-featured faces.
Entertainment: % Ghost Treas
ure: Divide the group into four
teams. Draw one small circle in
center of floor with four large
circles equally distant from center.
Each of the four groups occupy
circle as their home base. A pile
of candy or peanuts is placed in
the center circle. Numbers /, 2, 3
and 4 are pinned on the back of
each player, corresponding with
the number of his team. Upon the
signal to start, all players run out
to get the treasure, carrying away
one piece at a time to his home
base circle. If players number
is taken off by an opponent while
outside of home base he is dead"
and out of the game. If more than
one piece of treasure is taken the
guilty team is disqualified. Count
the treasure to determine winners,
all the spoils going to the winning
group. co Murder: The announce
ment is made that a murder" is
to be committed on the spot. Each
person draws slip of paper from
a pumpkin shell. What is on it is
kept secret. Only one slip is marked
and it carries the one word, Muir
derer." The lights are turned out
and the group mills around in the
room until the murderer" selects
his victim. He does this by putting
his hands loosely around the throat
of some person. That person
screams fhe most blood-curdling,
the better, and falls to the floor.
The lights are flashed on. The
prosecuting attorney, who has been
previously selected, requires every
person to take the witness stand.
Each person, except the murderer" "
must answer truthfully any ques-
ticn asked by the attorney. When
the questioning is finished the
group votes on who they think the
murderer" is Then the muir
derer" confesses A good prosecut-
ing attorney can make this a most
interesting game. 90 Skull ball:
Guests sit or stand in circle. One
of the players is the witch and
stands in the center Some one i'll
the circle has a ball painted to look
like q skull At the starting signal
the skull is passed around or across
the circle.
If the one in the center catches
the ball while it is in the air, the
person who threw it becomes a
witch-or if the witch can touch the
skull while it is still in some player's
hand, that player then becomes the
witch. a. Witch's Hunt: Cut a
number of cats, bats and owls out
of cardboard or colored construc-
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