Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1915 — HALLOWE'EN FUN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HALLOWE'EN FUN.

Possibly you have already mads your plans for a Hallowe’en party, but ideas for. fun are always In great demand, so I shall give you a number. Figs. 1 and 2 show two forms of pumpkin lanterns. No two of your lanterns should be alike. Fig. 1 show a the ordinary type of jack-o’-lantern. The large teeth are ah Important feature to make a fearsome appearing face. The old pirate Jack-o’-lantern in Fig. 2 has his eyes, nose and mouth backed with colored tissue paper. Use white tissue paper for the eye openings, pasting a round cen-

ter of black to one and a center of red to the other, for pupils; then back the nose opening with green tissue paper and the mouth with red tissue paper. A turban of red cloth supplies the finishing detail. Did you ever hear of this method of fortune-telling? The guests are sent one at a time to a tent in a corner of the room where a witch hands them a. mirror, which upon being breathed on tells what the future holds forth for them. This is how the trick is done. The witch writes the fortune upon the mirror with French chalk, then rubs it off with a handkerchief so no trace of the writing can be seen. When the mirror is breathed upon, the moisture makes this writing reappear. Pinning the tail upon the witch’s cat is lots of fun. Upon a sheet or large piece of wrapping paper make a drawing of a witch astride of her

broom, with her cat seated behind her. The sketch in Fig. 3 will help you in drawing this. Use black crayon or charcoal. Prepare short pieces of clothesline with a small safetypin sewed to one end, aB shown in Fig. 4, for tails. Blindfold the guests, one at a time, and start them across the room to pin the tail upon the cat. * For choosing partners for supper, give each boy a card with a name written upon it with ink made of baking soda and water. The cards will appear blank, because the writing will not be visible, but direct each boy to pass his card over the flame of a candle and when this is done he will discover his partner’s name written in brown upon thd card. Figs. 5 and 8 show appropriate favors for the table. The head of the goblin (Fig. 5) is an orange hollowed out jack-o’-lantern fashion, and a small bottle forms the body. Fig. 6 indi-

cates how the head should be fastened to the bottle by a cork (A) pushed down through a hole in the orange into the neck of the bottle. Make a collar of white paper, a gown of colored tissue paper and a paper cap aa shown in Fig. 7. Make the witch (Fig. 8) in the same way as the goblin, but with aa apple head.' Fig 9 shows how t» prepare her peaked hat.