Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1917 — Along Comes Hallowe’en [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Along Comes Hallowe’en

Are you going to give a Hallowe’en party? There Is a lot of fun for everybody in celebrating this feast of nonsense; It Is an indulgence that takes little time and money. The troop of spooks, witches, black cats, pumpkins and lanterns that make Hallowe’en a madly joyous festival for the youngsters has arrived on schedule time and all ready to set off the hour and table. Some of this year’s table decorations are shown in the picture above. They are made of '•repe paper, plain cardboard and tissue paper, with a little help from pen and Ink or water color paints. Fine wire and paste and a very narrow ribbon is needed for some of them and needle and thread for others. The witch shown is supported by wire with a ropnd piece of flat, white cardboard at one end for the face. About this wire others are twisted to form the arms and legs. The face Is drawn with pen and Ink and the hair made of white tissue paper cut Into a fine fringe. At this stage of her career the uncanny lady may be fastened to a flat desk of cardboard by bending the wires which are to support her at the ends and sewing them to the board. She is clothed th a dress and cape of black crepe paper and has a hat made of plain black paper. The broom Is made of wire, wound with narrow strips of yellow paper and a fringe of black paper. Ghosts are made In about the same way of white crepe paper. A small yellow cardboard box to hold candy or nuts Is suspended from a sunflower of yellow tissue paper (with a cat’s face pasted over the center) by narrow yellow ribbons. A disk of white cardboard forms the foundation of this piece, with the ends of Ihe ribbon, the flower petals and cat’s face pasted to it. All the small paper dishes for salted almonds or confections are made of yellow crepe paper parted over readymade foundations. A dish of this kind may be transformed Into a basket by adding a handle of wire wound with paper. A little covered candy box Is shown with a small helmeted figure seated on the lid, holding a spear In his hand. He Is merely a “lolly |x»p”— a stick with a dish of candy on one

end—furnished with arms and legs of wire and dressed in yellow crepe paper. The candy is covered with wax paper whereon his good natured face is made with pen and ink. For the Hallowe'en party there are paper table cloths and napkins that dress the table appropriately. .The host of all center pieces Is the old-fashioned Jack-o-lantern made of a real pumpkin hollowed out and having eyes, nose and mouth cut through the rind.