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Show Halloween Pumpkins Become Scarce Witches Prepare for Annual Revel I Salt! Lakers Divided on Right Date I W fcrMPKINS real one's an be bought on the markets In fair .is, for yJ from 10 cent to I cent earn, but pumpkins paper onea In lantern ' I itjrle cot from S5 cents to 60 cents In the various stores, i Which variation of price, probably explains why thera Is developing i . a pumpkin shortage In "U Lake City with the approach of Halloween. The pumpkin variety of lantern from time Immemorial ban been handed down as being the only really proper kind of a liffht on thm mysterious H alio ween. In the days of old the witches stirred their fnlry brew by the light sifting from wHrd slots rut into the side of a full grown pumpkin. Just how or why the pumpkin came to be chosen as the candlestick Is not related In histories, excepting for the notation that perhaps It Is a plentiful fruit at this time of the year, even so ns Is the snuanh. Another, explanation advanced is that . the pumpkin being a natural field crop. Its yellow sheen being readily discernible In the ple rays of the moon, the witches were easily enabled to enter a kindly farmer's field and pilfer therefrom one or two or perhaps a J" score of luscious pumpkins, plucking them hastily from their unsusicUng follaae of large leaves In the dark of the moon. Noah Webster's well known dictionary states that the pumpkin Is of the , family cucurblta pepo, which Interpreted j Into the king's English means siussh ' family. Mr. Webster, when he wrote his V dictionary, took cognise nee of the twofold qualities of the cucurblta neno. lie siys 4y that the meat of cucurbits pepo is excellent for pies, being particularly appropriate to Thanksgiving day. The shell, or the rind, lie avers, makes a satisfactory lantern, ometlmes having cut therein grotesque - races. Having therefor the evidence, upon the most excellent authority of the chsp who wrote the dictionary, of the practicability of the cucurblta pepo as a csnrtlestfck.and having atsn the Jinrdandmttcroff?t(;t statements ' orThe purveyors of the golden fruit 'In this city as to the prices therefor.' It is ssfe to assume that there will be an abundance of grotesquely inscribed cucurbltaceae pepo sample on display. Small ho vs. university students snrl members of the police department alwsys attain prominence on Halloween. The sd-vancing sd-vancing years have brought to the front many new and different pranks from tlto of olden times when the ynungsvers were wont to pull down the neighbor's split rail fence and pile It casually on the front stoop. When fences of the picket variety came I Into vogue It was popular to detach the L gate and hang It Ignominiously upon the convenient srni of a lamp post. Then someone figured out thst the lamp post arm served no real and practical purpose and gate hanging sort of deteriorated, although being still practiced In some of the older communities. However, Grand ddy Time again advanced, and the really proper thing nowadays Is not to have a fence at all, end so the gate has tn-come almost as extinct as the horse. The white cloth clan stage of Halloween development also dates back for many centuries and Is still a popular diversion diver-sion among the younger folk, who ate wont to garb themselves in flowing sheets wherewith where-with the frighten others of their kind. The university students, usually considering con-sidering themselves more' advanced In learn- Ing, are entirely too highbrow to take a man's gate. Their energies usually run to placing a convenient sand wagon upon the 1 steps of the principal campus structure. Or. letter still, to take an unsuspecting cow Into the belfry orJnto the tower of some building. At times there have been statues placed in clothes of a different sort. Venus de Milo makes a unique figure when garbed as the halfback 'of a football team. Salt Lake City this year plans varied Halloween celebrations. There sre g, scores of dances announced and a multiplicity of private parties scheduled, .i Borne will be in costume and some will be more sedate. 8 tores which deal y In appropriate decorations declare that the sale of their novelties is greater y j than ever befo re. w X F Chief of Police Durbtdge declares that he Is agreeable to everyone having" 1 a good time, but acts of vandalism are barred and special police will be on eluty to see that no one carries away the courthouse r Halloween, according to tradition, should be observed on October II. (However, many In Utah consider Halloween to be on October SO. As a on sequence. Halloween is observed here by some on the evening of October to and br others on the following night. |