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Show I ' BAKER'S DOZEN OF HALLOWEEN STUNTS Iqulrtly to anhea together, a Ion if, happy hap-py married life. i Have your trueata rut open an apple Kor a Halloween partv, (Wornt jrour home with m few yar1a of arrlm or cheeaerloth. with Jnrlc o lanterna. fall leavea and bunches of corn, andi lSJ lira letter, the initial of the person the experimenter ex-perimenter is to wed. a a a Next let them try . pouring melted lesd, through a ring. Into a dish of water. The shspe the lesd takes will suggest something or other. If it looks like a torch, thst guest will schleve fame; like a horn of plenty riches; a bottle, a career as a hootlegger perhaps; per-haps; and ao on. Robbing for apples slways Is popular. popu-lar. Tie the contestants' hands behind them snd set them to flailing apples from a tuoful of water with their teeth. Give the winner a prize. An apple dangled by a string from the celling Is hard to rotch between the teeth, ton. Have your guests try this, for a prise. e o a Thread a raisin on a etrlng a yard long snd start two trueats on a race for It. by chewing the siring, one st each end. The winner gets' the ralstn aa a prise. Seat your gueate. one after snother. on a round bottle laid lengthwise on bounce apart, sepsration; if they burn splece. snd count the seeds. Two mesn early marriage; three, a legacy; four, great wealth; five, a sea voyage; six. fnme: seven, fulfillment of any wish that guest may make. a a a Provide a number of little boats One for esch guest from hslves of walnut shells, with a bit of lighted thrtstmss csndle In each. Het them afloat In a tub. The boats' owners will behave ss the boats behave. Some will glide away together. Borne will drift apart. Some may be wrecked. The one whose candle goes out first will never wed. e a s The guests, sfter returning home, must place, each one. a glass of water, containing a silver of wood, beside his bed, or hers. . During the night, ths sleeper will dresm of falling Into a Slream and being reacued by the man or woman the slumberer Is to wed. "Last Hallow Kvs," wrote the poet Osv, "I looked my love to see. snd tried a spell to call her up te me; with wood and water standing by my Bids. I dreamed a dream .and saw my own sweet bride." with witch. like cut-outs from hlsck psper, like some of the samples given with this article. a e a On your menu, don't neglect the Fortune cake.- It centains a ring, a thimble and a dime. Whoever gets the ring will be married aoon; the thimble mesne celibacy; the dime, wealth. sea Everybody knows the gsme of hacking hack-ing down the stairway, a csndle in one hsnd. in the other a mirror, held before the fsre. In the mirror you'll see a reflection of your future spouse if you've imsalastion enough, a a a Then have each guest throw an ap- Pie paring over his head or here. ailing, it will take the shape of a the floor, the task being to thread a reedle In thla position. There's a prlxe for this, too. Nsme two chestnuts, one after an engaged girl, the other sfter the mas she s to marry, snd put them on a fire. If one alssles and alenme. it signifies bsd temper; if both strife; if they |