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Show THE KID HALLOWEEN Halloween used to be an occasion with little doing ex- cept for the romantic girls who went down the cellar I stairs backward, looking in a mirror to see their future husbands. Of late years it has grown into a very frisky kid frolic, sometimes resulting in real mischief. I The very tingling spirit of October seems to get into I the kid boiies at this kinky season. The more a man shows annoyance, the more they pester him. If the youngsters simply ring doorbells and rig tictacs, it is bet- ler to be caimiv oouvious. miv u yuu snow i, uuuiuo W you, or above all if you get out and pursue the fleeing I imps, one can see your finish. That is just what they I want and there will be no rest for the wicked. People I with young hearts do not mind a few tricks. When it I comes down to ripping blinds off buildings or lugging off gates, the humor of the joke is not fully apparent. I In some places these kid pranks have gone so far that I the citizens have gotten up public celebrations to interest I the boys and divert their attention. At Fort Worth, I Texas, the Fall Festival Association holds parades and pageants with 4000 school children. At Allentown, Pa., I where a similar celebration is held, the young folks rig I . np as ghosts and hobgoblins and Charlie Chaplins, and I there is a general carnival without mischief. I Most communities haven't the energy for anything so I elaborate. The parents in any neighborhood where the kids get too high, can avert much disturbance by giving I them a Halloween party. The boy with his eye on the ice cream is not going to carry off many gates. I JLany gangs of boys start in celebrating Halloween in I the early fall as soon as it is too dark to play football H after supper and keep it up for a couple of months. Some- dimes it comes to the pointwhere one of those celebrated H interviews in the woodshed becomes in order. |