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Show Find the Bridegroom tSrHSIt71 RVLLOWE'ENl The very word' brings a thrill with it; a mental plcturo of mischievous pixies, of lovers, of bobbing for apples. Fow peoplo cvor grow so old or bc-como bc-como so complotoly married as to regard re-gard with lndlfforenco tho revels of tho night of tho thirty-first of October when fairies aro abroad and matches aTe made. That's tho reason Hallowe'en Hal-lowe'en parties arc usually dollghtful becauso they aro full of romance, and whero romanco is thero Is human nature na-ture on tiptoe with eagerness. Tho hostess of a Hallowe'en party has moro responsibility, however, than merely to provido a tub of water for bobbing for apples. Sho must make, her rooms and her supper tablo In- -iiii"' As for the supper table, it was really a lovely thing. dicative of tho spirit of tho occasion. A girl who entertained on Hallowe'en Hal-lowe'en last year was an ingenious creature, and so made all of the decorations deco-rations for tho affair herself. She cut Innumerable black cats from card- board cats sitting with their tails colled gracefully about them, cats with arched backs and tails in air, cats with green oyes and red ribbons about their nocks and with theso sho decorated tho walls of tho living room and the dining room in which the revels were hold. Both of these rooms were lighted with pumpkin lights, somo made from genuine pumpkins of tho flcld hollowed hol-lowed out and cut lo look like grinning grin-ning goblin faces, whllo somo wore paper pumpkins supplied by tho obliging oblig-ing shops. Thero were witches astride brooms among tho decorations also, and strings of red hearts and gingerbread ginger-bread men, and festoons of autumn leaves. As for tho supper table, It was a really lovely thing with a great hol-lowod-out pumpkin fillod with fruit for tho centerpiece. Tho lights on the table, too, consisted of candles set in tiny pumpkins, and there wero witches and black cats for favors. Tho feast was rather a substantial ono since tho autumn air gives appetite. appe-tite. There wero dishes of roasted chestnuts and of nut fudges on the table, an,d bowls of country cidor. But these wero only, so to speak, tho nibbling nib-bling things. Tho supper proper consisted con-sisted of creamed sweetbreads pro-pared pro-pared in tho chafing dish by the hostess, toastod brown bread, a colory, apple and nut salad, spicy gingerbread and hot coffee. A cake containing a ring, a thlm-blo thlm-blo and a coin formed a part of the refreshments, tho ring signifying mar-rlago mar-rlago for tho person who found It in nis slice, tho thlmblo spinstorhood, and the coin riches. As to the revels themselves, they consisted of 'the things which from tlmo Immemorial young people havo dono to discover what tho futuro hold In store for them In tho way of sweethearts. sweet-hearts. They bobbed for apples which had been prepared by having Inserted In them slips of paper bearing a name. At midnight tho guests went, ono at a time, to mako It a moro fearsome feat, into tho ceUar, a candlo In ono hand, a mirror In tho othor. Tho face of tho "fate" of tho looker was supposed sup-posed to bo reflected in tho mirror over her shoulder. And generally with tho quiet aid of the hostc33, a fao really did appear in that mirror amid shrieks moro of delight than of terror from thoso subterranean regions. Anon tho frollckers wero led blindfolded blind-folded to a tablo upon which were placed throe bowla, Theso contained, respectively, water, earth and a thlmblo. thlm-blo. Tho blindfolded one put forth his hand and touched one of the bowls; If tho ono containing water it was taken to signify that ho would be-, como a great traveller; if the eajth, a happy married life; If tho thlmblo, spinstorhood or bachelorhood. And theso were only a few of tho Ingenious tricks undertaken, for chestnuts chest-nuts were burned on tho hearth and pieces of dumb cake eaton, all of the old rites gono through with Indeed. Hallowe'en, it may be observed, is no tlmo for a conventional party; It Is an occasion for jollity and mirth, and informality. In the days when candy pulls were allowable nowadays oven tho youngest children danco at tholr narties. and taffy Is no moro es teemed Hallowe'en parties often began be-gan with tho taffy pulling and ondod at midnight with fortunes. But since romanco never dies tho Hallowe'en party will be, probably, always fashionable fash-ionable and always enjoyable no matter mat-ter how times change nor boys and girls alter. |