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Show front door and tried to see who was out front! Hallowe'en parties were always al-ways fun bobbing for apples, and trying to catch an apple on a string. I remember once I 'cheated' I pushed the apple against the wall so I was the first one to capture an apple! MARSHMALLOWS and hot cocoa still remind me of Hallowe'en Hal-lowe'en and dried leaves in the streets always made for fun jumping. The smell of burning leaves is a nostalgic fragranceI frag-ranceI remember so many times standing by a fire and hearing the occasional "pop of a bursting chestnut! Costume parties are a part of Hallowe'en no matter where you live and I remember one I went to-I was 12. 1 think, and I went as a ballet dancer (don't laugh!) Mother made me a real pretty costume and I wore a domino mask but I had long blond hair and I remember how mad I was when I went to the door and rang the bell and the mother of my friend giving the party said, "Oh, hello, Eleanor, come in!" The very best Hallowe'en I EVER had was October 31, 1963 that was Daddy's eightieth birthday and I gave him a surprise sur-prise party. I invited 35 of his friends he was Dean of the Michigan Bar Association so there were several other lawyers, law-yers, a couple of judges, the editor of the newspaper, the director of the local T.V. & radio station and other friends and neighbors. IT WAS A COMPLETE sur- prise everyone invited had kept his promise not to let the cat out of the bag the luncheon was good, conversation lively and the cake with the big gold 80 on it a success. It was the highlight of his later years and less than two years afterward he was gone. It's one thing in my life I can look back to and say, "I'm glad I did that!" Bits and Pieces By Eleanor Bennett HOLIDAYS BRING memories. Even a day like Hallowe'en makes me remember the Hallowe'ens Hal-lowe'ens in my life. Hallowe'en was my Dad's birthday so we always had a party of one sort or another-always another-always a nice dinner with a birthday cake and many is the time I remember hopping up and down from dinner to answer the door where hobgoblins and spooks shouted Trick or Treat! When I was a little girl I never heard of Trick or Treat; I really don't know when it started. One thing I always did with my friends on Hallowe'en was to make a Tick Tack. Do you know what that is? EVERY KID I KNEW -we were 10 or 11 years old-would take a wooden spool that had had all the thread used off-and off-and cut notches in the edges at both ends. Then we'd tie a length of string around the spool and wind it up. A long nail with a large head was needed to slip through the middle long enough to hold onto. The idea was to hold the spool against the outside of a window pane and pull the string sharply. It made a terrific rat-a-tat-tat on the glass and would startle the people in the house. Once you pulled that string-that was the time to beat it and run and hide and watch as the man or lady of the house came to the |