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Show Have vou smelled a trick or treat bag ? p.g. blab iiipsf :::; -: pis By MARCKLLA WALKKR I have done it again and I cannot believe it. Halloween is tomorrow night and I have not bought the treats yet. Everylime I wait late like this the stores are all sold out of the good stuff and I have to resort to strange goodies. My kids shake their heads as they look at my weird assortment and tell me that no one will want it. But let's face it, it is getting difficult dif-ficult to give treats that are original, taste good, and safe. Fruit no longer is safe. Neither is popcorn, unwrapped candy or loose tidbits. I can still smell the fragrance of my trick or treat bag when I brought it home filled with the salty goodness of popcorn balls, apples of different sizes and colors, suckers, hard candy, cookies, etc. Have you smelled a trick or treat bag lately? They don't have any scent at all. There is no nostalgia for kids to remember years from now when they are grown and look back on their Trick or Treating experiences. ex-periences. All treats we give out now to the little goblins and spooks must be your door on the night of Oct. 31, the cost runs up. I like to give out wrapped suckers, because they look like something when they are dropped in the trick or treat bag. It is probably too late for suckers. That means I may have to resort to Sweettarts. The kids do like these but the little bit of a package gets lost in the bag real fast. It looks like you dropped nothing in at all. The same is true with candy kises, taffy. But these candies come with a large number in the package and it is easier on the pocket book than miniature candy bars. What will I do if there are no Sweettarts left? Oh, my gosh, I'd better think of an alternative, just in case. At the first of the month I noticed that the store had a wide variety of goodies displayed for Halloween and I thought then that I had better get some. But, I was in a hurry, and to tell you the truth I have not given it a thought since then. It is just as well that we cannot give out apples any more because they are probably the most wasted of any treat in the old Halloween bag. Would any child choose to eat an apple before they ate all those good candies in the bag? Of course not. That is the re, that when I finished my trS 0 treat sack in November some time 1 tossed away the remaining aonlA They were kind of bruised and soft after be.ng pushed aside a hundred times as I searched for the candy still waiting to eaten and were nn longer fit for human consumption I'm sure kids are still the same way. It is unbelieveable to me that anyone would put anything harmful into something which was going to be given to a child to eat. It is good that the candy will be x-rayed bv local hospitals so that the children can eat their candy with no worries But I would never have dreamed when I was a child and enjoying this exciting day, a day next to Christ-mas Christ-mas in excitement, that things would reach such a state that trick or treating was not safe for children A report I heard the other day said that in a few years we will no longer celebrate Halloween the way we do now. Trick or treating will become a thing of the past. How sad ! wrapped and show no signs at all of molestation. There are no tasty apples and no popcorn balls, no cookies and no homemade anything. Candy wrapped in paper does not make any odor at all. Then, to go along with all this, my kids think I should give out miniature candy bars. I would like to, I really would. But when you have about 200 kids come rapping at |