Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 45

i 1 to Preside at erciva Cin TERCIVAL PUMPKIN is coming into his own this week. With a discarded compact mirror for an eyeglass, and a black crepe paper ribbon to which is attached fortunes, written backwards and readable through the 2- WOMEN'S NEWS OCTOBER 24, 1943 mirror, he will grace many a mantel or piano this Halloween night. His companions may be witches riding broomsticks, black cats with eyes of By AGNES TAAFFE Pumpkin Parties It 1 i 1- if 'V, I 'S'T I If I fire, and ghosts with long, cold fingers and hollow eyes. And there may be a Witch's Cauldron or a Trail of Terror with youngsters participating in costumes representing everyone from Captain Kidd way back to the Druids of Old and a weird yellow moon overlooking it all. Which all adds up to the question: Are you planniiiK to have a party for your children on Halloween? If you're not, better listen to the Minneapolis Halloween committee.

Then you'll be joining the ranks of thousands of hosts and hostesses who ate doing their civic duty in co-operation with the committee of which Clinton Chaffee president. vT i 'Mil lilivH f-l ixs TIIKRE ARE MANY NEW ANGLES ON HALLOWEEN THIS YEAR. The children who come to the door, if there nre any this year, will be required, like Tommy Tucker of old, to sing for their supper. THE BLACK CAT'S watching these two gay young people as they try to eat those luscious red apples sus When they say "Tricks and Treats, Money or Eats" and you do Rive them something to pat-make them come inside and do a trick. in pay-ment for the food.

But after all, the better idea is to have a home pended on strings while their hands are crossed behind their backs. "I'll spring up there and catch 'em myself," is what he's probably saying if one is to judge from that determined look behind those spreading whiskers. The apple biters are, left to right, Barbara Anderson, 4833 Tenth avenue and Dorothy Hagcn, 4347 Blaisdell. party or a church or neighborhood party at which the children will be entertained and kept from being nuisances on the street. To this end the Halloween committee lias been distributing to co operating groups the money contributed by business bouses for the purpose.

Hundreds of parties have been planned which are open to any boy or girl who wishes to attend. Trost, East. Minneapolis Recreation association; Father Reml Tayant, Incarnatiol church; Carl Ilulander, YMCA; Joe Jonas, superintendent of police; George Swan-son, JAC; Mrs. Bert D. Walworth, PTA; Marsaret Louchridge, YWCA; E.

A. Stolte, settlement houses, and Eugenia Ziemer, board of education. it it if TYFICAL of the hundreds of home parties planned for Saturday evening, Oct 30 the date on which the holiday will be observed this year is one at the home of Mrs. Jorgen Lone, 4515 Oakland avenue group guardian for Wetonka Camp Fire Girls. On Hie committee with Mr.

Chaffee are Rabbi Albert G. Minda, vice chairman; J'rs. Mary Wilson, Camp Fire Girls, second vice chairman; Karl K. Raymond, park board, secretary treasurer; Mayor Marvin L. Kline; Herbert Bodley, council of social agencies; Ralph Kowalke, Boy Scouts; Mrs.

Marian Googins, Girl Scouts; Tearl 1 him r. 1 I- 1 I I The pictures on this page show some of the entertainment planned for the parly such as cutting out jack-o-lanterns, eating apples on strings, telling a good llaloween spook story, feeding rake one to another when both nre blindfolded, and just enjoying a good lime together around the fireplace. Nine settlement houses will entertain all of the neighborhood children who wish to attend. These are R. F.

Nelson house, Unify settlement house, Margaret Barry house, Emanuel Cohen center, Pillsbury house, Elliot park neighborhood house, Phyllis Wheatley house, Northeast neighborhood house and Citizens' club. Mayor Kline is sending out letters to parents through the school! asking them to plan a good time for their children on Halloween. 7 1 1 SOME OF THE LEADING GENERAL PARTIES WILL EE AT: Incarnation church, under supervision of Boy Scouts, who will enter tain 1,000 children; St. Stephen's Catholic church, Clinton avenue and E. Twenty-second street, where a Boy Scout committee is In charge; Wesley Methodist church, Grant street and First avenue St.

Kevin's church, Twenty-eighth avenue S. nnd Fifty-ninth street; four park renters Loring, Logan, North Commons and Nicollet. Downtown hny will be entertained hy the (irafil club, nien'i sendee rlub at the VMCA. Minnehaha Methodist, church, 3701 E. Fiftieth street, will hold a neighborhood party.

East side youth center will entertain children 16 and over; University Baptist church, Trinity Episcopal church, Como Congregational church, Cooper school and Holmes school have planned parties, All of the above mentioned general parties are open to any children who wish to attend. Many more of the kind ore being planned. (illrl Seotitj and Camp Fire Girls, especially, are promoting home parties not only to keep youngsters nut of mischief but to I i -i THE LIFE OF THE PARTY, especially en days like Halloween, Is sometimes the setting. In this case, the two attractive young women, Gloria DuBay, 4420 Third avenue $., and Pat Lone, 4515 Oakland avenue blend right in with the decorations in their stencilled festival hats. Pat put the grin on the pumpkin's face, iiwawiliwiin rtnh Tg iTrit'Tlillliiiniiii'ilii' I'ilirti i.

ihirtMiili BnTil r1- mm. tMmtm itiv i fliTnunnmn ittm ifiiri'ri-(filiiiniiw--iinrii miftiTV I' lint on hy BLIND MAN'S BUFF takes on a new angle here. The blindfolded girls, Pat Lone, left, the party hostess, and Bev Nelson feed each other cake as Marilyn Fakler, 4921 Columbus avenue, holds-iwhat Is left of the big iced confection, wondering how long it's going to take the girls to eat it all or whether there'll be a piece left for her. A a vt Kive them a much better time than they otherwise would I 'ft JL, I HI I i. MISCHIEF'S brewing, left, when the Camp Fire Girls are bent on fun.

Pat Knooihui-zen, 4629 Port-land avenue, has given her big pumpkin a surprised look, but Bev Nelson's creation really has teeth in it, and that "just wait 'til the party" grin. Bev lives at 4816 Third avenue S. I J-f 5 sy -t "A1 I v. i 1 1 PmVn-' wt ft. i- 4 ")'" ii tr -T-, feat-watt -j if AT 7 I 3 vf; I I 1 St.

Thomas Episcopal church men's club will entertain at ill recreation rlub rooms, Thirty, eighth street and Fourth avenue S. A party will be held at the YMCA headquarters at Nicollet and Lake street. Reviving a Halloween tradl tion of the club, Mendel Forum, fience club at the College of St, Catherine, will enjoy games and dancing at a Halloween patty in the health center Monday eve. ring. Betty Ann St.

Paul, Is chairman. All Mendel Forum members and all in. terested in science have been in vtted. Assisting with arrange, nients are Charlotte Pienhart, liernue Epple, Marjorie Shearen, Mary O'Kane, Shirley I.eroux, Harriet. Denurais and Phyllis Burclull.

Theater operators in outlying districts are cooperating with the committee by staging special Halloween programs for children for the right of Oct. Seeral of the Muling department More have opened booths at which will bti dispensed In. formation on game, decora, tiens, menus and party themes. These will be open until Halloween night to stimulate home parties. And remember in case chit dien uo cuiue jour requesting food, make them fulfill the oblig-uion implied in th rli me they say: "Tricks and Treats, Money or Eats." "Be sure to make them do trick before you let them go," suggests Mrs.

Marian Cocgins of the Girl Scouts. A SPOOK story in the making, riqht. Just how they will make their lighted la n-terns scare away the ghosts Is what the Camp Fire Girls are try. ing to figure out. They are, left to riqht, Su-zanne Stanch-field, 4936 Chi-cago avenue; Bev Nelson, Dorothy Hag.

en, Marilyn Faklcr, Gloria DuBay, Pat Lone, Pat ihuiien, and Barbara Anderson..