Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 33

THE PRAIRIE PAL SASKATOON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1960 A Slory About TV 11 naiiowe en Dear Pals, October means decided to send well end of Hallowe'en so I a story about it. Spook Time Is With Us Once More SPOOK FOOD This Halloween game is begun by players sitting in a circle. One player, the leader, begins by naming a food that spooks like. He could begin by saying: 'Spooks like rice." Then the player tc his left has a turn to name a food. He could say: "Spooks like marshmal- iows.

it however, he had said that spooks like baked beans, the leader would have to sav, "No, spooks do not like baked beans," and that player would have to leave the circle. The point of the game is that "JOAN'S HALLOWE'EN NIGHT" "Hallowe'en apples" called out a group of children one Hallowe'en. A smiling lady came to the door and gave out small packages to the children. Joan, the young witch peered around the corner. She laughed to herself.

Maybe I can hold out a bag at the door. Maybe I will get something. Joan was a very young witch. She was 100 years old, but 100 years to witches is about 10 years tc us. Witches live to be thousands of years of age.

Joan looked carefully at the house, and walked to the gate. She walked up the walk and opened the door. A jack-o'-lantern a the door. Joan screamed and ran down the walk. "Please come back and don't be scared," said a small voice.

Joan came back timidly. She saw the jack lantern in the little boy's hand. "It was just a costume" he said quietly. Here are your goodies. Joan said thank-you like a good witch and walked away.

How silly of me to bp afraid only things that are while in color can be named, and the players S-sv tS, TOO WAY feJa'1 wno aiscover tnis tact stay in the game, and those who do not must drop out. Prizes may be awarded to those staying in the game for three rounds of "Spooks like or until the leader is sure the remaining players have discovered the catch in the game. SCARING WITCHES The custom of carrying Jack-O-Lanterns around on Halloween or iginated in England. The farmer of a costume. I must rememhpr and she always did.

I hope you'll enjoy this story. Now I must close. A pal, PATRICIA POPOFF. P.S.: Can you write letters with used to light a bun-h of straw and carry it around his fields to keep the witches away from the corn. Later, he made a lantern or torch out of a hollowed-out turnip.

The children took up the custom, and the Americar children used hollowed-out pumpkins with lighted candles in them. Then some one thought of making funny faces out of the pumpkin, and thus was born the Jack-O-Lan-tern! HALLOWEEN LIGHTS Big. fat, black gumdrops make fine party favors one for each place at the table. They just need a little fixing, that's ail. Here's how to do it.

Buy yellow or orange birthday candles and matching little sugar a typewriter. Answer: Yes. We like typewritten letters. The Origins of Hallowe'en Old beliefs, like old soldiers, never really die. Nor do they fade away.

As proof of this, on October 31, Canadians of all ages will unwittingly pay homage to a couple of ancient Celtic gods in what Cheryl Would Like Letters From Pals Plunkett, Sask. Box 116 Dear Pals: This is my first letter to your paper. I'm seven years old. I will be eight next year. I am in grade two.

I like watching television and riding my bike. I would like pen pals, from ages six to seven. Cheryl Shoemaker ANIMAL AGES Thirty years is considered a good life span for such animals as horses, buffalo, lions and bears. Jill Would Like Many Pen Pals 2328 Munroe Ave. Saskatoon Dear Pals, This is the first time I have written to your delightful paper.

I should like very much to have a pe- pal. I am 11 vears old and am 4 feet 8 inches tall, with black hair and brown eyes. The sports ir which I find the most pleasure are swimming and skating. Please write soon. A Pen Pal-to-be Jill Beatty ANCIENT DWELLERS Russell Cave in Tennessee has yielded bone tools and potlery used by cave dwellers 9,000 years ago.

modern "trick or treat" custom stems from the practice of putting out food to placate evil spirits and protect the household. In olden days it was believed that if you didn't pay off the spirits, your cow would die or your chickens would stop laying eggs. Today, if you don't placate the spirits with apples and treats, your windows will get soaped or your gate could end up on top of a telephone pole. Wendy Sends First Letter to Pals Box 228 Vanscoy, Hi Pals This is my first letter to your paper. I'm 13 years of age.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes. I would like pen pals from the ages of 13 to 15 (boys or girls). I read the paper every week. I have no special hobbies. A pen-pal to be Wendy Vermeulen Birthdays Birthday wishes go to the following this week: noiaers at tne store, brick one candle and holder in each big black gumdrop.

Set each favor on a slightly larger circle of orange constructor paper and there you are! All your guests will say you have given them the 'sweetest' favors ever! BLOWUPS Write your Halloween party invitations oil blown up orange colored balloons. Print the words in black ink. Let dry thoroughly and then let the air out of the balloons Mail your balloon invitations in regular envelopes. Enclose a slip of paper that says, 'Blow me up and read me!" Lynda Writes First Pals Letter Vanscoy, Sask. Dear Pals This is my first letter to your paper.

I am 10 years old. 1 would like to have pals from 9-13 boys or girls. I have no special hobbies. A pal to be Lynda Campbell Vanscoy, Sask The American purple martin, a relative of the European swallow, feeds chiefly on insects harmful to crops. is at least the annual observance of a pagan festival called Samhain.

Although Christianized as All Hallow's Eve or Hallowe'en, the last night of October still embodies many hangovers from rites observed in the days of the dread Druid gods Crom-Cruach, and Saman, who was Lord of the Dead. Among other things, the "Druids believed that at Hallowe'en, Saman called together all the wicked souls that had been condemned, within the past 12 months, to inhabit the bodies of animals. Today those groups of masked and sheeted youngsters scampering through the darkened streets on Hallowe'en night are direct descendants. symbolically at least, of a horde of pre-Christian Samhain spirits. Thus it is unquestionably from the Druids that we derive the belief that witches and ghosts walk WE HAVE A MCE 1 I APAR.TME NT OF jTt) Jr I fit 1 THE PHAIRIE DOG 15 REALLY A GROUND SQUiKRELWHifH UVESON THE PRAIRIE.

HOME 15 A LARGE UNDERGROUND CITY WHERE IT HAS ITS OWN PRIVATE DEN. abroad on Hallowe en. Even the November 2: Vivian Laberg, Unity; Henry Garman, Kinder-sley; Linda Balcaen, Saskatoon BIRTHDAY CLUB Please enroll me in the Birthday Club. 1 will be years old on i960 My name is My address is THE PRAIRIE DC wi MANY Ira and Julie Cowan, Saskatoon. November 3: Joan Feist, North Battleford; November 5: John Patrick Bowles, Saskatoon; Bruce Hepburn, Saskatoon; William Lawson Atchison, Saskatoon; Roberta Marshall, St.

Walburg. BIRD LONGEVITY Life expect ancy of hawks ranges from 30 to 40 years and eagles have been said "to survive NAT URAL ENEfwiES-IT MUST CONSTANTLY BEONGUARD AGAINST THE COYOTE FOX, FERRET, AND THE EAfiL i THE PRAIRIE DOG LIVES MOSTL-pM GREEN PLANTS AND THE DRY SEASON IT D1C3S FOR for more than a century..