Entrance to house:

On Hallowe'en put a sign up telling guests to knock low and slow.

Hall:

The hall should be in total darkness except for light coming from jack-o'-lanterns of all shapes and sizes on tables, and hanging from doors and ceiling, or from frame in open fire-place. The hall should be draped in black; and the person who opens the door, and those who conduct guests to dressing-rooms, should all be gowned in black.

Parlors:

Decorate parlors with jack-o'-lanterns made from apples, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, etc., hanging them somewhere in room or place on stand, piano or mantle. Use also green branches, autumn leaves, apples, tomatoes, ears of corn—red and white—and drape room with red and yellow scrim and cheese-cloth. If possible, have an open fire in parlor—a grate fire will do. Have white portieres.

Place of mysteries :

The best for mystic rites is the barn; second best is an attic full of shadows; third best is a cellar into which guests descend immediately after removing wraps; fourth best is large hall; lastly the kitchen. If affair is held in barn, build a large bonfire in front for use of guests for after-supper sports. The place where the mysteries are performed should be decorated with gruesome things — jack-o'-lanterns, skulls and cross-bones, black draperies, witches made out of cardboard and suspended from the walls, cats, bats, owls, etc. The shades and spirits should flit about.

Dining-room:

The dining-room should have festoons of nuts, branches of oats, strings of cranberries, autumn leaves, goldenrod, odd lanterns, yellow chrysanthemums, etc. All the decorations of this room should be cheerful and suitable to the season. Charming maidens flit about serving the guests. For table center-piece use a large pumpkin with top cut off, pulp removed, and filled with water holding a large bunch of chrysanthemums or goldenrod. Bay leaves should be scattered over table and around the dishes. The menu card at each guest's plate should be of burnt leather bearing a sketch of a witch. After all unmask, lights in dining-should be turned up and room made brilliant.

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No richer opportunity for effective decoration is given by any season than we find at Hallowe'en.   Here are some suggestions for Outdoor Halloween Decorations:

• Autumn leaves, corn stalks, and lighted pumpkin Jack-o'-lanterns are traditional and easily prepared.
• Free hand cuttings of witches, pumpkins, cats, bats, elves, fairies, spiders, owls, cauldrons, broomsticks or peaked hats of black and orange construction paper may be pinned about on the curtains and walls.
• Candles, dishes of alcohol and salt and blue Christmas lights furnish a ghostly illumination.
• Apples, turnips, or carrots, cut in grotesque faces, may be used for candlesticks.
• If lamps or electric lights are used, make special shades of stiff orange and black paper cut like Jack-o'-lanterns.
• A row of Jack-o'-lanterns on the fence, porch railing or shrubbery gives a Hallowe'en atmosphere.
• On the posts seat two goblins, with Jack-o'-lantern heads.  The body is a smaller pumpkin and carrots are used for arms and legs, fastened to the body with wire.
• Outline the walk with a double row of pumpkins, and at the door-steps place a pair of ghosts.  These are made by firmly fastening a Jack-o'-lantern, for a head, to an upright post, and draping in a white sheet or tablecloth.
• Each room could have a different motif, and be named "Cat Alley", "Bat Tower", "The Spider's Den", etc. and the prize for the game played in each room should be a bat, cat, etc.

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