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2 Tim, and a large market basket con taining groceries was placed on Wid ow Towne's porch. All the poor in tho village were re membered, and the small children were given candy and nuts. We were amply repaid by the thanks of the delighted people when they dis covered their gifts and we agreed to do the same every year. LOIS WAGNER. Xl Centro, Cal., grade 0, El Centro high school. BIG PUMPKIN PIES MAKE MANY PERSONS HAPPY nOXOBABl.t: MENTION Dear Aunt Laurie: IT was the day before Halloween, and as Frank surveyed his "pump kin patch" ho was very happy, indeed. "What are you going to do with them?" asked his mother, coming to the doorway of the tiny cottage. Frank and his mother were very proud of the little cottage with the plot of well-kept grass in front and the lot on the side where Frank's pumpkins were planted. They had just bought the place a few menths before. "Oh, we are going to have a dandy time," replied Frank. "You see the boys are coming tomorrow night and we are going to dress up like ghosts and put the pumpkins on our heads. Afterward we are going to tear up people's fences and a few other things." He added the last few words as if he was ashamed to say them, and as he looked' up and saw his mother looking directly at him he turned away. "Now, look here, Frank." Mrs, Tur ner came over and laid her hands on his shoulders. "Don't you think there are other ways for you to spend Hal loween. I like the first part of your plan all right, but no the last. How would you like for me to make you some pies tomorrow night?" "That's all right, mother, but where will the other boys come in?" he in quired, looking up into her face. "Just leave that to me," she said, with a twinkle in her eye. "And be sure to give me what pumpkins you don't need for the ghost parade.' So the next night eight boys left Frank's home dressed as ghosts and returned an hour later to enjoy a nice little surprise. "Hang your lanterns on the porch," ordered Mrs. Turner, as she went into the house. Coming out a few moments later, she carried four pumpkin pies. She laid them on a little table and cut them in halves. "Now, boys," she said, "have some pie." So the boys each ate a half of a pie, some lying on the grass, some sitting on the porch. When they had fin ished Mrs. Turner gave Frank a bas ket in which was three pies. "Take, one to poor Mrs. Smith and one to old Grandpa Perkins and also one to the little crippled boy on the corner." When they got back they played games and other rhings. •This has been the happiest Hal loween I ever spent," said one of the boys as they were bidding Mrs. Tur ner and Frank gonrl night. "Don't thank mo for it," laughed Frank. "It was mother's plan." I think it was a nice way to spend Halloween, too, don't you, Aunt Lau rie? Your niece, MA DELINK EVANS, Venice, Cal., Ocean Park school. GHOST INVADES THE HOME Dear Aunt Laurie: It was on that weird night when ghosts and witches have sway of the earth, that a certain house was in vaded by thirteen witches and thirteen sorcerers. "V Mother took their wraps ana ushered them into a room; or rather, two rooms with the portieres removed. "•-. Seated In a semicircle the weird group were presented with black squares of pasteboard out of which they cut cats with the scissors they were provided with. The witch whose cat was the most natural appearing re ceived a book of horoscopes and the sorcerer received a most terrible mask. Then a sheet was stretched across the doorway having a slit about two inches long in'the middle of t. First a witch would put her nose through the hole and the sorcerers would guess whose nose It was. "When it was the sorcerers 1 turn all the witches were perplexed, for the "nose" that appeared was like none they liad ever seen. It was round, red and soft appearing. At last mother looked ta see who it was and found that one of the sorcerers had his tongue through the sheet. We then went into another room in the middle of which sat a large tub of water which apples floating ,on the vater. .'~\. After we had taken all the apples out of the tub three apples were hum? up on strings, one had a dime stuck in it and the others had candy stuck in them. Then they were swung back and forth, each one trying to bite the candy and dime out. We played many other games, told stories and sung songs. Mother then toM us to go back into the other room where we found jack o' lanterns hung and two semicircles of apples scraped out and filled with ice creams. Then there were small boxes with a cat and a witch on them, filled with candy. ■ Then came the fortune cake. It had 1 ______ LOS ANGELES SUNDAY HERALD—JUNIOR SECTION ROLL OF HONOR ISAHFI.I.K BROI'GIIKR, 1331 W. FOCBTH STREET WRITERS' CONTEST First prize—Betty Chapman, 254 East Ninth street, Ninth street school grade 89. Second prize—Charles Olerich, 232 Parkside avenue, L. A. H. S., grade 10, age 15. Honorable mention—Annie McPherson, P. H. S., grade 9, 911 East Thirty-fourth street; Jessie Claudino, 63 West Thirty-sixth place, Jefferson street school, grade 5, age 10: Madeline Evans, Venice, Ocean Park school; Lois Wagner, El Centro, grade 9,. El Centro high school. LIMERICK CONTEST Girls' first prize—Ruth Grant, 193 McGarry street. Boys' prize—Sigfred ,Westerholin, 1177 East Fifty-fourth street, age 14. Honorable mention—Daphne Frowiss, 686 Fifth street, San Bernardino, F street school, grade 6, age 11: Dorothy Schleichcr, Twenty-third avenue school, grade 6, age 11, 189 North Work man ; essie Claudino, 663 West Thirty-sixth place, effcrson street school, grade 5, age 10; Helen G. Mace, R. F. D. 1, Long Beach, H. J. C. No. 2. UNFINISHED S.TORY First prize—Maude Edwards, 3027 West Tenth street, Ho bart Boulevard school. Honorable mention—Helen Mace. R. F. D. No. 1, box 305E, Long Beach, grade 9; Beulah Brode, 901 West Thirty-fourth street, Jefferson street school, grade 8. ARTISTS' CONTEST First prize—Helen Knecht, 11 Washington street, Redlands, R. H. S., grade 9. Second prize—Virginia R. Smith, 413 Islay street, Santa Bar bara. Special prizes—Helen Knecht, Redlands; Charles Wallace, L. A. H. S., grade 9. a thimble and a ring in it; the one ; receiving the thimble would marry ] first but the one receiving the thimble i would die single. > ' We then marched around the streets : carrying our lanterns and playing on 1 many strange instruments and "tick tacking." . ; That is what I did last Halloween. RUTH GRANT. , 1936 McGarey street, Los Angeles. ; I do not go to school because I have a nervous trouble. GHOST STORIES END PARTY Dear Aunt Laurie: '■ Last Halloween I went to a party. : I arrived at the home of Edna, our hostess, at 8 o'clock, and most of the guests were there. : The rooms were dark except for the dim, weird light from the Jack-o'- .: lanterns. ■'.. Our hostess had suspended apples from the ceiling, and each guest, with . his hands behind him, tried to eat one i of the apples. As they were all large Shis was not :an easy tfKins (to ai- TJu? f| j P >^BD f^^\ tj&fi * Bv^^ 1^ AC^ *^^ <*♦f ■ * '" r* i: IP "l WRITERS CONTEST A first and second prize will be given in this department each week for the best two papers oi letters submitted in the contest by boys and girls of public school age. The first prize will be one dollar in cash, with the usual sub scription alternative if desired, and the second prize will be a handsome book. Contributions must be from 150 to 300 words in length, must be written on one side of the paper only, signed with name, ad dress, school and grade and be entirely original and the work of the person who signs and submits it. Papers for this competition must be addressed Aunt Laurie, Herald Junior, care The Herald. Los Angeles, Cal. Topic: "The Newcomer." These stories may be of school life or little incidences of the horne —some of the Juniors have a little baby sister or brother. Maybe some interesting family has moved in near you. Perhaps you are the newcomer. Stories in this con test must be received in this office not later than Thursday, No vember 3, for publication November 13. Topic: "If You Were Left $100 by an Uncle or Aunt, What Would You Do with It? Would the Juniors know how to make it earn more, or would it be used for pleasure? Papers on this subject must be received in this office not later than Thursday, November 10, for publication November 20, __ perron who first succeeded in eating his apple received a prize, which was a jack-o'-lantern filled with tiny black candy cats. The person who was eat ing his apple the longest received a large black cardboard cat. Next we bobbed for apples, which Is lots of fun. Then each one in turn was given an apple, a hand mirror and a lighted candle, and was sent alone into the cellar. You were sup posed to look into the mirror all the time that you were eating the apple, and you would see the face of the person you loved the best, looking over your shoulder. Whether we really did see the person that we loved best or not we never told, for, of course, that would spoil everything. After finishing this game each per son was given a piece of a black card board cat. Then we had 1 the fun of matching cats to find our partners. After each person had found his part ner we marched two by two into the dining room. The place cards were cardboard jack-o'-lanterns from which baby ribbon ran to each plate. I After we had finished we pulled, our ribbons, and at the end of each was a pretty souvenir. Then we all went back to the parlor, and each one told a ghost story, and I am not ashamed to tell that some of them sent the shivers down my spine. , The lights were then turned on ana we spent the rest of the time pluying such games as hunting the whistle and winkum. At 11:30 tho guests departed, each or whom had spent an enjoyable even ing GLADYS GERVAIS. Anaheim. A. H. S., grade 9. Age 14. Your story is too long this time, Gladys. It is very good, though, and 1 am sorry it is not the right length. STEAL GATES AND BOATS Dear Aunt Laurie: You ask what I aid last Halloween. I don't believe I've had a better time since that memorable night, so will re late it to you. It was a rather cloudy night, ana the moonbeams cast -weird shadows on the ground. The night was crisp and cool; the wind swaying in the branches around, made many hearts thump rap idly as we assembled at our meeting place But when all together our courage rose and we sallied forth ready for any mischief. First, iron gates or wooden gates, in fact, any gate we could get off, we oaried, one by one, to the river and dropped them in. We set six or seven boats afloat from the pier and watched with glee as they floated away with the current. "I've an idea," cried Frank, one or the larger boya. and following him we mam to an old lumber wagon taken apart. "Heave to and carry tho wheels to tho school," commanded Joe, and with much puffing we succeeded in trans porting the wheels to the schoolhouse steps. Kneeling before the door, Frank opened the door with a key of his own. "We'll put a wheel on each teacher s desk." Will told us. It was work to get them in, but can a little work baffle a crowd of boys and girls on Halloween night? Satisfied with the schoolhouse, we hunted for more to do. "I've an Inspiration!" cried Zella. "All of you stay here, and Frank, you come. I need you," and with that they disappeared in the flickering shadows. She soon returned, however, but what was it that followed her? My hair rose! Before us stood a tall, slender, white form with hollow, flam ing eyes. Wasn't that enough to frighten a bunch of school children? "Don't yell, it's only Frank," Zella reassured us. "Now, he Is to go up the path to the porch, for Miss Field and two friends are there telling sto ries. You must make sonve noise," she added as he started. Frank was an excellent gho«t, and soon bloodcurdling shrieks rent the night air, and the three ladles were seen running down the street, while we, choking with laughter, fled down the alley. We stopped at Frank's house, where a surprise awaited us. Tho front room was decorated with cats, witches, pumpkins and other things suggestive of Halloween. For an hour or so we sat telling stories, cracking nuts, eating candy and Ice cream, and roasting apples. But when the clock struck 11, with many good nights, we departed, feeling we had maile good use of the Halloween that comes but once a year. ALICE SWANSON. El Centro, Cal., grade 9, age 15. Your story Is so good, Alice, that if it hadn't been too long I am sure it would have won a prize. USE SHEETS FOR COSTUMES Dear Aunt Laurie: Last Halloween I had an enjoyable time. A great many of us girls gath ered together, and one little girl, a particular friend of mine, furnished sheets for us all to dress up like ghosts. As we went around hiding in different places we frightened many people. After that wo took off the sheets and went around ringing people's door belts and tic-tacking their windows and throwing stones to make a noise. I invited them all to come and spend the rest of the evening at my house. We had great fun ducking for apples, reaching for them and eating them. Just before they went home we made arrangements on what we wore to do this Halloween. I hope the boys will not do so much damagn this year as they did last year, su<h us tearing down fences and changing things about. J do not think it is much fun damag ing other people's nroperty. ALBERTA O'REILLY. 3012 Manitou avenue, grade 5, ago 11. S. H. S. PLAN SURPRISE FOR TEACHER Dear Aunt Laurie: A few girls who were in my class last year and I planned a Halloween party for our teacher. One day at noon two other girls and myself wrote the invitations and at recess we distributed them. At last Halloween evening came, and papa took me to the party in the buggy. I was a little late, and I found my teacher and the children playing on the lawn. We played drop the handkerchief and cat and mouse for a little while. Then we got a tub of water and put some apples In it, and we each had turns ducking for them. Then a few of the girls went in the