HALLOWE’EN PARTY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 33, 2 November 1933, Page 4

HALLOWE’EN PARTY

Smith Family Activities

The younger members of the Smith Family celebrated the ancient festival of Hallowe’en on Tuesday at a dance held in the Conference Hall of the Dominion Farmers’ Institute. The decorations consisted of screech--owls, pumpkins, ghosts, blaek eats, witches, and other emblems of Hallowe'en ecrieness, and pillars also being festooned with greenery. The extinguishing of the lights and the flickering of lanterns coincided with the arrival of the “witch” at midnight, who, with mysterious, incantations, invited the dancers to read their fortunes on the fortune-wheel. Earlier in the evening a fortune-teller had been busy predicting alluring futures for her clients.

Introduced into fhe dance programme was a tap dance by the Thompson brothers, and an exhibition of ballroom dancing by Mr. and Mrs. Southern Colledge. Members of the committee present were Mrs. Vaughan, Misses Meadows, Miss IT. Cooper, Miss Morton, Colonel Cowles (chairman) and Mr. McNaught (secretary). In another room in the same building a bridge party was held by members of the Smith Family,’both parties being in aid of the Christmas Hamper Fund. The competition, which had been continued throughout' previous bridge parties, was concluded. The large room, which was filled with tables, was decorated with bowls of Iceland poppies and foliage. Among those who arranged tables were Mesdames B. B. Wood, E. W. Kane, Christie, Godfrey, Wilson, Murdoch, Mansel, J. F. Reid, Harper, Levy, Zander, Thirnside, King, A. Nimmd, Delmonte, , Meadows,' Clarke, Ellis, Mahan, Bevan, Stephen Cowles, Tattersail, Waters, Bennie; Misses Hyde, Clark, Mitchell, Richardson, Tustin, Banks, Marks, Smith; and Messrs. Ellis, Bevan, Woodman, and Neale.