ing distinctly original plan is suggested: Procure a number
of small alarm clocks and a quantity of nitroglycerine or other high
explosive. Insert in each clock a small amount of the nitroglycerine,
being careful not to put too much; a quantity sufficient to wreck a room
20 X 30 Will generally suffice. Then arrange the alarm mechanism so that
the explosion will occur at 12 midnight. Attach to the clock a card,
neatly decorated with witches, goblins, etc., on which is written

"Midnight is the mystic hour
Of yawning graves and coffins dour.
Beneath your bed this clock please hide
And when it strikes---you'll be surprised."

These clocks should then be delivered in the afternoon to those of the
guests whom you are merely inviting because they are your husband's
business associates, or because they were nice to your mother when she
did her own work. Later on, in order to avoid hard feelings on the part
of relatives and friends of the deceased, it might be well to explain to
them that you sent the clocks only in the spirit of Hallowe'en fun; it
might even help to invite them to one of your next parties.

RECEIVING THE GUESTS

On Hallowe'en night great care should be taken in the preparations for
receiving the guests in a mystic manner; no pains should be spared in
the effort to start the evening off with a "bang."

Several novel ideas are offered for starting the guests off on the
right informal spirit. Before they arrive, it is a good plan to take
the street number off your house and fasten it to the porch of your
next door neighbors, who will, of course, be at home because they
are perfectly impossible people whom no one would invite anywhere.
Extinguish all the lights in your own house; your neighbor, as he comes
downstairs twenty-five or thirty times in the next hour, will obligingly
tell your bewildered friends specifically where to go.

When the guest finally learns from the neighborhood policeman which
house on the block is really yours he will discover on your door a sign
reading:

"If you would be my Valentine,
Follow please the bright green line."

Leading from the door is a green cord which the mystified guest proceeds
to follow, according to directions. This cord should guide the way to
the coal cellar of your other neighbor who has recently purchased an
automatic revolver under the delusion that burglars are operating in the
neighborhood. As your bewildered guest gropes his way about the c