In
order to avoid being "It," many players sometimes resort to various low
subterfuges, such as sneaking down alone to the club locker-room
during a dance, but this practise is generally looked upon with great
disfavor--especially by that increasingly large group of citizens who
are unselfishly devoting their lives to the cause of a "dry America" by
consuming all of the present rapidly diminishing visible supply.

A JOLLY HALLOWE'EN PARTY

The problem of providing suitable entertainment for one's informal
parties is something which has perplexed many a host and hostess in
recent years. How often has it happened that just when you had gotten
your guests nicely seated around the parlor listening to the Caruso
record, some ill-mannered fellow would remark, "Oh, Lord--let's go over
to the Tom Phillips' and get something to drink." How many times in the
past have you prepared original little "get-together" games, such as
Carol Kennicott did in Main Street, only to find that, when you again
turned the lights on, half the company had disappeared for the evening.

Of course we cannot all be as startlingly clever as Carol, but
Hallowe'en, which comes this year on October 31st, offers a splendid
opportunity for originality and "peppy" fun. The following suggestions
are presented to ambitious hostesses with the absolute guaranty that no
matter what other reactions her guests may have, they will certainly not
be bored.

{illustration caption = Few people realize the value of picture
post-cards as indicators of the birth, breeding, and character of the
sender, yet nothing so definitely "places" a person socially as his
choice of these souvenirs. Could you have selected the senders of the
above cards?}

{illustration caption = In spite of his haughty airs and fine clothes,
the gentleman betrays that he is not much accustomed to good society
when, having been asked by his hostess if he would care to remove his
coat and waistcoat during the warm evening of bridge, he, in doing so,
reveals the presence of several useful cards hidden about his person.
This sort of thing, while often tolerated at less formal "stag"
poker-parties, is seldom, ever, permissible when ladies are present. The
young man was simply ignorant of the fact that Hoyle and not Herman the
Great is the generally accepted authority on cards in the "beau monde."}

INVITATIONS

The whole spirit of Hallowe'en is, of course, one of "spooky" gayety and
light-h