Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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- QPECTATOR 17 QA Ha1loWe'en Party' Margaret Kaylor, '18 Well, boys, I have a peachy plan for Hallowe'en, Jim said to his two best chums as he met them on the corner. Fine! let's have it! shouted Bob and Jack to- gether. Betty is having a party on Hallowe'en, just girls! Don't you see the fun? We'll be the uninvited guests. She wants me to come and said I could bring both of you if you would mask so you could not be recognized. But don't forget, we are going in town Thursday night, if she says anything to you about coming. I am willing to bet there will be a scared bunch of girls in our cottage. Have you changed your mind about coming to my party, Jimmy? asked Betty, the same evening. You know mother will be cross if you don't come. Oh! I told you I couldn't come. Father wouldn't blame me for not staying in on Hallowe'en. You are perfectly horrid for saying such a thing. I though I was doing you a favor by asking you to a party with so many nice girls. You know well enough you would come if Dorothy were here, but I can't help that she is out of town. I did my part by inviting her. Too late now, replied Jimmy jokingly, but we'll help decorate. How will that be, Bet? You needn't bother being so accommodating, es- pecially in doing that which was not asked of you, James Lang, and Betty's tone was indignant as she walked away. On the morning of her party as she came from the woods with her arms filled with branches of beautiful leaves, she made a pretty picture. Bob Worthington was standing on the corner and Betty called to him, Why Betty, I am mighty sorry I am not coming.

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16 SPECTATOR water. You're doing fine. Now stand up for a while and take a rest. Desperately Betty tried to stand, but her feet in- sisted on staying up. My feet, she gasped, as she clung to Louise. I can't get them down. With the aid of Louise, she finally stood erect, and as she got over her fright, she ventured farther out. O, Louise, I just love it now. I'm not the least bit afraid. I believe I could live in the water-become a mermaid, she laughed. It's glorious, Wonder-!! Ouch! Louise! Bob! a crab!! Oh, my foot! she screamed frantically. A shark! cried an excitable old lady, who heard Betty's screams. Amid much excitement, Bob and Louise finally got Betty to shore, and she groaned aloud while the cause of her pain was being removed. Betty was too much taken up with her own troubles to notice the surprised glances and excited exclamations of those around her. Sudden- ly she heard someone remark, What luck! I wish I were in her shoes! exclaimed another. Why was she lucky in having a horrible old crab clinging to her foot? Where is the crab? she finally faltered. Crab! Crab! shouted Bob. It was Mrs. Van Buran's diamond brooch sticking through your bathing- shoe. She probably lost it on the beach, and the tide washed it out, until it lodged in the sand. Then you came along. By the way, what Will you ever do with your hundred dollars? My hundred dollars! exclaimed Betty. My hun- dred dollars? Why, what do you-oh, now I remember, Bob! And a vision of a passenger train, a newspaper headline, and an excited brother passed before her like a flash! Well, that surely was a generous crab!

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18 SPECTATOR Well, we promised to go in town, and believe me. Betty, I am might sorry I am not coming. Ohl well, I am sorry, too, replied Betty as she walked into the cottage. The living room was soon made to represent a har- vest scene, decorated with pumpkins, leaves, and corn stalks. Everything was ready for an evening of fun, even the apples and doughnuts were dangling on cords from the ceiling. About eight o'clock the pumpkins were lit and all other lights were turned off, for the guests were soon to arrive. After all the other guests had arrived, a lonely ghost entered. They bobbed for apples, danced, and toasted marsh- mellows until the time came to unmask. All were eager to see who was who, and especially to see who the ghost Was. Betty was surprised to see the ghost turn out to be Dorothy. When the girls had played every Hallowe'en game that had ever been originated, some one suggested that each one take a mirror and a candle and go down the cellar steps backwards, to see her future husband. Then the question rose as to who would go first. This was settled by Dorothy who went first because she.was a ghost and should not be frightened in the dark. She was given a mirror and a candle and taken to the head of the cellar steps. She looked down into the darkness and hesitated a moment. Then she slowly decended. As she approached the bottom of the steps, her candle went out suddenly and she rushed up the stairs declaring excitedly that she had seen a refiection of Jimmy Lang in her looking glass. No one else would go down. So Betty whose curiosity had been aroused, at last ventured. When she reached the foot of the stairs she saw Bob Worthington'sf reflection and her light went out. She ran up excitedly and told of her adventure.