Ethel Morton's Holidays

corner from Church Street. Roger Morton, raking leaves in the yar

called to his grandfather,

pumpkins are ready for you. If you'll hop in now we c

going. She may have some message for Grandmother," and

out again and cli

e threw in the clutch and started toward the outskirts of Rosemo

his sisters. "Somebody told them that there was a wild grapevine there that still

uld have shriveled them. What are Ethel B

ons since her babyhood. Dorothy Smith was also his cousin

es for tomorrow," Roger answered his grandfather

you expect at

ervice Club. James Hancock won't be able to

y bad

r not to cut corners when he's driving a car

How many in t

and the Ethels and Dorothy and Dicky and the two Watkinses and

y from

minuet so well in our show; and Dr. Edward

r old to come t

been to a Hallowe'en party for so long that he wanted to come, and Tom and Dell

erson, speeding up as they entered the long, open stretch of road th

e, as you know, and Ethel Blue and Dorothy are thinking up things to do and we're all going to add

to get Bu

allow

You may find some 'doings' you haven't hea

we did do, there were cert

mel

off gates and brillia

well crack jokes whose point lies i

s at all ever since I saw an old woman at the upper end of Main S

eavy f

fered to help her, and she said, 'You might as well, for

ccusation,

e, but I had done it before

ed to see the res

p in the morning and found their gates gone. I never thought at all o

t if it proves that young people can have a good time

nsisted Roger stoutly, as he leaped out of the car

d after him. "Go down there and pick them out whe

m-and Mr. Emerson drove back to the house. As he stopped at the si

mes here!" h

rs we read about in 'Macbeth'-the fellows who marched along holding boughs

al appearance," laughed Mr. Emerson as he and h

the steps of the

"Roger, bring out that pitcher of lemonade you'll

e were bound we'd get out-of-door decorations if they were

te as I can; there are so many months when you have to

. They've been pointing out how much color there is in the fields

true. Look a

; tufts of mouse-gray goldenrod nodded before the breeze; chestnut-hued cat-tails stood guard in

he lemonade for his weary sisters, and nodding to

hough. What are yo

mpkins Grandfat

to have a ride home

a while," urged Mrs. Emerson. "Can't you make

truly superior article in a wond

firmed Helen, "but it's because he always

aid Roger good naturedly. "We'll show Gra

e steps and Mrs. Emerson sat in an arm chair at the top of the flight and M

anything but a failure with s

her. "Don't let your knife go through the side or you

't slip and cut your fing

d Ethel Brown. "I'm going t

Helen. "I'll trim it with brown ri

triously under the s

ou've had a Hallowe'en pa

were children," Helen answered; "but for th

pidest and meanest things we ever got let in for," declared Ro

is year, and do whatever we wanted to. There's a lot more

ndmothe

t's fun to have every part of it perfect-the decorations and the re

hat the house is going to be appropriately dressed fo

riate celebration and not just an ordinary party hung on the holiday as an excuse peg. I believe you could have some in

nking much about it," said Roger. "The Club had

that!" exclaime

now, and the first thing that happened was that a collector called to get a contribution from Mother to help out the Labor Day procession. I was there

erted at that, I suspect

osed he was going to have all the clubs in Rosemont represented in some way. He said that was ju

hay rack and we dressed it up with boughs and got the carpenters to make some very large cut out letters-U. S. C.-two sets of them, so they could

for the Christmas Ship," said Roger. "Lots of people said, '

's idea we might have a parade of

worthy," advised Mr. Emerson. "Don't get up oppositio

ur Hallowe'en part

u should enter into 'fool stunts' that are just 'fool s

er is to take us over and get back in

the bottom of the car, Roger, and the jacks on top of them. Now be careful where you put