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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916SOUGHTYOUTHcal Costumers Say There Is a, A ® ^ T - w MLb » * S «Famine In Yellow Wigs, Buster Brown Suits and Other Youthful Paraphernalia Necessary to the Happiness of GrownupsWho Wish to Play “Kid” AgainWhen Ail Halloween Rolls Aroung—In the Good Old DaysColonial Dames and George Wtshingtons Were Popular in Costume Effects, but theMovies and Comic PapersHave Made a Big Demand forYouthful Costumes.Merchants Dealing in Halloween Novelties Thought ThereWould Be a Shortage of Material for Halloween Celebrantsbut the American Manufacturers Who Were Not MakingAmmunition Fooled Them—The Result Is That Counters Are Piled High With Many New Toys and Decoratons Suitable for Use at Halloween Celebrations—Many Early Customs Have Been Lost Thorugh De-velpoment of New Pastimes.[■r W. X. Hcnekell]LONG comes another Halloween. The evening of witchery and mystery will bob up next Tues-toy, snd every heart-happy Hoo-Sler la going t# taeto the fun. reen of lflf has tome peculiar that are interesting. The cos-, wtgmakera and dealer* In Jlallow-rsMss say the movies and the flun-mie supplements have completelythe demands of# Halloween rev-Uk» old man Ponce da Leon, whofountain of youth, American ■sstow give vent to their Hallow-r 'through the medium of Imperso-Bdstsr Brown, the KatienjammerCharley Chaplin, Mary Pickford, artte Clark, Broncho Billy, and all m exponents of youth and happi-h# OM Halloweens are gone,” said i*k»t Klnklin, who has been wiggingUtflpoUs Halloweens for a quarter ofHUM“When I first began bust-h»rt everybody wanted to be a co-1 dame or a George Washington or a alia Kidd or something like that. Nowiyjrfwr Halloween wig I sell or rent t%b* one reflecting youth. The oldjfirant to be kllt;u again—funny kids.t|0bfng picture shows and the funny fi|nh*vt changed the Whole wig and MSf bilslnsss. Even the witches have Out The kids have Halloween now-4, APd a tot of them are old enough » grandfathers and grandmothers.y Landes and William D. Harvey, costumers, tell the same story. Youth 1 ages has captured Halloween.*•Making Halloween Coetumee.I needed only to tarry a bit in the ig mom at Harvey's In East Ohio t to understand what the costumers % by “youth rune riot, youth runs* In a long room overlooking the Columbia the* ter, a group of women operated a battery ^^Hly.propelled sewing machines, place women piled scissors colored cloth that soon was tfDtae clown costumes for a TerrePMblQbWeen party. On the xna-flMM— the clown suite-twenty of '■amee betng raced through the sew-BeaMna that Terrs Haute might of a circus atmosphere on Mfcl Orders Weer stacked up atevery conceivable form ofIf* that would depict youth, butnot an order for a grand i; it -a colonial gentleman, in thehigh with “kid stuff,” as they call it, they would reap a Halloween harvest.New Business for Costumers.58Another form of business has in recentyears come to the costumers for Halloween. Persons Who are to entertain for Halloween now have dummies as a feature of the decorations. One costumer has an order for four dressed-up dummies to be used in giving a north side house a “skeery” effect next Tuesday night. One is to be a policeman—a big, robust guardian, who will stand at the front door to “look over the guests as they arrive, and to be certain they are acceptable to the host and hostess. He will have flash -lamps in his eyes, and his club will be a baseball bat, -Another dummy is to stand guard over the cider keg. He will be a sort of Constable Newt Plum, and If the guests imbibe too freely of the cider he will “have the law on them.” Still another dummy will be a maid of comical appearance who will stand at the head of the stairs and direct the women to one room. Near her will be “phony”•V‘VTlMLflOgtUmora laughed at the numberIndian and cowboy outfits, but ^Obody wishes to be a Mexican. TlldVWj|gtir be some sentiment in reinain-laf ^efilr from Villa effects—it may beBut all this border businesshad hiii-YbS effect of stimulating inter-est Ifl^fQS Wfld west and the Mexican border, imsikgh, singularly enough, there are nMpjpany calls for soldier outfits, Onoljinfiianapoiis csstumer recently bought at receiver's sale 1,800 masqueradeand fjfoey dress costumes, and practically ail of these have biften rented for next Tuesday night. That Is, all of the comics have. The* fancy dress costumes have had i^few calls, but the costumers all say that, had .they their shelves piledother kid stuff has the wigmakers worrying.”And as he talked he tugged away with a comb, trying to pull some of the kinks out of a yellow-haired wig that had just been ordered by a man weighing more than 200 pounds.That fellow is fifty years old andweighs a tenth of a ton, yet he wants to be a little boy next Tuesday night,” Kinklin said with a laugh.The wigmakers and the costumers are not the only ones confronted with new conditions. In the various stores that deal in Halloween novelties the Sales-
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 28, 1916
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