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Dennison's Bogie Book -- A 1921 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving (9th Edition) 
by Dennison Mfg Co.

{softcover, 33 pages, 5.5x8.5, 2009, ISBN: 1936049201}

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Originally published in 1921, this Bogie Book features the following ideas and suggestions for planning and decorating for vintage Halloween and Thanksgiving celebrations:

- the house "made ready"
- decorating your diningroom
- favors and food for Halloween repast
- Halloween table decorations
- fortune games including: for weal or woe, spinning the web of
  fate, magic fortune teller, the rainbow ball
- little folks entertaining
- children's party complete
- children's Halloween table
- instructions for making a pumpkin centerpiece with pull ribbons
  that hold little toys
- games for Halloween and Thanksgiving including: the art
  gallery, riddles, learning which way the wind blows, the
  witch's stocking, rare species, unwelcome ghost, cat-echism,
  luggies, blind man's bluff, hope in ashes, on a string, candles
  four and many more
- Halloween table spread for many
- decorating a Halloween hall
- decorating a Halloween punch table
- regalias and favors for a large party
- costumes for pretty waitresses
- matching dancing partners for an innovation dance
- costumes for Halloween affairs (for plans and instructions for
  more Halloween costumes, please see our Dennison Costume
  listings)
- suggestions for dressing up
- decorating a Thanksgiving table

Centerpieces, favors and novelty suggestions and ideas fill this book as well as instructions for making fringed crepe, rolling crepe, effects when crushing crepe, and wrapping wires to make each of your projects a success. This book also includes all of the original price lists for the Dennison stock goods (cut-outs, napkins, crepe paper, caps, place cards, gummed silhouettes, etc) -- perfect for the collector of vintage Dennison ephemera.