"October, the golden month, when Nature having reaped a wonder harvest of beauty, wastes it like a spendthrift
for our joy What hostess can fail of success in entertaining this month when there are autumn leaves, flowers, 1/2golden glorious, and vines flushing with crimson, to bedeck the table?"-- The Housekeeper, October 1910
For late-October revelers, Halloween has traditionally been filled with surprise. Contemporary readers, though,...