万圣节前夕

    
    

HALLOWEEN NEWS
    

Why bother to save Halloween?
by Richard Seltzer

Halloween is in trouble. Each 年 editorials in magazines and newspapers and on 电视 warn of dangers to children. And each 年 更多 communities "ban" Halloween.

So what? Who needs it? What is 万圣节前夕 anyway? It's just an excuse for big kids to make trouble, little kids to eat too much candy, and 糖果 companies to peddle their wares. Bah, goblin-bug!

Or so I thought until, despite all the warnings, I took my three children out last Halloween. Nine-year-old...