Show wr fe i rims 64 i L P I the times and the facilities tor fa to- for giving dinner Into r Jr account the Thanksgiving I feast which I 1 0 a ode u e u d the LUU ie rough hen n tables of ot the I Pilgrims was no mean one Served on the dainty linen tablecloths which had come I over in the Mayflower with their owners the viands and arni meats i must have looked lit fit for a royal ban ban- ere bigger gel and andI quat T There were turkeys s 's I fatter than their descendants of at today and wIth a n gamy flavor or which the bird of the domestic barnyard has lost Whole sides of ot venison hobnobbed with denizens of ot the briny deC deep dec Indian In In- Uan dian meal appeared o on the table In Inmany many forms evolved by the ingenuity o of the doughty Pilgrim mother It was was' about taree ee hundred years ngo ago no that Thanksgiving was first celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- in this country by the Pilgrims Y in grateful acknowledgment of the 1 first harvest In the colonies and pero perhaps per per- o haps In all the varied phases through which the day has passed there was 1 f never one more pIcturesque In sur- sur or more hearty in thanks The families in the little Plymouth c colony Jony were ere scarcely numerous enough to have their own home feasts so they all ate are and ana drank theIr guests being King and nearly one hundred Indians of ot his i. i tribe What a wonderful sight It must t have been the been the Pilgrims in their quaint made home-made garments the IndIans Indians In In- In primeval al costume while tile the th grand old forests of America formed L on three sides a background for tl tile e picture and in front sti stretched etched away ti the broad ocean over which these founders of a nation had safely come New England practically monopolized monopolized the Thanksgiving holiday for nearly two centuries Still Its cele cele- bration was was gaining advocates ad and anu as as time passed discussions were frequently frequently fre Ire started by different states asto as asto to its adoption Its first official recognition rec rec- rec- rec n by br the state strite of New York was was' in 1817 It traveled as as far south as Virginia In 1837 1857 and in IS 18 S eight of the southern states proclaimed it a hoUda holiday But that famous first ThanksgIvIng Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- Thanksgiving giving of the Pilgrims was v not given What a Wonderful Sight It Must Have Been a permanent national status until years afterward when on the of October 1864 Abraham Lincoln In grateful acknowledgment of ot victories achieved by the Union army and the hopes of ot an ultimate and nd happy de de- de liverance e from all our dangers and afflictions asked aed all of ot his fellow tellow citizens to him h ff t thanks to to God proclamation was fol tol- oI- oI lowed by proclamations by the governors gover- gover gover gover- nors flora nors of the states and arid thIs tills custom has been a yearly one since ince 7 it is claimed that the authorities of ot Harvard ard college were the first promoters pro pre motels motel's of the movement to to the fix a set set d date te for Thanksgiving in In the New v England states 1080 1680 the holiday holi holi- d day y had bad been cel celebrated off of and on in w winter or summer Just as ts th 9 spirit moved d. d th colonists In e Of consequence consequence- nIt air sorts of cit cit- disorder pr d among among the college students b because cause some portion of them was celebrating Th Thanksgiving tile the whole year round Y uria-u uria uen u a UL aa was set tor the tue t feast east ast In the pI place nee where a student lived of ot course he wanted to b be bS there re and equally of ot course his parents wanted him There There was a 1 no way ay to prevent this State of ot affair so so the wisdom of the Harvard professors was levied upon for a way to abolish It Their cogitations resulted In the the- proposition to advocate a fixed date and they y gave It widespread publicity The colonIsts col cot saw the good sense of ot the change and the c colonial governors finally concurred In making the last Thursday of ot the eleventh month the regular Thanksgiving day So widespread has the observance of ot that first and now historic feast become that wherever Americans the wide congregate con con- world over the last Thursday a Jn in Jn November finds the Stars and Stripes flung to the broeze and our countrymen in China Russia France England and even en in the wilds of ot Africa gather around a bounteous board and thank the Giver of ot All Good for tor the progress and have prosperity which attended their efforts to found po gre nation under Ills Ilia guidance I t |