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Show THE FESTIVAL OF HOME. Thanksgiving, Preeminently the Day of Family Gatherings, Tho good old New Ihiglnntl testlvnl ' of Thunksglvlug Is ono thai uw does not wither nor custom stale Originally, Original-ly, nnd still nominally, a distinctly religious festival, It appc.iW to ull, , whether old or young, whoiher pro-, ressedly religious or not, and wliat- J uvur may be their religion heller or couvlctlnuH To college boys and football tennis the day may seem to be or special slg-nlllcance slg-nlllcance In rereronce to triumphs or disasters on the gridiron Hold, but evou to these It curries another nnd deeper slgnlllcsnco which will grow with the yours. And to those nt mature ma-ture years, men and women past -IO, for example, this grmiou. lime-honored rostlvnl serves to puncttiato their lives, so to speak, uud marks the pnss-age pnss-age of years perhaps even more ills' tlnctly than New Year's d.iy or birth days, For Thanksgiving I pro-unil-, iiently the festival of home, the day of all others when home Me uud association associa-tion I assert their swa the strongest, linking the pieseut with the past mid binding nil to the future. All who are happy enough to have a homo nnd 1 hearth turn glsdl) to It for rest nnd refreshment ot body uud mind, and, j whether present or absent from the home circle, thut Is the center and Inspiration In-spiration of their thought Perhaps to none U the day more full of associations uud memories than to those who cannot thus Join tho homo circle, Tho toller In the city or In tho country, unuble even for a day to quit his duties, still takes pleasuro In thinking of those nt home, und In Imagination, Im-agination, ut least, takes his place at tho annual homo gathering uud shares the pleasure ot tho day |