Show OF YE III E OLD T Y elm E humorous description of thanksgiving celebration some difference between the observance of the day then and the festivities of today from picking tho the stifling stu flIng out of a wild turkey to kicking the stuffing out of a wild football player thanksgiving tiny day observance lias has undergone if decided change chance even within it he 11 e ken icen of the present writer who at that Is quite old enough to gain a permanent home among tile mummies fes fit at tile the metropolitan ip tro politan museum of art hoy K Tn vilton writes in tho the new york evo nang abfall there were days awny away back in puritan times alme s when people had a lot to bo be thankful for find and enough sense censo to bo be thankful for it it Is still true that a portion of our great metropolitan population ind find time to render thanks in the old fashioned style but the rah rah aalt thanksgiving lias has been with us some twenty years now anti it keerns to bo be paining gaining women momentum turn in the old lays they used to leave a platter strewn with tho the bones of wild turkey and now it Is tile the general custom to leave vie tho gridiron strewn with firms arms logs legs ears ond and other more or less lesa important impedimenta the history of a thanksgiving lay alny used to be so sot flown down by the church clerk anti and now it Is set down in ill jazz by the sporting spoiling writer nil of which ROCS goes to fillow that civilization la in moving though wo we cant always decide which way ye yc olde tyme thanksgiving know ye yc nil men by phefe that 1 I makepeace governor to do nominate yo ye twenty fiath of november to lie le n lay day ot of and a day of prayer tit in remembrance of tile the grout great bleff ings we have received during the year all and aundry of the lie poi population jula are ordered to attend bervice and profoundly render thanks for peace anti and or pay penalty on oil tile pillory the ducking fatool or the flocks governor those were the days of real thanks givings peleg prouty did not have to go to n butcher shop and barter its his soul his house and lot and his bli ford for ft a turkey ile he kissed his 1119 wife prudence and tile th kids goodby good by for maybe tile the last time and set forth for a wild turkey lie ile carried over ills his shoulder tin nn 83 pound blunderbuss with a sprinkler attachment on tile the muzzle which would scatter shot over a fair sized township and would kick peleg for a gnal gil when it went oft off if tile tho indians got a bead on him first it was goodnight turkey and if ile he got a bend bead on them first the sprinkler attachment cn nold him to put tho the raspberry ou on eight or ten of them tit at once if peleg got home oil all right w with ith tile the wild turkey they find a thanksgiving if lie he they had a funeral the family would go to church in the morning and arrive there with several arrows sticking through their and hats and after good old elder bad bpd preached for fir c four hours and a half and finally stopped the congregation had something to be thankful tor for when the feast fealt was ready peleg his hir wife prudence and the children steadfast charity prosper faith falth cromwell and whetstone seated them solves about the table the room would suddenly fill with smoke for the reason that there would be nn an indian sitting bitting ou on the cli chimney tinney top trying to smoke them hem out tin and glum lie file turkey and pelege flagon of Il indians took part belog would wander over to the fireplace find throw a handful of gunpowder into it find the indian would ninke make a dash for the reek creeta near by angrily pursued by ills his burning breechclout geieg mojid return to the finst wid say for what we vio are about to receive let us be truly thankful anil and ho herec received elved it quickly A noble redin nii poked ills his firm ann through the window and firmly nicked peleg on oil the bean with a torn tom hihawk ni hawk being it hardheaded hard headed puri pun tun ill acler would go on oil with etli its ills din ner lier after throwing tile buck back over oer ills his shoulder r lind catel ct ehli mr ecock just bel below the attains apple the afternoon was klen given over to meditation and reflection celebration of today hut but nowadays they gather in fit some jazz resti find the host says for what ant we e lin li cent vent lind had during tile past year under the net act let us its be well mell nily bow so something jeth lug like that the waiter niter does riot not through the window and kinf tup tap him with a but lie in hits him for a check find a 10 tip and instead of spending the after noon floon in meditation rind prayer ui its peleg lid did lila its great greatt grent grent great great grandson sits in ill a grandstand vath other heretics and they yell fresh wil got the baill freshwater zip boo boom M half ball I 1 freshwater freshwater rali rah run rah rah I 1 go it cornsilk I 1 now boys the Corn cornsilk slik locomotive itah rali rali rali enli nili corn cornsilk Corn slik hip trip hip hip hip 1111 honorah I 1 and after the he game pelege descendant accompanies a young flapper to a hotel for dinner where lie he gets a piece of turkey through which lie can rend read the name 0 of tho the cafe and ninke make out itt its coat of arms in tit the center of the plato plate and calls call it a feed alie only folks funnier than the old ones tire alie new ones |