Show Not All Americans Look on Day of Thanksgiving With the Pessimistic Eyes of Will Carleton n I. I I. h I. I I nl n II fl H HI IU 1111 Cl I VU Captain Youngs Young's Thanksgiving says Thanksgiving day I fear I If one tho the solemn truth must touch Is celebrated not so 50 much much- To thank the Lord ord for blessings oer o'er As for tor the tho sake of setting getting more moro It Is Js the day on V which Little Willie WHile on nearing the end of ofa a n bountiful meal will sigh Ive I pretty near reached my bust incas meas ure tire And dad will again wonder vonder why Thanksgiving day doesn't fol follow to- to pl- pl low Christmas so he can be thankful thankful thank thank- ful that both purse bending days are over It Is also the season In which dogs and cats cats b beat at a n t tattoo on d drumsticks drum im- im sticks with their teeth Truly a man Is old when he begins begins begins be be- gins to to tofe fe fear r mince p pie What this world needs Is for Cor some one to devise devise de de- de vise a n plan whereby the bone of contention can be utilized like the Thanksgiving turl turkey ey for tor making hash and soup But ever thus these these big Thanksgiving meals Indeed Indeed In In- deed some seine years ears ago ngo th the Thanksgiving menu of which George Washington partook at nt Mount Vernon Vernon Vernon Ver- Ver non consisted of Conceit of ot Fresh Fruit Oyster Soup Mrs Airs John Marshalls Marshall's recipe recipe- black eye peas and Virginia ham knuckles added Roast turkey stuffed with wild rice pulverized b boiled chestnuts I and t toasted i d b bread d dr crumbs r flavored d with rosemary sago sage and mother of ot th thyme me larded with Virginia lnla ham fat tat and basted with Madeira 1 wine served with sauco fresh cauliflower and candled sweet po po- ta toes Old Virginia mince plo pie served In Inam Sam flames am es s. s Now Orleans old French market coffee corfee I i I Those were the good old days I But observes Yes i-Yes the Providence Bulletin The Tho special blessings for the sake of ot which children and some Borne adult persons celebrate Thanksgiving day are transitory at best They center round the dinner table groaning with good things But even oven If Will Carleton thinks that most of ofus ofus ofus us ro regard ard s such ch matters ait as these more seriously than tho the finer and nobler teachings of the day surely many many of us grace tho the occasion with the spirit of gratitude for our blessings and endeavor to spread this spirit by providing for tho the comfort com corn fort and happiness of some somo loss fortunate fortunate fortunate for for- hous household hold than ours at this ono one festival of r the year It Is a familiar law of nature that the moro more we give tho the moro more wo we have This may not be truo true of material ma ma- tonal possessions possess but It Is certainly certainly certainly true of or the things thinS's of the spirit If It we Increase the tho sum total of others' others happiness we Increase our own Anyhow heres here's hoping you get the thelong thelong long end of the tile wishbone wishbone Path Path Pathfinder fin finder Magazine |