Show PLANNING FOR THE GREAT THRIFT FEAS FEAS' We e Are AreV Very ry Near to the Sp Spirit r t of 1621 as asdine vJ I 7 DIne ine on ThIs his Thanksgiving Day may t i Lest perchance you feel that the task C of planning lannin a feat feast with this years year's i need for food economy is k too much of r T an undertaking stop and t remember That the tho colonists who ho 29 years cars ago 1 I vt IH r r Z V r r C 5 4 4 9 i II T t rt s It A il I i t r t Y r 11 t 2 l r 0 q 1 1001 celebrated the first Thanksgiving ing I had I even greater ter need for or food thrift Ht than we wt That their fea feast t was waB far removed from the tho spirit of oC J 1 luxury ur and lavish lenIsh abundance That the they brought emptier stomachs to their their- feast cast than we wc can possibly doto doto do doto to ours That In order to have o an any feast atall atall at atall all the they had to avail a themselves o of nUe native nativo na n na- na tive U American foods It was wag not the tr traditional feast of an any of or their ancestors ancestors ancestors ances ances- tors In old England It would have O 1 been no feast at all if tho the colonists who enjoyed it had not rot turned n necessity into thanksgiving and thrift into a feast cast and That the spirit of or the tho thanks thanksgiving ln I dinner of ot 1621 11 was fa far more akin to that of oC 1918 1915 than to the feasts of an any recent t years So go to work wIth more enthusiasm than ever C to make c this the tho best thanksgiving thanksgiving thanks thanks- giving giving- ln 1 spread you ou ever er prepared And you ma may be sure cure that those who partake partake par par- take of or your you hospitality will bring simpler taste and 1 less 83 Jaded appetite to your our board than they tr er er did be- be CORN r CORN SYRUP 1 r Ir I y yr t r l fore It ro really tl is rather Interesting to reflect that the dishes we associate nf most closely with tho the Colonial Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving ln 1 spread and that we count mo most t tulon upon ulon having ln ourselves to l keep up UI the theold old traditions are arc for the most part still typically American products The They were available then when the foods to which tho the English colonists lead had been used were almost entirely lacking and today when wo we a arc sending sending send send- In ing beef and anil lamb and wheat and other staples to our cousins over o seas these things 8 are arc still sUU abundant still our birthright and nd with hardly an exception exception exception tion these typical Thanksgiving dishes can be mado of ot materials which we 0 have never novel beer been urged to conserve for ues overseas o The pumpkin ln or 01 still an essential of oC tho lire Thanksgiving ThanksgivIng- feast I was something that the colonists had to get bet use used to It was only because e the they were a adaptable plucky y and sturdy pioneer plo plo- neer noer folk that they thoy could t turn um this coarse easily grown vegetable to such good account as they did The Indians hail had long known lenon its tg food toad value aluc and the early e New cw England settlers followed tho the Indian custom of at stringing stringing- It and drying it when abundant to bo be used during during- the cold months Entirely lacking lacking- were the materials out of oC which the tho sturdy son of at Engrand Eng Eng- and rand would have chosen chosE to make a a. feast for or no true Englishman ever I feasted from choice without beef beet and very da day was an enforced day dayto to the early colonist nut Cut although though tho they lacked the wherewithal r for or r what Irving Irving- calls the ancient sirloin the standard of or old and 7 6 t d a l. l Joint of or goodly t t presence they have some somo venison brought br Indians IndIana and in by I there tier o were wild turk True the English ta taste te Inclined inched d m mor m g to Soo goose and f for lor or the f ti ft the tho Englishman felt that r nothing t i tho place of ot a peacock pi pie pi- still lurke turkeys were seized upon w th And of at course there then w it no boars' boars heads famed tamed in son fl story as 8 the rarest In allt land bedecked with bays ban and aad to r roi mar mary a aSo tl So realty really if it you want to emulate te l f real spirit of the tho first Thank spirit do as those thoe sturdy colonists dl J l make a a. feast east out of or what you ou hayand lw hay huiJ and If Ie it isn't j Just t what hat you ou are Bre u lt l' l season It with ith good cheer and the thil an and you ou will have hav no ao retIa ret rest Maybe Ia be you have decided not to toa hi hia a I. I turkey Perhaps you OU have hare midi your OUr mind even that a chicken ri raa Is a 11 little t too expensive and that wont won't even bo be able to commonest bird Into the tha Thanks Thanksgiving biped Well Wen still dire dine In true traditional spirit In making a 1 feast out of what you get et rather than what you nl ml possibly regard as essential to toa z feet feast you vou are do doln nr as did did first frEt Thanksgiving diners |