| Show day in new yorla city it need to be that thanksgiving day ial new york was like the day all over tha eastern part of the country a day which centered around a dinner this dinnee ans inevitable and the families saw each other then eliat never saw each other in a group at any other time tha prodigal returned for it the poor relation looked forward to it and praised it as it progressed heavily through its different courses and the several members of tha family tried to be more polite and genial and loving toward one another at that meal than at any other of the three times ag j other meals of the year there ara bouie who like family dinners and there are other wicked ones who sympathize with the young woman who assented to having a family dinner by saying yes and let na have any family own it is an awful and solemn ceremony in many homes and it is made more so as a rule by some one of the elder of tha poor relations who endeavors to enliven the general gloom by trying to be the life of the dinner he does this by growing reminiscent over the younger members and telling how pretty they were as and how they used to make him tell and retell the old story of the roast pig he stole the night before gettysburg with which introduction ha promptly tell the old story again it may not be so ery where but aromnd new york city this has all changed it is not that the families around the great metropolis love eacle other less or that they have less cause or less desire to be thankful but a great and powerful and fascinating rival has coma te take the place of the thanksgiving day dinner and it is known not only in new york but from texas or wherever else a yale man is carrying a transit to canada or wherever else the princeton man ia building a bridge as the thanksgiving day game awl now everybody goes out to bec eec princeton and yale decide the football championship and instead of boring each other around a dinner table grow hoarel and exhausted in shouting for their favorite son or the college of their son harpers weekly |
