Show E CENTURIES HAVE SINCE PILGRIMS I FIRST RENDERED THANKS 1 1 I f fl ark Winter of 1920 1 20 the Little Group of Saints Sain s on he Shore of Massachusetts Gave Birth I lie to th the Day We e Keep 7 I AND NINETY NINE YEARS AGO the first Thanks Thanks- g day in America was celebrated by the Pilgrim Fathers within ones one's nes throw of at Plymouth Rock flock on the shores of Massachusetts It Ita Ita a day set apart for the tho giving of ot thanks to the Supreme Power guided the Pilgrims through the winter of or 1620 and the spring of i l marked the harvest of ot the first crop in the New World the custom set three centuries ago the people of the Uni United ed l that day and give thanks for the blessings which r today next Thursday November 2 25 25 the day already proclaimed Ig g giving ving day by President Wilson R WAY DAY Rani an open place among trees fl rf f which Is turning brown autumn sun and in the dis- dis the ithe blue water of the ocean trees there is a massive from the woods with t. t tithe the same kind children and the women bustle around One can crinkle of their aprons as they hurry and t on the snowy caps dazaro daze daz- daz e its t are aro being heaped in ill inthe inthe the table by a group of lit- lit who in their ankle length dresses of drab and white rd caps are aro replicas of the tend aery Another group is piling h S of purple grapes on the thea a basket I IEN EN THE FEAST i men stand stana at a short dis- dis Ibe r l' stovepipe hats tower towe- rr hite collars and bobbed their heir pants are only ankle ankles I I s the older men chat and corner of an eye watch the I If the table preparations lit lit- dressed essed as their fathers 11 r and drink in the words of of's I s 's s Within a step or two a are e piled their trusty musto mus- mus to be snatched up at theof the theof 1 of a redskin on the edge of ot j jI I Ig g I I s are cran craned d toward a a from one of the thettie the th edge of the clearing She gin glin front of her a huge Itter upon which there rests sect Ct from which two prongs resembling legs legs protrude is one ono of the wild tur- tur I in from the hunt The p-ea p pear with the last adhe adi ad- ad the h he lo 10 ed table table- is the sigl sig- sig i i ei l feast to commence A Aden den stoop and nd wipes the lien the metal buckles of her heres es as the seating com- com DRY ORY RECITES I lews s but that this might not picture of the first ing g day in Massachusetts in From all available t l-ia l first Thanksgiving day I f 1 been as described I Ims s landed at Plymouth Rock Rocker i Ms Iner er er 1620 in the Mayflower I en women and children r was fraught with fights s 1 and a shortage of food ilce among them claiming 3 1 Mayflower had returnee returned i 1 f for r food sup supplies pIles and th the the- of ever s seeing eing the ind ud for that reason the thep crop crop p was a momentous was vas after the tho harvest of the their their new homes that Gov Gov- t rd issued orders for a a. tend day o 0 thanksgiving ine ne Power had given rusts fruits of the soil and car- car Hely through the win win- IONAL BIRD re sent out into the woods r l' wild fowl and bring in its for the feast The wild blinded in that section of Jy jand was one of pf the chief to food d during the tho early days tony ony This bird figured in giving feast and from that this this his the turkey has been the ird- ird rd for Thanksgiving The ed today are wild turkeys d. d dt Cervices IS services were a big fea- fea tatE at Thanksgiving day and be an important feature the country I I he real characters who took 1 f first Thanksgiving day I I have been made famous in since silice were Myles Standish Priscilla n Dean and Mary id to be the first woman to Plymouth Rock AFFAIR tary tay history shows that ng ng day was an annual afe af- af little e interruption with the ther A fter ter r 1632 The second secondi i e g day was celebrated Inears in Drears ears ears after the first one iny In y J of ifrain rain after drought In r day of thanksgiving was upon pon th the arrival of sorely d supplies from England f proclamation In 1680 int in- in wA t tl the he feast had become an an In the New Neth- Neth rr 7 New York a feast of g on record repeatedly from fromar ear ar of ot Governor Kieft 1664 year ar r of Governor 1 and under the English gov- gov l and 1760 CUSTOM annually by hy ring ring the Revolution but butan butan butan an an intermission after that President Washing Washing- ed a day of thanksgiving of adoption of the fed fed- ution various days In Noe No- No e recommended by until In th the third d I year of the Civil war under President Lincoln the regular observance observance- of a a. national thanksgiving began the proclamation being supplemented by go governors of states state and fixing by custom custom custom cus cus- tom the last Thursday In November as the tho day |