Show ra e Y ayr LO W E it air Z 4 tz X ito i k mackli k ell Q M 1 0 nd R X V awl 1 N g 5 MIT q V n binl v IV nil LV V 7 X f A f J a 1 I vz af var a emr it P by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN alf LL VIS TORS to hock 0 ck find and they numbered something like last summer great interest in ili the lie memorial to women of the Blay mayflower flower which ims fins been erected by the lie daughters of the amerlean american revolution the feature ture of tills this memorial Is the statue of a woman clad with wl tit the severe simplicity that 11 haa IS handed down to us its as tile the liall mark k of the women of willmoth Illi Ill noth moth plantation this alg figure tire Is intended to reprise represent it the pilgrim maid 11 anyway the woman Is comely and distingue the woman to niall and tier her costume seem to go together it a natural comb combination altogether sites so KO easy to look tit at that she might bo be the counterfeit presentment of the fair priscilla At herself the damsel who brought brou glit john alden to time when he went courting ns as proxy for capt miles standish hy by archly remarking iby why dont y you ou spent speak for yourself john it was ns noted that nono none of the vi visitors s w was is more interested in the ill krlin grim calil malil than the extraordinary young woman of 0 the lie day dai the so called flapper dapper and the fl lap appler pter site she wits v as the more inoru slie site seemed to be interested Interest edi no wonder for a greater contrast uin can scarcely be imagined I 1 ita ts much easier to believe that julla julia ogrady and tho the colonels ludy are sisters under their skin than to real no that tile the flapper represents tit three ce hundred years of development by alie lie american woman from the lilay flo or woman A symposium of tile thong thoughts its of tile the flapper visitors would lie ile exceedingly cee interesting and doubtless important for the looks of the napper are arc tit at wide variance with tier mental processes which are oft often on many and shrewd it Is exceedingly that tills this memorial to the Malow cr women should lino have lieen been erected by a n latter bitter day nation wide organization of patriotic women the fighting seek to keep alive alho the spirit and deeds of their forbears of the Ite volu tion lion tribute 11 unite by the U D A it tu to the lie mahomot Ma HoMor women Is praise front from sir klubert Ilu beit indeed and who ho can call doubt that tile hard li ardMon won success of the ill grint ealm fathers was largely title due to ti the No ai others in times of oc stress and privation pil atlon it Is ever eer tile loyal devotion and heroic self of loving woman which evoke tile the AIl admiration lim of mankind and they are liard to learn in ili total detail from tile pies pages of elston it Is tile men inen whose deeds art sot set forth capt bellei standish sli for example tins has it a larger statue tit lit duxbury thlin than tile llie Ill grim maid has fins tit at plymouth hut but captain standish sli was tile the indian fighter of the colony though lio lie was not pen even a member of the church and priseilla turned tinned film down donn so lits ills statue la is fourteen feet high and weighs several tons incidentally it lins has been struck li by lightning and the head wid lift left arm knocked oft off thanksgiving day Is it a national hollday holiday peculiarly our own it Is the flay day on which we americans as a people give thanks to that lint divine N am elk V proved which hits haa so often interposed to assist our progress ns as a nation and surely tie no people have linao so much cause for thanksgiving today the united states of america Is tho the most happy prosperous and powerful nation of earth so it Is most natural alint at thanksgiving time tile the national thought should go back to plymouth rock where three hundred undred li years ago tho the observance of thanksgiving day had bad its origin but thanksgiving Is 14 a day of 0 feasting family faintly reunions and jollity as well ns as of thanksgiving so it Is in keeping with the spirit of the day to anko e review of the lie mayflower blay flower women from witchcraft raft to pumpkin pie tile the pilgrim woman was evidently a n woman of common sense and like a good deed in a naughty world a woman with the saving grace of common so sense n so la Is a joy forever whether or no she s 11 e Is a thing of beauty row how to do we know that tho the pilgrim women had any unusual amount of common sense well theres the witchcraft raft craze for one tiling thing salem and boston you know were nt one time obsessed by a witchcraft frenzy these were puritan settlements this frenzy was so BO violent that women were hanged for being witches and it if the records of the tittle time do tit alie fair sex no wrong it was usually a woman who brought tile no nc of witchcraft and testified in court to tile the most extraordinary details of witchcraft the plymouth women refused to lime have tiny any part in tile the witchcraft raft craze there were if memory serves but two witchcraft cases in tile colony tile the first arst enso wits that of dinah sylvester vester who accused mrs irs of witchcraft site she told in ili court flow slie site siw saw tier neighbor plotting evil with the del himself who had assumed for tile occasion the torin of a bear evidently a terrible case of I 1 the court nevertheless refused to ballme bellco elther cither in n the witchcraft of airs or in tile lie devil hear bear it acquitted mrs holmes s moreover it declined loci ded twit ainali charge wits just sla plain and simple so it gave dinah sylvester tier her choice between paying mrs Ifo lines ive five english pounds as damages for that der or being publicly whipped and the women of plymouth approved the verd verdict let several years later tile second ense cuse cattle to trial and was laughed laii glied out ont of court then too the mayflower women were it cleanly lot and cleanliness in it a woman Is high among the vir lr bues tues tile tho authentic records of the tha mayflowers May flowers long voyage do not reveal how these pilgrim women kept clean at sen sea for they had bad some very rough we ather and the Nay mayflower flower though seaworthy was not much of a ship slie she was of only ISO tons site she had passengers men women and dill dren and of courso course a crew and she was loaded to tho the last inch of available space with household goods and the wherewithal for tile tho new colony the records set forth that some of the mayflower women were seasick and seasickness the real seasickness when you are not afraid that you will die but are afraid that you will not will play piny havoc with the ideals of us that american institution anyway what was the very first thing these Ill pilgrim grint women did after tile lie Ilay mayflower flower had anchored insoda cape cod and they lind had upon their knees given thanks to the god in heaven who lind had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the bertles and miseries ther thereof cof agatine to set their fete on the firme and stable earth their proper elemente clemento why these mayflower women pro ceeder to have ono one grand wash dayl I 1 and the punkin pie and why anyone should say pumpkin pump kin plo pie Is 13 one of the mysteries even it if one feels I 1 obliged to write it that way it would never to do to lose sight of the fact that it was the mayflower women who gave us ua that american institution when the mayflower women arrived they found the indian practicing a wonderfully simple and logical kind of agriculture lie ile or rather site she for tile squaws squads lid did till all tile the work made a hole dropped in several grains of corn and it a climbing bean between the lie corn rows tile the squaw squab planted pumpkin seeds when the pumpkin was ripe it was stowed stewed find and eaten either by itself or mixed with corn or beans or dried berries and it wits was out of this inspired pumpkin that tho the genius of tho the mayflower women evolved the pumpkin pie and what would ile ho thanksgiving without pumpkin pie it would he be much like 1111 hamlet amlet with Illint hamlet let left out oil oh yes most pie Is good hut but along about the last thursday tit in november the mayflower woman comans contribution to the up building of tho the nation la Is it a sure enough headliner on the bill ot of tare fare millions lons of thanksgiving fe asters who dont know that theres any difference between pilgrim und Vit puritan ritan will rise up and call tier her blessed |