| Show thanksgiving the time lias has come collie once more when tile president has act set apart a day upon which tl if e people are culled upon to return thinks to the diver ot of all good for tho the inabu fold blessings that they have lime en ell during the last ear tills this Is veil melt for most of 0 us art ar EO to busy blay I 1 pitying ourselves ourse hei for or our filato misfortunes that we me entirety entire overlook our alc blev and so 10 wo we need to bo be official reminded or of how much we me have for or which to be grateful so 80 it 13 1 good to go to church on thanksgiving nay day and ara on our knee kne humbly thank to heaven for uio uie merdic it has vouchsafed us its nut but why should v is not extend the tile athani iriving spirit a little further and slid make it a day up on which vo no publicly acknowledge our gratitude to our families and friends all that they have dene to make our live lives s happy and plea cant sant jut M nil at christmas Chrt etma we go about eury every one A merry christmas ard hoping tor for a liap hap py new year for everyone a me meet why fly en on thanksgiving day should we e not eay may thank ou oil for far au all the received during tho tile last months hs thero mero a father works like a dray horse from eun run to sun never any holidays or little trips tor for him everything lie makes eoe goes to tile family took on extra night work ork to send tho the boys and girls through col logo he ile li Is always a little but the tile girls have new party frocks and boys the tile latest tiling thing in col l 1170 cut clothes ever notices father fattier any more than they bould EL batte battend td old tush cash rc register gister that was only rood good for a touch when allen you ou ne cedel it ft ther tic ani grol grown ilin despondent and tt a bitter and a as he lie looks at the children to whom ho lie lias has riven given his its verl ver life blood and who aio him nothing in ill return he ile ur venders inders if it it a worth orth while but lie t wonder onder A he ile would fed fell gloriously jul justified tilled if on thanksgiving dav hia his bos would mould cc tile to bilm and tell him film how grateful they are to him jilin for the education ho he eface them that lie i ever eier had wincell and the doors of opportunity lie opened for them that were ere never opened for him jilin and he lie we mojid ad purr like a cat I 1 if f his eirls girls tell him hint how much they him and love him and thank him hint for keeping them boft and warm and safe from a world orld that I 1 Is hardi hard on gerli who have to fight their way alona and there a mother mother hose whole life Is ono one eternal soc sm to her children mother alio watches IDY LY hick ada liliu ito klanca hurt places and makes them well who site sits up half the night making pretty clothes for tile atria who he 1 lies 3 without A new hat list so john may have n new farales sweater like the other boys are wearing who ho stays at home and cooks nl at meal meals when the youngsters go a mother to whom they come with their trouble troubles and their worries orri cs their bins sins their wrongdoing to secure forgiveness and coni com fort nobody expects children to 10 be grateful to their mothers mother expect tt it herself out but just think how ham it would mould make her heart sing walli joy if it on lic da her children would tell her how humbly grateful they are to her for nil all she haa has done for thim and that they feel like going down don on their knees and kissing the iem I em of ler iler garments aa as they would a saint saints s and husband hite band lite life very cry gay for him just A back buk and forth from work to home over and over agan again no romance no thrill wife ales all that ho he agles as a matter ot of course and frets became bec u Aue it t isert t more so far 10 he chui see he la Is just the children a father and a moneymaking money making machine and nothing else but suppose on thanksgiving day hi his wife ife poured out upon him hint the flood floud of her tier gratitude suppose slie she told him that in her tier eyes no other hero was as to shining ning a figure 1114 a the man who simply stands at his post and docs does his hi duty as husband and father and citizen vear ear after beart suppose suppo o the she told 11 him how she ap p the never ending work lire never sacrifices that ho he alei to keep her and her children lafe safe in fit the home nest I 1 dont ou knew that it change it th world for or huband hu huf band it mould did gild his chalias 1 and make his hi itkor teem seeni worth while alid pd afe grown aged ai at d fat flit disgruntled down damn heart frd ed end peevish tired ot of cooking meals that arc are gobbled up without a woid aid ot of praise weary ot of pinch ing nickles for a huAl rind aho vho he grofils grow la over the bills anyway anay dia cou courna raged cd with dressing henck herself up tip for a matt who wha bever notices how he she looks disillusioned ith matri mony many but eu supple on ia her huab ind said chank IOU ou suppose lie told her tier how grateful ho he waa was to her tier for the work mork hint that mado made him hint a comfortable home and for the tile thrift that made it im bloss blo ble for him to prosper in busi business suppose he liv told her how ho lie ampre elated her devotion her tier lih ties her tier loyalty and slid that he thai that ked if ed god cery eiery hour ot of his life to lor for giving gling him jilin euch such a wife dont you kno kloft it bould work ork a that would make her louri and beRuti beautiful ful again if it would mako make every esery meal meat site cooked a i iv ex red joy and it mould set act the star in her tier heaven once more and our friends those who ho rive give us companionship who give us sympathy in lit our joy and our eor sor rowa who ito reach out helping hands ill time times of trouble who ho do a R ill thousand ibets of kindness to m u surely on thanksgiving day wo so might well express to them then our gratitude and find appreciation of their kindness to us and our understanding of ito how fine and wonderful they are fio so lets leti make inake thanksgiving da tt it real thanksgiving day by goina around armind thank vou ou to our fellow creatures to whom 1 vc L owe such a debt of gratitude selected |
