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Show The American Turkey it p ERHAPS the most distinctive )) Jt feature of our American j ' .') Christmas dinner Is the tur- ! key. This noble bird Is a : .. Christmas feast requirement, ij : J( whether the dinner be prepared jt ! j'i In Texas or Wisconsin. New -J i .' York or California. It is In- i foresting to recall the origin of (J t our national Christmas bird. Jj : J The story of Capt. John Smith. ', 'J fresh from his wars with the ' Turks, surveying the wild fowl in the forests of Virginia and ij of Ids uproarious laughter upon j' ' seeing the turkey gobbler strut . Ij proudly before the hens Is per- K- haps fresher In the minds of our l! . school children than In our own. JJ J( At any rate, we agree with his i Oj comparison of the proud gob- .J I bier, for he "is exactly like the K t! proud Turk showing 01T before J , Jt his harem." So the name tur- jj I 'J key Is no longer familiar Just to .( I Americans, but has fast become Jj an International medium of cole- t' brating the happy Christmas ', "'l season. Frank 11. Sweet. 1 J (A 1?:7, Western N.wsriip.r Union ) h |