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Show -g- On the S Funny msjm LACKED ROMANCE .. Dolly Wasn't it awful! Grace got beyond her depth ana r!r Yea TPS? Dolly And was brought to shore by fat man with a wife and Dint children I Brooklyn Eagle. Fow'fiJ Staff "Hear you had some trouble on year tour." Tea, I ran out of gas while cross- lag a mountain, and a moonshiner In stated I could use some of bla stuff that would do Just aa well aa gag. Did itr Well, tt ate off the gas tank be fore I'd gone three miles. Clncln natl Enquirer, Part Time fjoorge Have you got the time? Jack Part of tt the hour hand's wishing from tny watch, but It's ten minutes to something. NAMING THE BABY Jane, secret? to an attorney, went to call on a dear friend, Mrs. and ber new-born daughter. She was met at the door by little William, full of news about the new slater. "Well, what hare you named herr asked Jane. Suddenly an aggrieved expression overspread bis bappy face, and al most In tears be replied : Oh I wanted to name her Spot, but murrer wouldn't." Indianapolis News. Saa.Itlve She had tried on pair after pair and found some fault with them all. With a nair of conservative black calfskin oxfords on she viewed her trim feet in the mirror and sighed with disappointment "It's the heels," she said, "they're so flat and low. They make me look so sensible." But why should you mind. If vou're really not?" comforted the DersDlrlng salesman. "But that's Just It," compiainea the harassed lady. "Too see, I am.' Boston Transcript Ingenious Norah There was a crash In the kitchen. The mistress found the maid and little Margaret gazing at something on the floor. "Oh, mother, exclaimed the child, "Just see the lovely Jig-saw puzzle Norah has made out of one of the new plates." MORE SATISFACTION CANT BE BOUGHT. 111 K Tint United State Cottoa According to McMaater, cotton In 1784 was never seen growing In the United States to any extent at the time of the Revolutionary war except ex-cept la gardens among rosebushes and rlnea, A Uttle had been sent to Liverpool five years before the beginning begin-ning of the war. In 1784 eight bags were sent to Liverpool, but the customs cus-toms officers setzed them, claiming 4hat It was well known that so much ottoa could never have come from America, Woa Remarkable Wager The books of some of the old London clubs contain particulars of astounding wagers. One bet made between two members nearly two hundred years ago was a thousand pounds to toothpick that the next man to mount the stairs would not fall down and break his leg. Astounding as It may seem, the next Member who went up tripped over the top step, fell, and was picked up wlUi a broken leg. Explaining "Lloyd" Lloyds, the famous British Institution, Institu-tion, Is not an Insurance company at all. It la an Insurance exchange. It is the meeting place of Insurance brokers and Is comparable In a general gen-eral way to a stock exchange. When It la stated that Insurance la taken out at Lloyds, the statement means that Insurance has been placed with one or more brokers or companies dealing at Lloyds. , fa Old Quebec Along the banks of the mighty St Lawrence river are tiny French- Canadian villages where the inhab itants live as they did in the days of the first seigneurs, the women busy at ancient spinning wheels and band looms and the men tolling la the fields. Tourists visit Quebec because it is a visit to an old world remaining almost untouched by modern civilization and yet resting almost at their very doors, Cut Flowart Cut flowers require fresh air and fresh water. The container shoukl always be clean and the flowers placed In a cool place each night The water should be changed once each day and the ends of the stems cut with a sharp knife, Bruised and dead parts should be removed as soon as they become evident Cut flowers will keep better in clean. cold water than any other medium. Dog Retrieve Live Bird now a gentle Alsatian named Tiger retrieved a live canary, has been reported from Lane Cove, N. a W. The bird In 1U cage was placed on Ue lawn, and when It found the door open, escaped. Tiger, doting dot-ing oa the lawn, nw the pet flying among the flowers. Ue sprang and caught tt to hi Jaws. Taking it Into the house, Tiger laid the canary, unharmed, at his master's feet "Vernacular" enJ "Language Vernacular la the common homely speech of a country or section of a country, or a particular group of people; speech that contains words and phrases common te certain localities lo-calities or groups of persons. Language Lan-guage Is the general body of words and phrases used by all persona of a particular language group. Deliacatioa "If character la shown by handwriting hand-writing how Is it that the handwriting handwrit-ing of most clever men la notoriously notorious-ly bad" tin been asked. Character Is shown by the slope of the letters, thickness, and general trend, apart from lesihlllty. Clerkly clearness ay be merely a mechanical achievement Martyrs It veems to b almost a general rule that la all religions, except the trie, b snaa will suffer martyrdom wbe would sot also Inflict It willing ly ea all (hat differ with him. The tame seal for specula tire opinions la the ee ef both. Hume, His tory ef England. We-rliT. Create! Calamity The greatest calamity la history was the Black Death, the pestilence which swept over Asia, Lafayette' Family Name Elbrldge S. Broks, writing of the name "Lafayette," says: "The old family name of 'Motter ran away back to before the year 1000. But when about that time one of the Motlers became possessed of a little farm called "Villa Faya,' or 'Fayette-vllle, 'Fayette-vllle, he tacked this estate on his name and became 'Motier of La Fay ette." " Or aa Adole-tcent "Perfume." auotes a reader of the New Torfc Post "'has played an Important Im-portant part In the growth of kind ness la the world.' Please Inform me, was the author of this aromatic statement a psyche loelstr "Not necessarily," sniffs the editor. "He may Just be an old scentlmentatlst" Ancient Will. A will written on papyrus, and prepared about B. O. 2550 In Egypt Is the oldest one known. By Its terms a priest left his property to a fellow priest Both Greece and Rome had manuscript wills. In the Seventh century wills In parts of Europe were written on bark. Norther." Cales of north winds are known as "northers." In southern states they blow across Texas to the Gulf, following the passage of a low area er cyclone. The contrast In temperature tem-perature Is generally very marked as the preceding winds are warm. moist, southerly. Oieij Gave XKJ nolidair WW Abraha mtmcoln t . lt ' ' - 7 r; , y:J , " SerarvJosepha Hale I' ' VvitS Wfy?V f ilaaa.Ctaarr. .r , r, -. 4f . W ii'ian. -tSr -t-i- "Vit4 'tL -a.urfaiiitovk aw6gM-fe jgSStt-ga Bass A Napoleea aa Force ro you know what amazes me more than anything elseT The Im potence cf force to organize any thing. There are only two powers In the world, the sword and the spirit In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit Napoleon L Deadly Plant "I have heard there are plants which give electric shocks; Is this truef There is a plant In India upon which birds and Insects never settle because of its "magnetic qualities. Any hand breaking off a leaf rt a distinct shock. Londoa Tit Bits. New Caiaea Jaetice la - the native courts of New Guinea, a judge determines guilt er By ELMO SCOTT WATSON SK ten Americans "Why do we celebrate cele-brate Thanksgiving on the last Thurs day In November?" and nine of them probably will answer "Why, that's because the Pilgrim Fathers who established es-tablished it celebrated It then." And that like so many of our "popular beliefs," is only a half-truth, at best It's true that the Pilgrim Fathers were principally responsible for Thanksgiving day be ing a red-letter day on our calendars. But it's also true that we owe the establishment of Thanksgiving day as a national holiday on a cer tain date (certain to the extent that It always occurs on the last Thursday In November) mainly main-ly to two persons, a man and a woman, to Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln and Sarah Josepha Ilale. But before discussing their part in the matter of establishing this popular national holiday. let's check up a bit on the history of the de velopment of Thanksgiving. The story of the first New England Thanksgiving, from which our present-day celebration is a direct descendant, Is familiar to all Americans how that first winter of the Pilgrims in America had been a terrible one of cold and sickness which had left only 55 of the little company of 101 alive when the spring of 1621 came around, how all through the summer they watched with the greatest anxiety the progress of the crops they had sown, and how when autumn came there was a boun tiful harvest Then, according to Mourt's "Relation, or Jour nal of the Plantation at Plymouth": "Our harvest har-vest being gotten In, our Gouvenour sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a more special! manner rejouce together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labours; they foure In one day killed as much fowle. as with a little helpe besides, served the Company almost a week, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming com-ing amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest King Massasoyt with some nlnetle men. whom for three dayes we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deere, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Gouvernour, and upon the Cap- taine, and others." The popular view Is that this "first Thanks giving" was the beginning of a series of such celebrations every year. But the fact Is that the following year, 1022, no such observance oc curred. In 1623 a day of thanksgiving was held but not In the autumn and not In connection with the harvest It was observed on July SO and had to do with the safe arrival of a ship load of provisions from England. From then on for decades Thanksgiving was observed In most Irregular fashion. Some years were skipped; some years had more than one celebration sometimes for the arrival of ships. more often for victory over the Indians, as In the Instance of quelling the Pequots in 1G37 and the defeat of King Thlllp In iCTo. It was not until 1CS9 that the Massachusetts general court Issued the first recorded formal Thanksgiving proc lamation. During the Revolutionary war the popl tad the army observed an annual Thanksgiving day by proclamation of the Continental congress, but after peace was declared it was aiscontlnue until 1TS9. In that year a new element came Into the observance of Thanksgiving and one which has survived In the present celebration. That was the Presidential proclamation of a Thanksgiving day for the whole nation and It was George Washington, the first President who Issued such a proclamation setting aside Thursday, ovem ber 25, 1TS0. aa the day. It so happened that Thursday, November 26. 17S9, was the last Thursday la November that year and that fact was to have an Important bearing oa the later history of Thanksgiving dav. as we shall aee farther on in t&ls article. But although Washington was the first to Issue a Presidential proclamation for a national Thanksgiving day, he did not establish a precedent prece-dent which was followed consistently. During his second administration, he again Issued ThaakJglvtss puclamation. On January 1, 1735, Home for Thanksgiving" In Philadelphia, which .was then the national capital, he called upon his fellow Americans to set apart and observe Thursday, the nineteenth day of February next as a day of public thanksgiving thanks-giving and prayer, and on that day to meet together and render their sincere and hearty thanks to the Great Ruler of Nations for" a long list of blessings which the country was then enjoying. The example set by Washington was followed by his successor, John Adams, who proclaimed two Thanksgiving days during his administration one on Wednesday, May 9, 1798, and the other on Thursday, April 25, 1799. This custom, how ever, was allowed to lapse during the two terms of Thomas Jefferson, but It was revived by James Madison who Issued four such proclamations during dur-ing his administration. The first one of these set aside the third Thursday In August of 1812, the second named the second Thursday In Septem ber, 1813, as the day ; the third designated Thursday, Thurs-day, January 12, 1814, and the fourth and last set aside the second Thursday in April, 1815. Thus It will be seen that although Thanksgiv ing days by Presidential proclamation In the main picked upon Thursday as the day of the week for such an observance, the month varied greatly and there was no connection between these Thanksgiving days and the annual observ ance established by the Pilgrims. No other Presidents after Madison seemed to have had occasion for proclaiming a Thanksgiving day and tt remained for Abraham Lincoln to resume the custom and to link up the proclaimed Thanks giving day with the Pilgrim custom by establish' lng the last Thursday In November as a national feast day and a day for giving thanks. But before adding another star to the crown of the Great Emancipator, heed now the ancient French admonition, "Cherches la Femme!" It Is here that Sarah Josepha Hale comes into the Thanksgiving picture. For It was Mrs. Hale, a na tlve of Newport N. HL, known wherever English is spoken as the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," editor of the famous magazine, Godey's Lady s Book, and a pioneer in educational and civic problems of her day who, by canvassing the governors of states and territories and re conciling sectional differences, and by appeal lng constantly to successive Presidents, brought about the establishment of Thanksgiving day as national holiday on the last Thursday In November. Sarah Josepha Hale was a far-sighted woman In many respects. She was the first to advocate women teachers In public schools. She demanded demand-ed for housekeeping the dignity of a profession, and put the term "domestic science" Into the language. She started the first day nursery, and was the first to stress the necessity of physical training for her sex, as well as the first to advocate advo-cate public playgrounds. She founded the first society for the advancement of women's wages. better working conditions for women and the re duction of child labor. As early as 1S27 she began advocating a na tlon-wwe ooservance or xnanksglving day. "We have too few holidays," she wrote at that time. "Thanksgiving, like the Fourth of July, should be considered a national festival and observed by all our people . . . aa an exponent of our republican Institutions." But It was not until 1846 that she began her campaign through the editorial columns of Godey's Lady s Book to hold such a nation-wide celebration on a certain date and every year rrom irk ume on sne waged her campaign. Early In the spring she would write letters to the governors of all the states and territories, and to influential persons everywhere, asking their assistance In making the last Thursdav In November, which had been Washington's choice, a universal holiday. la the hope of bringing pressure to bear upon the governors, she next opened correspondence with literally thousands of private persons of Influence, with senators and congressmen and the clergy. In her effort for the establishment of state Thanksgivings she was almost Immediately suc cessful. Ky the third year of her cam palgn, most states and territories were keeping individual festivals, but no attempt was made to coincide tlse dates Maine might celebrat from (u.CurrierKlvn i'int In and frequently did in September, Virginia October and Pennsylvania in November. A conglomeration of state holidays, however. was not by any manner of means Sarah Hale's goal She dreamed of the states Joined In great national observance, and to this end sne soon began appealing to whoever happened to be the President In office. Using Washington's sinele act as a nrecedent and example, she privately wrote again and again to Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan, all to no avail. It was an age when women outside the home were seen and not heard. She herself at the time was the only successful business woman In the country. Feminine medvlling In public affairs was not only frowned on but resented. Mrs. Hale was quite aware of this antago nistic attitude. In one of her letters to President Presi-dent Fillmore, now preserved In a public collection col-lection at Buffalo, she begged his excellency not to be prejudiced against the Idea because he was being addressed by a woman I He may not have been so prejudiced, but at least he did nothing about It Neither did Pierce, his successor, nor Buchanan, who preceded Lincoln. Lin-coln. ' Falling with the Presidents, she fell back on her editorials, thus carrying her appeal again directly to the people. As early as 1852 she had succeeded In whipping 29 states and territories Into line for the last Thursday of November. Each year all through the seething 50s she proclaimed In Godey's Lady's Book that that day would be Thanksgiving day, and In the main the country kept it with her. The most gigantic civil strife In the history of the world was pending, and political and sectional bitterness was rife. In 1859, while the storm was brewing, she was more vigorous than ever with her thanksgiving plan, In hope that It might help to avert disunion. dis-union. "If every state." she wrote In an editorial In Godey's, "would Join In union Thanksgiving on the twenty-fourth of this month, would It not be a renewed pledge of love and loyalty to the Constitution of the United States which guarantees guar-antees peace, prosperity, progress and perpetuity to our great Republic?" So in 1859 an almost universal uni-versal Thanksgiving day was kept not In response re-sponse to a Presidential proclamation but be cause a woman asked It In 1861, with the smoke of battle darkening the land, Mrs. Hale begged for a "Thanksgiving "Thanksgiv-ing Day of Peace," but there was no neace. In 1862 she again failed, but In 1863 she won after 17 years. It came about In this way. In the September numner or Godey's she wrote: "Would It not be better that the proclamation that aroolnts Thurs day the twenty-sixth of November (1863) as the day of Thanksgiving for the people cf the United States of America should. In the first instance, emanate from the President of the Republicto Re-publicto be applied by the governors of each and every state, in acquiescence with the Chief Executive advisor V On the twenty-ninth of September she received from Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, an answer to her letter to the President stating that It was receiving official attention. Four days later, Abraham Lincoln Issued the first national na-tional Thanksgiving day proclamation since Washington's day. In It he said "And so . . . the last Thursday In November Is hereby set apart as a day of thanksgiving and praise." That set the precedent and Lincoln followed It np the next year. 1S&4. by naming the same date (the test Thursday) In his second and last regular Thankssriving day proclamation. Since that time other Presidents have never deviated from the custom, nor have governors of the states. As for Sarah Josepha Hale, "the Mother of Thanksgiving.- so long as she remained editor of Godey's Lady's Book (she resigned In December. De-cember. 1S77). she stood guard over her cherished hotlday. Had It not been for her. In the years or civil strife and reconstruction the precedent M fcy "ncola might very weO have been put aside, but by the Ume she laid down her editorial Pen. In her ninetieth year, the custom had been firmly established. Thanksng ha(J ukea Its place In the hearts of all the people and on the calendar cf the nation for an Ume to coma, Weatera Kntfttt Calea.) Sally Sez 11 in The heme producer'! w tkiil au Kinaneu aerer He selle to please, w km, If. fan te bey fan fe PATRONIZE HOMJEi). Rare Books to Bin A large collection ds maps recently presents vard university includes ; accounts of early vege' explorations in Americt THIS WEEK'S PRIZE Loyalty itrcngthcni Amd strong character an mt treat .tates and irutititin. Wa can atrenrthea mt .lJ boring homemade prodocti, tnat merit ram loyalty; atid ear beloved home ttita hmi their beauty, power u4 red larity. j mrs. mri Ypep J 7 AIif Utah oa I Service Si in Utah tA Size of Russia Russia is a land of n: eight million square miles, a seventh of the total las; the world, and has a popd approximately one hand fifty million persons. Church Built of Wine i Originally a consem! nf nld wine casks, l out:: church stands in the redwool of California. The structof rounded by a vineyard, is center of a grapegrowing f Popular Mechanics Magar ASK Y0UB DRUGGIST F APEIf COUGH smt NOSE DROPS AN INTEBMQPNTA1S ttsj Similar to U. S. LaJ A curious anomaly has H covered in New Zealand 4 Auckland. 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