Show ALL KNOW thanksgiving DAY spirit of festival quickly caught by immigrants go into the foreign quarter of any amer can city and ask an italian or a sav sl w or any other immigrant cheth er he celebrates the fourth of july and he Is likely to shrug bis his shoulders i q he professes profess s ignorance of the day kit w answers no it s sno nothing thing to me ask him if he grows enthusiastic over memorial day and you will find that it leaves him bim cold but just on thanksgiving day and bis his face ace will light up at once yes he be will tell you we ne eat our thanksgiving dinner like any other americans and go to church and give thanks and ard have a good time with the youngsters in the evening day means a lot to us tor for me w e have much to be thankful thank lul tor for the immigrants catch the spir t of 1 thanksgiving hanks giving lay more quickly than that of any other american tion the new americans show this by their deeds and words and the artory ot of an immigrant rant who caught the spirit the first day he landed Is 19 cyp cal even it if in the majority ot of cases it Is not imparted so qu cely on a bleak november morning an old doumanian Rou manian hebrew landed landel in new york from ellis island with his wife and three children the harbor was wrapped in a mantle ot of tog fog which hid bid from their eyes the prom ise of the statue of liberty it was a dep depressing scene the old man mans s spirits sank and the bustle and lutle of the americans Am ricans brighte frightened ned him after bis his quiet life in a rouman lan fan village but his eldest son eon who nho had preceded his father fat h er to america amer I 1 ca and sent the money to bring the family over met him at the pier with a warm we come come right along father he cried we shall have to hurry to get home in time tor for dinner and he rushed the old man and the tb e children into a trolley car and took them over to the east side with all possible poss this speed when they entered the house cold atrid net and hungry an inspiring scene met their eyes A roaring fire biased blazed in the grate the american flig was draped above the mantel and a good old fashioned thanksgiving feast was spread out upon the table the turkey was there in all its glora browned to a turn and stuffed to the bursting point with chestnut flavored dressing big glas dishes full of cranberry sauce and celery flanked it at each corner and two bottles of claret stood sentinel at either end of tte the table vegetable dishes cakes sauces and gravy bowls filled up the vacant spaces space s on the board while on a side table the pumpkin pie held sway sur bur rounded by a court of J jellies illes blanc blare mantes and tarts the son laughed at his father fathers s surprise sit down father he said you must be hungry and this Is a day when boboly is supposed to go hun but gt in america it is thanksgiving day every man who by the sweat of his brow has earned a thanksgiving dinner tor for himself and his tarn fam ly is in duty bound to eat and drink and be merry and give thanks for the blessings he enjoys in this rich land of freedom tree com verily responded the old man you have much to he be charil ful for when iou ou can spread such a test fest te fe st as this which is only enjoyed by the gilcrest of the people in the land of our birth and he and all his family feasted and made merry and rejoiced that they had come to a land where su such ch things were possible a N bew 1 ork sun I 1 1 t r r F fv V A r 0 4 P w 0 o 4 Y if lv t f 1 I 1 k i 44 1 10 0 1 11 7 A T A iz I 1 ia 9 4 ame T av W 14 C t 16 4 1 va I 1 t k I 1 I 1 t Z I 1 20 I 1 t 1 I oo 00 A A I 1 asio v 1 I 4 I 1 10 A I 1 ft I 1 i |