Show ARTA o I Irl jl J f Il l r 1 rj Ili 1 fi r ir t r IE Thanksgiving dinner exalts exalts ex ex- ex- ex alts an art ort which In more mor hurried and less Ices hospitable seasons season declines and t falls falls falls- lle- lle the art of ot earring carving The question Who Is I. to carve figures not least iu among among 1 ng the domestic worries attendant upon the festive Comparatively few tew men men nowadays combine the dexterity and end speed de de- Faced by the necessity of having to carve the modern man either ei- ei either either ei ei- ther shrinks back appalled or takes up the steel with resignation and often with disastrous results It was not so In the fhe good old daYLA days daYL A i certain Immortal c chronicle records that hat Mr Wilkes Wilke was Will very assiduous in In n helping Doctor Doctor Johnson to some lome fine fie Ine veal Pray Fray give me leave sir It t Is III better here here here-a a little of ot the brown some some fat tat a air-a sir a little of the stuffing fing fing But som lIO somehow midway In the Victorian mid age the ability to carve passed from the commonalty The roast left the dinner table for the sideboard sideboard Perhaps butlers were then both numerous and cheap cheop or perhaps It t was evolution Mr doesn't tell ell But no one disputes the fact tact The young Englishman of today finds find a athe the roast beef of Old England as Impregnable as would-be would Invaders invader did her wooden walls Yet the act of ot carving earring gives to hospitality hoe hos a a. certain homeliness an an Informality Informality mality which meals served from sideboard tide side board cr or kitchen seem to tl lack It Indicates In In- n the hosts host's personal Interest in each guest It t carries with it It moreover more more- moreover over over a suggestion of unselfishness While working for others the carver must perforce forego temporarily conversation banter repartee lie He must concentrate he must make haste laste for the art Is 18 long the time It is fleeting and the plates cool Fortunately the custom of carving the Jie Thanksgiving turkey at et the table has become a flied fixed part of the days day's ritual That this gracious art Is le thus kept from complete disuse and Is indeed Indeed In In- deed exalted by reason of its association tion with the most distinctly American of the years year's holidays mar mey even appear ap pear to some old old sive souls as 88 an add ause for tor forgiving forgiving giving thanks |