Show 5 it e I 1 S pa H 7 by HELF HELN H W WALLACE iian 1 1 Is ilia lite thanksgiving spirit we e bring to our w holiday hollday 9 r lice e know what it was as in the gool goal old das da a wap when hen savages lurked bad und famine stalked for the undoing or of men and women nomen who tucked away aay in crevices among the tile ancestral cradles candlesticks and tankards that cumbered he the MB Ma floer were dually dumped on an oil inhospitable shore il we kno blat A lat it IS a aimed to be hut but whit hit in reality it ie Is title spirit that I 1 supposed to run rampant on the last du of at november how to man americans even lein loil ember lember the origin of at the he holiday and the purpose to which it wag was dedicated much less even built up tip blessings individual and national we ve had merry thanksgivings given over to pump pumpkin kItt pie turkey and catching up tip broken or stretched famil tips ties we wave ve had frivolous frivol oue thanksgiving when we e have shouted ourselves our ours sees elies 1 hoarse and run the risk ot of pneumonia for our favorite football cipro or have laughed ant fan 1 cried with the rest of 0 the tile holiday I 1 beeping melnee throng we weve ve had sad Thanks thanksgiving gI ings when loneliness lonell noes has caught us in her grip and the memories of brighter days have seared our quivering hearts hut but who ho of us has had a thankful thanksgiving not many of us its if it we se would be honest en ugh to confess it yet why not it Is to what the da Is forto take takeo ek of our blese bless ijas and give credit for them t who nho of at us Is so down IA 16 cue out luck A a to bo be surely in long das there bava been a few hea ahen something good a has come our way if it there have been then it Is ant good manners it nothing else to make acknowledgment of them somehow most ot of us u arc are better mathematicians when we beckon our woes than when hen our blessings are cont no adding machine ta Is necess necessary arl 0 a get at the eum sunt of our ii te Is fortunes we mulli pl with lightning rapidity he file tires our friends haic base failed us our haa has come a cropper or nur our health has ha gone to the bad an hour of 0 toothache makes more biml ani ret th in ft a ear without the lite dentist one block stock that drop drops will cauin cioto agony of mind than a of in rives gives pleasure a blight slight will mill where here a kind ness is forgotten wo vo can see ila 1 they poor hungry half halt frozen error terror stricken puritans hod much to be thank thankful fal tor for lint but it they had iho the indian wo ae hive the railroads rall roada to mutilate tie its if we haven t found any causes for thanksgiving here totolo it la ili for the good of our coulm to make inake a a steni atle hunt blest assured it will rill not bo be una sallIng it will make new ornen of LS if ve once learn to reckon our met ceiclee cleft theio thet 0 ie Is no gre mpr sweetener of the disposition and smoother anro other of the tile tangles of life than man to think on the thing things 0 o e have to make us happ if it we ae would grow into sour disgruntled conen with whole hole baskets of chips on our shoulders dem and find a hunch bunch of u grievances to 0 o make ua us the ho t brot of our let ua us acquire the habit of thinking all the world arid better off in blessings than wo e are rho rhe thanksgiving spirit need not nay should not be limited to one day once a it ear spread it over day aril throw in ili the nisete but make thursday Thu raday the a gala day of thankfulness when the he accumulated mercies s or of many neontha will be b gummed up and slid gratefully ac be knock kno ledged ledRed gratitude ie Is expensive or should be so the direct re suit of the uio true thanksgiving spirit ie Is to pass the along prokp 1 our tore store of blessings ionic scraps be culled tot fo those lees the iundy the tick sick in the tile thoe there to whom joy joys are u all should come in for a share of our attention mat their jay day biar may be made blighter and the too have a chance to reab their cunia of thanksgiving |