Show FOR OLD AND but more especially for the old Is the season of thanksgiving IN NEW england the saying la Is IN 1 christmas to the young than thanksgiving k s to the old the saying like most bits of folk lore says the delineator has its roots in a common fact of living youth does not tend toward gratitude it does not tend toward introspection it does not tend toward it a sense of proportion and it Is these tendencies that roust must unite to make inake the thankful heart not that eliat young people do not love thanksgiving they do and country children love it more than city children rind children of families love it more than those of the well to do the reason Is obvious thanksgiving Dg day to a child Is a feast day and half the joy of a feast Is in its preparation what simply reared country bred grownup grown up would give up the of thanksgiving day at home tor for all the present comfort of a french cook and nn an elaborate menage first there was the business of the turkey A turkey was no ordinary every sunday in the winter bird in those days turkey twice it a year was the rule on thanksgiving lay day and christmas christinas on new years doy goose or duck the turkey was chosen anxiously while mother poked its breastbone fa their commented on the length and color of the pin pinfeathers feathers tile the afternoon before thanksgiving school always let out early in time for brother to fly into the kitchen and singe the turkey and for sister to break up the bread crusts carefully saved for weeks mother stuffed the turkey sister threaded the darning needle that sewed in the stuffing brother carried the bird to the cellar to awalt await to tomorrows M or oven then there were the first cranberries of the season the first nuts the first pumpkin pies thanksgiving day wu wag always aldaya cold and cloudy and about mid afternoon when one had reached the state of conia coma from overeating it began to snow mother always asked a schoolteacher to dinner aria and always some situe bachelor of tho the neighborhood and always some dear neighbor or friend or once grandmother and once little sister had died during tho the year and ono one noticed it more than ever at the thanksgiving dinner 11 after dinner nil all tho the women folks and the girie gathered in the h itchen kitchen to wash dishes and the raen men folks and the boys went out to look at the stock it Is for memories like those these that thit older people are thankful for these and other blessings por for the simple liol homely nely facts of living for the opportunity to serve with han hand d and mind those that wo we love for happy yesterdays spent with those who loved us and are gone for strength to and licar hear and think and work and for tin nn occasional bit of leisure in which t dream dhesi mako make our older thanksgiving day |