Show ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE TIIE furkey GOBBLER GOBBLE it when the early spaniards came to our southwest they found the indians keeping herds of turkeys in pens not for food but for their feathers turkey droppings have been found in many rooms and hough working tor for the smithson Smi thaon lan ian institution found the de ed corpse of one laid away carefully care lully in the rubbish ot of one of the rooms turkeys tor for ceremonial use tur keys kept glyphs of turkeys in pens at nine mile glyphs of them being fed by women and boys turkey lin persona tors to teach the indians to be silent not noisy and of un an mind myths of the turkeys in their folk lore all these things our american bird played in the re ligion and life of the ancient indian glyphs of turkey tracks at paro wan can we safely without too much straining of the imagination connect that glyph with the myth of hove the turkey led Us out of the underworld 9 it attracts but it is unsupported scientifically we associate the turkey with our big feeds on thanksgiving and on christmas time the axe the plat ter gravy plum duff but not so the aborigines to him the bird was too sacred to eat its value lay in rites and ceremonies for which it provided the adorning feathers athera te for the regalia from 1067 A D and may be before the turkey hag has played an important part in the life of amer lea in 1934 we ship him by the car load tor for food only it should be our national bird recently some beet beef dressed 68 in the los angeles market a world record beet beef seem to be the choice of los angeles for the christmas dinner says mclaughlin the demand for it Is strong W H pace returned from salt lake city wednesday where he has been for the past week mr and mrs wm and mr and mrs butler allred drove to salt lake city sunday returning on tuesday born to mr and mrs fay walker a girl baby on the ath W C cole returned saturday from A business trip to california |