Show days true spirit not ourselves abre Is thanksgiving motto 88 grow fat along with me the best is yet to be the last of life for which the fint first wai was made the ax is in hi his hand assassination assassinations planned stand pat gel get fat nor be poor taunt of life indeed were turk hut but made to feed on corn alone to seek to find and feast when feasting ends to bowl howl Is thil this the end of fowl irks care the crop full bird I 1 io 0 doubt we well 11 ll toon soon he be fleeced rejoice we are allowed to grow and yet be brou prou proud to grace the festal board be stuffed to bunt burst be turned upon the pit spit till we have browned a bit then eaten up with one fell swoop that thae ii worst so tale and eat wt thy turk save carcass that may lurk amid the lure pick clean the bones next day pray eat cat us cold then hash ui us in a mold moli soup comes at last thanks be to hush bush our with many apologies to browning lile the turkey turley and the epicureans v we e are prone to fat at drink and be merry for tomorrow we nay may die me must have bare a particular day ap pointed in which to give thanks lest ue e for forget et we take so much tor for granted accept all the good things of life without stopping to count our many ma oy blessings or to name them one by one as we were admonished in sunday school so long ego we enjoy years and years of health forgetting what a wonderful gift it Is until illness laya lays us low ve accept our friends who strew our out path rith roses and cheer our way with kindness until one Is gone gonei and we realize how much re we might have been to him we think we love our children but when they have hive all ail left the nest how gladly would we have them back that we night might show them how much more te e could prove our love tho adilar 11 nf the outlook some bears ears ago exp expressed the true spirit of thanksgiving so effectively effect irely that I 1 quote him verbatim if the end edd of society Is to produce the largest number of free human spirits of generous human hearts of strong human bands hands of pure human homes of noble human lives if the libera tion of serfs the setting free of tho those ze in bondage the care and rev arence for the man as a man the open door to the boy and girl whose tea feet are eager to climb the breath ing of the breath of life through a str stagnant ignant world means progress toward the mate eoal goal then let us as recently thank god that we were born in an tin age and in a country in which it Is our supreme good for tune not to be unto but to minister if we are to return thanks he goes on to say not for ourselves alono but for all men not for work dore but for noble chances to work not for a flashed civi civilize liza tion bat for the greater tion that kiy be developed not tor for a few choice spirits but for the opportunity port unity for all men to lift them selves 10 into to the light not for things which makes for our own comfort but tor for the things which make for the vl the world not for the life that hot has been lived but for the boundless life that Is to be then let us thank god that be he has given ns us net art things but chance of growth mt ut comfort but op alty of service jervice not ease of spirit az bt the tolls of the alfe L lais news |