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Show I Thanksgiving Day in War Time 1 HAS BEEN GENERALLY con- i ceded as proper and correct that H on the great American day of B Thansglving for past blessings. 'no change shall be made in the traditional tradition-al manner of celebration. "War-time economies shall be less rigidly ob-karved ob-karved on this day of days; every f.n-ily f.n-ily shall with a free heart, enjoy its I regular Thanksgiving feast and the j lonely shall be asked to make part of j the festivity wherever possible. ; After all, a real American Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, celebrated In the good old way, should not make an undue drain upon the exchequer of any family who live ! habitually in ordinary comfort. If turkey is prohibitively high, thcro is i roast chicken; and mashed potatoes i and turnips, cranberry sauce, and even raw oysters are not impossible treats to the food conservationist. And every housewife knows that the cheapest of all pics Is old-fashioned pumpkin! So let good cheer and a spirit of thanks pcrvadc the homo on Thanksgiving , Day, even though one conscientiously ' dines on boiled fish, wheallcss bread j and sugarless tea the rest of the week. If you feel you haven't anything j else to bo thankful for this year, be i I thankful you are an American! Even (without being spinclessly "glad," like iPollyanna that ev6ry worry, national j or domestic, Isn't a worse worry, one i may find looking Into one's own heart a good deal to give earnest I thanks for, even In a hard and anxioifs year. ) Because It Is a war-time season, of course, some of the Thanksgiving table favors arc In the form of empty shells, j There are tiny shells and formidable llooking big fellows, made of papier macho and decorated to look -like metal. But the end of the shell comes j ore to revel an innocuous filling of I bon-bons. Thero aro little rifles too, and flags and flags and flags. Flag i decoration for a Thanksgiving dinner table Is rather new, but the idea is not a bad one for war-time One hostess has thought of a pumpkin table center, cen-ter, the top cut out so that the pumpkin pump-kin forms a bowl for the fruits of the season, and all around the pumpkin a circle of small . silk flags of the Allies, the slick of each flag thrust into the Is nothing more beautiful or appropriate for . Thanksgiving table decoration, than autumn leaves and autumn fruit. The mellow tones of plums, grapes, sickle pears, picked out with the rich yellows of oranges, harmonize har-monize delightfully with tho russet, gold and crimson of autumn foliage. By Thanksgiving Day tho trees have lost their leaves and those leaves blowing about" on the ground are brittle brit-tle and brown; so it is well to gather the Thanksgiving leaves early and press them between blotting papers in anticipation of the event. If you have not dono this, make a memorandum to do so next year and place tho memorandum memo-randum where you will como across it in early October. One woman known to the writer has a splendid reminder of this kind. In a, box on her desk are twelve envelopes, each marked with a month of tho year. "When she hears or reads of anything that it would be well to remember in a certain month, she makes a- memorandum, or cuts out a clipping and tuck3 it in the proper envelope. The first of every month she opens that month's envelope and goes over the memos. Thanskglving Day Is Homo Day and Family Day all over this land of ours. And the true American woman plans, not for an elaborate course dinner with costly flowers and place favors and those guests whom, it would be good-policy to entertain; but arranges a simple, typical Now England Thanksgiving Thanks-giving feast, makes the atmosphere of the home as homcjiko as possible and (bids to the festivity those relatives who I have not so great a share of this world's goods, or who live lonely lives (without home environment Even if ! wood is high thls year, by all means, Ion Thansglving Day have a pleasant fire glowing On the hearth. Even if j the table decorations must bo of crepe paper, have plenty .of gay orange and yellow and russet to give proper atmosphere atmos-phere to tho feast. Lithographed turkey tur-key place cards and pumpkin colored crepe paper nut 'dishes will give a turkey tasto to the economically neccs-'sary neccs-'sary chicken fricassee or oven mutton stew that will surprise you. This year many Thanksgiving dinner tables will have a military suggestion. One of these is the soldier turkey shown, a centerpiece. The turkoy is (made of crepe paper, has mllitary'hat, collar, buttons, pockots, etc. The body of the turkey contains the favors and these aro attached to ribbon streamers which are fastened at the bird's sides. Every favor will be an article for a soldier's kit and Its recipient will Immediately forward It to her pet soldier boy or donate it to tho nearest Red Cross headquarters. Another novelty Is a martial Jack Horner Hor-ner in the shape of a service tent, flaps, guy ropes and all. The outer flaps lift up and the favors are drawn forth by lengths of manilla rope, very light weight rope, of course which seems to givo a bettor "service" touch than ribbon. |
