Show j thanksgiving then and now N THESE days of rush rap and d rustle the advent of thanksgiving serves most filkill of all to remind us of 0 6 a what wondrous changes time has wrought the thanksgivings of our fathers and those of today are no more alike than the winnet minuet and the fox trot the dances that well typify the era of the present and the past about the only thing left to us from out of the old days Is the thanksgiving turkey and even this bird Is not now held sacred and necessary tor for this festival the very mention of the word thanksgiving brings to the mind a picture that modern conditions have turned to the wall it Is a picture of the time when life was simple in its pleasures and robust in its strength when people were really folks when hen the race and rivalry of life did not extend their office hours over the entire lay day that state of things has now passed away it has followed in the ole wake and the trail of the pioneers and the other figures of the american national life that was but is not in the old days there were tippets and things that hang in mem orys closet on the same nail as the high stock mens shawls and daguer ro types gone are nm the marvelous marvelo js lippels that we went nt round and round the neck until a person was swathed like a mummy of ancient egypt gone tco tc o are the littna knit at home la in colors of sunset and sunrise blue those cozy ancestors of gloves As for the bootjack in these days of luxury and ready made shoes it Is as unknown as any creature of the prehistoric age no longer does thanksgiving bring the real mince pie that culinary triumph of every well regulated household with its wonderful fruity flavor that cunningly combined the qualities of solidity and crispness a pie that even it if dangerous to health made a danger well worth facing and putting down compared with the bakery built substitute of today the mince pla pie of those days was a vintage pie as far above its modern rival as a vintage wine Is above the grocery wine f for or c cooking use its existence was a splendid testimonial to the physical traits of the men and women of the era in which it flourished even the plum pudding that carnival of richness Is disappearing from the stage it Is giving way to ice cream that mollycoddle of diges digestion ion that invites to slow eating and deliberate enjoyment the thanksgiving stage Is now set with new scenes and new characters there Is the cabaret and terrapin and football and the theater there Is tile th social function in place of the family festival and in the evening hours the elaborate entertainment in the glided ballroom in place of the homely bomely dance to the strains of the fiddle and the bow and the ministrations of 0 tile the merry squeaking fiddler truly the coming of this holiday and its once well measures the distance that the tha nation has hag tone gone from froia its ufa life and its it habits in the days day when thanks day was wa young |