Show More Than Turkey To Thanksgiving By ELIZABETH C. WALKER Now with an early winter making everything thoughts turn to the holidays while wishes turn to at least another month of clear streets and Every person has one memory tucked away of an extra or extra tragic Mine took place during the depression days when my children were I WAS somewhat dismayed when a note came from school asking that the oldest boy must be an Indian in the school He was in a growing spurt and it was all that we could do to keep him and now to the added expense of a But before I could get too bothered about it Rachel Smith came over with a that Jimmy needed a and Marilyn was to be an Indian What to We put our heads added our and came up with an RACHEL had a pile of dirty gunnysacks in her and I had a box of odds and ends of mostly rickrack and bias We pulled the sewing from put them in a tub of water on the lawn and the loose dirt and small sticks out of Then we put them through the hung them and pressed We took ah worn-out pair of pants apart for a pattern and used a shirt pattern for the We came up with scraps of bright cotton which we fringed for the pants bottoms and and then used the to finish the WE MADE several more costumes than we needed for our We were elated when George and Jimmy brought home a handful of pheasant which we used to make and went to the neighbor and begged more to complete our work It was a busy few but two happy boys took the extra costumes to school for playmates who wouldn't otherwise have had costumes for the All the outfits were left there and many a program blossomed out in them at Jackson WE HEAR a lot of stories about the rigors of the and it was a frightening condition to live but if it did nothing else it made people turn inward for their needs to God and to Those dirty discarded gunnysacks again became things of beauty to the children who wore and Rachel and I had the warm glow that comes with accomplishment of a task well |