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thanksgiving proclamation tion issued by george washington and settine letting the date as a thursday november 26 1789 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON S 24 approaches ameri y leans realize that its about time to y talk turkey fo for r gove november 24 Is V thanksgiving day nud and what I 1 would the Alue american rican thanksgiving day aay din tier table be without tile the presence of a roasted turkey nut but before proceeding with a discussion of the species of fowl who once a year Is our national bird it might not be amiss to consider the origin of that typically american expression to talk turkey if a certain tradition is to be believed it had its origin in an am incident which bleb Is lis as typically amerlean american as Is the custom of observing a thanksgiving day on the last thurs thursday day in november and making it a feast day of typically american edibles chief of which Is the native american turkey I 1 away back back in the early days just when no one seems to know in one of tile the thirteen colonies it cannot be stated which one although from certain aspects of the incident the suspicion arises that a yankee was vas one of the actors an indian und and a white mah man agreed to hunt together for a day and then to divide the spoils this they did and tile the division proceeded agreeably enough until only a crow and a turkey remained thereupon the white iian volubly frank and seemingly geri generous Vrouir in manner said now you may have the crow and ill take the turkey or ill take the turkey and you may have the crow iut but the red man was ans not so easily taken in by this glib proposal and replied indignantly illuk hull I 1 why you no tall talk turkey to tile me and ever since that time so says the legend w when hen a person began to dissemble to concen conceal his real meaning in a superfluity of words to attempt attempt to fo put over something on another it became time tor for the other to advise him to talk turkey 1 e to be straightforward and ami get down to business reference was made above aboe to the fact that once a year the turkey Is our nat national ionni bird it la Is just possible that lie he might have been our national bird the other days that Is if a suggestion made by jolly old ben franklin had bad been followed and thereby hangs the tale of the first coins and seals that came from the mint when the new republic of the united states of america was established these were rather crude affairs abathe eagle on them looked very much like a turkey anti and a slightly tipsy turkey at whereupon Pr franklin anklin wrote this comment 1 I am not displeased that the figure egure Is not known ts s a bold bald eagle but looks more like illie a turkey for in truth the turkey la is in comparison a ich more respectable bird bira and withal a a true native of if america lie Is 19 besides though a ll 11 atle vain and silly it I 1 Is S true apt not ant the worse emblem for th that lit it a hi bird id of coup oge ge and would not hesitate to attack et a gnep i idler adler of the british guards who should pre saime to enter his farmyard w with alth a red coat on franklin er anklin was quite right in dalling the turkey t true native of amerl va lie was one of the authentic first americans ts Is proved ty the fact that life his bones I 1 nr inq awn its show that he Is of pr birin appears to have rawln places for dom 4 qa 01 1 X VY A irenr ji estic tu turkeys k ays eys habeb have been found attached to pueblos and din dwellings I 1 gs in excavated ruins of bf untold centuries ago the spaniards who conquered mexico found turkeys both wild and domesticated in that country as early and itras it ao lessic less sc a person than cortees Cortez sown own confess pr fra aga pida who wrote back lo 10 to spain fr front om mexico th the e following therle thera Is a bird much greater in blk ness than a peacock that ts fohne found within the I 1 forests and vegas all over this cod country it surpasses passe 4 as food any wild bl bird rd we have found up to this time the natives do sho ehnot ot these birds with arrows a and ad e catch them in various kinds of sp and snares specimens of this splendid fowl were almost immediately sent back to td spain and mer merchants Mints who wae were the leading such i commodities at ia the alibe time thought thi they looked more like peacocks than else tile the hebrew word for peacock was tuk kl 1 1 fromn from a v hindu word toka meaning trailing skirt j j and these ni merchants erchant began calling them fuk furkis kis or american soon the nithe word tukki became corrupted to turkey and I 1 led ed to a cona con fusion asto as to their ori origin glit even beven though h gh they were of american rather than turkish nativity nathl ty from spain the new del delicacy latey from the new world spread to other parts of europe and won instant favor turkeys were taken to persia by armenians Armen ians and to batavia batavin by the dutch in france where the turkey was and Is called binde dinde because they believed it hailed from india the bird was first served for the wedding feast of the lively young charles IX and elizabeth of austria twelve turkeys were considered alne enough fora for a royal gift from the merchants of allens amiens 4 to charles by the middle of the century england met the bird land and in another 20 years it was being plentifully raised in various s sections of great Brit britain aln and noy now conics comes one of the curious paradoxes of history in that this native american became an immigrant to the shores chores of his own land in 1029 a letter written to governor endl cott in salem mass by his agents in london aured him that tame gurkles shall be sent you by the so tri ashert a short time the new ear england aaa d variety of the north american ican wild turkey wa was s being rolled with his chrt ly domesticated descendant from mexico via england thus completing a curious year round jhc thc tour or X h alk ia 5 W n 5 kodi it p Is p probable tuat that not hot on one e turkey in a iho thou d siva willel jhc 1 wali grace gracd the thanksgiving table this year yea r wilt ift be a native wild turkey for the original new wild turkey Melea grea americana fiall 1 but extinct in the ille part park of the country where jie first made its fils app appearance barance on fes festal lioard the wild turkey of today Ife leagres galla gallada payo vo ls according to arnitt ornithologist loin isa Is f fo greatly redu reduced ced numbers aply only jr from and antohio Ohio south to the gulf states and west nest 0 o arkansas there fc lg Is n fencher in alier the 66 florida ylla wild turkey in that sta teIn pou southern besas altesa is n 0 ejier the rio granda turkey and in the rack abel mountain aj region turkey all modern domesticated turley turkeys lire ire derived from the tle me lean wild turkey of tile the earl earliest jost days prom him bilm comps com esthe the exquisite pan pen allag T r mode ra n domesticated turkeys but back tor to why the turkey occupies lucli sucha R pram biant place on our thanksgiving 7 da day y dinner table of stint first celebration held in Plymouth 1 in afi rdward edward winslow wrote bac backup teto Englan Engla iid 1 as 61 follows lows our oar harvest being gotten in our governor sent toure foure men on fowling that so eo we might after ln more manner rejoyce together aft after er we had gathered in the fruit of our la ia hours bours they foure in one day killed us ns much fowle as with a little help beside served the company company almost a week at which time amongst other recreations we exercised our armes many of the indians coming amongst us and amongst the rest their greatest king massasoit Massa with some ninety men shohi for three iday days we entertained and feasted and they went out and killed live bebe deer e which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on oh our Gover governor por and upon the calta ind and others 11 there Is no doubt that dint chief am among ong the fowle fole at this feast was the native wild turkey however according to mary alary austin our elevation or of the turkey to the place of honor on the thanksgiving dinner table Is not entirely owing to its traditional importance to the first american thanksgiving day it la Is a tribute to the homemaking instinct of the puritan women who made the turkey brood a part of that association of tan men and their wild brethren which Is inseparable from the human idea of home the indians domesticated the ibe turkey chiefly for his feath feathers aers which they prized but I 1 have no doubt that the english housewife arriving chick enless got her first feeling of being ot bt home from the brooding cluck of the turkey lien aen about tier her door t oby by western newspaper Newt paper union |