| Show not all americans look on day of thanksgiving with the pessimistic eyes of will carleton will carleton in his verses on captain youngs thanksgiving says thanksgiving day I 1 fear it if one the solemn truth must touch Is celebrated not so much to thank the tha lord for or blessings oer As for the sake of getting more it Is the fea feast stive lve day on which little wilelle on nearing the end of a bountiful meal will sigh ive pretty near reached my bust measure and dad will again wonder why thanksgiving day follow christmas so he can be thankful that both purse bending days daya are over it Is also the season in which dogs and cats beat a 11 tattoo on drumsticks drum sticks with their te teeth etli truly a man Is old when he be beins begins ins to fear mince pie what this W world ald needs Is for some one to devise a plan whereby the bone of contention can be utilized like the thanksgiving turkey for making hash and soup but ever thus these big thanksgiving meals indeed some years ago the thanksgiving menu of which george washington partook at mount I 1 vernon consisted of conceit of fresh fruit oyster soup mrs john marshalls marchalls Mar recipe blaek black eye peas ind and virginia ham knuckles added roast turkey etu stuffed tred with wild rice pulverized boiled chestnuts artichokes truffles fles chicken livers and toasted broad bread crumbs flavored with rosemary sage and mother of thyme larded with virginia ham fat and basted with madeira wine served with sauce fresh cauliflower and candled candied sweet potatoes old virginia mince pie served to in flam alamei new orleans old french market coffee almal those were the good old days I 1 but observes the providence bulletin the special blessings for tho sake of which children and some adult persons celebrate thanksgiving day are transitory at best they center round the dinner table groaning with good things but oven even it if will carleton thinks that roost most of us regard such ouch matters matter s s as a these more seriously than the finer fin er ind and nobler teachings of the day surely many of us grace the occasion with the spirit of gratitude tor for our blessings and endeavor to spread this spirit by providing for the comfort and happiness of some less tor for dunate household than ours at this one festival of the year it Is a familiar law of nature that the more we give the tha more we have this may not be true of material possessions but it la Is certainly true of the things of the spirit it if we increase the sum total of others happiness we w increase our own anyhow heres hoping you get the long end of the wish bonel bone pathfinder magazine |
