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let aside thursday november 24 as ai thanksgiving day above is shown a facsimile of the first fint presidential thanksgiving pro proclamation clarna tiong issued by george washington and setting the date as thursday november 26 1789 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON S NOVEMBER 24 approaches amer jh I 1 leans c ans realize that its about time to iff H talk turkey for november 24 la Is V B thanksgiving day and whit what would the american thanks ining day dinner ner table be without the presence of 0 a roa roasted ted turkey hut but before proceeding with a discussion of the species of fowl who once a year is our national nil bird it might not be amiss to consider the origin of that typically merle merlean expression to tills talk turkey it a certain tradition Is to be believed it ill had ad its origin in an incident which Is as typically amerlean american as la is the custom of observing a thanksgiving day on the last thursday in nove november m ber and making it a feast day of t picnic typically american in edibles chief of which Is the native american turkey away back in the early days just when lien no one seems to know in one of the thirteen colonies it cannot be st stated ted positively which one although from certain aspects of the incident the suspicion arises that a yankee was one of the actors an indian and a white man agreed to hunt together for a day and then to divide the spoils this they did and the division proceeded agreeably enough until only a crow and a turkey remained thereupon the white man volubly frank and seemingly generous in manner sa slid id now you may have hare the crow and ill take tho the turkey or ill take the turkey and you may have the crow but the red man was not so easily taken in by this glib proposal and replied indignantly Il huh allulli why you iou no talk turkey to die mel and ever since lince that time so says the legend when a person began to dissemble to conceal his reil meaning in a superfluity of words to attempt to put over something 1 ing on another it became time for t the lie 0 other t her to advise him to talk turkey 1 e to be straightforward and get down to business u siness reference was made above to the fact faba that once a year the turkey Is our national bird it Is just possible that lie he might have been our national bird the other days that Is if a suggestion made by jolly old hen ben had been followed and thereby hangs the tale talc of the first coins and seals that came from the mint when the new republic of the united states of Amer america americol icil was established these were nere rather crude affairs and the eagle cagle on them looked very cry much like a turkey und and a slightly tipsy turkey at that I 1 whereupon thereupon franklin wrote tills this comment 1 I am not displeased that the figure Is not known as s a bald aag eagle gle but looks wore more like a turkey for in truth the turkey Is in corn com carlson a much lucli more respectable bird and withal a a true nithe native ot or america ile he Is besides though a little vain and silly it Is true but not the worse emblem for that hint a 1 bird of cour ago age and would not hesitate lo in attack a grenadier of the british guards who should presume to enter his with alth it red coat on oil franklin was quite right in calling callynn the turkey a true native ol 01 america that lie he wits was one of f the authentic first americans Is proved oy ny tile the fact that his hones bones in fossil deposits show that UNIL he Is of prehistoric origin and what appears to have been ro places for dom 1 gr 4 estic turkeys have been found attached to pueblos anil and cliff dwellings lu in excavated ruins of 0 untold centuries ago the spaniards aio conquered mexico found turkeys tinkers both wild ld antl and domesticated in that country as early eaily as 1519 and it was no less a person than cortees coite ss own confessor fra aga pada who vi ho wrote bote bids back to spain from mexico ill the e following there Is a bird much greater in bigness than a peacock pei cock that Is found within the forests and vegas nil all over oer this country it surpasses as food any wild bird we have hae found up to this time the hie natives do shoot the these birds S with arrows and catch them tn in various kinds of sp and snares sn ires specimens of this splendid fowl were viere almost immediately sent tick back to spain and the jewish merchants who ft ho were the leading dealers in such commodities at the time thought they looked more like peacocks than anything else tho the hebrew word for peacock was tukki from a hindu word vord itol toka a meaning It trailing skirt and these merchants began calling them tuk kis or american 11 soon the word I tukki became corrupted to turkey and led to a confusion as to their origin even though they were of aniere Amer letin in rather than turkish nativity from spain the new delicacy from the tha new world spread to other parts of europe and won instant favor turkeys were taken to persia by armenians Armen ians and to batavia by the dutch in france where the turkey was and Is called binde dinde because they believed it hailed from india tile the bird was vias first served for the wedding feast of the lively young soung charles IX and eltz abeth of austria twelve turkeys were considered ino fine enough for a royal gift from the merchants ot of to charles by the middle of the century england met the bird and in ill another 20 years e irs it was as being plentifully raised in callous ani lous sections of great britain and now comes one of the curious paradoxes of history in tint that this native Amer american lenn became an immigrant to the shores of ills his own land in 1020 1629 a litter letter written to governor Goer nor endl cott in salem muss by his agents in london assured him that tame hurkles shall be sent you by the so in it a short time the new england variety of the north amor airier lean wild turkey was being mixed with ills his partly domesticated descendant from mexico via england thus completing a curious year i car round the world horld tour R y it Is probable that not one turkey in a thousand I 1 which will grace the thanksgiving table this year will be a native wild turkey for the original new england wild turkey Me Mc leagres americana Is all but extinct in the part ot of the country where he first made his appearance on th tint festal board the wild turkey of 0 today Me Mc leagres galla pavo according to ornithologists biologists Is found in greatly reduced numbers only from pennsylvania and ohio south to the gulf states and west to arkansas there Is a smaller variety the florida wild turkey in tint that state in southern texas Is another the rio grande turkey and in the tha rocky mountain region another Merr Nerr lama Iams turkey all modern domesticated turkeys are derived from tile the mexican wild turkey Me leagres mexicans mexicana cana of the earliest oarl lost days davs horn from him comes the exquisite penciling of modern domesticated turkey but to get bick back to why the turkey occupies such a prominent place on our thanksgiving lay day dinner table of that first celebration held lu in plymouth in 1021 edward winslow wrote back to england as follows our harvest being gotten in our governor be sent nt toure foure men on f fowling that so we might after a mo more re spec lall manner rejoyce together after wo we had gathered in the fruit of 0 our la hours bours they foure in one day killed as mu much ell fowle as with a little help beside served the 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 w with alth some ninety men whom tor for three days we entertained and feasted and they went out and killed five deere which they brought to th the 0 plantation and bestowed on our governor and upon the Capt alno alue standish sh and others there Is no doubt that chief among the 11 fowle at this feast was the native wild turkey however according to mary austin our elevation of the turkey to the place of lionor honor on the thanksgiving detiner table Is not entirely owing to its traditional importance to the first american thanksgiving day it Is a tribute to the homemaking instinct of the puritan women who made the turkey brood a part or of that association of men anu alfi their wild brethren which Is inseparable from tile the human idea of home tho indians domesticated the turkey chiefly for his feathers which they prized but I 1 havo have no doubt that the english housewife arriving chick enless got her first feeling of being nt homo home from the brooding cluck of tile the turk turkey ey lien hen about lier her door 0 by western newspaper union |