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 bays thanksgiving day I 1 fear if J on one e the solemn truth must touch Is eel celebrated abr abed not so 0 much to thank thos the lord tor for blessings oer As for or th the e sake ak a 0 of f gett letting I 1 ng more it Is the feast lve ivell day on which little willie 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 be can be thankful that both purse bending days are over it is also the season in which dogs and cats beat a tattoo 0 on drumsticks drum sticks with their teeth truly a man Is old when he begins begin s to fear mince pie what this world 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 etwas ever thus these big thanksgiving meals indeed some years ago the thanksgiving menu of which george washington partook at mount blount vernon vemon consisted of conceit of fresh fruit oyster soup tire mrs john Mar marchalls marshalls recipe black eye peas and virginia ham knuckles added roast turkey stuffed wath wild rice pulverized boiled chestnuts artichokes truffles fles chicken livers liver and toasted broad bread crumbs flavored with rosemary sage and mother of thyme larded with virginia virgin la ham tat fat and basted with madeira wine served d with bog barry sauce fresh cauliflower and candled candied sweet potatoes old virginia mince pie served in fl fladell amell new orleans old french market coffee amm I 1 those were the good old dayal but observes the providence Bul bulletin leUn the special blessings for the sake of which children and aad some adult persons celebrate thanksgiving day are transitory at best they center round the dinner table groaning groan lne with good things but even it if will carleton thinks th that a t mot most of us regard such uese matters as these thes more seriously than the finer and nobler teachings of the day surely many of us grace the occasion with the spirit of gratitude for our blessings and endeavor to spread this spirit by providing tor for the comfort and happiness of some less fortunate household than ours at this one festival of the year it Is a familiar law of nature that th the Is more we give the more we have this may not be true of mat material erfal possessions I 1 ons but it Is certainly true of the things of the spirit if we increase the sum total of others happiness we increase our own anyhow heres hoping you get the long end of the wish bonel bone pathfinder magazine |