vi THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSRI IPfi. pA. l s s mm m m m m m t m- aW w m mm v w m i,w i HAT was a moving and an en lightening Incident or the little girl from the poor house who. at a ThankHeiv- Ing dinner where PRCh guest was re quested to mention something for which he was truly thankful, said, after some hesitancy and pause for thought, "I am thankful I have a country to love." Friends or kinsfolk or prospects she had none, but In the dearth of the near and the obvious she had reached out And drawn close the great thought of patriotism; cut oft from the common blessings of home and care, she had groped after an Ideal and found a country to love. It was, after all, ber good fortune that, undazzled by an Inrush of small prosperities, she became the more aware of the greater blessings. Truly the human heart Is Indomitable, and only the weakest cease to be thankful, "nooks and my food and summer-rain," Stevenson enumerates as enough to melt the sullenest hpnrt tn flrpntftiirtA Alt x . r,. ,,111 Kn-tti uiessings are free and common to us all, but the universally ac cessible matters of gratitude we are like to for get wnen we sum up our causes of thankful ness. Foremost, there Is the overarching skv, in which wo all have part and portion the skv with all its shifting scenery, Its vast dome of night sprinkled with the dust of stars, the splen dor of dawn, and the evening pageant; Its up ending surprl.es In cloud-groupings, the pomp of its midday depth of blue these are matters to give a new face to joy every hour. Who cannot remember, too, when he flrat took the Ky into his confidence, became aware of It fl f-onstant friend iroiihL. I., i am,... ""v,,i"s 'i ut-nuurui ex- l:..ise over his personal life and making a grand " u.lu " "'s nine living and btlnc TIlP nrinrc r,f ...... "' " nuiiuiivr, or winds blown across tl: ..w,er-iana. or salty from the sea. or hot ...u jMne-scentea, these are matters that out weigh the frettlngs and the worries of our little day, and live long In the afterthoughts. "This ....u.ionuai ucing," as Milton calls It. just this power of apprehending, of translating through the senses the colored stretch of space to the " 1 "nn,n- w could lose it without regret' ., corn 11Ue as lt r : , c "loraent, is a cause for thank I II I 11 ADO PnH 4 1 , l,,e nexi step after birth Is the yu,.u or oeauty. and beauty knows how to keep the chase exciting to the end. giving us a ninr. n rh cm-net tit -. -.M-uu, a i nice, enough to start u on. but melting ever Into the mystery beyond be -o"o Lues jJi vy. Memory, too, Is a chief blessing of 'life, .ncmuiy e niece truretho- , 21 ,e,'e ga'n thC feeIlnK of continuity, of each Hfp fnrmfnr I. .... ... " . . 8 DUU'e son a definite whole And what life, lingered over by memory doe, l'"1, itself 88 having a kind of sacred pathos, a dim and broken beauty like sunlight h, m" ... T . Blrlara- And then we have IO ue lnanKruI f human) er vhn v ,.,i, . " and tL IaClng thC mery ',;;,! ."S"'K up arter disaster, un- " ,7 neiP,eMn" on Its spinning ban - ..u .lu-K.ng it Knows not whither, ending It knOWR Tint ..i C"U1" . su" ever or high cour- h,,t r. " urar not orly bin own share but part of some one else's share of the weight Of HvinP" humor,!.. . ... WtTlg.II -.-.. u,, .,iung with each new dawn nnlff r, f?" "PW Wrkl unrpStl"S- unbreakab.e. visions as high as hope ran reach pur8uln The Thanksgiving Turkey. dreX vo, ;n7r?pi?e ,tkind, th, baklnR one teaspoonful of he cavity ofe JurkS 7r! wh, T ,,'",,P,l,, f ,ter; bas,e r sr - body of the turkey paRsU Hi Z dUKh,: elther of wh,ch twine around the rJ t, o w,TnT tUrkpy hM draw the lpgs dow c;0teROtoaS, b7 " " "ven one hour. body, and spchto .' ln 1 ousting allow twentv m 1 n ii ton twine around the body of the tur- '. pounA- If the fov', ls covered key. Lay. the wings down flat on iT L m ""'T Paper' 0r wlth doun. each side of the breast ln their nat- "Ire no basting; but If un- ural position .nH .."L"!1 ' covered lt should be basted , i.nHing me twine or narrow fane - . . .. iu,n,v roasiea beyond a aroimrf th- a.. 'Brrow 'aPe certkln Hin t becomp. rf.v v..v. uuuj , iv QP jt. SeClirPlV . J IKBLC" . Now rub the turkeal, over 'f,H r.-KiT'"'".. of . done butter, dust it with black pepper and r " Tk- X? nour and It U ready to bake. Putin Home and FarnT " ,0 jistory of Thanksgiving (3 Yankee Pumpkin Pie. And for such measure f dutifulness and courage as shall be meted out to each we have too to be thankful, oven If It never la g,Ve , the abundance we desire; and also for t. " th f merriment of childhood virtue as we have met along the wav and, finally, for tne Deacpflllg "f JJ fir flM Own ... 1 ly. And for love pvon , h,,w iiivii6u lt i and for frlendshin n . trayed, we have to be thankful, for these are hints and suggestions of what life in completion might be. But above all we have to be thankful for the thirst or the soul after wisdom, a thirst ungues- uonea and unquenchable, beck oning us on, on. till we lose all count of the years In hunting for the well that holds the sac red water, and time and space drop away from ua as we travel, End the great mys terious sleep steals down upon us. slow- dies, be- j unci 1011 mil V tflllr ahmi. , The thousand Zl Vou may prate about their wondro.a .km Vr.m " nd b8ke; How deftiv ih.v "urous skill in culinary arts. Oo praise the French and German VhL, ,ngs' ples anl tarts Let those of fashionable tastes turn And think it m,., i- f turn up the ose In pride. a f.uiitu io oe simply satlsHcrl- wither" "z t" "r.'..d 8Uch ituff Let them eat those airy try Vy t?f? 'nou Because theVv ?UIT8 they tnlnk o very nice. But say. to curb Vu : app tite our f miKhty pr' There, nothing iike a 1,, TmrtLrurbrisrind"0:6 b-"-""- -; Your chicken, duck or turkey may' suU 'r,.? f yUr ,rth But these can take a i.uX L myBult Palates very fine HE autumn of 1621 waned on a prosper ous community. Ply mouth. Mass.. vi uo both healthy and wealthy. Sickness, though It had destroyed one-half the company of PilKilms, had ceased, and the crops, as a whole, had been good, the peas alone falling. All the houses ln the settlement had been put into condition and a goodly stock of furs and prepared lumber had been made ready fo export, to England, by the next shlD. Tha wn'ers swarmed with fish and sea fowl were abundant. The call of the wild turkey was heard In the woods and the patter of the feet of fleeing deer was nothing strange. The summer was past; the harvest ended. The Pilgrims decided upon a period of recrea tion. The Governor sent out four huntsmen, who In one day, secured game to last the colony a week. Hospitality was extended to Massasolt. of the neighboring settlement, who brought 9U people with him. The guests remained 30 daya The company engaged ln rounds of amusements. In which military drills and religious service formed a part. Thus heartily and loyally, was inaugurated the great New England festival of Thanksgiving. For two centuries It has con Inued to be observed, at first mostly In the I-astern States, but lt has now become national. iu.nKMK,vinR Day is peculiarly an American custom though there are some writers who claim that it Is not possible to determine the fn his h, 6 i t bserV'e- Jn A. Goodwin, n his h storical review. "The Pilgrim Republic " Is posit ve. however, that the first celebration in 1623 by the first Thanksgiving proclamation, Mori 1ovt'rnor ot Massachusetts. I i630 here arrived at Plymouth, fourteen vessels bringing with them 880 colonists, making 8 number nearly 1200 Instead of a mere 300 On a-kno,;,1. ' anther Thankf,K'v'ng was held in ot the 5 ,g7fnt f ,MS aCCeSS,on the ranks of the colonists. The Dutch Governors of the New Netherlands, also appointed different date, or public thanksgiving, from time to t7me. and In some h stor cnl n,v. . ' u , mcrB is record of a depute as to which of these colonies deserve MoestC,oef Mf0rKhaV",g flrBt ted the ay Most of the best founded historians, however give the credit to the New England Stated ' DoiTnnUttVOVern0rS f New therlands ap pointed ocxasiona days of thanksgiving , ,64?, fn, fBl 1664 and the English Governor ol.owed their example In 1775 and 1760 and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States in its prayerbook ratified in 1789 recom. mends for Thanksgiving Day the first Thursday days of thanksgiving in thi rnces gress of 1777 .k -uiry. The Con- S "nfeullat'lln r -tide. adopted a resol 't, " "3" Co10". of December 1 : . "th day iu ue oDserved as a dav solemn thanksgiving and praise Vashineton iturin ... . . two thanksgiving PZZZ1? the other in 175 i...f u. . " 1789 and the "Whisky Rebe.i." .r'r::"'u.ppreMlon the peace of the r'Z. "" "a ""eatened ISued one u Z'Jl. " "t Madison However In tk- . ,,riHOB 01 Peace 'n 1815. and the protUnZ;"" governors. The w... Z ;.:""rwa rrom th from New E..l.. " v "' Wr!e" the lead of the.e Z'iZSr have seen, the mn,,.i . y' A" w Governors of Ne. v 1.? ' th. that time the . ..T ''.."' F southward and westward and . K, Johnson of Virginia ,n1.88.5 Gov' in nr. 7 na tnough aak. h WI"e f Vlrgln,a helmed to Jiake the proclamation ... ea 10 he was unauthori,.; ;:.:: ' t Kround t,,at matters. 1 8B. . " ""f" ln re"elou. Proclaimed in e.ght of h " Was The day LSLV'' a Nat.ona, in " JZr l b observance, when he Civil IZ , UnIVer8a' -dden ripeness this if brUght t0 many other tenrWio- n ident Lincoln n,,t n L "V " Beal of h,B omcal proclamation8 President Lincoln's flr . mation was in 1862 on account of th a Important victory of me ivaiional arms. He similar rec- From ommendatlon in 1863. 4
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