of REAL THANKOGIVING
VEN those early
Thanksgivings that
crop up in history are
associated with much
—usually too much
turkey and cranberry
sauce and pie. As 8
child, of course, he
was thankful hat
Thanksgiving day had
to come on Thursday every year, in-
stead of flopping all over the week
and coming in turn on Saturday and
Sunday, when there would be holiday
anyway. For is there anything
tragic as a holiday that does not fall
on a school day?
Thursday is just right, for then, you
see, tHe school people reason that
there is no use bringing the children
back for one day, and they might as
well have Friday, too. Thanksgiving
on Wednesday would be overstepping
the mark, since they would not allow
two extra days, and Friday meant
only one day off, Thursday was the
oue to choose, and looking back gow
you cannot help wondering how the
president ever happened to hit upon |
such an altogether satisfactory day i
On Wednesday, you will remember, |
not much work was done, for every-
body was looking forward to the “in
tertainment.” Perhaps you even spoke |
a piece. If you did your selection was
limited, for the poets seem to be
kept busy grinding the mills for
Christmas that they have not one lit
tle inspiration left for Tranksgiving
But what Thanksgiving poetry there
is agrees on one point—a lively ri
ation for the “eats.” No matter how the
poem starts dinner will be served by
the end of the last verse
Take that one you
“Thanksgiving Eve.”
in the opening lines.
gently outdoors, for the scene
laid in Baltimore, Md. they
usually reserve snow for a Christmas
treat. We have a touching picture of
the little ones creeping silently to bed.
you get in a melting good, sort of
anticipating that when the youngsters
reach the attic the poet is going to
spring a vacant crib at you. Bul
Listen!
BO
80
ven:
recited about
Sentiment riots
The snow falls
where
uo
It was Thanksgiving eve, don’t you think, |
The pies were in rows on the
shelves,
And nice things to eat, and nice things to |
drink,
Resignedly
bring
miserable end to everything
pantry
looked for the morrow to
A
Not that it rhymes especially and |
the last line is painfully ambiguous as |
to where the miserable end is going to
strike, but what matter when the rows !
of ples and various beverages are safe |
on the shelf
After you had stumbled through
this getting purple-red in the face and
wondering why all those “fellers” you
could lick with one hand down in the
school yard should Jook so terrifying
assembled before the platform, you |
beat a precipitous retreat, falling over |
a hole in the carpet on the way. |
The next number on the program |
was “The First Proclamation,” done |
by another boy. The family of that
other boy had suffered because
“The First Proclamation,” for it was |
to be recited In costume, Now, how |
should a plain American mother know
in what garb Governor Bradford de.
livewd that first proclamation? Fa!
ther found a picture of the Pilgrim |
Father in the Rkistory and thought |
that would do well enough, and grand- !
father said: “Oh, pshaw now; don't
he look like one of them big-hat fel.
lers around Pen-Mar?” Finally thew |
borrowed a suit that a neighbor's
son had worn when he went as John
Alden to a mask ball, though it was |
much too large, and Johnny protested
violently against wearing it. Just so
does a simple thing change the course
of a noble life. If the suit had not
been too large Johnny might have
been able to take his mind from his
appearance and divert it to the lines
he was to speak, but .error that the
boys would guy him occupied his
young brain to the exclusion of all
else.
of |
Ball Player Should Mave Appreciated
Refreshment, for It Certainly
Cost Him Enough.
The most expensive drink imbibed |
by a member of a major league team
during the 1913 playing season cost |
exactly $600.05, The player who drank
the costly beverage is one of the best |
men in the business, but he has long
shown a tendency to topple from the
water wagon at times when his serv
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THE THANKIGIVING
‘And now, sald the governor,
ing abroad, began
Paus ©
And now,’ said the governor
Pause
And
And now
rushed
‘Baz
he
DOW
Johnny burst into
the platform,
hole in t
tears
from stum
bling over the
the
Then teacher got up, you remember,
and said would
Johuny she would read the poem, and
being nothing under
ircumstances excuse
gO On
he carpet on
way
if you all e
XCuse
else to do
but
3 permitted her
The First Proclamation
was no exception, f
id
@ Cc to
¥. you to
even those early
Bradford's Thankagi
with
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s Il
with sweets and
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pice
gy |
> !
Remember it, don't y>u? But even |
it perplexed you to know why |
you were hearing so much about pump- |
i
ing when in all your innocent young |
you had
You
never tasted a pump |
did not know then that
is sort of poetic license |
for any kind of Thanksgiving ple
One of the very limited collection of |
poems for this season was dedicated
to “Thanksgiving Pies,” and this was |
4
in
cause of her deeper understanding of |
the subject.
Such
Such
Ruck
baking, boiling. tasting, beating!
preparation made for eating’
unpremeditated joys
little hungry giris and boys,
You could hardly wait for tomorrow
to come when you heard these lines
It was a very long poem, all about how
household appeased their hunger with
pies cooling on the pantry shelf, and
you thought how nice it must have
been to eat those pies “iwelve In num.
not the remotest idea what umber was
for, save to rhyme with number. But
you had a very definite idea that what
would happen If you and your hungry
little playmates should go and do like
wise with the ples cooling right then
out on your mother's shelf.
And right when your mouth was
“watering like anything.” that elocu
tionist from the big girls’ class came
and and told teacher she was going
to recite a Thanksgiving poem for
the little children and teacher sald:
“Very well, if you wish to.” As for
you, you didn't wish her to. You
feces were most needed. Before sign. |
ing the season. If he kept his word |
that his outfit stood a good chance of |
being in the pennant fight and, con. |
sequently, was willing to offer extra |
inducements to keep his men in good |
condition. The player in question |
kept his good resolution for many
weeks, but one day he slipped from |
the narrow path and, entering a sa
few Shall Not Ring Tonight” was high
in her repertoire, and “The Polish
Boy” and “Spartacus to the Gladia
tors” and another about Robesplerre
in an unspeakable place where the
poet would ne'er have sent him if he
had been better hehaved Naturally
you did not know the names of the
poems then. These you have learned
since from constant reading. At that
time you knew what she was going to
give by the gestures with which she
terror to your young soul
Even her Thanksgiving treat for the
children made you feel shamefaced
about having been so excited over the
holiday
Even after this lapse of
years,
tertainment linger your
and spring up pick
paper and read the president's Thanks
giving proclamation or youngsters
come in from announce
Say, pop, |
Thanksgiving
After a while, of
giving to have
in
when you up
he
and
speak a
you know
course
school
got
Do
to piece
any?’
Thanks
other signif
There was the first
long trousers and a
ur buttonhole. It would be more
appropriate say bouquet in your
lapel, for that was season that
men wore the most enormous chrysan-
themum could find as a bouton
niere. They simply could not get the
flower blg enough Remember how
the cartoonists took it up and depict
ed gilded youth wearing
cabbages in thelr buttonholes?
it was a very seflous
the selection of
came
00 Year
Fou wore flower
in ye
to
the
they
the huge
But
matter to you
Jour ehrysanthemu:
Thanksgiving
trousers, and you finally decided upon
a great yellow one that made you ap
pear to be bearing a glowing pumpkin
the Thanksgiving feast
Then after you attained to the dig
nity of a take to the
Thanksgiving matinee How did the
theater come to be so inseparably con.
nected with Thanksgiving celebration?
It is, at any rate, so that when you
present yourself at the box office as
the afternoon performance is about to
begin the man inside is apt to ask
superiorly: “Do rou prefer to stand
on the firet floor or the second?” But
you did not stand. You sat.
“Eats” got shoved into the
a
the WnE
you donned
te
sweetheart to
back-
ner being late, as Thanksgiving din-
to
Many Thanksgivings have come and
tion for you now probably means lin
ing up your little family and marching
them down to grandmother's where
they will have a long, happy day play-
of the parent tree, for
about the only distinctive feature of
the homecoming it inspires.
the old house that it has not known
since the boys and girls married and
left one by one. The newest
connection
dresses,
Then the women go into the kitch-
en, and by and by there is wafted out
never have been thought up in these
days of high prices. But for once the
housemother forgets the high cost of
living. She beats up eggs as if they
were selling around a cent aplece
and, honestly, the way she drops
hunks of butter into pots and pans
you would think it just most nothing
at all. But, like Christmas, Thanks-
giving comes but once a year, and if
we can't be a bit extravagant then,
what Is the use of having the old
holiday?
loon, ordered a glass «f beer. While
he was drinking it the wise manager
of the club strolled in to see what
wis going on and, taking in the situa.
tion at a glance, Informed the sur
priced and dazed player that the nick.
el's worth of forbidden Hauid would
price of the drink. Leslie's,
Paradoxical Attraction.
“She has such a sunny disposition.”
“That accounts for her popular
”
A
Gold and Blue Boys Show Themselves
Eligible for Prominent Place on
Eastern Schedule,
Pittsburgh has shown itself eligible
for a prominent place on the big
| eastern football schedules. The vie
| tory of Coach Duff's team over Cor
| nell clinched negotiations for Pitt as
| & regular opponent to Corneil and it
| would not be surprising if the Gold
| and Blue would meet such teams as
| Yale and Princeton next season and
| Harvard is being talked of prominent
{ ly. Harvard did offer Pitt a game
i this year, but not in such a manner
to rate the Smoky City boys as high
| a8 deserved, writes 8. E. McCarty in
the Pittsburgh Leader.
Pitt's thorough football demonstra.
tion brought forth praise from the Cor-
nell officials and from the men who
officlated in the game. Carl Williams,
of Penn, umpire in the Carnell game,
voluntarily hunted up the writer after
the game and stated: “Pittsburgh de-
serves a prominent place on eastern
schedules. I have watched, played
and officiated in many games, but i
can truthfully state that I never min-
gled in a cleaner game or watched .a
cleaner bunch of players than Pitt in
today's contest Pitt has a great
team. Credit must be given them.
This fellow Wagner is material for
all-American honors. Wagner is a
wonderful player. While Pitt has sev-
i eral good individual Wagner
stands out a real bidder for the all
American.”
Of course, Pitt followers were jubl-
lant. Coach Duff, when asked for a
statement after the game,
and would say nothing. But
like Alex Stevenson, A. R
Charley Miller and the other real loyal
stars,
fellows
met with their §
All Cornell is talking of the wonder
ful playing of Hube Wagner
His 50 and 60-yard runs were
upon with awe. Hube
more brighth 1 today.
lng was great 8 kicks
and far and gains with the
overshadowed everythin
‘hil ay
ibilancy
‘ant
Capt
thar His tack-
went true
his
or
=
YALE'S HEAD COACH.
else
Yale, who by his own sterling meth
ods of training, bas interjected that
| vim and snap into the players of that
team that leads to victory.
College Paper Says Competent in.
struction Will Make Winning
Teams--Distrusts System,
Referring to the defeat
erew at Princeton, the
News makes a vigorous
a new coaching system
It declares the loss of the race to
the Tigers has produced a torrent of
criticism that proves complete dis
trust in the present system. that the
rowing authorities perceive the im
perative need of a competent coach.
{ that the present coaches admit their
failure and that the graduate rowing
committee must forsake sentimental
| ity and find somebody who can save
Yale crews “from jests and insults.”
The undergraduate body is agreed,
the News says, that “the difficult
English stroke, as taught by youthful
I amateur coaches, has failed,” and the
undergraduates are not alone in this
belief. The English stroke was
brought here by Averill Harriman,
gon of the late E. H. Harriman.
“The rowing authorities,” continues
the News, “realize how imperative is
a competent coach, who can teach a
stroke which does not require a life
of galley slaving.”
Yale
Lordan Wins Marathon.
Joseph M. Lordan of Somerville,
Mass, won the twenty-five-mile mara-
than run against a field of forty-one
starters from Boston to Brockton.
His time was two hours, thirty-six
minutes and thirty seconds. Tom
Lilley finished second.
Johnson Signs "14 Contract.
Waiter Johnson, who won thirty.
six games for the Washington club,
and was a big factor in placing his
team second in the race, has signed
a contract for next season with a sal
ight Tackle Dutton, who is one of
we dependable supporters of the
& . } I {wr oni
representing the Univers
He
i team
Peunsy
g
Ivania Kept
Was
Michigan Team Will
Not Join Conference
»
3y a vote of 15 to 10, the Uni
Michigan football
OpPoOsi d
western
ver
gity of {eam LAS
registered itself
to the
te conference under
ditions. The Was
the Michigan Dally, the
publication of the university
as
return
a
Yoie
timent favorabi«
re
jiale
re-entry
the
in the conference
surprise to the proconference m
the campus, the 1912 eleven
unanimously having expressed
if in favor of return
The baseball and
to
voted 14 favor of
Two of the men were non-commit
track
10 in
PLACE NUMBERS ON PLAYERS
} System for Football Contestants Be.
| coming Quite Popular in Detroit
| Key Chart Explains.
i Why not nu
{ football elevens?
This qu
mber the players on all
estion has been a source of
| much agitation all over country
the past few years Detroit
fans have not had a chance to judge
for themselves the merits of such a
| system until this year, says the De
| troit Free Press
| It remained for
| independent champions, to put
| plan into actual use, and {it
proven a popular one with the
who attend the contests at the
| Park gridiron in which the
champions are factors
Manager Essex really was the man
the
for but
the Heralds
has
| ho induced the Herald
{try out the plan of which he always
| has been an advocate, and it re.
{ ceiving such favorshle comment that
is
elevens another vear
The Heralds are wearing
! jerseys with large white eircles
{ the backs,
| the player's number in red.
{chart is posted In a
| place, and the spectators can
j out the individuals most prominent
{in the various plays by getting his
number and identifying him by means
of the chart
This same
on
A
pick
system is used in the
players.
Connie Mack's School.
Connie Mack has rented a house
near his home in Philadelphia as a
domicile for young ball players in his
school. They are not under contract
to the Athletics, but are prospective
future greats. It je the Mack way. Ed-
die Collinge was compelled to dream on
the bench for several seasons before
Mack was ready to spring one of his
choice sensations on the baseball pub.
lie.
Davis to Coach Amherst.
George Davis, the veteran shortstop,
baseball team for the coming college
season. He will take charge in De
cage during the winter months,
Muriel Dodd, Champion.
Miss Muriel Dodd, lady champion
of England, won the women's golf
championship of Cani?a by defeating
Miss Florence Harvet of Hamilton,
Ont. The score was 7 up and 6 to
play.
perve
tyveburs
of the gen
Gettysburg's
ASN PN.
'CORNELL HAS M NY ATHLETES
Several Promising Men Among Fresh-
men in Line for Various Sports—
Authorities Are Elated.
Ww
line for the vari
ith all of the freshmen athletes in
nell
he showing,
that the
furnish
than any
1 years. These
1 be a tower of strength to the
next year
of prominent newcomers
F l nen, Hurd,
year's
vif
half
authorities are elat
and the prediction
entering class of
more good athlet
froal BWR
es i Inany
Phillips-Exeter team:
back and captain of Cascadilla sc
Whitney, half E on the
to
hool
Hill
an
lla
arterback on the Al
ick men,
» Oly
He Lawrenc
§ Perkiomen
Danneheur, a fast midd
man from Peun Charter
Besides these men the best
lot and for the
baseball many years has re
ported for fall practice
nary: le
distance
school
catchers
of pitchers
5 iw
feam in
TORBETT OF MICHIGAN.
i
| One of Fielding Yost's Most Depend
able Players,
Harold Janvrin, the Boston infield
er, will in all probability fill the posi.
tion of second baseman for the Red
Sox next season.