Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest-home:
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest-home,
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Made Day National
Persistent Woman Editor |
United the Nation in
Giving Thanks,
The Impression seems to prevail in
some quarters that the woman of the
United States never accomplished any-
thing worth while before they were
given the right to vote. Talk of that
character is a million miles from the
truth. The women of America have
always been doing fine, big, worthwhile
things, H. O. Bishop writes in the Na-
tional Republic.
At this particular season of the year
it is appropriate to tell about the
woman who, after twenty years of
patient effort, succeeded in having an
annual Thanksgiving celebration in
this country observed on the same
day by all of the people.
The name of this woman was Mrs.
Sarah Josepha Hale. Few women, el
ther before or since, have accom-
plished more big things for the better-
ment of men and women. Probably
few persons of the present generation
have ever heard of this gifted woman,
She was born at Newport, N. H., Oc.
tober 24, 1788, and died In Philadel-
phia, April 30, 1870. She was not a
college woman, but was taught by her
mother, In 1813, at the age of twenty-
five, she married a lawyer, David Hale,
a brother of Salma Hale, historian and
at one time a member of congress
from New Hampshire. Nine years la-
ter she was left a widow with five chil-
dren. She was a genuine, old-fash-
foned American woman, and did not
clamor for governmental or individual
aid. She was quite content to go to
work. In 1828 she became editor of
the Ladies’ Magazine, which had re
cently been started in Boston, She
successfully edited this publication un-
til 1837, when it was merged with God.
ey's Ladies’ Book. She continued with
the latter publication until 1877.
Much Work Well Done.
Editing a magazine Is usually con-
sidered a pretty big job in itself. Mrs.
Hale, however, seemed to find time for
many other things. She organized the
Seaman's Ald society In Boston, which
is the parent of similar organizations
now existing in most ports, The com-
pletion of the Bunker Hill monument
was also partly due to the efforts of
this little woman, She persuaded the
women of New England to raise £50,
000 for that purpose.
The plan of educating women for
medical and missionary service In for-
elgn lands was inaugurated by Mrs,
Hale, She devoted a number of years
this effort, finally “succeeding
ugh the organization of the Ladies’
Medical Missionary soclety of Phila.
delphia, and the Woman's Union Mis-
slonary Soclety for Heathen Lands, in
New York.
Throughout her editorial work Mrs.
Hale urged the practical advancement
of women, advocating their employ-
ment as teachers and the establish
ment of seminaries for their higher ed-
ueation,
Thanksgiving in 1777.
It was in the early forties that Mrs,
Hale began her campaign for making
Thanksgiving a national holiday and
its celebration on the same day all
over the country. It was then the
custom for different localities to ob-
serve the occasion on whatever day
happened to strike their fancy.
Following the surrender of Burgoyne
at Saratoga In 1777. Continental
congress had appointed a committee to
recommend Joint thanksgiving for
signal success Ia over the
enemies of the United States”
In 1778 Thanksgiving was for
December 30, most of the states con-
curring in a uniform
were other Tne
and i
states saw fit to order them.
It was not until January, 1705,
Washington was authorized by
gress to proclaim a national
giving, which he did for February 10,
For twenty years Mrs. Hale wrote
editorials In her magazine, and per
sonal letters to governors and Presi
dents, in behalf of a national Thanks
giving day. Her efforts and patience
were rewarded in 1863, when Abraham
Lincoln saw the wisdom of her %ug.
gestions and decided to adopt the plan,
From that day to this Thanksgiving
has been celebrated by the entire na-
tion the last Thursday of November.
After the 1705 day of Thanksgiving
in February, the festival was skipped
for twenty years. In 18135, when peace
with Great Britain followed the War
of 1812, resolved that “a
joint committee of both houses walt
upon the President of the United
States and request that he recommend
a day of Thanksgiving to be observed
by the people of the United States
with religious solemnity and the offer-
ing of devout acknowledgments to God
for his mercies and In prayer to him
for the continuance of his blessings.”
Long Lapse After 1815.
he day fixed for observance was
April 13, 1815, but thereafter Thanks.
giving as a national celebration fell
by the wayside, not to be revived until
Mrs. Hale's campaign moved President
Lincoln to act in 1863,
Mrs. Hale's persistent efforts had
won favor for the idea In most states
by the time the Civil war had arrived.
Some states already had begun the
the
“the
tely obtained
set
there
May,
various
date, but
sgivings in
June December as the
that
con
Thanks-
Congress
GIVE THANKS FOR
“GOODLY TURKEY"
OW well I remember that old
Thanksgiving dinner! Father at
one end and mother at the other end,
the children between and wondering if
father ever will get done carving the
turkey.
The day before at school, we had
learned that Greece was south of
Turkey, but on the table we found
that Turkey was bounded by grease.
The brown surface waited for the fork
to plunge astride the breastbone, and
with knife sharpened on the jambs of
the fireplace, lay bare the folds of
white meat.
Give to the disposed to be senti-
mental, the heart. Give to the one dis-
posed to music the drumstick. Give
to the one disposed to theological dis-
cussion the “parson’s nose.”
Then the pies! For the most part a
lost art. What mince pies! in which
you had all confidence, fashioned from
all rich ingredients, instead of miscel-
laneous leavings which are only short
of glorified hash! Not mince pies with
profound mysteries of origin! But
mother made them, and laid the lower
crust and the upper crust, with here
and there a puncture by the fork to
let you look through the light and flaky
surface into the substance beneath.
~T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.
nearly national
day in New
York was one of these, and her repre
ten years before the
November was set aside,
giving days, the northern states hav
ing observed one In
victory at
Folle
oln, Mrs. Hale feared
ight be allowed to drop
2 ett eahipm
Getiyshurg,
the
holl
he necessity of keeping the na
Mra. Sarah Josepha Hale.
Father,” Mrs Hale wrote to ministers
all over the country, urging them to
help.
The First Congregational church of
Washington responded to Mrs. Hale's
plea, and sent a delegation to Presi.
dent Andrew Johnson requesting him
to issue a Thanksgiving proclamation
He accepted and the Presidents since
have followed his example without be
ing petitioned, the states issuing sep
arate preclamations in keeping with
the natienal ediet.
Mrs. Hale wrote many books and
poems. The most famous of her poems
Home” and “It Snows”
Record, or Sketches of All
guished Women From the Creation to
1853, and enlarged In 1800. She went
on writing verses and Jingles for chil
dren, articles and novels for grown
persons and editing her magazine until
shortly before her death in 1879, at
which time she was ninety-one years
old.
"T HANKS is one of the things we
forget. We take our blessings as
a matter of course. We seldom say a
word about them—although we kick
like steers when things don’t go right.
So let's stop complaining long enough
to say “Thank You."-=Grit.
Thanksgiving
Let us pause a moment in our dally
deliberations and give thanks for the
many blessings we have received.
Thankful for our health, our good
friends, the rewards for honest toll,
and the community and nation whose
prosperity Is our ever-present concern.
Let us be thankful of the right to be
alive, no matter how hard the road
of life may be; and it will help us to
know that the sunshine always comes
after the storm and the rainbow of
prosperity Is Just ahead.—~"Emy”
HEN one thinks of the tra-
ditions of Christmas cele-
bration in New England, the
Middle states, and even far-
ther West, in the early part
of the Nineteenth century,
it is to vision snow-covered
ground, sleigh rides, and the
Jingle of sleigh bells, with Christmas
trées and Santa Claus, much as today
In those sections. Whole families go-
ing visiting in the bob-sled, to par-
take of the Christmas feast bullt
around the turkey!
Those were grent times and days,
and their annals live in the works of
famous literati of the East coast when
our Republic was comparatively young.
But at the same time a mighty ecivi-
lization was being builded on the West
coast, though how different was the
Christmas observed in the sparsely
settled and undeveloped land that is
now California! And how few to
leave record!
However, Albert Robinson, a clerk
1828, and after 110 days reached Val-
paraiso, and Monterey on February 15,
has left in his “Life Califor
in
ed In the late fortie
description of a Christma
ssion in San
the
events on the
time,
tobis
contrast
Cast and
i's business tool
San Dielo,
Jose Antoni
the
“Don
niert
deviee for
was nearly time
tival of ‘la
night) and bh
my
for the
noc
were rehearsing night after
Rejoicing.
at length Christmas arrived, and 1
had an opportunity of
midfiight mass and the subsequent per-
formances,
“At an
+} 1444 ry the
beholdir RE (ae
early
fire
wis re}
set off,
and all church
bells rang merrily, and long
time of mass the pathway
before the
# leading to
the presidio were enlivened
hurrying te devotion. 1
by crowds
accomg
ly everything that took place
mass commenced, Padre Vinee
Oliva (died 1845) officiated
conclusion
ficio' he produced a small image rep
resenting the infant Savior, which he
held In his hands for all
to approach and kiss.
“After this, the tinkling of
tar was heard without,
the church was cleared. and
ately commenced the
cholr of
entered In
appropriate
and bearing banners,
representing
three men and a boy.
"One of the men personated Lucifer,
The
nle de
and at the
of the lous
myster ‘sacri
who chose
the gui-
of
immedi-
harmonious
voices, The
procession,
costumes,
There were six
shepherdesses,
the body
the archangel Gabriel. The
ly drawn from the Bible, and com-
mences with the angel's appearance
to the shepherds, his account of the
birth of our Bavior and exhortation
to them to repair to the scene of the
manger.
“A dialogue is then carried on of
considerable length relative to the at-
tributes of the Deity, which ends in
the submission of Satan,
“The whole is Interspersed with
songs and Incidents that seem better
adapted to the stage than the church.
“For several days this theatrical
representatior. is exhibited at the
principal houses, and the performers
at the conclusion of the play are en.
tertalned with refreshments. The
boys take ar enthusiastic part In the
performance, and follow about from
house to house, perfectly enraptured
with the comicalities of the hermit
and Bartolo.”
How different from the gay Christ.
mas celebrations of California's pres.
ent millions! And how different from
what was taking place on the east
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Charley
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film star, Is not credited with
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pantomime, It Is related, however,
that he recently addressed a girls’
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London slums and regaled them with
bits of Hollywood life,
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“1 know a charming young lady
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Among them was a nest of gold thim-
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