[= RICIVTIRG BY THEO NLUSTRATEDT BY ™ Oh, goodly folk, who sing and say’ Praise for the harvest laid away, | |And raise glad voices on this day For your Thanksgiving,— : 3 y who was used to quips ‘and pranks,’ ¢ May: I not humbly join your ranks— I, who have greater cause-for thanks “Than all men: living? . mart, n See the vast You have but gathered for your store he golden gain the Summer bore; " What though it brims’ your measure oer: 4 The tender beauty To overflowing? 5 This better harvest that is mine : “\ Came not fram tree"or ground Winter and storm or vine, Yet beyond riches is and fine \ Above all knowing, For, look you, I have gee Spring, r "In all completeness; DOSER G HENRY HY rr . "The grayness of her eyes, the rare,’ Exquisite tears that gather ‘there, | The golden glory of her haiy, | \. Her maiden sweetness. - . Great be yaur gains at hearth sand But better mine, who, for my part, storehouse of my heart t Filled beyond measure. But 1 have gathered in’ my place To be.my, treasure. So, goodly folk, may Tr not raise My voice upon this day of days— * I, ‘who have greater cause to praise “Than ail mefi'living? 1, who have sown. in Love's ged Have reaped all happiriess, and bring - ‘tedlin ¢ The’ dimples of her’ “houth Toe my heart's home my. harvesting and ‘chin. “For my Thanksgiving. The_smile that it was hard to win may come apace of her face —from Harper's Bazar: By Bertha Esterbrooke Goodier. SO BESS an’ me,” began Larry | white dress for Thanksgiving Day, be- od Ye proudly, #‘are goin’ to have | cause she was.going to have a dinner 0 © the best Thanksgivin’ din- | party. Why sheuldn’t we have a din- q » ner you ever heard #tbout. | ner party, too? SOR” You just ought to see the “I tell you what,” he cried, his bright ; basket "that come to ‘our house this |eyes shining; “Jess an’ me, we're goin! mornin’. ‘My Lady, she sent it. She | to have all these good things to eat, lives in a gréht big.stone house down- | an’—dn’ we want’ you to come am “help town, an’ I take papers‘there, an’ Jess | us eat’em.” + . does. gewin’.” f It was not the polite form of invita- “A Thanksgiving dinner? Glory! | tion, but neither Sam nor Billy -nor What are you goin’ to have?’ asked | Maggie nor Spot cared for that. They one of the little group of eager listen- | all stood staring for a breathiess mo- ers, gathered on ‘the broad stone curb- ment, then they cried in one voice, Ing in the crisp November sunlight. “Qh, Larry, you don’t mean it, do you? “Oh, turkey an’ cranbérry sauce an’ | Honest? Hope to die?” cel'ry an’ plum puddin’ an’—an—every- “Honest—hope to die if I don’t,” he thing,’” was the proud reply. said ‘solemnly, and' that settled the “Whoopee!” cried Billy Dornan, who | matter beyond a doubt: went hopping about on one foot, while When Larry had sold the last of his Maggie Todd, the flower girl, who had | papers, he fairly raced to the tene- tobbled over on her crutch, begged, | ment attic, where he and Jess kept with eyes that were shining, “Oh, Lar- | house, so eager was he to tell the news ry, ‘do say that again. It does sound | of his dinner party. “My Lady, she's so beautifull” * *~ | : goin’ to have one,” he. explained, ©*80 “Turkey any cranberry sauce an’ | I thought we, would, too.’ cel'ry an’ plum ‘pudding.” he repeated “Why.” of course,” agreed Jess, slowly. Then, for Jess had often told | “There’l be enough for all, ‘and him that he must never talk too much | Thanksgiving Bay, like Christmas, of himself, he hastened to-ask, “What | comes but once a year, so we'll haye you goin’ to have for 'Thanksgivin’,| just:as goed a time as we ean.” And Maggie Tod?” then, like two children they svere, tliey The girl's eyes filled with tears as | caught, each other’ s hands and went she looked away. “I guess we won't dancing round and. round the little have much this year,” she said, “just | room. bread an’ tea, an’ maybe some meat or The next morning Tess wa’s up bright ~—or something.” and carly, préparing€or thé event. Lar- Larry remembered “suddenly that! ry, aftérswaiting to see the great tur- Maggie’ s father had died-a few months | key, its sides puffing with oyster dress- | ‘before. ; Gf course, She wouldn't have | ing, reposing in‘«the oven, caught up _ a nice dinner. Why had he asked the | his cap and tramped.down the stairs thoughtless, atiestion, and brought tears whistling, as. he ;went. . He, came, a ntgithose blueteyes? He looked about again just as the. great clock in the at, the little, circle. “Not one of them | church nearby was stril king 1, This iy have a Thanksgiving treat, of | time he headed a little band and proud- at he was sure. Poor little Sam, the |y he ushered his friends in." Each’ ads “blootblack, would spend his pennies for’ i; dae some small attempt’ at” arvsSihg a bowl of soup at one of the kitchens. up. ‘Sam wore a new coat, Dilly*a Spot, the raggedest of all, a forlorn | laming#tic.” Maggie Tod had bound Aittle s sfoundling, Who. belonged: to no | back her brown curls with a bit of] -ene: at all ‘and. slept in a great brick | blue wibbon, while “Spet, “who owned covered alleyway along with -tramps | nothing mong: on sarin than. thewsuit and thieves, would be glad of even a | he alw: ays wo rubbed his crust, while Billy Dornan, whose moth- | tij] it fairly. shene,aud even bo er took in washing to fill’ the hungry | a broken comb: to run thr mouths of’ the six little Brothers and | frowsy locks. = | sisters, would be sy if he got any- “well how clad IT am to see hi ox alll” thing for himself. Jarry’s heart gave | Jess cried, smiling a welconte FPO # thd ak he Tooked at’ the faces? doorway and*looKing ‘just too Beauti- “about ‘hint; ‘then ‘thought’of the great | ful,” Larry told her, in a pretty blue ¢ dagket,, its sides fairly. bulging With | dress with avlittle frilled apron. and a- £901 th lings. 3 by, pEipa aps not one of | pink bow in her hair.» “Come, right in, : nt | you dear Spfidagn. i went on; “din- ner's on the table, and I'm sure you'll, open your eyes when you see, it”? And in trut h they did. They stood | about the table and stared ‘with wide eyes at’ what“tliéy saw. A luscious brown turkey ia thert before tire lit: tle’ Hoséss. It lookell: so good” that they “gasped when she took -up the carving knife and ruthlessly jabbed it: beneath the crisp skin. And Maggie Tod wondered if it weren't wicked to eat anythingesd beautiful.” On ene side of the table was a pyramid of creamy: potatoes, While” on the other rose a trem "bling mound of jelly, in Whose, red depths the sunlight seemed *to} glow. © TA" féathéry burch "of celery adorned the centre of the table. Then? owed “se » J I A 2 % A OH, LARRY, YOU DON'T MEAN IT, DO | hesides, there were mysteriots covered was you?” Pik ‘dishes which might be containing other delicious tl It was quite! as them had even tasted turkey, and he | though: af: godmother, chad come had had it many times ‘before’ his | out of the story book and spread them “‘mother had died. A sudden thought | a feast, they declared. There vas not flashed into his mind as he sat there, | much talking gt, fir st. Every .one was | | | | * ‘Well, why should he not? Jess, he was | too busy w ‘ith knife and fork, and Je _ sure, would be very glad, for she had | just kept insisting on second helpifigs’ often told him that they must remem- | all aroun At'last Spot, the first-keen ber those poorer “than ‘theniselves. | edge of his appetite somewhat dulled; Then, too, it would be such fun, “My | leaned back in his chair and regarded Lady” bad said she wanted the pretty | the little company with a broad smile. dace: “Say,” he began, joyfully, “I bet'you they just have turkeys in heaven.” And they all agreed that heaven with- out turkeys would be a very. poor place. Then the plum pudding, a wonderful brown ball, topped with a sprig of ever- green and all ablaze with a strange blue fire, came in. After they had tast- ed, smacked their lips and tasted again, they decided. to amend their idea of fu- ture happiness, and added plum pud- ding to their sum of perfect bliss, It was a very happy little group. that |; went aw down the narrow stairs. ‘and a v ery 1 \ppy bay and gir] that sat kide by side, before the little fire, each living over again the beautiful’ dinner party which would soon ‘be ohly a ft memory. At last Larry looked up inte the sweet face above him and said: “I wish all the poor boys and ons could have a lovely ‘Lady’ like min s0’s they could give dinner a too. But, then,” with a sigh ‘that seemed to come from the toes’ of ‘his boots; “I §'pose they ain't enough to\go round.”—Detroit Free Press. ! THE TURKEY'S THANKSGIVING: TOAST Louise Lewin Matthews. I come, the monarch of the feast, Jefore ye lords so gay, On bended knee, without a head, | To grace this glorious day. Be thankful all Ye men so bold And maids lainty tire— To grander feast did knights of od; Nor ladies e’er aspire. I ruled the fowls like any Mv head was always high,” Until to grace this humble Pos 1 laid me down to die. of ae (2s fs Ne WI ~ 5 Here's to the health of absent friends! Here’ s to the ones most true! A toast to those the future lends— Long life to all anew! Don’t hed a tear for him who kies = = Dismantled on his bier— He gave his life without a sigh ° And bade ye all good cheer! t EPITAPH. 2h He was a grand and tender bird The best of all was he. a And so with thankfulness we sing, ~:~" 3 And hope for m ore to be! : i .- Given a National cs ‘It was largely through the efforts: of Mrs, Sarah J. Hale that the ThanKss giving custom ’-became™ universal throughout the United States. “ VWifh commendable persistence she year af: ter year importuned the Governers of States and Territories, prging that they appoint the last Thursday in No! vember as a day of th: inksgiving, | sO that the celebration might be *iven a nati ional character. Mrs "Hale wrote President Lincoln, inclés sing ‘at “copy of Washington’s 1789 procla mntlol § and Rrzcesting that he, too, proclaim a~day of Jrational thanksgiving. July 15, 1863," Lincoln issued a proclamation setting Thursday; August 6; as a day of national praise. Since then, ‘with cne exception, the last Thursday . in November has been the day; u iversal ‘L1y observed. Itis, by the y way, “only. a fegal Holiday in those States” Which provide for its legalify by special sta- President and the various Governors are not authoritative and the people can exercise the great ‘American pre rogative of personal choice in the mat: ter. : The Old Home, i Ti ere, there, ‘mid clustering leaves, 4 Glimmer my father’s eaves, '% And the worn threshold of my youth, be- neath; ] I know them by the moss, And:the old elms that toss Their lithe arms up where Winds the smoke’s gray wreath —DBenjamin Bussey Thatcher. tute! The proclamations issued by thes The-Way+ Uncle Sam Cooks His Turkey. Here is what the United States Army Cook :Book ‘has t6 say about turkey: “Tame and wild turkeys are pre- pared, and cooked alike. The'time for “cooking: fs from’ fifteen to. twenty min- utes to the pound, “@epéndin® “upon the age of the bird. Success lies in cook- ing it long enough and frequent bast- ing. .#Put’the turkey in a pan of cold wa-, ter, rinse it inside and out in three or four waters. In the last water dis- solve a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Fill the body with this ‘water, shake it well, then pour it d¥ and ‘rinse with fresh, water. Now wipe it dry inside and out and rub it inside swith pepper and salt. { “Next prepa ro ‘a. dressing as: follows Mix enough gcratéd bread “crumbs fo ‘fill* the craw and body. of the turkey. a half teas; noonful of pepper, ong ‘tea spoonfid of salf, one tablespoonful eof, summer Savory, thyme, or sage, with sufficient butter, heef drippings er lard to make the mixture slightly moist. After this has been thorough- ly mixed stuff the craw and body with it. Now tie a string tightly about the neck. sew up’ the-inecision, tie down ‘the wings and legs and then lay it on ‘its back in the baking pan. Wet the , skin, season it ‘with salt and pepper ‘and dredge it with flour. Distribute son the upperside of the turkey small ‘pieces ‘of butter. Bake with a brisk fire to a rich brown. Baste at least -avery ten minutes.” Tf it browns to rapidly, lay a wet sheet of white pa- per over it until the lower part is done. When’ the turkey: is browned on the breast, turn it over in the pan while it istip the oven... j.5% “Now, again pepper, Saft nd dredge the back with flour, and bake until hrown; basting as above. When baked remove the string from neck and body, pitt it into 4 hot dish and serve with a gravy prepared as follows: ar “(Cleanse the gizzard, liver and heart of the turkey thoroughly in cold. wa- ter, minee them and put them into a pot with e ongh cold water to cover them: * Sg” gently until, tender and keep AAT. ‘When the taekey is re- movéa fra de fhe pan add the giblets with, the water “in ‘which they were stewed to het drippings remainjng in the pau, .put the'pan on the fire, thick- ens with two tablespoonsfu: of blend- ad browned. flour. stirring it in grad- aally, let it boil up once, then season gn pepper and salt, pour it gto a eparate dish and serve, - 3 SSome prefer to omit the dressing from the body in order that Te turkey may be more thoroughly cook I The Sterling thus omitted may be e into akes and fried. The turkeys may be Stuf 3d with sausage meat, fresh oys- ters or® id Blue poids on: tals Shel’ { @ream of fomato soup. * Salted a nds. § gi Olives, FE. 1 « Ep Roast turkey. 4, ranborry gauce.. * Currant jelly. : i Mashe potatoes. Glazed sw rect potatos, 5 FiSueebtashiiv§ . & & 7 Qmjons with ‘cream saute: » : - Mayonnaise of celery. E Wafers. A Cheese, , = . Pumpkin” pie. Mince ‘pie. Apples Ex * Pears. Fraps. {iee. , . Sweet, anfermented cider. & 5 i POOR MAN S FEAST. 5 Roast turkey. ‘Cranberry sauce. Potatoes. Beets, elery. : Ph, pndding 3 fiee® Quai oh toast. Devi Wild goose enon EY Chesthut sal layoutisies, “Celery salad. Olives. Cay jerry jelly. Blanc Mange. Paradise pudding. . Apricots. - ‘Plum pudding. Cafe au lait. pister cocktails. may take the place of ‘raw oysters.’ Here is a=Tecipe;: for ond {dozen ates: * Take gseven’ tea- spoon, als o prepared "Horseradish, to- ‘catsup: and Jing ar,.fen teaspoon: oi 1 oft Jaik one of tebgsco \ sauce’ x this i ing thoroughly, and put an’ iE portion’ in each glass, together with five small raw oysters. Hoty oysters. and dressing must be as cold as possible: 19 The Art of Preaching : NO SERMON SHOULD EXCEED 4 ‘HALF El HOUR ADUICE ? 79d HEARERS. [11h By Bishop Welldon. % HE art of preaching, difficult. as it is if itself, is made still more difficult by the unbroizen silence in which congrega- tions listen to sermons. All preachers, and extemporaneous preachers most of all, Would sometimes be thanktul if their . sermons could evoke at least some sign of sympathy, or even of dissent. They could not, indeed, or would not, use the Interruption as “politicgl orators use, for quick. cat or repartee, but it would suggest spmething that they oug to say, ‘but had mot thought of saying; fi: would help them io make their meaning more lucid and more persuasive; at all events, it would give them time to take breath. ‘Life is short; but many things in it, and sermons among them, are apt to be too long. ' Life is busy, ‘too, nowadays; F donot think any religidus service should gxceed an hour and a half, or any sermon should exceed half an hour. As an rulé, sermons gain point and. IRoFer by compression. sree Extempore preaching is apt to be, like long preaching , a form of conceit. It is essential that the preacher should say what he jneans to say and not something else. * It is better to preach too Kitle than téo much.! | There can hardly be too much pains spent upon the composition of a ser- mon. If a clergyman preaches easily, he may feel sure that he preaches bad- ly. Rather should he spend a quarter, of an hour in Wi his Feriion for every ‘minute that he tdkes to deliver fr 4 The ‘preacher of today Will beiwise if he Keeps, nis Hi as faz as, i ble, clear, of controversy. : There ig as: mueh 00d © ‘sense ever in Mr. S ean’s saying, that * “The, servant jof: the Lord, must. not Strive,’ even, in the ph k pit. For then Christian men and women will find ‘in ionukén a ‘tranduil he ual atmosphere which cannot be equally found elsewhere, and the effect of it will be edifying and sanctifying. The need, then, of the day is that preaching, at least, to cultivated congre- gations, should become not perhaps less Ci but mos spiritual. oo ze 2 ‘eo i’ Fre “Stage Struck” Girl 1 By David Belasco. Sm p06 600888 NE of the natural and most important qualifications for stage : : success—and I might add the most essential-—is: that the as- $ pirant should have temperament. By temperament I mean % $ that something within us which causes us tg feel that we ® are undergoing the very emotions the author has imposed Ss00cececs upon us with his lines. Unless we possess this to a marked 2 : degree no hope can be held out for ultimate success in this oee0o00ape Profession. It can be developed to a certain extent by study and work, but not sufficientiy for the needs and purposes of the theatrical calling. There is one thing, however, which, if we do not pos- sess it, can never be attained, nor can it be taught dr assumed—and that is personal magnetism. Without this no young woman can ever hope for great success in the profession she has elected for her life's work. The average stage-struck. girl who manifestly has not enough talent. to rise abgve a speakingpart not only wrongs herself by persisting in this ambi- tion, bdt wrongs others ‘who might; if they ‘had equal opportunities, surmount the barribr and attain success. The pay'of thé third or: fourth clags actress is so small that when the expenses of living are deducted a beggarly pittance ig all that remains—scarcely ‘sufficient to tide one over the’ long. period be- tween seas sons. Seventy-five percent of the’ girls who go on the stage end in some traveling road-company, playing small parts, and enduring that most fearful of hardships, playing one-night stands. The awful rigors comgequent upon bad hotels, ili-kept and ill-ventilated theatres, the jar of railroad. travel, and the loss of sleep, rob a woman of her beauty, thdermine her hea and hasten her years. It were well for.the young girl to think long and seriously before trying her fortunes in tire dramatic profession. 4 There is no royal road to stage success. It. is embodied in yA Srorg— “work.” Mrs. Leslie Carter has studied Shakesnearean roles for eight years, and though the public has voted her a successful actress, yet at this writing she does not deem herself sufficiently versed in these parts to. essay them. Salvini, the elder, studied “King Lear” six years before he even attempted to commit the part to memory. I have in mind a’'score of actresses who have given their roles a year’s hard study before attempting even to announce a public presentation. In these days more work is necessary, pooauise the pub- lic is a keen judge of aching, — Woman's Home Formepipy. ; 3 3. § $ 3 J . : lle ia [2/8] 17 31 gov Extent of i Cnimarsy By Brbf. Simon Newanit. Fidit i 0 determine a single position of any one star involves a good deal of computation, and if we reflect ‘that ‘in order to at- tack the problem in question in a’ satisfactory: way we should have observations of a million of these bodies made at intervals of at least a considerable’ fraction of Aa century, we see what an enormous task the astronomers. dealing with this problem have before them, and how imperfect must be any determMtation of the distance of the stars® based on our. motion through space. So far as an estimate can’ De mgde, it, seems to’ ‘agree fairly well with the results obtained by the other methods. Speaking roughly, we have reason, ‘from the data so far avail- ‘able, to belicve that the stars of the Milky Way are situated at a distance be- tween 100,000,000 and 200,000,000 times the distance from the sun. At dis- tances less than this it seems likely that the: stars age distributed through space with some approach to uniformity. We may state as a ‘general conclu- sion, indicated by several methods of making the.estimate, that nearly all the stags which we can ‘See with our telescopes are contained within a gphere not likely to be much more than 200,000,000 times the distance of the sun. ‘The inquiring reader mav Here ask another question. Granting that all the, ars we ‘can see are contained within this limit, may thére not be any number of stars without the Yifmit Whine are invisible only because they are he » erit oF Resistance $ 2 The Rev. Thomas Gregory. ia 9 O one is born:“heroie,” or “good,? ori vaoprege ;. ‘When the Jcynic” talks about the “goodness which 3 Fg! matter of inheritance” he talks nonsense: There! Dever was such a thing as inherited goodness, there never will be such a thing. ™ ir . Goodness—or, perhaps, we had better say character—is something that’ a person must acquire by his own personal - endeavor. The earpenter can build my. house, but my char- acter must be built by myself alone, if it is built atall i “Life is a battle between animal impulse and reason—the ‘desire to live the fe of : brute and the desire to live the life of the man; and we are suc- ungan. beings, : int “proportion as we subordinate the impulse to the ub ‘prifi¢iple of the man to the passion of the beast. oe are born; as a rule, with both tendencies, the animal and the* Spiritual, {he tendency to gravitate downward, and the tendency to str Ive upward; and only question is: Which tendency shall triumph? "Jn other words: geodmnéss, or virtue, or character, is a something thatione has ito fizht for. .It is something that comes to-one by.and through the fight- ing, just as muscles comes by and through exercise, just'as skill'‘comes by and through practice. : * To be tempted by the low er nature, to resist that’ temptation; ahd to keep on'resisting it until it is conquered—that is goodness, that 1s character. : The troublé with too 4many is they do not try to resist; or if they resist at all, they soon get tired and give in, laying the blame, likely énvugh, to inherit ed tendency, . : "But the ‘plea is at ewardly’ one, and hollow as it is cowardly. Stop talking about the curse of heredity: and do a little more thinking about the curse of your own moral laziness“or cowardits Tight! Keep on flehting! In that way is temptation downed and goodness won.-—=New York American. . He quit boil the not New W 1 seer said seer “oy look cous on thei
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