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MOTHER OF THANKSGIVING DAY
How Sarah Josepha Hale Succeeded in Establishing the
_ National Holiday at a Uniform Time
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' MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE, "THE MOTHER OF THANKSGIVING"
T WAS a patriotic and philanu- ran
thropic widow who gave us our joy
national Thanksgiving day and
Philadelphia, Liberty's old cradle, JoI
vas naturally the home of the enter- in
prise. This heroine, who in the Hall but
of Fame deserves a place amongst the pro
iountry's mothers, was Sarah Josepha rel
.a Hale, an editor whose Ladies' Maga- ma
sne and Godey's Lady's Book gave
ato our grandmammas the latest th
-tyles in hoops and pantalettes. Yo
When Mrs. Hale got down to work whi
1a the Thanksgiving problem that item mi
Io Uncle Sam's calendar was badly a
Spmuddled, but finally, with the aid of Se
,predent Lincoln, she brought order ho
;ut of chaos. Let us first see how the tht
aompllcations came about: stt
Hot, Turkeyless Thanksgiving. nf
, Turkeyless and hot was our first na- in
i~tol Thanksgiving day, appointed by en
a ess, although held in midsummer an
-.July 20, 1775--it set the Thursday
'p recedent, religiously followed (luring nj
i he past two generations, although not of
nlmmedlately respected, for the sec- se
.ad national Thanksgiving day oc- N(
Friday, May 17, 1776. Two ta
Ps later Wednesday was the day,
a~tstifter Washington took control of gi
'tfairs Thursday was preferred. 1E
The nation's first official thanks pro- w
11oters were committees, usually of cli
. appointed by the continental at
ess In the days before we had a m
amation recommending to the
:ernors of the states that a desig- H
tid date be observed as a day of 7,
titaul thanksgiving and prayer. di
i'ae committees appear to have been am
iembers of congress, except in 1778, tt
t ben the two chaplains of congress cs
re. directed to prepare the draft. ti
, Washington helped to promote the zi
lIa's thanks on two notable occa- m
I before he became president-the a
i1. bedng during his desolate winter
d
Grace for '
:Thanksgiving
3 k h hter and the love of f
w thankThee,
r; rtowathatThy wisdom sends,
W e thank Thee, u
it Thy most kindly graciousness,
pease, dear peace, for plente
iall these blessings we possess,
We thank Thee, Lord.
Vllley I'orge, when he directed that
buny on December 18, 1777, the
appointed by congress, "remain
it present quarters and that the
perform divine service with
mFetveal corps and brigades."
SPbrlesaque Maytime Feast. I
> u festive program was ar
by the general the following
when he ordered his troops to
May 7, 1878, as a day of
ling for the aid given by
to the patriotic cause. Hap
hids "orderly book" outlining in
detail the ceremony to be ob
has been preserved.
a signal given the whole army
lbaui 'Long live the king of
" he directs. This huzza was
t ie followed by the booming of
a general discharge of mus
-loher haums. "Long live the
powe.s l" then more cannon,
:lbaatk . Oire and a Onal huzza,
b Aleezjcan States !"
9ars of our history saw two
days each, and both were
a..5u' In T176, May 17 and
11 were both designated,
.n 1888 Lincoln designated
.Anuat , as a special
aS day in advance of the
teqSao the last Thursday in
t- he summer holiday was
h slgiving for victory, as
I fact, the only national
day in 1882.
Matson's time to Lincoln's
n Bnational thanksgivings
)b paidents, although the
,15berhved annually in New
In Nqi York, as also in
UIlaCopal congregations,
~ 0o Common Prayer slhce
ill ted the farst Thursday
l er for giving thanks
W .j. n leas s civil authority
another date for this
! .q Festivala.
Irm lan Where it had been
4e 1621, Tbhanksgiv
ll the while to out
rank even Christmas as a festival of ne
joy, feasting and family reunion.
On becoming governor of New York bool
John Jay endeavored to establish it bool
in that state as an annual institution. sea
but his political enemies branded his In
proclamation as an attempt to stir up
religious prejudice in his favor and he
made no further attempts.
Governor Clinton, however, renewed prin
the effort and was successful, but New
York's Thanksgiving did not coincide
with New England's, which, until the
middle of the last century. occurred acti
a week later than the Empire state's. lay(
Searching old newspaper files we learn who
how Thanksgiving was celebrated in for
these times. I found the other day a furl
statement that in 1858 10,000 people as
after eating one Thanksgiving dinner aga
in New York city, had gone to their den
early homes in New England to enjoy A.
another, a week later. He
Thanksgiving soon became an an
nual, though local, institution in most
of the western states, which had been e
settled largely by New Yorkers and
New Englanders, but the South was for
tardy in adopting the idea. the
Although Governor Johnson of Vir- tha
gmina designated Thanksgiving (lday in rea
1853, his successor, Governor Wise,
when requested to do so, publicly de- am
clined on the ground that he had no rea
I authority to interfere in the religious nu
matters of the people. sti
Meanwhile, in Philadelphia. Mrs. het
Hale was wielding her facile pen in a su
!zealous crusade to have Thanksgiving is
day established as a national festival of
and observed upon a uniform date
I" throughout the country. For 20 years h
s she persisted in this agitation, not only
through the columns of the two maga
ze ines which she edited, but in letters
which she wrote to all the presidents to'
e and governors. tic
r By agreeing to establish the prece- 1 do
dent of proclaiming the holiday on the Ti
last Thursday of each November, Lin- "P
colan at last crowned her tireless efforts be
with success, and no president has TI
failed to emulate his example. Al
So Sarah Josepha Hale may be right- cil
fully termed the mother of our annual of
nation-wide festival of Thanksgiving. oN
-John Elfreth Watkins in Utica Sat- al
urday Globe. en
DAY ALL SHOULD CELEBRATE e
Surely None 'Can' Be Without Some m
Reason for Thankfdlness for
Blessings Received. W
te Thanksgiving day is not a day for u
in the church people only. If there is
e justification for the public at large t
ih gnoring certain days observed by the 51
church as holy days to commemorate p
incidents connected with their religion as
r. or their church organizations, there is
°g no justification for anyone ignoring ,
to the proper observance of Thanksgiv
of Ing day, if he is a believer in Provi
by dence at all. There is not an indi
Lp- vidual in America who has not some- a
in thing to be than~fl! for. Besides I
b- those general blessings, common. to all, 5
which have flowed during the past s
ny year, every one, if he will consider F
of for a moment, will find some peculiarly s
as personal blessing that has come to I
of him, marking him as the personal re- E
s- ciplent of divine favor. And surely,
he everyone with any conception of God, I
n and whose heart is not of stone, will i
' in some manner render thanks. It is I
a low form of life that can not evince
W some show of gratitude, and it is a
re low form of religion that does not en
nd able its posse5sor to recognize divine
d' blessing5 and to acknowledge them.
e Exchange.
n' Deep Reasons for Gratitude.
We give thanks that the republic or
as dalned by the fathers still endures;
s that the Ilberty with which they en
dowed as has not yet been bartered
in away; that the right of free speech Is
still ours; thatt we may yet worship
e God accordling to the dictates of our
ew hearts; that the Constitution is yet
in the supreme law of Ae land; that
s, despite all the ausgalts that have been
[e made upon it by ignorant or designing
day men-ours is yet a government by the
se people, for the peoply.
rity Let us give thabliks for these and for
this other bleasings. They are mapy-and
ingratitude is the basest in.
een One lttle owfe toa living man is
giv, worth more than.a wagonload of loral
out- emblems to a dead one.
LED IN "ART PRESERVATIVE"
Conlusive Proof That the KoLeans
Were the First to Perceive Value
of Movable Type.
Fifty pieces of movable type bear
ing the Chinese characters, being part
of the first font of, movable type ever
made, were shown in the last week In
the Museum of Natural History, ill
New York. England has the other half
of the font, which was cast in Seoul, Cop.
Korea, in 1403, some years before the
discoveries of Forster, Gutenlberg and
the other early typemakers in Europe. silve
It seems, thus, that to the Koreans be- el
longs the distinction of having invent- Evero
ed and first produced separate type DiEe
characters in metal.
Each type is cylindrically concave If
on the under side, in order to make It Ifme
cling more firmly to the bed of bees
wax which constituted the "form." mon,
When the type had been firmly and to it
evenly embedded in the wax the print- cent
er, sitting cross-legged before the form,
covered the type with ink applied with monl
a soft brush. Then the paper was laid justi
lightly on the form and a piece of felt that
was brushed gently over the paper
with one hand, after which the other fore
removed the printed page. It was pos- At
sible to strike off as many as 1,500 ter I
impressions a day in this way. to I
Thrown aside as useless, the font a n'u
lay as rubbish on the floor of the gov- grea
ernment printing office at Seoul during ever
the Japanese invasion of 1392-97. and priv
so lay unnoticed and escaped being now
carried off into Japan. Later, how- late
ever, the types were collected and the 1)
font again made up and used for iltw
printing. thin
Although this font was the first to ma1t
be made of movable metal type, varl- do i
ous methods of printing had already Tr
been in vogue for centurts. l)r. Ber- wor
thold Lanufer, anthropologist and orl- ur
entalist. h:as recently drawn up an ex- isll
cellent reference summary of the im- fryl
portant dates in the history of priting. per
As early as 173 A. D. texts of the Chi- ant
nese classics were engraved on stone as I
tablets, and impressions were taken
on paper by rubbing. In 593 classical give
books were printed by means of wood- son
en blocks, block-printing on a smaller peo
scale having already been practiced. she
In 764 Japan adopted block-printing, plai
and in the tenth century there were eve
discovered in Fayoum, Egypt, block- son
printed books in Arabic. bee
for
To Explore Earth's Interior. var
Our knowledge of the earth from off!
actual contact is confined to a thin c
layer of only a few hundred feet, and wh
what exists deeper down is a subject wa
for speculation. The idea of exploring we
further by a bore-hole some ten times wh
as deep as any yet attempted was tio
again brought up in the late presi
dential address" of Hoen. Sir Charles he
A. Parsons to the British association. all
He proposed in 1904 the sinking of In
such a shaft to a depth of 12 miles, in
and estimated that it would. require thi
eighty-five years of time and cost $25,- foi
000,000-an outlay about equal to that
for one first-class battleship. Since ba
then Prof. F. D. Adams has: concluded go
that a depth of 15 miles could be po
reached in limestone before the rock bu
would give trouble by being crushed. mI
and in granite about 30 miles could be co
Sreached. Such a shaft might throw p
much light on the earth's internal con
I stitution-especially as related to very so
heavy minerals. In Italy, bore-holes I
sunk to moderate depths in a volcan- 5
ic district discharge great volumes
of high pressure steall, and this is be
e Ing utilized t, generate about 10,000
horsepower by turbines. t
So
Snow; a Cold Fact. al
At a certain New England railwayI
town the Ihuge warehouse by the tta- D
tlon slippedl its roof burden of snow
e- down on the tracks one February day.
SThe south-bound passenger train came
8. up and stalled; so did the north
t bound; so did the through freight.
Rs The conductors decided .to wire St. I
Albans, 120 miles away, for the spe
t cial maintenance train and crew to b
ai open the tracks. Delay, expense and
g. overtime were all looming large when
t- along came a stray local freight driv
en by a grizzled old engineer who had g
small reverence for technicalities:
S"Oh, come on, boys. we want to get S
Shome!" and he grabbed a fireman's
shovel and led the gang at it. In ten
e minutes the tracks were cleared for
passage and in ten more the trains
were out of sight.
The moral is that our grandfathers
orused to talk of driving the wagon
is around the farm to turn it. while we
ge talk of specialists operating under
he strictly defined rules and with appro
ite priately limited responsibillties. Re
Ssuilts are often the same. The idea of
1 work is to get things done.--Collier's
ng Weekly.
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ivi- Steel Pipe Industry.
di Very few persons realize the varied
ne- applications of the prosaic steel or
des Iron pipe. It has been used for many
all, years as a conduit for water, sewage,
ast steam or gas, hut at the present time
der pipe enters into the construction of
rly such varied products as agricultural
to implements, automohbiles, architectur
re- al ironwork and grill work, building
ely, elumns, refrigerating machinery, dry
tod, kiln apparatus. elevator cars, wheel
wll barrows, work benches, ornamental
tis gates, elevator grain spouts, safety
ne ladders, warship masts, lighting and
sa high-tension poles, electric wiring, rall
n way signal apparatus, sprinkler sys
Tine tems and signal towers.
SAs the variety of uses for tubular
iproducts increased and the cost of mak
ing steel diminished, there has been a
change also in material. Fifty years
ago nearly all the screw-Joint pipe was
rs- made of wrought iron.
en- "So.and-So- and Daughter."
h It is a welcome sight .to see the
u 1i words "and daughter" as the suffix to
the name over a shop, says the London
oyr News It is a sign of the times of
women's interest in business and their
t- recognition si responsible helpmates.
)en In the west end there .ls more than
Ding one emporium of feminine attire utin
the der the ownership of So-and.So and
Daughter--or daughtere--and I know
-imr of another which belongs officially to
father and daughters; but I have never
yet cole across a shop under the joint
ownership of husband and wife, yet
a we know of countless small businesses
in which the wife of the owner does
a goodly share of the work.
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By CONSTANCE SCUDDER flan
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(Copyright, 1919, by the McClure News- ppgp
paper Syndicate.) :l
Di)ia: Wilson wasn't thorn with a men
silver spoon in her mouth11. Nothing was
so ordinary ever laplpened to Diana. tupo
Every oIne has sil\ter speous nIowadays. ing
Diaut's had been :old,t with a plat- witl
if it had been good form at the Dian
time to incrust baby spoons with dia- er's
monnds, Mr. \\'ilson would have seen erln
to it that it had them, too, in surli- wol
eient nulmbeor and of the first water. Ianl(i
Mrs. J. lHenshluw Wilson had more frot
money than brains;: ut to do the lady it
justice w'e must suggest the thought for
that even Solomon would have been as
hard put to it, had his wisdom been the
forced to stand the Sit 110 ('comparisonl. ter
At any rate she possessed gray mat- ani
ter in sullicient quantity to enable her bho
to have her own way a:bout things, :is coI
a rule. Thi: story has to do with one teeo
great excleption. And, of courtse, like shi
everything else in our national and htus
private life that is out of whuack just
now, it can le Itraced( directly to the Irtt
late war. in
D)iana had: been an oieditent child Di:
always.. She lhad o(1(1114 just the proper you
thing at the proper titme rand in the wv:i
manner in which she was hidden to Th
do it. fri'
In her scrond year "out" the society
world threw into thei discard the inad
ituirsit of pleasure and turned fever- hot
ishlly to tihe rolling of h) andlages. the le
frying of "ham and," and personal su- \V
pervision of the morals of our army Id
and navy. Diana chose thie canteen
as her medium of serving. Li
Mt3s. Wilson did not force Diana to ko
1 give up the canteen idea, for two rea- pp
sons. First, some of "our very best
r people" were going Into it. Second, co
I. she was very busy just at that time ph
planning for the prelude to the great to
e event in her daughter's life. Mrs. Wil- ha
son had married for money. It had br
been a high step up the social ladder qr
for her. She meant to use the ad- ta
vantage she had gained to boost her on
a offspring yet one rung higher. In
a Senator Brendon was the star to
d which Mrs. Wilson had hitched her 's
Swagon, and Diana's beauty and or
g wealth constituted the motive power ge
is which were to land her in the post
.t tion coveted for her by her mother. st
Just as Mrs. Wilson's absorption in so
' her plans blinded her to the risks In so
n allowing Diana to become interested It
in canteen work, so Diana's interest m
in the work kept her from realizing st
that the engagement was being m
,- forced upon her. o
it Senator Brendon was a middle-aged st
e bachelor. a large, stupid man who
d got by on his family name and a H
pompous manner. He had money- s
k but not enough, and was a gallant ad- o
d. mirer of the "weaker sex." For him, t
e competent women, women who dis- I
w played executive ability outside their
own homes, did not exist.. Mrs. Wil- r
r son assured him that Diana had no r
such talents.
S To Diana the honor and glory of i
es being a senator's wife made a strong
C- appeal. But it was all an indefinite I
thing-something that couldn't come i
to pass until the horrible war was I
over. Meanwhile there were Innumer- 1
able "ham ands" to be prepared for
nY insatiable young American appetites.
a- Diana, bustling around in immaculate
apron and cap, was thoroughly happy.
, The senator rarely appeared in per
e son; he was too busy in Washington. i
th His infrequent visits left Diana quite
ht. overwhelmed with flattery and gal
Slantry.
pe It did occur to the prospective
to bride to wonder a little that the wom
Sen with whom she was working daily
en were not more profuse in their con
Sgratulations upon the' announcement
of the engagement; but Diana pos
s sessed no exaggerated idea of her own
et Importance--and of course everybody
's was steeped through and through with
Sthe one idea.
or Mrs. Barding-Scott, who belonged in
n the first numeral column of New
York's four hundred, was working
er alongside Diann in the canteen one
on day. She watched the girl for a while
de and then spoke, in her usual abrupt
o- way, "Child, are you at all interested
e- in suffrage?"
S"Why. I never thought much about
Sit," answered Diana abstractedly.
U Would you like to come with me
to a meeting this afternoon?"
An invitation from Mrs. Barding
eed Scott was similar to that of a queen.
or One did not decline. When Diana ano
any nounced to her maternal parent at
age, luncheon that Mrs. Barding-Scott
ime would call for her that afternoon
of they were to attend a meeting in cornm
rral pany-Mrs. Wilson was so overjoyed
tur- that she quite forgot to ask what the
din g meeting was about.
dry- But at that meeting the goose of
eel- Mrs. Wilson's plans was cooked a
nata l
beautiful brew((. For two hours Diana
,sat with burning cheeks and listened
to as thorough a scarifying of Seunafor
Brendon as the vocabularies of the
tive infurihted women who addressed
the asembtily cotld pruliuce. For Sen
ator Brendon had been indiscreet
enough to express publicly his read
reason that he had hitherto camou
flaged undetlr a pretended reverence for
state's rights. He did not believe, It
appeared at last, that women aIi: suf
ficient intelligence'
Mrs. BaurdiigE-Scott made nol com
llOUnt oni th'e way homre, b)ul Diana
was too furiouls ait lier lil;nnces' slur
upon her sex to notice it. Mrs. Bard
ing-Scott droppe'd lDiana at her home
with a grim "Think it over, child.
wha\\lt you heardtl this afternoon." And
Diana did. She staved off her moth- Both
er's eager questionings about the aft- Whei
ernoon by pleading a headache. She Of hr
would tell about it In the morninig Me ~
and couldn't ,lie please be excused L
from dinner? And
lBut long before Mrs. Wilson's hour Is w
for arlsitl. a wraith of a Diana. pale Who
as her namesake, let herself out of Good
the house uniloserved, mailed a let- And
ter to the senator at the corner box A lit
and then, for the first time in her life, A l
r boarded a public conveyance unac- Uncl
compatiled and walked into the can- Somc
teen two hours before her regular Mak
e shift. help was short. Diana
I hustled into her apron.
"TwoI; sunnyside up, please." The
order camte from a red-haired youth
in O. D. The voice was familiar.
d Diana glanced up and smiled. The
r young lieutenant to whom it belonged
e was a frequent visitor at the cnnteen.
0 They had gotten to be very good
friends, indeed.
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I 'These stars stand for ini!erv\ening
- hours of that day, durlng whic:h the
Slehst laid plans of Mrs. J. Ihlenshaw
- Wilson "g'anged"l very much aglee in
y deed.
n Dianal was taken on the rebound.
Lieutenant Granger, a stripling M. D..
o knew nothing of Mrs. Henshaw or her
E- plans. He pleaded well his cause.
st At eleven o'clock Mrs. Wilson dis
d, covered her (laughter's absence and
le phoned the canteen. A voice in
st formed her that Miss Wilson had left
1- half an hour before. Was some one
id bringing her home? Mrs. Wilson in
er quired, for that lady had ascer
d- tained that no car had been ordered
er out of the family garage that morn- of
ing. cat
to "Why, I don't know, I'm sure," an- hol
er swered the voice. "Miss Wilson went sel
id out accompanied by Lieutenant Gran- ap;
er ger." He
si- Worried by Diana's unwonted as- ws
sumption of independence, Mrs. Wil- an
in son waited-and waited. Diana Wil- by
in son never returned, but at five o'clock eti
ed In the afternoon a young woman who
est much resembled the one who had frt
lg stolen out of the Wilson house in the so
ng morning returned, very much pinker ur
of cheek than her mythological name- sh
;ed sake. me
'ho And the only consolation Mrs. J. sh
a Henshaw Wilson has been able to tu
v-- salvage out of the wreck Is the ameli
ad- orating fact that Mrs. Barding-Scott br
tm, takes a proprietary interest In Mrs. I
lis- Laurence Granger. For when Diana
eir told her mother the overwhelming
Il- news of her sudden marriage to a til
no man who was to sail overseas that m
very night, and whom Mrs. Wilson o0
of had never seen or even heard of, it m
,ng was not in the mother's power to
ite take the retallatory measure employed T
me traditionally by irate parents since
:as the world began and cast the disobed
ler- lent daughter out into the cold, cold
for world. Because, you see, J. Henshaw,
tes. before he died, had had the wise
ate prescience to leave the greater part of
py. his plethoric fortune to Diana.
er- Doctor Granger is back now, and
ton. Mi's. J. Benshaw is living alone on a
ilte liberal income and the thoughts of
gal- what might have been.
tive Lightning Stole Lunch.
om- Lightning frequently acts the rob
ally ber with foodstuffs, and some extraor
on-i dinary happenings have been recorded
sent from time to time. On one occasion
pos- a party of tourists were preparing dln
own ner when suddenly and without warn
ode Ing a storm arose, followed immedl
with i ately by vivid flashes of lightning. A
few seconds later not a trace of the
in prepared meal was to be seen. The
New dishes were strewn on the ground, but
king all the bread, cheese and fruit had
one vanished, while the bewildered tour
,hile ists were covered from head to foot
rupt with straw.
sted
Wiser Than Solomon.
bout Everett and Evelyn were twins. On
their fifth birthday their father
i me brought them home a small dog, tell
ing them they could own it together.
ing-. On being petted the dog growled, but
een. finally wagged its tall. Noting this,
a ano- Evelyn exclaimed: "Everett can have
t at the head and I'll take the tail-it's
Scott the most friendly end."
com- Dog Barbers.
aoyed In Paris there are a great number of.
t the "dog" barbers. Some of the shaved
animals are fanitasttcally shorn, leav
e. of ing rings of hair adorning their bodies,
ed a alternating with denuded strips.
JUST HOW THEY ORIGINATED
Enterprising Chicago Newspaper Man
Has Traced Some Common Cuse
tom. to Their Source.
The common custom of shaking
hands, according to an encyclopedia
in which we have every confidence,
was Introduced by the Phoenicians.
who signified their agreement to a
bargain by clasping hands.
The common custom of offering
one's left arm to a lady originated in
days when one was required to keep
one's right hand on the hilt of a sword.
Which reminds nU-
The common custom of treating
dates from the days when a drink of
whisky cost a dime, and continued
more or less generally for many years.
The common custom of making a
touch was initiated by a man who
went on the rocks in the stone age,
and it has been practiced ever since.
i The common custom of winking
originated when the serpent began
to chat with Eve while Adam was do
Ing the chore. pand it still ?nJoy- j
·: i
considerable vogue at beaches and on I
excursion boats.
The common custom of swearing I
was invented when the first hammer
hit the firSt thumb, and it has been un
dergoing constant improvement ever
since.
The common custom of swearing
off began the first of January of some
year, but it was never really enforced
until the first of July, 1919.
The common custom of going
away on a vacation was inflicted upon
humanity to make mankind appreci
ate a job and a bathtub with plenty
of hot water on tap.-Chicago Amerl
can.
C The Bulgarian Wife.
The wife of a Bulgarian rarely goes
out without her husband, does no& re
ceive callers in her husband's absence,
seldom appears In a restaurant a cafe
or a place of public amusement, and
never goes to any such place unless
her husband accondpanies her.
n Pene Lost by Millions.
over 4,000,000 pens are destroyed
~) daily.
ý%~ Jt"`i.:"-ý 'ý+s.r ,:,Te.ýisw:ýsri3'':E,,x
an Tanks 4ivt1my to
God for His nlo.re
( ý , ...'1 'tý1-1i /And ;in . t" i
Lord, I ,.oiless. too. w en I dine
The pulse is thine,
And all the other bits that be
SThere piaed by thee,
O)ftI). thou hait venll me a cell, The worts. th. purslaln and the mneFs
T WhVrcin to dwell: Of wateo reoss.
A title I~( Us, whose humble roof Which of thy kindness thou hast sent.
" Is ,"·atherpro,,f. Aud my content
Under the spars of which I lie Makes th}'es, and my beloved beet,
Both soft and dry: To be Imor' sweet.
Where thou my chamber for to ward 'Tis thou that crown'st my glitteini
Hast set a guard hearth
Of harmless thoughts to watch and keep With guiltless mirth,
Me while I sleep. And giv'st :me wassail bowls to drink.
Low Is ay p)rch, as is my fate; Spiced to tthe brink
Both void of state; Lord. 'tin thy plenty-dropping haind
And yet the threshold of my door That soils umy land,
Is worn by the poor. And glv'st tn'. for ny bushel sown,
Who thither come and freely get Twice ten for one;
Good words or meat. Theu mak'st my teening hen to lay
Like as my parlor, so tmy hall He`; egg each ,la;
And kitchen's small; Besides my faithful ewes to bear
A little buttery and therein Me twins each t ear;
A little bin. The while the conduits of my kine
Which keel's my little loaf of bread Run cream, for winte
Unchlpt. unflead; All these andl better thou dolt send
Some little sticks of thorn or briar Me, to this end.
Make me a lire, That I should r-,nder, for ny part,
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Scook from the days when th
sun unt s he nigot to re this was
of her taste for ookd ding and partly be- were
cause of her Lydistaste, who had loved toing
house life that she gladly availed her
self of a suite in the first one-tenant
she baked mud pies in the odrcity.
sun until the nights when fireplace
she made fudge in a chating room
diandh. It wabed clos partly because other
of her tas complete for cooking and partly bekitc doorhen
cause of her distaste for boarding
house life that she gladly availed heir
self of a suite in the first one-tenant
apartment house erected in her city.
Her living room with its tiny fireplace
merwas flanked on one end by a bathroom
shand a bed closet, and on the other
herby a complete and compact kitchen
ette.
edOn Thnksgiing day Lydher a anksglitted
SThefrom room to room singing gay
snatches of son. Her trim little fg-turned
outre was small, yetin the loosenes muhof a long
morsleeved white apron with which her for
mer landladthy had endowed her when
ý, she set out on this housekeeping ven
tur. thoughter auburn hair was soft about
her flrangingushed face and her blue eyes were
usbr andht with enthusiasm as she concoct
ed tae ompting toshes for her Thgood din
ealtyng dinner.d hungry. The girls who
The plmp chic-workersn browning in the
0eat, healthy and hungry as she was. ..i
This thought came to her as she was said
e arranging pieces of toast for aspara- you
Sgus ind with the thought came a hoa- turn
Id pitable longing to share her good din- not
ter with some one else who was witi
' healthy and hungry. The girls who lo
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or had gone to their homes outside th
ther ubeides them she had made feew ac
el- iualntsnce in the city, so she rcould
ier. stoopink of no onthe narrow corridor te
bpt She reflected that therries in the pa'
his, man lonely peopler bagin that cihad turned turtle wheo C
ahe ould inserted her latch key. Ther.the daent
is had bee n stammeringow apol ogies from i
boserve. Then she althought of the young man had
man who lived alto reover in the berrsuite acrosshad
thate hall fro hwaers anled to know whet
er he waeyes lospweased oover emb drawin board.sse
byies, She found herself wondering, as shent
badJust when Lydia'mes beforchicken reacthhed
Sthoe right degrhe looked too browannessli the and
Lydia smiled and blushed acoss the rehall
cring calleted the epinking ofsode the lastevening before
me lhe her splans he was to enerrters. In thead
n prize competition foroa desiegn feetor aof
newver public building. His deep strigh ofd
lngated reief apartment while nished task was
ing hafollowed almost immediately by thefrom
on both, and althogught that he was veryohung manry. Head
red-too, helped toa fancy foover the berrcooking andhe had
iakentt te apalrth ant 1hat he might
have, in addtltinji to uninterrupted op
portunity for study. the privilege of
prelparina ('(11of and eggs just to suit
his breakfast taste.
.\ ,id, drizzling rain made the cut
doors so uninviting that thlie you.g
man delellel to have :a ir)ije l Bcon
slsandwich an)(il of'ee a nl cheese at
home instead of going wit for a lone
(inner in in . h, ('i'e op( the door
of the i'hlx : dtl shut it twithl a slain.
for he found that he haid l. cream,
and he liked a lot oif 'ream i his cof
fee. Now. a lonely lui or a hungry
man will frequently go far from con
ventionality. John 'Parker was bolth
lonely and hungry; his supply of cream
was exhausted and the grocery stores
were closed for the holiday. Besides.
rain was .pouring outside and the
girl across the hall let tantalizing
odors escape her doorway. Suddenly
he determined to ask her for cream to
go with his coffee.
As he went swinging through his
doorway he almost collided with
3 r
I t
"Bread Cast Upon the Waters," She
Said Smilingly.
d Lydia, who stood just outside blush
h ingly offering him a tray containing a
d generous share of her good dinner.
s* "Bread cast upon the waters," she
IS said smilingly, "and the cranberries
you east back Into the bag have re
S turned to you. I Just couldn't bear
not to share my Thanksgiving dinner
iS with some one;" there was a tremu
O lous catch in her voice. "And you
Ic seemed to be as alone as I; will you
' take this?" timidly.
"You are unspeakably kind," said
the young man, as he took the tray.
"And a wonderful cook besides," Inhal
ing the odor of the tempting food. "I
was coming over to ask you for some
cream on the chance that you'd be
neighborly, but I didn't dream of such
a neighborliness as this."
Lydia caught the yearning glance
in his eyes as he looked through her
open doorway at the daintily set table.
and as she returned to that table there
were tears of gratitude in her own
eyes at the thought of having at least
shared some of her Thanksgiving with,
another.
As for the young man across the
hall, he did some hard thinking as he
ate his lonely dinner. The drift of hli
thinking was discernible afterward in
his muttered remarks as he stood with
his han in his pockets and stared out
ide through the rain-rippled window at the
md reflection of the lights in the shiny wet
ac street below.
uld "The way to s man's !irart maty be
through his stomach," he said. "I'm
he not so sure of that; lut lthe way to
rho cure a taste for lone living is to tr)
it when you have a neighbor as charm
tn g as mine. I'm thankful I tried it,
but I'm quite convinced of its folly,
ung And now to convince my neighbor!"
se And subsequently he succeeded lia
convincing her.
pss (Copyright, 1919, McClure Newspaper byn.
dtcate.)
she JOY FOR THE PUP.
her
a re1
had was Thnksgin'.
et offined.
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