The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., November 19, 1910, Page 794, Image 6

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THE HOME CIRCLE
THANKSGIVING.
HERE in the Sifted sunlight
A spirit seems to brood
On the beauty and worth of be
ing,
In tranquil, instinctive mood;
And the heart, athrob with gladness
Such as the wise earth knows,
Wells with a full thanksgiving
For the gifts that life bestows;
For the ancient and virile nurture
Of the teeming primordial ground,
For the splendid gospel of color,
The rapt revelations of sound;
For the morning-blue above us
And the rusted gold of the fern,
For the chickadee’s call to valor
Bidding the faint-heart turn;
' For fire and running water,
Snowfall and summer rain;
For sunsets and quiet meadows.
The fruit and the standing grain;
For the solemn hour of moonrlse
Over the crest of trees,
When the mellow lights are kindled
In the lamps of the centuries.
For those who wrought aforetime,
Led by the mystic strain
To strive for the larger freedom,
And live for the greater gain;
For plenty and peace and playtime,
The homely goods of earth,
And for rare immaterial treasures
Accounted of little worth;
For art and learning and friendship,
Where beneficent truth is supreme—■
Those everlasting cities
Built on the hills of dream;
For all things growing and goodly
That foster this life, and breed
The immortal flower of wisdom
Out of the mortal seed.
But most of all for the spirit
That can not rest nor bide
In stale and sterile convenience,
Nor safety proven and tried,
But still inspired and driven.
Must seefc what better may be,
And up from the loveliest garden
Must climb for a glimpse of sea.
—Bliss Carman,
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING.
The Story of How the I>ny Was First Celebrated Nearly Three
Hundred Years Aro in the Newly Settled I^ind of the Puritans.
By Mrs. F. L. Stevens.
IT WAS IN THE warm sweet days
of the “Indian summer'’ in an
early November, nearly three
hundred years ago, that a happy
group, numbering Saxon and savage,
gathered upon the
gentle slope of
“Captain’s Hill”
to celebrate in a
three-days’ feast a
season of thanks
giving to God for
the blessings and
mercies that had
come to them as
dwellers in a new
mh8. ST*VI»*,B home in a new
world.
This was the first “Thanksgiving.**
The stern, serious Pilgrim fathers,
under the direction of the gentle,
peace-loving Governor Bradford,
thought it right to pause for a season
in their eager rush after the golden
fruits of toil to look back upon the
new past, a time of stern realities to
be sure, but a season not unmixed
with sweet tender experiences, and
to spend the day in prayer, praise
and thanksgiving to the Giver of all
their blessings.
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there is a letter written in 1627 by
the Secretary of the Dutch Colony of
Manhattan, which draws this picture
of the little town and its inmates, to
whom we owe many interesting cus
toms still preserved by us.
“New Plymouth,” he says, “lies on
the slope of a hill stretching east to
ward the seacoast with a broad
street about a cannon-shot long lead
ing down the hill, with a cross street
in the middle going northward to
the rivulet. The houses are con
structed of hewn planks, with gar
dens also enclosed behind and at the
sides with hewn planks, so that their
houses and court-yards are arranged
in very good order, with a stockade
against sudden attack. At the ends
of the streets there are three wooden
gates. In the center stands the Gov
ernor’s house. Upon the hill they
have a large square house with a
flat roof made of thick sawn planks
stayed with oak beams, upon the top
of which they have six cannons which
shoot iron halls of four or live
pounds, and command the surround
ing country. The lower part they use
for their church, where they preach
on Sundays and the usual holidays
They assemble, by beat of drum, each
with his musket or firelock in front
of the Captain's door. They have 1
their cloaks on, and place themselves
in order three abrenst, and are led by
a sergeant without beat of drums."1
Behind comes the Governor in a long
robe. Beside him comes the preach
er with his cloak on, and on the left
hand the Captain with his side arras
and cloak on and with a small cane
in his hand; and so they march in
good order, and each sets his arms
down near him. Thus they are con
stantly on guard day and night.”
To these sturdy farmers so many
centuries ago. the harvest meant, as
to us to-day, a safe gathering of the
season’s venture. To them it meant
"the escape of the field from flood,
the passage of the hazard of frost,
the salvation from ravaging animals
and Insects, the escapo from blight
and hail and beating winds, the rlp
ening, the reaping and the gurner
Ing." it meant that they had been
able to withstand the savage foe as
nnd km )»Mt )i n..,i tL. i.
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vest were Baved from those thlngB ro
ll.ote from our lives.
Tradition has given ub only a
glimpse of that first Thanksgiving
celebration. We are told that the
feast began with a Thursday-morning
breakfast cooked upon a grout out
of-doors fire, between the elder’s
house and the rivulet, a spot devoted
to cooking purposes. The breakfast
was laid upon a long table spread in
the open air, covered with great
wooden bowls full of what later gen
erations named “party pudding ” to
be eaten with butter and treacle, for
milk was not to ho had for more
than a year to come. Other bowls
contained an excellent clam chowder
with plenty of sea biscuit swimming
n savory broth, while great pieces of
cold boiled beef with mustard fiank
®d. by d,8bes of turnips, offered a
cd Umm “ l° lh°‘° w"°
Another table la the common
house, we are told offered Bomowh.c
o.oro delicate food to the women .nd