, 1888-11-29
TIME FOR TURKEY
Why Thanksgiving Day is Oh
served In this Country.
There will be Joy and Tooth
some Food for Everybody.
A Novel Bnl OF Fare for . Dinner which
Can be 0sstsn up without
Any Expsnss.

To America, or rather 10 Plymouth
Rock, 10 due the establishment OF q day for
Thanksgiving. Springing from the re-
hgious zeal OF the Puritsn.. the custom,
spreading over New England through the
South, from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
until In the midst Of the throes Of the
greatest civil war that ever shook conti-
neut, In 1852, the fourth Thursday In No
vember of each year was, by tie solemn
enactment Of the great high parliament OF
the greatest republic TINT ever existed, ee-
tabliahed as day for national Thanksgiv-
ing. This custom 10 peculiar, and, in fact.
belongs entirely TO the American republic.
apart for this purpose alone,. to give
thanks 10 the Great Giver Of all good for
the preservation OF their country.
Christmas and Easter are holy days, and
as such became by virtue Of the new faith
which spread over the world from the
manger Of Bethlehem. The Romans cele-
brated the natal day OF the Eternal City;
the Greeks divided their time by Olvm'
piads, but America alone has by statute
established day for national ThanssRiv-
ing. In other countries since the Christian
era there have been occasional observations
Of such day, frequently established by
anniversarv of the delivery Of the citv of
Ievden from the seige. October Sd, 1873,
was kept as religious festival. The 9th
of November is celebrated in the English
church service in memory of the discovery
of the gunpowder plot; but nowhere in
ancient or in modern times has people
by an edict
SET ASIDE ONE DAY
Of all the year for this purpose The day
has outstripped the zeal wnicn esta9nsneo
1t; the religion OF the furitan coulo zee
nothing beyond the neartteit tnanEs dae
sne cieatoI ior MS pIessIvauon, wuen no
estaolisned THIS annual day ior tne,5 renul, nn,
mon, on that bleak NovemDer' loziIsoI
years ago, eleven montns siter nis iand,nR
spon That f0ck wnicn mas oeen oestneG 70
s,a;an mnnh;yesss ssIo - H. tsrv;d ond ,saj.
ous eve. midst the snow and sleet of that
bleak November day, he could see "The
feast Of the ingathering at the end Of the
year" 2: the A Tribe: g mustered s ~ around ; the s
The Tabernacle, saw Gre descend from
heaven upon the high altar and in the
crispinQ blatt Of the burnt offering knew
that the Great Jehovah still blessed and
preserved his people: and from this inspi.
ration, established his day of thsnksRiv- |
ing. But could the eye that looked to the
past have turned to the future and seen the |
effects of this new ordination, doubtless the |
inspiration would have been a. great. For
while that feast furnished to him history |
of that people, chosen but stiffnecked,
chosen but obstinate, with ten.twelfths of |
their entire race cut off, their temple,
builded by the greatest Of their sovereions |
and under the special directions of the |
Great Jehovah, torn, disrupted and de- |
stroyed forever: their city and their chosen |
places the rioting wastes Of the mausoleum, |
an they themselves scourQed throughout |
the entire world; the future would have
shown 20 that eve, that the seed which |
upon that rock. amidst snow and storm.
and disaster. was destined, under its in.
spiration. to spread abroad
munn,,o,,o,,r NM, AVN
"ooenooI ~ tA,s ~
NOT only TO conquer but to hold, not only