The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-28
FOR DINNER TOMORROW.
What Mrs. Whitney Says About This All
Important Matter.

DllSnb betty O'DOWd, Wrltlng from
Washington to the Savannah NeicS. says:
Mrs. Secretary Whitney is one of the
most charming women in Washington.
The interviewer has little trouble in APP.
approaching her, but will find it hard to
get away talked with her yesterday
about her Thanksgiving arrangements.
" Wei" she said, 9" our Thanksgiving
dinner is always served ut . o'clock, be-
cause on that day we have the children
with us, and their unrestricted enjoy.
ment requires more time for digestion
than usual. We also try to have the old
fashioned edibles served very much i'll
the usual way.
TURKEY OF COURSE.
Our Thanksgiving dinner will proba-
bly, consist, first, of oyster soup, which will
be followed by fish. Then the great
turkey, with cranberry sauce and vegeta.
bles. We always bring the pies on at
once. ] think they make the table very
attractive, with their crisp, unbroken sur
faces covered with white sugar. should
consider the dinner incomplete without
cranberry tarts, with strips of dough,
delicately Drowned, across the top.
HER HUSBANDS MOTHERS IDEAS ABOUT
PIE.
! have adopted the ideas of my hus-
bands mother on the pie question, and
we have no end of pies; mince pie, pump
kin pie, apple pie and all the old fash
oned varieties. My mother.in-law
makes kind that | never see elsewhere.
A Charlotte pudding affair, the name of
which | do not remember, although it
has one. 1t is made of grated apples and
| whipped cream. At my own home in
Ohio it was our custom to serve small
pig, roasted whole, which stood in the
middle of the table, with lemon in its
mouth. Our boy is always happy when
he is at Grandma Whitney's, because she
lets him have unlimited mince pie. He
has it for breakfast and dinner and a
piece for lunch He declares that
grandma's pies never make him sick.
THE BRIDES MOTHER.
Mrs. Endicott says After the table is
cleared there is one part of the ceremony
we never omit The youngest toddcr
in the company, the little child that has
come into the family since the last
Thanksgiving festival, is placed on his feet
on the table, while his mother stands at
the opposite end, and the rest of the
family gather at the sides, to guard his
safe journey from one end of the table
to the other; every time he totters there
are many ready hands extended to guard
his uncertain steps till he arrives trium.
phantly at the other end
THE p. G.'s WIFE.
Postmaster-Ge Dicknson's wife
said: Il would have the dinner composed
of all the homely viands of country life,
and placed on the grooming table all al
once, no walters. but the sweet service of
love, as those surrounding it helped each
other; fashionable course abolished, with
the side dishes and ceremony; no fash
ionable acquaintances invited that day,
only the home folks; and it this was
made impossible, as it generally is now
in this progressive age, when families are
so that we could not have the
good old grandparents, the children and
grandchildren, the wee ones playing
blind mans buff and puss in the corner
after the dinner is cleared away, by the
bright light OF the wood fire in the wild,
Fireplace ;sthcn i would have invited
those to whom the day would bring al
!, upaGcustomed Joy; the humber acquaint
; Narces, which every true woman has OF
! her list and not listed us the least hon
ored, either, though their circumstance
preclude them at the more fashionable
gatherings.
AT OAK VIEW.
Mr.. and Mrs Cleveland will spend tn
day quietly at Oak View. The lady o
the White House keeps her own coun
sells, and her Thanksgiving arrange
, | ments are past finding cut.