The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-21

tired | didn't know what To do. Ihat
hadn't been over very long when along
came Columbus celebration and It's pro
cessious and cannon-flrlng and all that.
IL was nice but such n stir aud jostling
WAS nearly tired TO death a second time.
"But that isn't the worst, " contin ued
the fair maiden, before the Columbus
parade they had begun to talk politics all
the time and plan for marching and rails
ing flags and firing cannon, ana IA soon
as poor old Columbus was gotten out OF
the way they began again. Oh, those
horrid men There were parades ana
torches and what-not until | really felt
that this time would certainly be tired
to death.
awhile, and TO wind up with those horrld
Democrats are trying TO have another big
parade right when everybody is talking
| about the city election and the necessity
| OF eleciing Mr.. Watson mayor To save
| the city from MIR. Potter's neglect oil
| duty.
awful nice and would make a fine mayor
! but Get so tired of all this talk and
| parading ! thought il would all lie over
| in few days, but then ! remembered
that Thanksgiving comes at once aud we
| have got to 20 through with all the cere-
suppose we ought to feel thankful that
| IT'S all over. / don't care for turkeys and
other things which they fix up for
Thanksgiving dinners. / suppose poor
| people do but they say poor people are
| clad il they get enough plain food to eat
that day. / like TO go to church and see
how everyone looks and then we have u
good time at home in the evening, bnt the
sermon makes me tired. The minister
says good things and everyone looks
thankful and good but they all seem TO
be thinking how nice IL is that they have
what they want The preacher talks to
the people about helping the poor
who will have n hard time
getting along through the cold
months and the people say Amen. but as
said TO mamma, saying Amen Is an ~
amounts to for the poor gets very little
unless its something that we have Left oil
I don't want know the minister and his
| wife and some of the old ladies' do act
real nice TO them but people like papa
who have lots of money don't do any
thing. l don't see, why people should dc
| Door anyway"
Another thing that don't like is the
| lot of Thanks dung trash which have
to encounter when look Tor society news
i'm the Sunday papers. Papa says they
use il because it's cheap. And then those
| big advertisements aDout turkeys anG
other good things that tue papers have
| don't see what they want advertise
| ments for, but suppose IL we are going
To have turkeys and thngs we must read
all about where to get them"
Il heard Tom telling about lot OF fut
tie BOYS expected to have at rattle
| don't see why the poor people don't ~
TO raflies and get all the turkeys they
want. The boys have lots of fun about
the streets the night before Thanksgiv
ing, but they don't make such AN awfu
racket as they do the night before Fourth
of July.
Tom says it's all very nice for fellow
like him, who has folks like us to max
things pleasant for him, to enjoy Thanks
giving dinners and music and all that
for it makes it seem better to have some
one who loves him to help enjoy 1t all
hut he says there are fellows who haven
any folk. They live in boarding houses
and on Thanksgiving Day the proprieto
tells all the guests ths,t he's gong Il
have turkey and pie and other things
and they expect big time. Ii 1t IL
good dinner they eat IL, and then tn
fellows go and stand around the stree
corners aud watch the people 20 by. IL
lonesome in their rooms and they can
20 anywhere but to the \. vi. L. A, an
Tom SAYS they don't like to go there o
Thanksgiving because 1T looks as thoug
they needed professional Kindness mete
p ont co them. Isn't that horridg
"Then Tom says the fellows feel Ion,
some for weeks when they think of th
s dinner"
There's Mamie Williams and her folk
= who 90 over into Gloucester ever
!, Thanksgiving and have u big time at h,
a rrpndmother's. That's jolly. / wish
had a grandmother living in the couI
, try" ,
n ..But now lust think. When Thank,
! giving is over the people will begin t
\ talk about Christmas and what they ar
going to do aud the girls will be thinkln
n of their presents. | like Christmas be,
. ter Than Thanksgiving. It's jollie
o There are parties and all such things an
we get such nice presents, but its III
4 same as all the rest. Everybody tall
|, about IL until | get so tired that don
know what To do"
~ told papa that the big events woul
he over after Christmas, but he said tn
.auyuration of the Preside 1t woul
come in March and that would be "A hi
time. and then the Worlds Fair wou
J. 6peu and that would be the biggest of nj
Oh my, won't it ever stopp The san
d round over again with the Worlds Fa
/, going all the time. Well, | hope pal
will take me to Chicago, anyway"