The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-11-24


SO TO speiiK, ali money ana appeCite, Jney
will slip into restaurant and make din
ner on corned beef and cabbage or mutton
pie, and try to persuade themselves that
they have had n Thanksgiving dinner
But how could one have genuine
Thanksgiving dinner in restaurant any
howP You might as well try to have q
masquerade ball in hall bedroom or
game of billiards on n yacht in choppy sea.
The only kind of Thanks a
giving dinner that is really -.,SskSyBhS
worthy of the name is the'STs1 sdeE
one that is enjoyed in the sssasilysSf!.%EsgsS
country in the old home 5HIy7XJtssSs
stead in which there is ANllM
great open fireplace with llIIN
blazing fire sending forth nUlllVEr-,
sparks upon the rag carpet /WWG
that is constructed of the N yLrst
clothing of the last three or
four generations. In such homestead you
cannot help dreaming of Thanksgiving
upon any gray day in autumn when the
pumpkins lie around the field in which the
corn is standing in rustling russet stacks
There is great deal in an ordinary dull
gold pumpkin to make man with a sen
sitive intellect renew his happy youth,
and to feel that his decayed hair and long
lost teeth have been restored, when he
dreams of the great thick pies his mother
used, to construct at that period of the
year when serious thoughts of Thanksgiv-
ing were first entertained. And as he eats
those pies over again in memory they taste
sweeter than ever and revive the many
games Of shinney that made the autumns
of his early life so full of joy as they were
of poetry.
In renewing his acquaintance with that
pumpkin pie which was always the dessert
upon Thanksgiving day, he feels that it is
Thanksgiving day. And as he sits Mt the
table and watches the tall glass of celery
glistening before him, and the old china
fruit dish on the sideboard overfowing
,,-s-H with grapes and apples and
e-.I=>, oranges, and the great plate
-ZITES}l9ss ~ glowing with cranberry
SvS,sz. eKgsST sauce, he thinks Thanksgiv-
F~NSsSrs-S ing is as far ahead of the
So Fourth of July as Roman
hyacinth is ahead of Bermuda onion in
point Of fragrance. And why shouldn't it
be? There is certainly no other holiday
that brims more beautifully with CHEEKY
sunshine. Because while it is n holiday
upon which we receive no presents, it is
likewise holiday upon which we are not
taxed to offer any. And this certainly
must be great relief to the women who
commence constructing tides for poor
relatives about the 1st of May to make
their Christmas happy. Suppose they had
to make pincushions and teacloths and
clerical slippers to be presented on Thanks
giving dayl Then indeed would women's
work never be half done.
There is n long headed rich man down at
Siasconset, Mass, who selects his Thanks
giving turkey about the 1st of May. He
then places it in barrel for a short time,
and every day plays the ,1TEz.>
banjo in the presence of the I55%$SSSSh
divine bird. He has learned @)2 %sSf
that a turkey treated in this k sSA$$sfM "a
way will become so fond of W. hsStRSs5Ss,ss2 8SRs55S
its owner that it will follow 2Sskl4sseeSli
him around. After the bird becomes IA
miliar with solo it will never fail to run
to the person who plays it. This old fellow
often sits on his piazza and plays for the
purpose of entering into social relations
with the selected bird, and when the latter
comes up he feeds it upon English walnuts
and other dainties that have a tendency to
add to the rotundity of the turkey and Gil
| out its various dimples and hollows. This
is much cheaper than scattering walnuts
to the flock which he intends to sell.
The turkey selected for the Thanksgiv-
| ing feast seems like prime minister in a
rninuet while strutting about to the melo-
dies of the banjo. And so he grows fat on
music and walnuts until day or two be-
6S) ~, fore Thanksgiving, when he