The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-01
COLD BOREAS BLEW
HOLIDAY HAPPINESS MARRIED BY
A SEVERE NORTHERN BLAST.
Thanksgiving Generally Observed by the
Citizens of Wichita-Turkey and Incl
dentals Made the Day Tolerabls
for the Good People.

at high noon yesterday.
He came down with roar and drove
every man and woman from the streets,
the latter to their homes and the former
towards that enticing spot where Messrs.
Tom and Jerry held forth, to discuss fusion
between embryo Kansas chickens and New
England rum. Fellows who have been
cussing fusion for twelvemonth smacked
their lips and declared it the proper thlhg
and hoped that it will not die In Kansas
next year, rs other fusions Will. u re-
uuires three spoonfuls of rum. an equal
amount of hen fruit and a gill OF hot
water to reach the right spot in the average
man On Thanksgiving day, three doses
10 make him happy and six to make him
forget all the mseries OF human exist
ence, panics. election defeats and every
other reverse that may have INSTRUCTED
his good fortune during the calendar year.
Thomas and jeremiah are genial chaps.
but if one gets too familiar with them they
are liable to allure him into the bastIle
and leave him there in company with the
snakes and other "varmint" which his
imagination conjures up The bastile is
very gloomy place on Thanksgiving night,
rs several unfortunates fonnd to their
sorrow last night.
1t was cold day for Thanksgiving. The
wind from the north took on Nancy
Hanks gait Mt II O'Clock and until mid
night whistled his dismal song and caused
the hardest man to shrus his shoulders
and thank his lucky stars that enough of
his summers wages had been left to buy
an overcoat.
The man who spent the happiest Thanks
giving was the man who went to church
in the morning and came home at noon to
| find steaming hot turkey on the table
with his wife and children waiting to join
him in anhilating it. 1t is happiness be-
yond description to see family like this.
Little tootsie wootsie is sitting in her
high chair. rustling with the wing of
once proud gobler, while "bow VOW Is
near by waiting for it to slip from her
little dimpled fingers in order to appro-
pirate it to himself. Johnny is directly
| opposite to her looking at the blushing
cranberry and the tempting banana and
the lucious orange and the delicate hued
J grape, and calculating all the while how
many of them he can stow away
beneath his little waste. Maude
and Willie are In hurry to dispose of
their share of the dressing in order to lay
siege TO the pudding and the cake while
nothing on earth troubles the happy
matron and her spouse, but he prospective
size of the forthcoming doctors bill. Every
American youth knows the geography OF
turkey on Thanksgiving day.
Yesterday brought its sorrows as we'll as
its joys. The funeral recession went out
to the silent city on the hill as usual and
| left mourners on its trail. During the
year the angel of death with his all de-
stroying scythe cut down many friends
! and Thanksgiving only served to call them
| back to sad memory when the vacant
chair was seen. Others had friends to go
astray and for them there was no real
Thanksgiving. Others still had been
| frowned upon by fortune the
tickle goddess, and Thanksgiving
to them came with pain rather
than gladness. The majority of people,
however, had cause for thanksgiving, and
to them it was day that they ought to
keep sacred.
1.-THE best way to spend Thanksgiving, !"
said AN old rounder TO an EAGLE reporter,
sis to spend it as it was originally in
| tended 1t is too often an occasion for a
grand debauch. and to many people it were
better that no such day should be estab
| lished. | have seen a good deal OF the
world and | know that the real joy
and happiness of Thanksgiving is
to spend it in a Christian like
way" Generally speaking, this is the
way it was spent in Wichita.
The postofiice was closed. except for Il
| hn
Uncle Sam and the public were given an
| opportunity to spend the day IN 'the
bosom of heir families" and to dispatch
their turkey and cranberry sauce. with an
opportunity thereafter for digestive recre-
alton.
The policemen plodded away as usual,
aud perhaps they were the worst treated
of any class. To be sure, they had their
turkey and their oysters, and. perhaps, a
post prsndial glass of sherry, but
still they had to walk their beats aud
wade through biting blizzard the same
as other days in the week. With all his
imaginary faults the policeman has "A
| whole lot of good nature wrapped up in
him, and while he could not enjoy himself
he gave all the latitude consistent with
air order to others to have a good time.
The telephone girls ''hallowed" a usual
but the day being holiday there WAS not
much hallowing to be done and each and
every one of them had sufficient time to
enjoy the good things of the table. Then
again the busy crank who thinks
il IS not necessary TO be q gentleman by
electricity Was better natursd with them
aud didn't rave if i,e got the wrong num-
Der. III turn the telephone girl is sweet ey
on Thanksgiving day than any other day
in the year, and that is saying good deal.
The railroad boys worked as usual. and
while they had their turkey, and perhaps a
few introductions to Thomas aud Jere-
misb, nevertheless, their lot was hard
one yesterday, aud if they did look a little
biz sour when some inquisitive chap asked
them foolish question, there were some
excuses for 1T.
| The lot of the street car driver was not
| n very enviable one. To be sure they Were
very thankful to their general manager
| who presented all of them with a nice fat
gobbler, but the day was cold. the hours
were long and they could not be at bome
TO give thanks in the bosom Of their fanli-
lies for the blessings OF the year. Women
with children, and band boxes and clothes
baskets stopped them as usual in the mid.
die Of the block and made them lose time,
but they are good natured and didn't kick,
far,h her than 10 express their opinions OF
such doings to some friendly reporter or
policeman who rode in the cab with the IN
and who, of course, had similar miseries
TO exchange with them.
The ministers spent the morning hours
in their pulpits and were not only thank.