Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-30
THANKSGIVING TABLEAUx.
Amusement For tho Evening After Turkey
and Pumpkin Pie.

| On the evening of Thanksgiving day,
after we have eaten the turkey and dis
cl:ssed the merits of mince and pumpkin
pes-when the old folks are tired and the
young folks willing to be quiet awhile
then comes a time for some interesting
story or game that all can enjoy.
| The following tableau, or illustrated pic
ture, has proved a great success and is
well worth another trial: Let the intended
actors take time for preparation while
some kind helper plays or sings for the
company. We will consider all the ar
rangements complete, and the manager
speaks thus to the audience:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-We will give you
an illustrated tableau, and you must do your
part by guessing its meaning. We offer a bon
bon box as first premium and pepper box a.
BOBBY prize. There will be four tableaux, taken
from the poets, which represent each one syl-
I liable and there are two words, each Of two
I syllabes. Then the whole compound word
will appear in two ordinary or still life tab
| leaux The curtain will now rise on the 0rst
syllable of the first word.
The extemporized curtains, which are the
portieres between two rooms, draw back,
and there stands Priscilla, the Puritan
maiden, facing John Alden and holding
| both his hands as she looks earnestly into
his eyes and he into hers
The reader gives us the following extracts
from the "Courtship of Miles Standish:"
| Casting farewell look at the glimmering sail
of tine Mayfower,
Distant, but still In sight and sinking below
the horizon.
Homeward together they walked. with a
| strange, indefinite feeling
That all the rest had departed and left them
| in the desert
But as he gently rebuked her and told her
how he had suffered.
| How he had even determined to sail that day
in the Mayhower
| And had remained for her sake, on bearing
| the dangers that threatened,
Ali her manner was changed, and she said.
with a faltering accent
Truly, thank you for this How good you
| have been to me always
Then came the second syllable OF that
first word. The tableau showed mother
giving the hand of her daughter to her
/ young lover. while the reader gave US Jean
! Ingelow's Giving In Marriage"
| Part third showed q Turk, with white
turban on head, lying on a couch in dim
| IL lighted tent, all decked with rich hang
| ings, Turkish rugs and other gay colored
things, while the reader gave the whole OF
~ OtEtus tuus. diid thC
| desired word is found in the first verse:
At midnight in his guarded tent
The Turk lay dreaming of the hour
When Greece. her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble At his power.
Part fourth was picture of Bluebeard,
where he gives Fatima the key and she
kneels for mercy after he finds the stain.
To illustrate this the reader gave an ex-
| tract from Hollands "Bittersweet," where
the Bluebeard story is beautifully told in
rhyme. This now completed the two words,
and for the whole or compound word we
gave first tableau of the Goddess OF Lib
erty kneeling and offering thanksgiving
to God for all his bounties. This was easily
arranged, for around the goddess we scat
tered fruits and flowers and vegetables and
made regular harvest home picture.
The climax was when the curtain opened
tor the last time. Lo, nothing was to be
seen but a table, on which lay an old fash
toned ottoman, and on the right Of It .
sheet of brown paper, on which was printed
In large letters the one word, Empire"
You can at once see the meaning. Otto
man mpire'-otherwise "Turkey'-aud
Thanksgiving turkey" was the double
word.
Try these tableaux and your Thsnksgtv-
ing day will end in a happy, ssciable good
time.-St Louis Republic.