Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-11-30
NUMBER 16
THANKSGIVING TAeLEAux.
Amusement For the Evening After Turkey
and Pumpkin PIE.

and Pumpkin Pie.
On the evening of Thanksgiving day,
after we have eaten the turkey and dis
cussed the merits Of mince and pumpkin
pies-when the old folks are tired and the
young folks willing to be quiet awhile
then comes a time for some interesting
story or a game that all can enjoy.
The following tableau, or illustrated pic
ture, has proved 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 GESTLEMEE-We will give you
an illustrated tableau, and you must do your
part by guessing its meaning. We offer bon
bon box as first prem.um and pepper box as
BOBBY prize. There will BE- four tableaux, taken
from the poets, which represent each one syl-
liable, and there are two words. each of two
syllables. Then the whole compound word
will appear in two ordinary still life tab
leaux. The curtain Will now rise ON the first
syllable Of the first word.
The extempurized 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 ''Coartship of Miles Standish:''
Casting a farewell look at the glimmering sail
of the Maylower,
Distant, but still in sight and sinking below
the horizon.
Homeward together they walked, with
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 ho had even determined to sail that day
in the Mayfower
And had remained for her sake, on hearing
the dangers that threatened,
All her manner was changed, and she said,
with 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 Turk, with white
turban on head, lying on a couch in a dim
ly lighted tent, all decked with rich hang
ings, Turkish rugs and other gay colored
things, while the reader gave the whole Of
'Marco Bozarris" 1t begins thus, and the
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 a regular harvest home picture
The climax was when the curtain opened
for the last time. Lo, nothing was to be
seen but table, on which lay an old fash
ioned 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 empire e'-otherwise ''Turkey''-and
Thanksgiving turkey" was the double
word.
Try these tableaux and your Thanksgiv-
ing day will end in happy, sociable good
time.-St. Louis Republic.