St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-29

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Yesterday was the day set aside by
the highest executive authority as
the day for everybody to give thanks
for the blessings bestowed upon the
people of this country. The people
obeyed the injunction by eating tur-
key-if fortunate enough to get
within eating distance of the harm
less, necessary" bird. Eating turkey
is synonymous with giving thanks.
A thank is registered as each sue
culent chunk of the fowl glides under
the palate-especially if somebody
else donated it. If you purchased it
yourself then you are thankful that
you We're able to provide your folks
with the nourishment appropriate to
the occasion.
Thus, in either event, there is some
thing about the genus turkey to in
spire the spirit of gratitude in man
once year at least.
But how about the turkey? He
seems at first blush to be in a posi-
ton to sympathize with the frogs
with whom the small boys were hay
ing such fatal fun. But, upon sec
ond thought, it would appear that
the gobbler is fulfilling his destiny,
after which achievement he retires
with far more grace and glory than
many man. Nobody ridicules the
turkey while he is in the flesh; no.
body speaks i'll of him after he is in
the stomach. He is never the OBJ
ject of derision; contempt knows him
not. Who shall say that a turkey
ever distressed him? For one NOR
tai who utters this SANDER, thou
sands will declare that the want of
a turkey was the cause of their ag-
ony.
But it may be objected on behalf
of this worthy fowl that all the
kindly feelings he promotes involve
the chopping off of his head. What
of that? Expert guillotinists say
that this severance of bodily rela-
tions is attended with, no pain. AS
for the further objection that the
operation cuts short his life, did not
the mighty julius" Caesar remark
once, or words to that effect: "Why
should the turkey feel aggrieVed be-
cause he is cut off in the prime of
condition before disease has blasted
his ambition and old age has with
cred his hope, when many man is
sent to his account with all his i'm
perfections on his head unhouseled,
disappointed, unannealed?" Verify,
the turkey has much to be thankful
for. He fulfills destiny and fills man.
But man does not therefore hui
initiate ,he bir1 imp1y because he
masticates him. The bird always has
the best of it. Kings are digested by
beggars. Hamlet is authority for
that. If Thanksgiving" We're not al
together too fin de steele an institu-
ton for Hamlet's day, it might almost
be thought the gentlemanly Prince
Of Denmark was referring to the no
bic Turkey when he spoke the word
king"
Therefore, why shed tears for
the turkey, if any do? Why
cast a pitying glance upon
his comfortable plumage? Why
worry about his decease? Congratu-
late him instead. His troubles are
about to be cut short, his 'gobble,
gobble, gobble' will no longer re-
spond to the ba-a-ba-a of the tooth
some mutton-his end is nigh. Then
comes his triumph. Then he asserts
his superiority to man, for unlike
in this world.
These touching thoughts of turkey
forced themselves on a G l o b re-
porter and lots of other citizens of st.
Paul, as they strolled along the strsets
yesterday. They noted fellow beings
who appeared to be in quest of turkey,
but whose prospects of meeting the
bird at any saving date were indeed
dubious. There was a dim chance that
they might encounter a slice if they
happened to slip into the right saloon,
but they must needs be lucky to ac-
complish this feat, for the turkey was
a rara avis in the saloons yesterday,
though some establishments could not
resist following the custom.
But to return to the beginning. The
governor Of the state proclaimed yes
terday a day of thanksgiving. Every
body who varied his daily programme
by consuming a special dinner favored
with cranberry sauce, who played or
witnessed a game of football that he
would not have seen on any other
Thursday, or who attended church
luntarily-everybody who did any
one of these things gave thanks.
The hotels, with their enticing menus,
tempted the most dyspeptic stomachs;
the field sports, attracted the most
ssdative and sleepy beings, and the
churches housed those who observed
the day in the spirit of the Plymouth
pilgrims. The day of thanksgiving
was celebrated in the hospitals, homes
and charitable institutions. How it
was observed the G o b e relates.
The prisoners in the county Jail were
also reminded of the day, when they
beheld the tempting turkey and cram
berry sauce, and mince pies that were
set before them. ~
AS for the weather, everyone thought
the sun might have looked down at
least once with his naked eye.
But the turkey triumphed.
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