The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-11-28
THANKSGIVING.


all with thanks and roast turkey, and as
such q day it is dear to the hearts of all
Americans. Thanksgiving doesn't make
as much noise as does the Fourth Of Ju-
", with its firecrackers, or as Christmas,
with its bells. The country is the only
place in which Thanksgiving may be en-
joyed to its fullest extent, although there
are people who claim that it is not
without its own peculiar charm in the
smallest kind Of a fat At first it may
seem absurd to the student of human
affairs that Is pound turkey should be
able to perform with its maximum grace
in $12 fiat. But this fact is not a mys-
terry when we come to look it squarely
in tho face and meet it with the mental
dissecting knife. It is because these fat
jewellers enjoy many Thanksgiving in
the turkey Of the present.
After the head Of the family has gone
to the table alone to do the carving, be-
cause he would not have sufficient elbow
room II the family were congregated
about him, they sit down and dream Of
the turkey. Of the past when they were
ont ON the farm looking across dreamy
vistas Of nesting landscape, pnnctuated
BY the scarecrow shivering in his straw
bat and linen buster, to let the world
know that summer was q thing Of the
past. And still they fancy they see this
old scarecrow standing among the corn
stacks, with the wind blowing through
his whiskers. They see him right over
there on the fire escape Of the neighbor-
ing fat, for all the flatscape to them is
large area Of farm land nesting with
red leafed trees and mortgages that can
not be raised by hand and are not self
raising like the flour raised upon it.
1t has brought with it pleasant men,
cries which cover a period Of 80 years.
It only goes back to last March in the
flesh, but it carries the man back to the
time when he slept like top on corn
husk mattress and arose in the early
morn to gather the steaming pancake on
the fly, long before he dreamed that he
would ever have to gather the matutinal
horse car ON the fly. It takes him back
to the old game Of shinney. and brings
back to him faces that had long since
faded from his memory. Out in the crisp
chilly air he shouts, 'Shinney on your
own side!'' as Of old, and hears the
yelping Of the hound, shining like pat
ent leather with enthusiasm, and il
stirred once more by the ripping whiz Of
the flushed partridge, and the reverbsr-
ating bang of the sportsman's gun, that
sounds 20 sweet in the aisles Of the 81
lent forest. He will not wake from this
pleasant dream Of past happiness until
tho morrow, for then the turkey will be
cold, and the logs Of fancy's fireside
will have bean reduced to white ashes
10 stir f1tfully in the vagrant gust Of
wind Even when the turkeys shining
carcass has been chopped up to be util.
Eed ~ the base Of an economic soup, the
reminiscent charm will have vanished
gracefully, like go bill at a seaside
resort, for the turkey, like love, 10 never
itself again when once it Is Geld. It's fest
are On the ash heap and will strut
about NO more It's head, with its great
DuDdreary whiskers of flaming red, will
no moro MARBLE in the rosy kiss Of
dawn and I'LL the beholder with rosy
anticipation Of the jocund feast. Its
work is done, and its days are past, and
now the family, 30 we'll begrimed with
gravy 10 tho very eyes, sit and regard
ono another in silent JOY. The smaller
membess will have TO take bath to get
The turkey Oh them. Bnt the victory 10
theirs, - they nit in the city hat filed
with visions Of ecstasy and break the
magic wishbone and wish that every one
from tho highest to the lowest has had
just 30 merry and glad q Thanksgiving a.
Aas fallen TO their happy lot
r. Z. MUNKTrrRICK.