The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-24
THANKSGIVING FEASTS.
Progra mmes for the Institutions Next
Thursday.

A great slaughter is going on in turkey.
And every time the ak whacks off q head
a soul is filed with Thanksgiving. and in
close proximity to the same region arises
that annual hunger that the President pro-
claims shall be appeased. Hunger being a
common aiment. except to dyspeptics. the
rich and the poor the high and the low
the bound and free, are all making prepa-
rations for an extra meal with all the frills
that their different stations in life will al
low. on Thanksgiving day. All the public
Institutions in the city have arranged for
turkey, cranberry sauce sweet potatoes.
and down the menu to mince pie, and
the inmates are counting the hours till the
festal board appears.
The Hospital for the Insane is making
preparations for a big spread. Thanksgiv-
ing services were held Sunday afternoon.
The regulation Thanksgiving dinner will be
served at noon Thursday. and at its close
dance will be held for those of the patients
who participate. 1t will last until
o'clock. In the evening the employees will
have their dance.
The German Protestant Orphans Home
will serve the sixty-nine orphans with a
sumptuous repast. The boys are wondering
just how much their capacity has increased
Before the dinner the children will proceed
to some church i'm a body and attend serV-
ices. AT the Refcrmatory. Rev. Mr. Lit
tell pastor of the United Presbyterian
| Church, will conduct services at 1890
o'clock in the morning. Then follows the
dinner. and after that there will be en-
tertainment in which the $50 girls will give
recitations and go through the flag and
milkmaid drills. The day will be a holt
| day and will be devoted entirely to amuse-
| ments. In the women's department of the
/ prison there will be no unusual festivities.
with the exception of the dinner; The lit
| tie cOlOred children of the Colored Orphans
| Home will enjoy the day at their own
| games and frolics. There are seventy of
| them. and they will be allowed to have all
| the fun they can manufacture, with big
! dinner thrown in TO keep up their spirits
and make them thankful. There viii be no
| unusual proceedings at the City Hospital
| but all the patients who are able TO eat
turkey and other good things that so with
| IL will be Toasted. Those who are not, of
! whom there arc eight or ten. will be given
other extra nice TODD which their condi-
| tions will permit partakng CT. st. Vim
| cents Hospital will also pursue about the
| same course
! Turkey and lots of it, is the word that
comss from the Poor Farm. Great prepara-
tions are going On there and turkey heads
! sword that cuts both ways. The eos in
mates have for days been specializing on
| their THANKSGIVING appetiteS. and the
slaughter in turkey goes on The Deaf and
Dumb Hospital is right in line and will fur
nsh keen appetites and thankful souls y
| lecture will be delivered in the morning by
! one OF the teachers and party will be
/ held in the evening. Services will be held
! THANKSGIVING morning at the Indiana In
stitute fer the Blind. in which AL the pupils
will take part A number of them will eat
turkey at their homes and visit their par
/ ents. but those who remain Will satisfy the
national desire for turkey. At the Home for
| ErierdlesS Women collation. of the &c cd
/ things of life will be served and donations
! will be thankfully received by the institu-
/ ton. The workhouse is the place where
soup and bread will not be barred out by
turkey. When prisoner is locked behind
! these iron doors he is for the time obliyi-
| Gus To the world and is supposed to forget
that there is such q day as Tnanksgivil &.
! TO drown the memory with soup. The Off
GERS at that institution however have
/ memories. and right beside them large.
! three-ply appetites. and the day will be
/ observed with much gusto and plenty of
white meat and Stufiir'. Jail prisoners
! viii probably fare little better. but the
| same proceedings. in the main, Will apply
at that institution. the cones on whose tur-
rets might Ironically be imagined inverted
| CornucOpias. or horns of plenty.
| GRASTON-STONE.
| Special the indianapolis Journal.
| JEFFERSONNILLE.I Ind. Nov. 23.-J. d.
| Graston of the Pittsburg. Cincinnati. Chi
cago & 81. Louis railway, ard Miss Virginia
| Stone. both well-known young people were
| Campbell. The wedding occurred at the
| bo-ns. of the bride