The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-12-07
LITERARY SAUCE PIaUANT
How One Thanksgiving Dinner Was
Served

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guests numbered four. A group Of ten il
an ideal number. All are within easy con
versational range. You can be sociable with
your next neighbor, or fire pleasant joke
to the farthest corner without raising your
voice.
Dainty folded place-cards, each adorned
with spirited sketch executed by the cid
est daughter, also containing an apt quota
ton and pleasing sentiment, was at each
plate. Smaller cards with notices danged
from the various dishes. The company be
ing seated, the hostess, glancing at the
guests, read her quotation, from the "Mer
chant of Venice:
You are very welcome to our house
1t must appear in other ways than words >
Her sentiment was "This is me and mine
to thee and thine" To which a guest re
sponded, also from the Merchant of Ven
ice:" at blesseth him that gives and him
that takes" adding this kindly greeting:
81 trust that thee and thy folks love me and
my folks as well as me and my folks love
thee and thy folks"
The host then, consulting his card, asks
with Owen Meredith: where is the mar
that can live without dining?" To which
the learned guest replies, quoting from
Swift:
Now and then your men OF wit
Will condescend to take bit"
The daughter then reminds the carver in
words from "Troilus and Cressida:" "Thert
is expectance here from both the sides
Cleveland: ct is a condition which con
fronts us, not theory" and cycling the
savory but formidable bird, courageously
brandishes his shining blade, quoting the
words of Gen. Grant: 81 propose to move
Immediately upon your works"
AT length all are served, and the youngest
son, who is last, agrees with Longfellow that
"All things come round to him who will
but wait"
Card notices were attached to various
dishes. appended to the turkey was senti-
ment from Macbeth" Nothing in his life
became him like the leaving it." Aldrich
furnished the label for turnips: under the
earth in fragrant glooms 1 dwelt." Olives
found an appropriate inscription from
Twelfth Night" 'She is drowned already,
sir, in salt water" Hamlet utters mystic
rious warning for mince pie: Il am forbid
to tell the secrets of my prison house.
Love me little, love me long," on the pep
per box, was from Marlowe. "How green
you are, and fresh,' from king John" was
well applied to the pease. While the card
on the sugar cubes gently limited that 'The
taste of sweetness, whereof little more
than little is by muchF Foo much" the wal
nuts, on the other hand, demanded in a
phrase from "As You Like It," Can one
desire too much of good thing?" A vase
of roses with blushing petals bashfully de-
clared, Il bloom for you," in the words of
ar old poet.
At length the repast was finished, and,
turning to the backs of the folio cards, such
sentiments as these were read: "Come
what may, I have been blessed" (Byron)
whats done is done" (Macbeth). T am
not now that which I have been" (Childe
Harold) "T am part of all that have
met" (Tennyson).
The carver, having finished his task, con.
templated the devastated structure on the
platter and philosophical in words from
Byron's "Giaour:"
Shrine of the mighty, can it be
That this is all remains of thee?'
Appended to a tray of long feathers,
sharpened at the quill end, was quotation
from Decker: "And then be seen, for an
hour or two, to correct your teeth with some
quill or silver instrument" and presently
the plumes projected from their faces like
wreaths of smoke and were waited in grace
full undulations, tickling the cheeks and ears
of the next neighbors.
AS the merry company rose from the ia.
BILE parting shot from the Merchant of
Venice" was delivered: "Who rises from a
feast with that keen appetite that he sits
DOWN." KAPPA