Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-12-02

sent from Italy, and our terrapin
caught IN Virginia and our canvasback
ducks shot in Chesapeake bay. and our
cranbcrrcs grown near kalamazoo,
and our plum pudding and fruit cake.
like the spices of the Egyptian mum
mics. gathered from everywhere. and
with their indigcstible qualities ready
10 change us into munmies II we only
give them big enough chance. while
rs n cupOla upon this many iloored or
many ""nrs"d Thanksgiving meal we
lay on the big. thick layer Of richly
own Jersey COW. without which our
children consider no Thanksgiving din
ncr worthy the name
1ut | must stop describing the many
different sources from which our
Thanks giving dinner comes, or else
your hunger for material things will
crowd out your desire for a spiritual
Thanksgiving. Suffice To say the rail-
road track and the ocean greyhound as
we'll as III" wonderful modern reaper
and mower of the farm are spreading
for US a Thanksgiving banquet OF
which the Romans and the Greeks and
the Hebrews or even our own ancestors
Of II hundred years ago In the widest
fights of their Imagination could never
conceive or dream. No wonder all the
menus or the bills of fare Of all our
large city restaurants are printed In q
foreign language Foreign lands con-
tribute \ great part to all American
banuuets. Thank God. Japan can fur
nish Massachusetts her rice as well as
Louisiana her sugar and China her tea.
striking Picture.
Bit as go and study Byam Shaw's
picture and watch that crowded room
of the British museum | see the men
and women dressed in the most beau
tiful II garments. OF course these gar
mcnts are not In up TO date fashions.
They are dressed rs people dressed
thirty years ago. When we say thirty
years ago we instinctivcly know that
the styles are old fashioned, for when
We realize that every winter our moth
crs and wives and daughters must
completely or else they feel that they
look ridirulously out of style, then we
know that the garments of quarter
Of Il century ago must be out of style
indeed. Ii our wives wore big sleeves
In their dresses last winter, then they
must wear very small sleeves now. II
small bonncts were their headgear lust
spring. then this fall their hats must
he shaped like Mexican sonbrero,
for thus DEGREES Partisan style. And
the average woman would sooner wear
Il convici'S garb than be out of style.
But. though i,yam Shaw's characters
were dressed III garments II quarter of
century old. yet. like our own clothes.
they were MI machine made garments.
The linen came from the Belfast mills.
The woods were woven not with pris-
elias spinning wheel. but by the looms
OF the Manchester factory The silks
came from the silk mills. the kid gloves
from the kid glove factories. The poke
The high silk hats. without which no
British aris;ocrat feels that he n dress.
81 as II gentleman. also came from the
hat factory. And when we 90 through
our own wardrobeS we hear machinery
humming one perpetual sentence: II
made you. | made you. made you.
made the cloth OF that coat made
the clo.h of that dress. | made that
underwear. made those shoes and
those hats and those gloves. | made
you. mace you" And why has ma.
chinery made all our clothes: For two
rclsons-iirst. because machinery can
make our clothes much cheaper than
the human hand can make them; rea.
son the second. machinery can make
those clothes much better aud more
suitable for comfort ana ease.
"Oh," says some cynic. Il do not see
any benefit from machinery in regard
10 clothes. True. the sewing machine
is able To make six dresses for my
wife where her grandmother had only
one. but the difference between modern
times and ancient times is no difference
IN the amount of work done My wife
keeps saying always. 1 must have six
dresses. so every time come home
from business she meets me with II re-
quest for Il new hat or new coat or
Il new dress or new pair of evening
slippers. and for my part would like
10 go back 10 the old times when wo-
men and men did not think or talk
about dress. This talk about dress
nearly drives me insane" Would you.
my brother. like TO 20 back 10 the old
ways ana not have the comforts Of the
modern machine made garmentsi
Well let me see how II fits In your
case
Old Fashioned Clothes.
You say you like the old handmade
clothes. hard Ia make. but clothes
which. after they We're made. never
wore out. How would you like your
great grandmother 20 knit for you
pair of stockings like those your great
grandfather wore; You say these
modern stockings are always getting
holes in them Yes. they are. but there
was no danger Of your grandfather's
stockings having holes in them Why?
They were made rs thick us a bed
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