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

In Java. nlld our ban HAS brought from
Central America, md our almonds
grown In Syria, and our oranges ship.
ped from California. and our olives
sent from Italy. and our terrapin
caught IN tirgina. and our canvasback
ducks shot in Chesapeake bay. and our
craiilcrrics grown near Kalamazoo.
and our plum pudding and fruit cake,
like the spices of the Egyptian mum.
mics. gathered from everywhere, and
with their indigestiblc qualities ready
10 change lis into mumnies II we only
give them n big enough chance. while
rs cupola upon this many noored or
many courscd Thanksgiving meal we
lay on the big. thick layer of richly
Favored homemade ice cream from our
own Jersey COW. without which our
children consider no Thanksgiving din
ncr worthy the name.
But must stop describing the many
different sources from which our
Thanksgiving 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 aud the ocean greyhound as
we'll ~ the wonderful modern reaper
and mower of the farm are spreading
for us Thanksgiving banquet OF
which the Romans and the Greeks and
the Hebrews or even our own ancestors
of hundred years ago In the widest
flights 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 a
foreign language. Foreign lands con-
tribute great part 10 all American
banqucts. Thank God. Japan can fur
nish Massachusetts her rice as we'll as
Louisiana her sugar and China her tea.
A striking Picture.
But rs go and study Byan Shaw's
picture aud watch that crowded room
of the British museum see the men
and women dressed In the most beau
tiful of 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 instinctively know that
tile styles are old fashioned. for when
we realize that every winter our moth
crs and wives aud daughters must
have their clothes made over again
completely or else they feel that they
look rd.culous'y out of style, then we
know that the garments of quarter
- t.. 80 Ia
indeed. Ii our wives wore big sleeves
In their dresses last winter. then they
must wear very small sleeves now. II
small boanets were their headgear last
spring. then this fall their hats must
lie SHAPED like Mexican sombrero.
for thus DEGREES Partisan style. And
the average woman would sooner wear
convicts Garb than be out of style.
But. though Hyam Shaw's characters
were dressed III garments quarter of
IL century old. yet. like our own clothes.
they were all machine made garments.
The linen came from the Belfast mills.
The woods were woven not with a 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
bonncts were made in the hat factories.
The high silk hats. without which 10
British lris.ocr;it feels that lie Is dress.
ei us n gentleman. also came from the
hat factory And when we 90 through
our own wardrohcs we hear machinery
hunming one perpetual sentence: II
made you. m;i,ic you. made you.
| made the cloth OF that coat. | made
the cloth OF that dress. | made that
underwear. made those shoes and
those hats and those gloves. made
you. | mace YOU" And why has ma.
clinery made all our clothcsi For two
re.lsons-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 and more
suitable for comfort and ease.
oh" says some cynic. Il do not see
any benefit from machinery In regard
10 clothes. True. the sewing machine
In 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. i must have six
dresses so every time ! come home
from business she meets me with II re-
quest for n new hat or n new coat or
Il new dress or Il new pair of evening
slippers. AMI for my part | would like
to 20 back to 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 TO the old
ways and not have the comforts of the
modern machine made garments7
Well. let me see how II fits In your
case.
Old Fashioned Clothes.
You say you like the old handmade
clothes. hard 10 make. but clothes
which. after they were made. never
wore out. How would you like your
great grandmother 10 knit for you
pair of stockings like those your great
grandfather wore: You say these
modern stockings are always getting