Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-12-01


try l saw a great machine going over
9esNprairie whore once the farmer.
lweat swinging his scythe. This mar
velous machine was called "a COM
bned harvester IL was drawn BY
ti1irty-two horses, driven ehariot-like.
fo;pf abreast, That machine cut the
wheat, thrashed the wheat, gathered
the clean kernels into bags sewed up
the bags. threw them to one side and
tossed the straw into heaps. All this
happened while the farmer was out
taking his pleasure ride behind his
thirty-two horses. Marvellous, marvel
ous. wonderful, wonderful combined
harvester" But the benefits which
come to our table from "a combined
harvester" are as nothing compared TO
these that come from the freight car
and from the steamer.
Sources of Food.
Have YOU ever stopped to consider
from how many various sources our
food c0mesT ] am nearing the coast of
Sydney, AUSTRALIA. 1 see alongside the
railroad track great numbers Of rab-
bits strung up. There are thousands
and tens of thousands of them. l see
the hillSides Of New South Wales COW
cred with sheep l 20 to the wharfs.
~. there l find the great steamers be-
Ing loaded With them. what is the
good of taking these thousands OF sheep
and rabbits to London2" say 10 the
captain. 1t viii take you at least three
or four weeks TO sail there. That meat
viii then be inalodOrous and stenchful
aud sickcning.r mo, no." answers the
captain. THAT meat is being stored
in rctriscrators. BY running liquid
ammonia through the pipes and letting
: a .cvapor1tc we can make our own ice
oEfshipboarl. That meat will be sold
in London markets as fresh as it Is
today" by the wonderful cold storage
system Of freight car and OF steamship
we can today eat the choicest fruits OF
the east and thc west and have the ten
dercst OF meats carried through the
Rcd sea and Sucz canal. The New
Yorker can banquet upon California
fruits. ana the Inhabitants OF San Fran
cisco. watching the seals climbing over
Seal Rocks" in the Cliff House res
tauraut. may orier his oysters brought
from Maryland bay. Wonderful, won
derful food provlder Is machinery!
NInrhineiy may bring to us our
Thanksgiving dinner. with cavlare ship
ped from Russia. and mollusks gath
cred from Atiantic seashore. and fish
caught of Elcridll coast. and bread
made from Dakota wheattields. and
Ohio turkey fattencd on Michigan corn
aud stuffed-with- marvellous foreign
dressings, and potatoes planted in ILL
nois, and pumpkins fattened In New
England, and mince pies concocted In
New Jersey, and our coffee gathered
II JAVA, aud our bananas brought from
Central America, and our almonds
grown in Syria, and our oranges ship
peal from California. aud our olives
sent from Italy. and our terrapln
ca1ght in Virginia.. aud our canvns shack
ducks shot In Chesapeake bay, and our
cranberrics grown near Kalamazoo,
and our plum pudding and fruit cake,
like the spices OF the Egyptian mum.
rmies. gathered from everywhere, and
NTH their indisestible qualities ready
TO change us into mummiss II we only
give them big enough chance. while
rs cupola upon this many foored or
many coursed Thanksgiving meal we
Hay on the big, thick layer OF richly
Favored homemade ice cream from our
own Jersey cow, without which our
children consider no Thanksgiving din
ner worthy the name .... ..I
p 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 10 say the rail-
road track and the ocean greyhound as
well as the wonderful modern reaper
ana mower OF the farm are spreading
for us n 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 a great part TO all American
banqnets. Thank God, Japan can fur
nish Massachusetts her rice as well az
Louisiana her sugar and China her tea
a - A striking Picture. " t5fS
But ash go and study Byam Shaw's
picture and watch that crowded room
OF the British museum 4 see the men
md women dressedTin the most, beau
tiful Of GARMENTS: OF course these gar
ments are not in up 80 date fashions,
they are dressed as people dressed
Al
years ago we instinctively know that
the styles are old fashioned, for when
we rea ike that every winter our moth
ers and wives and daughters must
have their clothes made over again
completely or else they feel that they
look ridiculously out OF style, then we
know thai the garments of a quarter
OF n century, ago must be out OF Style
indeed.g II lour wives wore big sleeves
in their dresses last winter. then they
must wear Very small sleeves now. IL
small bonnets were their heedgear last
spring, then this fail their hats must
be shaped Ike Mexican s0mbrero.
for thus DEGREES Partisan style. And
the average woman would sooner wear
a convictiS garb than be out of style
But, though Byam Shaw's Characters
were dressed in garments a quarter OF
q century old, yet, IKE our own clothes,
they were all machine made garments.
The linen came from the Belfast mills.
The woaisSEerc woven not with a Pris.
enla's spinning wheel, but by the looms
Of the Manchester factory. The silks
came from the silk mills, the kid gloves
from TIE kid glove factories, The poke
Donnets were made IN the hat factories.
'fhe high silk hats. without which no
British ari5tocrat feels that he.is dress |
ed as gentleman, also came from the |
nat factoryl And when we 60 through |
our ownlvardrobes we hear macAinery |
huEHtng ore perpetual sentence .'iI |
MADE you. made you. made YOU
made the cloth of that coat. / made |
the cioth OF thac dress. made that |
underwear | made those shoes and
rnose bats and those gloves. / made
you. I-insee you.". And why has ma
chincry made all 0lir clothao9 I,o, t,,.oI