The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-01

Thanksgiving and Christmas are the
two red letter days on the calendar
looked forward to with luscious antic-
~ipation and greedy voraciousness by
the youth of the land. From the first
of November until the hours of feast
ing arrive their waking moments are
filed with thoughts of dainties to be
enjoyed, and their sleep is replete
with dreams of bounteous boar'ls
grooming beneath a weight of appetite
ing viands, of which the recumbent
turkey. well Drowned, and plethora
with dressing, is the piece de resist
ance. For a week before the holiday
their watehful eyes take in every de-
tail of the preparations and each
sunny-faced "punkin' pie and
rotund mince pastry is followed by a
hungry and longing glance to its safe
repository under lock and key.
They scurry home from school with
suspicious promptitude and the alac-
rity with which they jump to obey
mothers slightest request or father 9
sterner command contains the very es-
sence of diplomacy. Wood and coal
are packed to the kitchen with a ready
cheerfulness that causes the mother to
smile as she recalls the days OF their
lethargy; but the mother is wise, and
each rapidly executed errand is re-
warded by a sample of the coveted
sweets and a tender kiss which causes
the CHEEKY weather redeemed little
face to radiate with delight.
Hitherto the kitchen has been q
place to be avoided for fear of seem
ingly endless pilgrimages to grocery,
meat market or coal bin, but now it
holds the quintessence of everything
that makes life worth while, and no
excuse it deemed too f1imsy that will
give entrance across it's seductive por-
tails. To hang around the door and
breathe in the mingled odors of COOK
ing dainties is in itself a pleasure, al
belt a tantilizing one, and to be given
the mixing dish to clean of it's remain
ing sweetness is an e%picurian joy whose
pleasures, like many others, are lost
with the advent of long trowsers and
the first sweetheart.
Thanksgiving morning is the longest
drawn out period of their as yet abbre-
waited life span and to them each min
ute is an aeon of time. Breakfast, ol
lesser days a period of greasy delight, is
now an hour of fasting, for it is not
meet to hamper the capacity of little
stomachs while the air is redolent with
the incense of turkey and cranberry
sauce. Then follows that interminablc
hour at the church while the elders
render their thanks to the Almighty
for his manifold blessings and good
ness. This to the youngsters is an en-
forced period of self denial beyond the
ken of their understanding and it is
probable that the sole element OF
thanks that enters into their musings
is the sigh of satisfaction with which
they greet the pronouncing of the bene-
diction.
They reach home far in advance OF
the g%rownups, and hail with impatient
protest any sign that denotes dinner
has been delayed. At last the longed
for hour arrives and they throng
around the table, dovetailed in at
really marvellous angles by father,
mother, Aunt Mary, grandma and the
rest of the family party. The preliml-
nary skirmish line of oysters and soup
melts away before their attack like
tenants who quit without warning and
they settle down to really serious on
slaught on the arrival of the turkey.
Time and again they return to the at
tack, but with ever lessening vigor,
and with the disappearance of a gen.
erous slice of mince pie down their