Arizona republican., 1906-12-02
THE KINDERGARTEN
 THANKSGIVING DAY
How it Was Celebrated By the chiI- dren and Their Teachers. An Indian Dance.

For six years the kindergarten had had Thanksgiving dinner, inviting few friends. This, the seventh year, We have new plans, new ways, new songs, new kindergarten, so of course we needs must celebrate in a new way. number of things. We talked it over that this year we would have d dinner but send a little basket with some good things in it to our sick friends. Of course the children thought that just the thing. We have had so much done for us that we did want to pass on the joy of giving. The words had scar Cely been said when one responsive listener piped up There is dear little Katherine" Gertrude Evans in her native enthusiasm said "and oh. that sweet little Virginia Hamilton. she is just across the street. She is sick, and cannot go to kindergarten" So it was settled there and then that we would try and make Katherine Ryan and Virginia Hamilton happy in being remembered.
 Wednesday before Thanksgiving. ! John Irvine came very early, only four years old, but dignified as a Kentucky | colonel He had a bunch of feathers pulled from the tail of their Thanks giving turkey. Going to a table, he di- vided them into three punches. saying This is for you. Miss Ellis, those are i for Miss Laura and the third bunch he took in the primary room and put on Miss Tichenor's table. He did not req lize that unconsciously he had planned a most beautiful mornings play for our 1 Thanksgiving celebration. We fixed our baskets. just popcorn that we had popped the day before, and then a nice piece of pumpkin pie and some chrysanthemums. The morning before. we had opened big pumpkin, talked about it's color. shape. how it grew, and found it to be a most beautiful seed cradle We took out the seed and washed them and dried them for future planting The pumpkin was opened, scraped, and cut into very small cubes. washed and cooked in the kindergart- en. That afternoon Miss Tichenor made the crust and baked four pies. On the morning following one was cut into pieces for the sick, one was divided SD as to give each child a taste of these wonderful pies. one was sent to the Thanksgiving sale in the Guild rooms of the Episcopal church and one to our Fairy Godmother."
 We had told the story of the PilgrOms and Miss Tichenor was giving the story of Hiawatha when a big. hand some Indian looked in at the window. We invited him in. gave him a piece of pie and bought one of his bows and ar in, he arH with him to see him shoot All this was leading up to our ring frolic. When we lcame back into the room Miss Laura began playing The Indian Sun dance" We but feathers in our hair. the bow and arrows were given me and then another. and On. that dance; Victor Ned Creighton. if he had not been so . white. would have been taken for a really and truly Indian and this little Hiawatha sailed through that stirring dance until every feather had dropped from his hair Minnehaha could not have lifted her feet higher or brought them down more softly than Gertrude. We stuck the feathers all around the big red bow which tied up her hair and that Indian "tom tom in the music fairly intoxicated our little dancer. As old Nokimis, I looked on with the real Indian grandmother pride at my little Hiawatha, impersonated in so many ways.
 The primaries had all written for their writing lesson. letters to their mothers. and this is what little girl from Indianapolis, doing third grade work, wrote:
 "Phoenix Ariz.. Nov. 2S. 1906
 Dear Mother: We had pumpkin at school A man bought half of it. We made a pumpkin pie out of it. We cut it up into little pieces. I got seed of it. We sent pie to our gocmother and three little sick children.
 Your loving daughter
 "ELIZABETH STEVENSON"
 Harriet Tritle took Virginia's basket to her and Kitty Craig was happy in taking one to Katherine. The man mentioned by Elizabeth. was Prof Todd , of the high school. who helped me to select the pumpkin. for he had lived on a farm. It was so large that he said he would buy half for me. hope they had as much pleasure from their half of the pumpkin, as we did from ours. LUCY TERRILL' ELLIS.