The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-11-28

generally in French, has been uo,n
or less laboriously run through 10
the coffee. The art students, as a
body. are never a solemn lot. and
this fact is in evidence when they
give thanks for the mercies extended
to them since a previous Thanksgiv-
ing.
Just to give some idea of how rhe
art students observe the day, let ne
20 back to the time when the stud
ents' club (the American Art Assoc
tatton OF Paris) held its final Thanks-
giving dinner. This was about fifteen
years ago, shortly after the clubs
organization. :.
As Thanksgiving day would 10
the first national holiday to roll
round the club very much wanted
TO observe the occasion but how?
No member had ever seen cranber-
Ties in a French market; the only
pumpkin offered for sale was not
In the shape OF pies. but in iriel
strips, for baking and soups, ana as
for sweet potatoes, they were as
utterly unknown to the average
Frenchman as were cranberries. True
French turkey could be secured
and good turkey at that-but what
was turkey without the trimmings?
When the club, in the depths Of
despair, had about decided that II
would be compelled by circumstance
10 forego a good old-fash.oned
Thanksgiving dinner, word was re-
ceived from the Art Students league
OF New York that it was going to
present the new association with G.
Thanksgiving dinner that would re-
call the kind mother used to serve
up steaming hot on that crisp, men,
orable day back on the farm in the
years gone by. This message was
soon followed by consignment Of
real American turkeys, all done to a
golden brown and all stuffed; enough
cranberry sauce to last the club for
q month Of Sundays, seemingly, and
pies. pumpkin pies, regular New Eng.
Land pumpkin pies. You know the
kind.
Tae dinner was served in the 1T
Tie house on the Boulevard Montpar-
nasse, then occupied by the club.
The room wGs decorated chiefly with
the stars and stripes and the tri-
color intertwined, but | believe |
Am safe In saying this feature was
not noticed until the dinner was well
aver. for the eyes of every Yankee
Is he entered the room were on the
table, sight OF which brought tears
10 more than one pair of eyes.
In addition to the students for
NAL dinners-if the adjective can
rightly be applied to any thing that
the art students do or think or say
many small dinners OF Thanksgiving
are given In the studios, Needless
TO Say, they are thoroughly bohe-
neian. Some certainly rank among
tao queerest THANKSGIVING meals ever
spread; and 1t is my belief. founded
ON twelve years residene in the quar-
Ter. that the studio dinner most pre-
scrfbed by tradition would cause one
Of the customs stern originators to
zall dead of sheer horror were 1t
possible for him to be seated at the
opening course even.
The studio dinner that Long
snider" gave to select party OF
sronies a half dozen years ago Is stu
laughed over in the quarter, and bids
iair to become Thanksgiving tradi-
rton among these apparently care
Tree self-exiles.
Two or three days before the fes-
tival was due to roll round Long
snider" decided that he would give
\ dinner He Investigated the state
sf his pocket book, finding only his
monthly allowance sufficient to meet
running expenses. Nevertheless,
there must be dinner. and when his
guests appeared at the appointed
hour on THANKSGIVING evening they