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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

clam chowder and oysters roasted in
big clam shells. Wild turkeys were
abundant, and one days shooting de-
termined the characteristic dish Of the
feast for all the year to come. Plum
porridge delighted the few children,
and the guests were to introduce child
hood to the festive popcorn.
But when Massasoit came he brought
with him ninety of his people. The
first Thanksgiving dinner, instead of
being served to fifty, was served to
nearly three times that number. More
over, the guests stayed three days, and
in spite of their present of five fine
deer one does not doubt that they left
empty pantries and weary hostesses
behind them and that for q week
thereafter the ~colonists lived on ''pick-
ed up dinners"
History repeats itself. The noble
autumn festival too often means for
mother only a week long baking day
and little time or strength for the CIV
ing of thanks. But we need not repro
duce the Plymouth situation. PRISCILLA
could not set her wild Indians to serve
her, but today the preparations for the
dinner may be divided among the
many hands which make light work.
Stoning tho r~aisins, picking the tur-
key, straining the cranberries. split
ting the kindling, cracking the NUTS
setting the table, furnish occupation
for all, from grandfather to six-year-
old. For u day in the year mother
must have more help than she a use.
from the busy hour before breakfast
until the last dish is washed at night.
The guests at this family festival
should be at home In kitchen and par
lor alike.
So the homemaker may herself an
swer to the call for gratitude for "thei
return of seedtime and harvest, the
increase Of the ground and the gath
ering in of the fruit thereof."-Youth'sI
Companion.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05
PRISCILLA breaches.
On the Noble Art of Being Thankful
Gracefully.

GTdCcIdHys
Every girl wishes she was charming.
Some girls wish it so f%ervently that
they actually do something to bring
around the happy result. Others just
build air castles on such foundations
and a full pocketbook, which gives IN
limited privileges in the matter OF
choosing frocks and frills.
More arts than you a count on
your two hands go to make up that
composite gift, personal charm. One
of them is appropriate to the season
the art of giving thanks gracefully.
Have you ever practiced it? If not,
Thanksgiving is the appointed time to
begin. 1t makes men adore you. old
people speak beautiful words Of you
and young women envy you.
Perhaps you are going to Thanksgiv-
ing service If you are the kind of girl
who lives up to the good old New Eng
land custom. Perhaps you belong to
the new idea class with whom football
HIS lscn suf-erieEr svon-to $50 turtay
dinner at midday. Perhaps you are
going for a long days outing in the
frosty country. No matter where. it is
pretty sure that he is going, too, and it
ought to be written He" Armed with
Il chrysanthemum and a purely mascu-
line sense of gratitude for a day away
from the grinding cares of office or
shop, he win call for you early with a
blithe "WeE.. isn't this a day to be
thankful for?"
And what reply will you have ready
for him?
If mother could not afford to give
you a new frock for the day or if
your slender salary forbade quite as
stunning a costume as your minds
eye pictured. will you say in cold, care
less fashion. "Well | don't know that
l have much to be thankful for" or,
"Please do not spring that chestnut on
me; you know Thanksgiving day is a
mere form in this money making age?"
Girls do say such absurd things
when something goes wrong with their
clothes!
Can't you see how you will quench
that young mans enthusiasm and his
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

was really a pretty good ft-consid
ering.
As ornament Margery sewed some OF
the fringe of the shawl around the
neck like a ruff, at the edges where
the wings ought to be and around the
legs. So when dressed the unfortu-
nate, or, rather. naughty. turkey look
ed like a new plaid variety of the scar
let f1amingo, with side pockets and
fringed drawers.
The appearance of Kristine stalking
around in her new suit was very fun
ny. How the boys did laugh! And
eve papa had to wipe away the laugh
ing tears.
In this dress the next morning, after
she had been fed daintily, Margery in
troduced her to her old friends of the
poultry yard by opening the kitchen
door and letting her walk out where
the turkeys were taking their break
fast.
Margery thought they would be glad
to see her; but, alas. this distinguished
stranger in gay attire was not recog-
nized. They stared and scolded at her.
and the old gobbler ruffled up his
feathers and dragged his wings or the
ground and anne up to her, saying
angrily:
"Gobble, gobble. gobbler
Kristine seemed to be disheartened
at this GOODNESS on the part of her FAM
lily and skunk into a corner, as though
ashamed of her fine dress. Then the
family crowded around her to punish
her impertinence in coming among
them and actually began to peck at
her.
Margery, who was watching from
the window. could hardly believe her
eyes at first: but, yes, they were actu-
ally pecking at the poor outcast, who
finally fled screaming across the yard.
Margery flew to the door, and Kristine
hurried in just in time to escape the
whole family, who were close upon her.
you poor, dear Kristine!' she muir
INJURED over her when she had her safe
ly in her arms. did they peck you?
The naughty things! You shan't go
with them any morel You shall stay
with me in the house."
So it came to be at last. Hannah
grumbled a little; but, after all, she
couldn't say much, for it was by her
own fault that the poor thing lost its
own winter coat. Before long the
family grew quite attached to Mar
gery's pet, whose name they shortened
to Kris.
On her part Kris was a very bright
bird. She would come when called by
name, and she never failed to- he on
hand at mealtimes. when she would
walk around the table and receive del
icate bits from every one.
While her little mistress was study
ing or sewing Kris would stand and
look at her. turning her knowing head
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first one side and
then the other
a n d sometimes
saying in a rehec-
tive way:
'Quit!"
As soon as books
and work were
put away she was
ready for play.
In fact, she en-
joyed her strange
life very much
and grew fat un-
der it, SC that
pretty soon the
boys began to
tease Margery by
suggesting t h a t
her pet was ready
to take her place
ON the table.
The only time
she seemed to
ha hIa
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

the1 only coming when called and
gen srally making a visit to the table
for her usual treats.
Pc had not been out very long when
on morning Margery went out to see
hd and she was gone. No one had
Sc her since breakfast. Margery felt
vd1g bad and after looking all about
ca7 lie to the sad conclusion that she
hd1 strayed away and got lost, for the
" lie flock wandered far off to feed.
B. the next morning at breakfast
time Kris walked in, as usual, and be-
g1n TO beg for food. Margery Rugged
hdr and fed her, and she ate as though
she was starved.
When she had finished her meal she
went out again, and about noon her
little mistress sought her again, and
again she was missing.
This now became the regular thing
with Kris. Every morning she was ON
hahd for her breakfast. and in spite of
watching she would slip away and
hide so that no one could find her
agAin.
IPoor Margery was almost heartbro-
KEEP at this tendency to vagrancy in
hef pet, but Hannah only smiled and
said:
'1Wait a bit and you'll see something
hide"
But, though Hannah had her suspi-
cidns. she was not prepared for what
really occurred one day.
After this strange conduct had been
going on for a few weeks there came a
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05
THANKSGIVING Day.

Now the turkey roosting low
Finds his spirit full of woe;
Notes that popularity
Is not all it's said TO be;
Wishes that he had been wise
In his corn fed paradise.
He'd by far the wiser been
Had he rested 'mongst the lean;
Had he dieted a bit.
Keeping all his muscles fit,
Stead of, like a prideful fiat,
Gorging until plump and fat.
See! In state at last he lies,
Thanked about by pumpkin pies,
Thanked with fresh cut celery,
Giblet sauce n cranberry;
Covered with a pail of crisp,
Here and there a parsley wisp
Lying softly on his breast;
Stuffed with spice and nuts Of chest
Poor old turkey! Victim he
OF his gobbling vanity.
Gladstone day for young and old,
Whether winds be soft or cold;
Day that gives a nation aus
For its grateful "Deo Laus;"
Day that brings us face to face
With the fount of love and grace
It were blessing past compare
That we a a day SO rare;
Day from others all apart
Given over to the heart,
To a realizing sense
OF the great beneficence
OF the hand divine above
That hath ruled us but through love.
John Kendrick Bangs In Harper's
. Weekly.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

it, and at last it cuddled down quietly
in its strange new bed.
Through the long Sunday that fol
lowed the turkey was kept a close
prisoner. and by the next morning
many plans had been thought out for
its comfort.
That was a great day for Margery,
who was confined to the house by del
icate lungs and who longed for some
thing to pass away the hours when
lessons were over and the daily sew
ing 'stint" finished.
Here was something to do! The new
pet was fed and the lessons and sew
ing hurried through, so that by noon
she was free to carry out her plans.
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no, papa!'
cried Margery,
W b o stood on
the steps. Don't
kill the poor
thing! I'll take
care of 1t some
how"
"But it1 freeze,
dear" said papa,
going back into
the kitchen.
mo; I'll fix 1t
up. I'll make it
something to
wear. Please let
me-" pie a d e d
Margery earnest
~.
"Wel1, 1 don't
care, child" said
her father, laugh
ing. "Do as you
like and dress 1t
up. l want a
fat gobbler and
not q five pound
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

By this time the
turkey had found
out that Margery
wouldn't hurt it
and was not so
frightened as it
had been last
night, so when
the little girl
took it in her
arms it made lit
tie objection.
"Now you must
have q name"
said Margery
softly. carving
her new play
thing off into
her especial cor
ner of the big
kitchen, where
work and Han
nah V came.
LET me s e e"
she W e n t on.
ffISH a~ -
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after my lovely doll that got broken
Kristine-and l must make you some
clothes so you can walk around and
not be hobb'ed up So"
With the help of mamma the busy
little girl contrived a sort of coat for
Kristine. 1t was made of an old shawl
and was bright scarlet, with black and
white plaid.
1t came pretty well up on the neck
and Of course covered the naked legs.
The wings were left inside. 1t was
fastened together at the breast and
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

posed. at any
rate, her legs re-
fused% hoM-Hef
up, and she fell
to the ground in
sensible.
Half an hour
later 81 a n n a b
wentout for more
wood to replen-
ish her fire and
in the gathering
darkness S t u M
bled over the tur-
key, still lying
there.
A glance at the
fowl to see that
she was not out
wardly hurt and
another at the
pail told the
shameful story.
Here's a fine
bit O. work." ex-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING.
1t Was Celebrated Under Many Per4
picking Difficulties.

F'SN'h9 StitCuiti0Ss
When in the autumn of 1921 Massa-
soft accepted Governor Bradford's inyf-
tation to join the colonists in a harvest
festival the Thanksgiving day troubles
of women began. Mistress Brewster
and Priscilla Mullins and Constanta
Hopkins and little Remember Aller-
ton and the rest of the dozen women
who had survived the first terrible
Plymouth winter set to work to make
ready for the celebration. Their cup
boards were not much like the gener-
GUS larders of merry England, but
what they were to eat at this feast
should be of their best.
There was the standby of hasty
pudding and molasses. There were
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

hen turkey for Thanksgiving"
After some trouble the shivering,
naked turkey was caught and carried
into the warm kitchen. 1t was care
fully wrapped in an old skirt for the
night and tied into a basket.
The astonished creature rebelled and
fought against the indignity of wear
ing a flannel skirt, but cold conquered
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05
Be Thankful.

For all the good things Of this earth
OF mingled gall and honey.
For maidens, melody and mirth
And, most OF all. for money
This is the day when thanks are due
And should be paid with pleasure
While toothsome turkeys yield tOf you
A g~astronomic treasure.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05
ODE TO A GOBBLER
By r. X. Munkittrick

IL hall All hail! Oh, rare and antique bird :
That lately on the venerable tree ;
= Rolled in a ball of sleep, the chill winds heard
Moaning in mournful gusts thine elegy!
No more the sun will gild thy red cravat
Or ripple on thy wing,
For time hath caught thee, even as the cat |
Catches the gray and agile whiskered rat,
And now thy praise we sing,
Gathered about the board, serene and gay,
Upon Thanksgiving day. &
With joy we see thee lying on thy back,
Thy chaste, lush drumsticks sticking in the air;
Thy wings in sweet peace folded and, alack,
The incense of thy stufing, pungent rare,
Filling our souls with heavenly melody, J
Tia uhila NTH fnrk and Lnifa
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05

h dark meat and thy white meat fondly we
Sufuse with gravy in our revelry
And then, with pleasure rife,
Each dainty morsel neatly tuck away
Upon Thanksgiving day.
Thou'rt nobler than the canvasbaok or goose,
The lordly shanghai or the ortolan
Or any other minstrel that is loose
From Tuscaloosa to Cape Mary Ann.
Compared with thee the woodcock is a mere
Delusion-all in all;
The upland plover meier can be thy peer,
Beside thee to the epicure and seer
The prairie hen is small;
Thou art the bird of freedom anyway
Upon Thanksgiving day.
New York Press.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-05
>@m1@
r9eaA
Thai
Walked
Away
A THANKSGIVING
STORY
By
FRANK II. SWEET

nah. "Sure, and can it be the one l
picked myself this evening has come to
life?'
How did you kill it?" asked Mr..
Winslow.
81 didn't kill it at all. The botherin'
crater killed itself atm beans that
got soaked in my brandy, and 1 had
to stop my work and dress it before it
cooled"
"Well. it evidently was not dead"
said Mr.. Winslow. But now it's
dressed you better cut off its head"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09
TARIFF HITS DAD JOLT But
GIVES Him CHEAP STRYCHN|NE

Ladies' and children's gloves, on
which Payne raised the Dingley
rates from 100 to 800 per cent,
have been restored to the old rates
in the Aldrich bill, but father can
not help wondering what the con-
ference committee will do to this
schedule, as we'll as to that relat-
ing to shoes.
Aldrich raised the Dingley rate
of rs per cent to 105 per cent on
silk plush, and put Is per cent
more on silk velvet and ribbons.
Other varieties of silk fabrics
have been increased from 10 to 1873
per cent.
Lingerie Will Get Him
Lingerie will also give father
some palpitation of the heart. Aid
rich raised the tariff on laces and
embroideries from so per cent, the
highest ever imposed, to from 70
to $50 per cent. This falls parti-
cularly upon the very cheapest
laces.
When father pays his grocery
bill he will find that there have
been increases over the Dingley
rates on lemons of so per cent,
celery 81 per cent, jellies % per
cent and grapes % per cent.
There have been the following
increases on farm products: Corn
33 per cent, oats 33 per cent, wheat
20 per cent and rye 100 per cent.
Evan N,eb%c roef Mara
1t will depend largely upon the
corpulence of pas pocketbook
whether or not he will have any
reason to growl over the fact that
duty of 80 per cent has been put
upon foreign made yachts, which
used to come in free.
But after the bills for the month
have been received and father
compares them with his balance in
bank. perhaps he may find relief
in turning to paragraphs ID and rs.
He may take his choice as between
, chloroform and strychnine, as each
has been reduced so per cent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09

WASHINGTON, d. c., July o.
How do the tariff schedules, as
adopted by the senate, hit father?
A careful analysis of the bill in
its present stage of development
shows that the man of family is
entitled to a considerable crouch.
granting of course that the in
creases in duties on some of the
necessaries of life, as well as on
minor luxuries, mean a CORE
spending raise in retail prices
which is usually the way a tariff
bill works.
The very first thing in the
morning, if pa is fond of bologna
sausage for breakfast, he may
well wrinkle his brow. In the
Dingley law and the Payne bill
the succulent bologna was on the
free list. The senate made the
rate 25 per cent ad valorem.
Should he lead off in his break
fast bill of fare with few juicy
slices of pineapple, bologna would
be the second jolt to his nervous
system. Payne raised the Ding
ley ante on pineapples; the senate
finance committee saw it and
raised it some more, and the SEN
ate shot it up again. The net re-
suit was 12S per cent increase over
the Dingley duty.
When he comes to his good old
reliable German fried potatoes he
will receive a third shock, for the
senate aeroplaned the rate on po-
tatoes from % to As cents bushel
an elevation of so per cent. His
buckwheat cakes will be a fourth
reminder. The tariff was raised
over Dingley and Payne rs per
cent.
Unless the milliners are philan
thropic enough to bear the tax
father will have to pay more for
his wife's and daughters hat trim
mings next fall. If it is true, as
claimed in the senate, that retail
profits are higher than the present
temperature in Washington, maybe
the milliners will deduct the in
creases made in the bill, but father
hardly expects that. The duty or
ostrich feathers, artificial fruits
leaves and other exhibits from the
farm, field and forest that adorr
the headgear feminine, has beer
increased 20 per cent.
Fewer New Clothes
Dads monthly bill for the chill
dren's clothes will also be higher
In the matter of cotton cloth, the
house adopted the Dingley rates,
but the senate bill raises the rate
on common unbleached cotton 1875
per cent, on bleached 400, and on
colored or printed SO per cent.
Some of the finer grades show in.
creases of 10 to so per cent and
some are unchanged.
The Payne bill raised the Ding
ley duty on women's cotton stock.
ings from 20 TO 80 cents a dozen
but the Aldrich bill restores the
Dingley rate.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09
fRx United Press.l

WASHINGTON, July 9.-Next
time Senator Root makes a speech
in the senate in warm weather it
is safe to say that he will wear
suspenders.
When he was making his argu-
ment in support of the administra-
ton plan for tax on the earnings
of corporations it was evident to
the least observant that he had
something else on his mind be-
sides the intricaeies of the law
that he was expounding and the
question of the comparative merits
and dement's of the income tax.
The senate chamber had a tenn
perature of So degrees. Every SEN
ator was using big palm-leaf fan
except the orator. He was too
busy.
Mr.. Root is a tall, sparely built
man without any of those avoirdu-
poidal prominences which some
times help in an emergency. He's
rather straight up and down. He
was attired in a thin blue serge
suit, with a negligee shirt of blue,
ana Delu. mat DelC n0euS dHOtH-
err hole punched in it.
Starting his remarks in a cool,
calm and dispassionate manner,
and in a voice little too thin to
be very effective, Mr.. Root soon
became warmed up to his subject.
AS he proceeded his voice became
full and round, his gestures ami
mated and forceful, and he walked
to and fro across the center aisle
and turned first to the republican
side and then to the democratic
side to direct home his rapier like
thrusts of argument. Naturally, in
such a temperature, and under such
exertions, he was soon perspiring
freely.
Then, suddenly, a worried express
sion fitted across his countenance
that was not caused by the interup-
tions of Senators Bailey or Cum
Minis or any of the others whose
position he was attacking. His
hands went down to where the re-
calcitrant belt was neglecting it's
duty. He's losing 'em! He's los
ing 'em!" remarked several inter-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09

every other city in the country,
and for that matter the entire con-
tinent of North America. The
union has successfully fought for
an eight hour day during a finan-
cial panic when the local and other
carpenters unions were exerting
themselves to the utmost to main
tain their organizations. In the
light of these fact / ask again,
what makes for and in reality com
prises the strongest labor union ?
Frank H. Walker.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09
NEVER AGAIN FOR HIM

Because his feet stuck to the
asphalt paving, a farmer from Pa
louise thought he had been drinking
too much and confided his chagrin
to an officer as he boarded a train.
I'm going right home, officer, ="
said the man, penitently. 1--WE only
had one beer, and l never knew it
to affect me this way before, but
guess l must have taken too
much. l can't hardly lift my feet.
Feel as if l was on sticky fly
paper
Believing the little temperance
lesson might do him good. the Of
ficer did not disabuse his mind by
telling him that even the w. c. T..
U. women get their feet stuck to
the pavements these days.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09
ROOT ALMOST LOST HIS
TROUSERS IN .SENA TE

ested observers under their BREATH
But no. With good strong pull
they were hoisted into position
again and the flow of oratory went
on. But from that time on, until
the conclusion of the speech, Mr.
Root was busy alternately yank-
ing up his trousers by the top or
hosting them by the pockets and
hopping the perspiration from his
face,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09
WHAT MAKES UNION STRONG?

Editor, The Press-In an article
appearing July s 1t is stated that
the carpenters have the strongest
local union. l ask what makes any
union strong? Is it numbers, as
stated in the article, or perfect or
ganization and a fraternal senti-
ment? The local printing press
mems union, of which l am a mem
Der, has practically 100 per cent
organization in this and almost
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-09
JAP CAN ALWAYS GET
WHITE GIRL
(By United Press.>

SAN RAFAEL, Cal, July o.
Signed with the initials "A. J. K"
a reply to the matrimonial adver-
tisement issued by a Japanese was
received by a local newspaper
recently.
II am only 49," the letter said,
"but I am willing to become your
wife. have large black eyes and
dark hair, and if l must say it, a
good figure. My home life is mo-
notonous and l am willing to
leave"
The reply caused much excite
ment among the residents of this
place.
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