Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-26
Council Bluffs
FINE DAY FOR The THANKFUL
Nature Assists in Helping All Observe
the Day.
SOME TAKE LUNCH IN WOODS
charity sees that Younsaters at
Christina Home aud Crechc
Have Turkey GaIOre-some
Floral Gifts.

Every creature that had any red blood
in It's veins and was In the vicinity OF
Council Bluffs Thursday and special rea-
son to observe Thanksgiving day. There
was cloudless sky ali day. and the SUR
warmed air was the real wine Of lie
ripened wine, with just enough OF the
tang OF autumn in II to make IL a physi-
cal and spiritual inspiration Windows
and doors were opened all day long. and
the dining rooms in thousands Of homes
where happy families and friends gath
cred around the tables, where the bountirul
feasts were spread, was filled with at
mosphere untainted by coal gas and the
oders Of freshly polished stoves. In some
instances the tables were spread on
screened porches used as summer dining
rooms, and numbers OF Families carried
their dinners In baskets to the woods for
the pleasure and novelty or Il. and that
Il might be said IN after DAYS that Thanks
giving in Council Bluffs In 1910 was
real summer day.
No holiday has been more fully observed
for many years. For the first time all Of
the drug stores were closed during the
afternoon. The cigar stores, few res
taurants and the moving picture shows
were open. Every other place OF business
was hermetcally shut. Even the streets
were deserted, and the car lines had an
under days business
Day of Service and FeaatinH.
The union services at the churches were
fairly we'll attended, and at none, OF the
churches was service extended unwisely
to encroach upon the dinner hour, 1t was
day Of feasting everywhere Al the
Christian home dinner was served I'm a
dining room, where 300 were seated at the
tables II required twenty-five turkeys
with all OF the other things that ars called
for and twenty chickens 20 satisfy the
demands OF the 80 hungry little young
sters, and the fifty or more adults con-
sututing the workers and those who are
given shelter there The turkeys were
the gifts OF home workers all over the
country, and have been arriving for several
days. large number OF the invalids and
the members Of the "shut-in" band were
given dinner IN the hospital dining room
Seventy people at the Creche ate turkey
and coneomitant good things, all donated
by generous people cooperating with the
Associated Charities workers. Mothers OF
many little ones cared for there gathered
at the bountlful tables and doubly enjoyed
the feast
Thanksgiving dinners we're served to the
prisoners at the city and county jails. The
spirit OF generosity appeared to be more
pronounced than on any previous Thanks
giving day. Individual and organized effort
20 make somebody happy seemed to be the
universal purpose. In all of the hospitals
and charitable institutions the work OF
the Flower mission girls was in evidence
The band is composed of girls all under
10 years old, and II is their mission TO carry
flowers TO brighten sick chambers. Their
sunny presence was visible at all of the
Institutions where flowers were left ia eacl
room. 1t was the special mission of the
ltahy Ernest Hart Flower mission, an or
Eanization OF the First Congregations
church, to bestow floral gifts at the Creche
and yesterday the little girls were mort
than usually successful in their efforts
Twenty-Five of the happy children, accom-
panied by Mrs. J. n. Strock. their chap
eror, went to the Creche bearing armload
OF flowers.