Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-29

ised each one her favorite dish.
They had been chums for years, plan
ned their holidays together and paid
the washerwomen for each other, and
comforted the one whose home letter
failed to come. But she forgot all their
self-denials, experiences and even their
chances TO marry. She quoted Roger
says on all occasions and really was
cross when Josephine quietly Informed
her that Roger might know all about
banking and per cents" but she knew
Just exactly the place to put her little
surplus. That was before Rachel mar
red and events proved Josephine right.
She kept her property two years and
sold IL for enough TO give her a trip to
California. That has all been forgotten
by Rachel and Josephine is too much Of
a lady to remind her OF her good Judg-
ment.
The girls will go there for dinner and
really enjoy their half holiday. but for
the rest OF the winter they viii have
things 10 laugh over, for RachePs
patronizing, married-woman's-man
will amuse them instead Of irritating
them She really loves them and does
not intend to be other than she was
before she met Roger" or Roger
says" as the girls call him.
but the others are equally as much
blessed. All have health, good positions,
and. by living sensibly, they put up
little each month. In a way they have
a broader field OF usefulness than she
has, for she is sheltered from the world
at large, she doesn't come in contact
with humanity as they do. she cannot
hear the undertone Of inconsistencies, of
Loneliness, even OF desperation, the busi-
ness women encounter as they go to and
fro among their sisters. They have
the opportunity to speak the loving
word" to hearts that long for them. She
has the opportunity to open her house
to the homesick and lonely. I wonder
II her husband viii encourage her to
do so?
Thanksgiving viii be over before
you read this. I wonder how many Of
you will be so busy. so absorbed in
making plans. in having a good dinner,
that you will forget the Giver Of all
good gifts. The plumpest turkey and
richest cake cannot make a real Thanks
giving dinner. even to the stranger and
the forlorn IL there is not the atmos-
phere of friendliness and personal inter
est. All cannot have even chicken next
Thursday, but pleasant greetings and
CHEEKY smiles to lift the heart above
the cares that may try to possess the
hearts OF the invited guests are possible.
From time immemorial there have
been harvest festivals under some name
or other. The first real day Of Thanks
giving. on American soil was in 1878 on
the shores Of bleak Newfoundland. An
English clergyman held services with
his people and they pledged themselves
to abstain from evil and serve God IN
grateful acknowledgment OF His
strange, and marvellous deliverance on
those dangerous places"
This morning as I sat with a girl who
was on her way to a long days work
we talked Of Thanksgiving. Il believe
my greatest blessing is a another who
was not too lazy. nor too weak-minded
to say no and mean It. Many time
my feet were almost on the verge OF
the precipice. but she had sense enough
to see the danger and deny me the
thing called fun and she called folly.
am truly thankful for my mother"
Had you thought about being thank
ful for an unbroken family circle?
Faithfully yours.
LIZZIE o. THOMAS.