The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-11-27
TURKEY FOR ten
EI~HANKSGIVING amt different
from any other day." snapped

use OF having q turkey Wneu you Vo
got only a reed.bird appetite!"
1T amt Just the turkey ITSELF" re-
piled Mrs. Della Wyatt, with know.
ing shake Of her head. though it's sur
prising how plumb crazy the Riddles
are after drumsticks. Land Of love, If
Mr.. Burbank could only produce cent?
pede gobblers! But it's what the tur-
key stands for, .Mellicent."
There was a moments silence, then
the creak reasserted itself. Maybe
there is-when you've got sons and
daughters and grandchildren to sit
round the table and hook for It,"
snapped Millicent; but I'd like to
know what's backing up Thanksgiv-
ing turkey when you amt got any
folks to reunite for a family dinner?"
Mrs. Wyatt put her knitting into her
work bag, with sigh. 1--WE got to
stop in at Johnson's to buy some chest
nuts for the stuffing." she explained,
in apology for her glance at the clock
and abrupt leave-taking. What did l
do with my hat? Oh, here it is on the
chair. Mellicent, do you remember
Angelina Snow?"
Mellicent nodded, her mouth brist-
ling with five hat pins, as she stood
with Mrs. Wyatt's jacket held out in
both hands toward the open fire.
You made me think Of something
she told me once-my left sleeves
caught there, Mellicent. Angelina had
the blues terrible bad one morning.
continued Mrs. Wyatt, sticking in the
hatpins one by one as she talked, "but
stead of sitting down and making COM
pany of them she trotted them right
out for a walk. And what do you sup
pose she did then? She went up and
down Spring street, looking and look
ing, and every time she passed WON.
an uglior than herself she counted
her of on a finger When her fingers
gave out she went home-cured. An.
gelina wouldn't have taken a blue rib
bon at a beauty show, either"
Mellicent Jancey's practical, active
nature had no time for sentimentaliz-
ing, but the morning after Mrs. WAITS
visit new, strange thoughts-with
twinkling eyes and wistful smiles
kept peeping out at her from behind
the routine of daily duties, and at noon
she suddenly dropped broom and dust
er. dressed with trembling fingers, sur
prised Teddie Roosevelt Tortoiseshell
with bear hug, and darted from the
house-bearing the exalted expressions
of an archangel, and wearing two
gloves for the same hand.
In the gathering twilight Of that
Thanksgiving eve Miss Mellicents
doorbell tinkled excitedly, and the next
moment Mrs. Wyatt flashed into the
sitting-room. ... .-a
II wanted you from first, Mellicent,"
she painted, without preface, but it
made thirteen at table, and it never oc-
Cured to me until an hour ago that
| could count Jessies twins as one just
as we'll as not. You'll come, of course?"
Pm sorry, Della, but I've previous
engagement-witha Thanksgiving tur-
key of my own"
you bought one, after all? But.
| Mellicent, it will be so lonesome eat
ing it without any OF your own folks
here" .-.
I'm to have some Of my own folks
ten Of them!" 49,: -:f -. ,
"Why, Mellicent, only yesterday you
told me that there wasn't a living soul
| related to you this side the Rockies,
| and"
THAT was before you taught me
how to find them, Della. There, don't
be frightened I've not lost my mind.
| You remember about Angelina Snow?
got to thinkingfof the uglfer lives
than mine, Della. OF the two dear
Misses Prescott worrying over money
matters ever since they lost 50 much
in that mining venture; of my little
dressmaker. who was the petted dar-
ling in her home back east and has to
work for her living among strangers
out here, because her lungs are weak
and she can't live anywhere else; of
poor, fastidious Mrs. Adams, who can
only Afford 4 third-class boarding
house; of won't go on, but they're
all invited, and they've all accepted"
She rose, and as she turned toward
Mrs. Wyatt the freight revealed
face radiant with happiness. Il can't
talk things out the way you can, De.
Ina" she concluded, with gay little
!langh. but Just you come into the
kitcAen With, me and 80 my Thanks.
giving, turkey!"-May C. Ringwalt. in
Los Angeles Times. -.
Why W. Give 1hanks.
Thanksgiving to God IL fitting. be.
cause we have countless reasons for
1t: God IL our father, and he nils al
our days with blessings. There II new
'er . moment when We have not some
thing new for which to praise him.
There IL blessing in everything he
does for W and sends to u. We should
be most ungrateful II We did not give
thanks unto, God. Prayer should not
be all clamor for new favors, It should
be full Of recognition Of mercies and
good things. It is good. also. to give
thanks. because it makes our own lives
sweeter, truer and more beautiful. Joy
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