Newport daily independent., 1913-12-02

1K ---------- ----------------~ few Shall Not Ring Tonight was hlgha in her repertoire. and The Poiish Boy and "Spartacus to the Gladia1 tors" and another about RobespierreA i'll an unspeakable place where thet poet would ne'er have sent him if het had been better behaved. Naturally7 you did not know the names of tbea poems then. These you have learned1 since from constant reading. At that time you knew what she was going tO4 give by the gestures with which shet began, and every piece she ever spokef struck terror to your young soul, Even her Thanksgiving treat for the' children made you feel shamefacedl about having been so excited over the' holiday
 Thanksgiving for what?"-and he mutt
 tered a curse
 For the plAnest of food and an empty
 purse?
 But It Is tdie to talk Of a poor man'a
 woes.
 Even after this lapse of years.4 these features of the Thanksgiving en- tertainment finger in your memory and spring up when you pick up the4 paper and read the presidents Thanks tgiving proclamation or the youngsters come in from school and announces
 Say. pop, l got to speak pieco Thanksgiving. Do you know any?"
 After a while, of course, Thanks- giving came to have other signiti- canoe, too. There was the first year you wore long trousers and flower in your buttonhole. It would be more appropriate to say bouquet in your lapel, for that was the season that men wore the most enormous chrysan- themum they could find as bouton- niere. They simply could not get the flower big enough Remember how the cartoonists took it up and depict ed the gilded youth wearing huge cabbages in their buttonholes? But it was very serious matter to you. the selection of your chrysanthemum the Thanksgiving you donned long trousers, and you finally decided upon. a great yellow one that made you ap- pear to be bearing glowing pumpkin tc the Thanksgiving feast.
 Then after you attained to the dig nifty of sweetheart to take to the Thanksgiving matinee. How did the theater come to be so inseparably con nected with Thanksgiving celebration? It is, at any rate, so that when you present yourself at the box office as the afternoon performance is about to begin the man inside is apt to ask superiorly: Do you prefer to stand on the first floor or the second?" But you did not stand. You sat.
 Eats" got showed into the back ground around this period. and. din ner being late, as Thanksgiving dim ner usually is, you instantly had to ask to have your pie saved for sup per, the clock pointing perilously near the hour of two, and the girl yet to be called for"
 Many Thanksgivings have come and gone since that time and the celebra- tion for you now probably means lin ing up your little family and marching them down to grandmother's where IHcy VIII HdNC O IoA6, AoPPJ Noy RAOJ ing and fighting with cousins from oth- CT offshoots of the parent tree. for about the only distinctive feature of thanksgiving, save the church service and "eats" and the football game. iS the homecoming 1t inspires. Then there is hurry and hustle in the old house that 1t has not known since the boys and girls married and left one by one. The newest baby must be admired by all. and the family connection Is called upon to notice that Bob's youngest no longer wears dresses
 Then the women go into the kitch- en, and by and by there is waited out aromas from cooking things that ought never have been thought up in these days of high prices. But for once the housemother forgets the high cost of living. She beats up eggs as If they
 were selling around cent apiece and, honestly. the way she drops hunks of butter into pots and pans you would think 1t just most nothing at all. But, like Christmas, Thanks
 giving comes but once year. and If
 we can't be a bit extravagant then.
 what is the use of having the old holiday?