The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22

football game. eat mincemeat pie
with knife. Those who do not eat
It with knife. bite 1t off. holding the
slice of pie at forty-five degree angle
from the tip OF the nose to a space
between the whiskers and the eye
brows A man with large ears dixie
an e.ephants) may All his ears. That
is. of course If he has been to the
football game before he eats his own
pie--or that preferred by friend.
But what Is about to be said has
nothing to do with mincemeat pies.
Neither has it to do with the football
game. Everyone knows what makes
q pumpkin pie. Some milk, q few
sweet potatoes and little nutmeg,
with a little Juice OF an Albemarle
apple. There Is no top crust (some
people say pastry, but It means the
same thing).
Getting Ready to Fat Thanks.
To get to the point, however. What
was started out to say was that many
OF the leading citizens of Richmond,
90 II is said. have been arranging for the
celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Most
LOT them have been able to lay their
plans. and most OF them have paid
forty-fve cents a pound tor turkey in
the feathers. Turkey in the feathers
10 different from turkey in the straw
Turkey In the straw Is a song. But
turkey in the feathers, and on the
plate, at forty-five cents pound. Is a
dream.
There may be many things in the
dream. especially IL one has INDUCED
in turkey and mincemeat pie.
1t 1t generally agreed that when
President George Washington fixed the
last Thursday In November as the day
In which to give thanks with John
Smith and Harry Smith and all of
those old-timers lodging arrow
heads and chasing the wild turkey
thought OF cranberry sauce.
1t used to be said that what was
sauce for the goose was sauce for the
gAnder. Nothing. however, has been
said about the sauce for a turkey.
But this was In ancient times
Some people eat rabbits instead of
turkey, and proclaim that 1t tastes
just like veal outlets. Naturally a man
who can imagine rabbit tastes like veal
and that leads up to the subject which
was originally under discussion.
What You Gonna DO With 1t?
What are we going to do on
Thanksgiving Day. Are we going to
rive thanks or are we going out to
Broad-Street Park and cuss the
referee?
From inside Information. we have
learned that the leading citizens who
will be referred to hereafter, will
withhold their expressions of opinion
until after the game.
BY that time, it is inferred, all the
turkey and mincemeat and pumpkin
pies win have been consumed by the
small boy.
Then In the exuberance Of "spirits"
or the non-eynbarance. the allies will
retire from Broad Street Park and
give free and unlimited expression to
their opinions.
Talk about mo war talk here. be-
cause we are neutral" Broad Street
Park will be as bad rs the firing line
along the Lies. 1t Is understood.
however. that Major Werner who is
a. everybody knows, full-fiedged
Swede, from County Cork. has ar
ranged that no airships may appear.
Governors Thanksgiving.
Still we have not reached the main
point, whics, is that Governor Stuart
and his manly body OF near.co' onels
will break bread early In the day. at
tend services at church. to give thanks.
and will then proceed to the battle
nsld. 1t IL also said that turkav will