The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1915-12-17

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Thanksgiving Thanksgiving to Jane meant merely the gogg
of charity furnished dinner of which turkey COMPRISED @
days she hardly wait for its arrival Jane
bright eyed happy little creature who was az
her but that is not a thing wondered atshe small
didn't noticed All her small efforts spent in
keeping her family at home safe and well Home to Jane family
behind the big woodbox and under the kitchen cupboard Her
strngy yellow hair which was always with either measles
or whoopng cough and later addition Dedaggeu
little realm.
where mother lived stood alone on the
outskirts of great city she had been born and here she
had stayed Ever since Jane could remember her mother had
was dull matter in the little cottage at times.
Jane loved the long golden summers because was then ne
of the house But winter drawing near and prospects
than they had been before For the past three
rude bed and medical aid out of the question There had been
fire and the supply of food had vanished Jane had
the trials cold fear bav enough while food lasted
but that hunger had cp in she broke down and sobed
Her doll and kitten could not make her forget the of the
hungry little body they had made her warm previous trials
Child though she was she being made to suffer as many
Dawn slowly creeping into the eastern sky in tns Of rose
and gold The ground white with frost and the sting of the
morning wind grew sharper lifted itself above the
horizon As the light entered her window Jane It
she entered her mothers Something the icy quenes
made her stop short Why did her mother lie still and silent
face Why were those features so pale and the dark
the mothers cold forehead but still she did not stir
Mama Mama wake up James told Jane wants her break
fast the childish voice pleaded and the silent figure did
move the poor had passed to reward.
Death had entered the chd uneventfu life before and
she looked with horror and dread How could she know
that her mother had left all her suffering and pain behind and
the Great Unknown All the hds mind could grasp
that her mother would not waen and that her face
expression of ref which Jane had there
before In her utter heessness TO combat this strange thing
that had crpt into her life she could not heavy the
load that hung upon her heart.
All that morning Jane entered and left her mothers
each time thinking that her mother would wake the
until at last from sheer exhaustion she dropped upon the floor and
slept
The early afternoon her. through the
window the floor where she lay At first she could
Der nothing of the mornings events Like flash they
her and with half pain and half she tried
Iwaken her mother
few moments later the little figure left the house and
udged slowly across the fields toward neghborng farmhouse
As she doubtuy entered the big bayard she
faced throwing 10 what seemed 20 Jane like thousands
OF chickens turkeys and which clicked gobbed
quaced they scrambled for their feed The JOY of life
the air. and as particularly proud turkey gobber strued
her Jane forgot her troubles and actually laughed with
woman looked and she the childish figure
sudden remembering another little face which had
to her. How much this little stranger reminded her of her
dead child Jane looked at her with that filled with tears
she remembered her mothers face AS their ch
Of tenderness and love- the yeaning
sire The child fell into the outstretched pressed
the womans hungry bosom.
Half hour later when warm milk gyer
her. she told that
their The farmer had been called from
he turned away TO brush two big tears from his swah
= cheeks.
Lets keep here here joe for the sake that's gone
man could only heartfelt his
This James first Thanksgiving
That afternoon Jane sat at big table
linen and fairly ceang with decaces she
Dorothy Peona had been restored 10 her and her
complete That night after in her child
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