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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-24
THANKSGIVING IS
"OLD HOME" DAY

1T Is well to bark back now and then
to the old days and the old ways.
Thanksgiving day in the begin
ming was & New England holiday.
1t is only of late years that it has been
domesticated in the rest of the country
and made q federal observance.
E~x-Secretary of the Navy John D..
Long i'll a reminiscent article told how
the Pilgrims celebrated it. He wrote:
A man must have been born in a
New England village more than a gen
Grafton ago to know the full old time
flavor of Thanksgiving day. Then was
the day of the "old home" Then fami-
lies were large. Flocks of boys and
girls were in evidence and filed the
half dozen or more scattered school
houses which since then have become
so depopulated that most of them have
minished number of successors of for
mer crowds of scholars are carted back
and forth in a single omnibus to some
more ~pretentiouS structure at the vii
lage center. Then holidays were rare.
New Years day and Washington's
birthday and even Christmas, still I'M
der the blight of the old Puritan pro-
test, were for the most part unobserv-
ed. Fast day had no significance in
the way of its recognition, except pos
sibly a sermon or, if the snow vas off
the ground, a game of ball. The
Fourth of July was an outdoor cele-
bration, often as quiet as a Sunday
after the old swivel had been fired off
at sunrise.
The browning festival Of the year
was Thanksgiving-the festival of the
freside-when the apples and pump
kins had been gathered, when the ear
ly snowiakes had fallen and when
grandfather and grandmother and I'm
Gle Isaac and Aunt Betsy were invited
to dinner, and any boy who had stray
came back with the appetite of a
hound and burst in at the kitchen door
with a shout and gos the hearty home
greeting. 1t was, "Hello, mother
nobody then said ''mamma'-and,
We'll, if that amt you, SAM" Then
the "beef critter' had been killed and
his quarters stored for the winters
supply of fresh meat. The hog
hat had grunted all summer in his pen
and grown fat had gone under the
butchers knife; souse and sausage had
sent their %appetizing odor through the
house, and the pork barrel was full.
Mother and "the girls"-there We're
10 servants-for days previous had
been making marvellous constructions
mince and apple and pumpkin pies.
The turkey ianked one end of the Ia
BILE and a huge chicken pie the other.
The small boy, already gorged, when
his aunt slyly asked him which kind
of pie he would have, as if he could
but one, timidly but eagerly an
swered back, "All three"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-24
A THANKSGIVING
OF LONG AGO

fondest memory I cherish
is of my boyhood Thanksgiv-
ing" said Chauncey NJ. De
pew, land, although Thanks
givings may be now just the same as
they were then, they do not seem the
same to me-not by a long shot.
"When 1 was a lad l lived at Peeks-
kill upon a farm, our country estate
and the same which now belongs to
me. We awoke on Thanksgiving day
at early dawn and were up dancing
and singing with glee. There were to
be no gifts, of course, but the house
was full of company, who were with
us to spend the day, and that fact, to-
gether with the presence of about a
dozen little cousins, made the Depew
boys and girls very early risers and
merry from the minute the sun awoke.
my father and mother were very
strict. They did not think Thanksgiv-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-24

WE ALL INTO A GREAT SLEIGH.
ing a day for play or merriment of any
sort until one had been to church and
given thanks. So my mother always
got up early to keep us 'hushed up
and my father also arose to be sure
that we did not do any laughing. We
always had a good breakfast.
"Then came church time! And into
a great sleigh we all bundled. 1t
seems to me now that we had snow
earlier in those days. for Lean remem-
Der being slowed away under the robes
like a little animated mummy not ex-
pected to see light until unveiled at the
end of the journey. There always vas
a very long church service, and poor
mother employed all her time comfort
ing or frowning upon us as the occa-
sion seemed to demand. After a time
church was out. Then came the din
ner and the fun. Fol in the old time
Thanksgiving celebrations the whole
character of the day changed after
church, and what had before been the
strictest Sunday conduct became as
riotous as the jewellers could make it.
"Oh, what a dinner we had. 1 think
now we must have been very rich folk
to afford so much. In those days no
one had course dinners. And the table
was set when the family filed into
the room, and the center of the feast
was turkey-nothing but turkey.
"After dinner came the dessert. This
always consisted of thirteen different
kinds of pie. l used to eat all thirteen,
and my father was proud of me for it.
If anything happened so that l could
not get beyond the twelfth kind of pie
father rallied me upon growing weak
and mother looked anxious for my
health. l can see those triangles of
pie now. There was mince, of course.
Then came 'punkin,' apple, custard, CO.
coanut, lemon, prune, blackberry (can-
ned, dried peach and several others,
winding up with cranberry. 1t was a
great treat for us boys, who never at
any other time in the year really had
all the pie we could eat. After dinner
we sat down quietly in the parlor and
my grandmother told us stories. We
were, ourselves, quite too full for ut
terance. Surely too full for play.
"But the sequel to Thanksgiving day
was most interesting of all. 1t fol-
lowed on Thanksgiving night, just like
a Nemesis. And its program was this:
When it came time for all to go to bed
my mother would call us children in
the pantry. and then came the little
dose which was to counteract all bad
effects of the overstuffing process. My
dose was always castor Oil. And well
l remember how it was prepared.
First into the cup went a great deal
Of molasses. Then came a spoonful of
the oil. Then more molasses. This l
had to drink. Since then l have spent
many Thanksgiving days, but 1 never
enjoyed any as well as those-except
the castor oil afterward."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-24

They're Grateful to America.

'The modern table owes more to Co
lumbus than to any other than can be
named. -Tfxs discovery of America has
enriched Or tables with the turkey,
the canvasback duck, the potato, the
tomato, cocoa, vanilla and a host of
good things"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-24
To Stuff the "Bird."

The chestnuts for stufing the turkey
NAV be the sweet little native ones or
the larger ones from the Mediterranean
countries. Cut a cash in the shell.
Brush them wei with melted fat and
spread on a shallow pan in the oven
for a short time. Then the skins will
peel off with the shells or the nuts may
be boiled to loosen the shells.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-24
THANKSGIVING PHILOSOPHY.

- -
~ - Y
u YOU can pray much better to /.
y God if you say to yourself y
y as follows: Consider that this Y
y great universe, of which thou art Y
" only a trivial atom, is governed Y
" by fixed laws and be therefore Y
y content in all things to abide Y
Y thereby and especially to die at Y
Y any time and submit to Gods Y
" will of thee, whether of individ- Y
y ual future life or dissolution into Y
" universal mind and matter" Y
" That is the spirit In which we Y
" should approach Thanksgiving Y
Y day each year. 1t is the day Y
y when we make special recogni- Y
" ton of the existence and ruler Y
" should thank him for those fixed Y
" laws which are designed to work Y
" out the best result for all of his \
Y creatures. On that day we Y
y should consider whether we have Y
y conformed thereto and resolve \
y again not to go contrary to them Y
~ during the coming year. Y
Y Do not say that such religion or Y
" philosophy deprives us of our Y
y free will. Nay, it does not. The \
Y free will which God leaves with Y
" us is freedom to conform to \
y these fixed laws or to deviate Y
y from or go against them. That y
y is the free will which we have, Y
V and we should resolve to exercise y
Y 1t properly. These are the things y
y which Thanksgiving day brings y
y to our minds.-William j. Gay. y
v nor. y
" Y
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-24
A Thanksgiving Puzzle
By GOODlOE II. THOMAS

Copyright, 1916, by American Press AS
ISOLATION.
YOU'D think we could all quite agree
l That the turkey is merely a bird,
But peruse this and quickly you'll see
That the species is merely inferred.
Uncle Jim, for example, will show
That our strutting, fat gobbler out there
Isn't properly classified so,
But is rather a perfect old bear"
Sister Hates view is odd, to say least,
For she claims. as Thanksgiving draws
She a see that for grazing a feast
Our old gobbler Il be simply a dear"
But my dad has thai turkey enrolled
In a family that's noted for buttin'.
Though that turk wasn't raised in a fold.
Dad remarks, You're my Thanks
giving mutton"
But the turkey has sized up his kind
In a way that's most worthy Of note.
For he gobbles each time he has dined.
They are fattening mel am the
goat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
BRIBING TO GOODNESS

~HILD psychology seems yet IN the
embryo. Psychology of all kinds is
- very dark. We see the surface, but
to get into the mental activities requires
work, something we most consistently
shun, particularly the sort known as men
tai. 1t is so easy to skim over, to go sail
ing on Indifferent to what is really at the
bottom of the things we are trying to I'M
derstand. If thing is worth thinking
at all, it is worth thinking deeply.
Goodness, it should be understood, is
not to be purchased It is a commodity
that is not on sale. Giving it a market
able value robs it at once of it's stamp of
goodness" 1t becomes then a despised
and barterel article. Neither can good
ness be induced by money to show its head
where it formerly was not. If it be not
there in the beginning all the allurments
in the world will not tempt it to enter in.
People will not remember this. They
will not believe it, They will constantly
treat their children as though they could
be made good and true by allurements. If
you do so and so, or refrain from the do
ing this shall be your reward. If you are
good and attend Sunday school and sit
through long sermons then you shall have
a book as a compensation! II you learn
your lessons a star shall be placed oppo-
site your name, or your fellow students
will be made to understand that you are
a superior sort of being. Do this, there
FORE that you may be rewarded.
This is all rot. 1t is worse, it is sin
against innocent childhood. 1t is still more
deplorable because it sets the mark of a
certain value upon all acts that might be
considered in the abstract as commend
able Let us get below this surface vein.
There is hard pan in the nature of chill
dren, in the nature of men.
A thing should be done because it in
itself is right.
What Interior purpose can make thing
right or attractive? Is it what will be
thought of us? In the living of our life
we are the whole universe. Ethics may
restrain us, laws may hedge us in, but in
the deeper life there is only our soul to
consider. The symbol and image of per-
feet truth should be held before the child's
eyes, The fear of discovery should never
be mentioned. It has no place in the hon
est mans life A dread of being detected,
truth under the restraint of society, is a
mere mask to hypocrisy, a flourish set
after an ugly name.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
READING NOTICES
4 PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLES

God of us who kill our kind!
Master OF this blood tracked mind
Which from wolf and Caliban
Staggers toward the star of man
Now, on thy cathedral stair,
God, we cry to Thee in prayer!
Where our stifed anguish bleeds
Strangling through thine organ reeds,
Where our voiceless songs susplre
From the corpses in Thy choir
Through Thy charred and shattered nave
God, we cry on Thee to save!
Save us from our tribal gods
From the racial powers, whose rods,
Wreathed with singing serpents, stir
Odin and old Jupiter
From their ancient hells OF hate
To invade Thy dawning state.
Lord, our God to whom, from clay,
Blood and mire, Thy peoples pray
Not from Thy cathedral's stair
Thou hearest-Thou criest through ou1
prayer,
For our prayer is but the gate;
We, who pray, ourselves are fate,
Percy Mackaye.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
LET THEM HELP

- ONE of the country newspaper boys
are expressing a slight disapprov-
~ al of DR.. Vincents plan to get
the country editors and the University
School for Journalism together for mu-
tual benefit. When the farmers few
wears back, rose to protest against the
county agent plan, saying that they had
always farmed and their practical knowl,
edge more than offset the book-larnln' OF
the man sent out by the college of agrl-
cultural, the country editor was first man
to tell them they were wrong, that prog
ress demanded new knowledge, new meth
DDS and new blood in farming as well as
in any other line of undertaking and ad-
Vancement.
The same opportunity is now offered to
the man who is trying to make living
and live life by the small weekly paper:
The wise ones will be willing to teach and
be taught, to get some new ideas and may
be cast aside few OF the old ones that
are leading rut-wards.
We haven't an intimate knowledge of
the workings of the recently organized
school of journalism, but we have per-
sonal knowledge of the man at its head,
w. P. Kirkwood both as man and as a
former writer on the Minneapolis journal,
the Bell Man, etc., and we would give much
for an opportunity to really study journa-
lism under his direction.
We repeat that the editor who feels ne
already knows more than the university
course can teach him, who resents the
idea that his paper might be benefited by
the acquiring of little knowledge on his
part, has really outgrown his work and
should move forward to some larger Held
of labor where he will be appreciated as
he deserves.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR
CA Tribute by Fred Hadley.)

CA Tribute by Fred Hadley.)
THE world owes a lot to the country
doctor. His chest may not be dec
grated with a Carnegie medal,
wealth seldom comes to him, and his hon
ors are few, but no man does more for
humanity than the country doctor. AL
ways on the alert to answer the summons
of the sick, he makes long drives, in the
dead Of winter, battling against the cold
and bad roads to arrive in time to stave
off death, and relieve suffering and dis
tress. He has no regular hours; he knows
no holidays; he eats when and where he
can. Often poorly paid, and not unrarely
not paid at all, he always does his best.
Unselfsh, and with the first thought of
others, he often breaks down and under
mines his own health to pull his patients
through crisis. Unhonored, unwept and
unsung may be said of him in many cases.
And yet who is deserving of more honor
and more praise? He ushers us into this
world, eases our pains while we are here
and makes our final exit as peaceful as
possible. Yes, the world owes a lot to the
country doctor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
THE CULTURED MAN

WYE still think that the truly cultured
NJ man, like the truly cultured ma
w ton, is not arrogant, but teach
able; that he does not seek German truth,
or English truth, or French truth, or
American truth-but truth; that he is
simple in his life and humble in his point
of view, and that he is courageous with
the courage which is willing not only to
die for his convictions when the multitude
is with him, but to die with equal quietude
for his convictions when the multitude is
against him. He may even be brave
enough not to kill his fellow men when
his country is mad with the lust for kill
ing. We still think that the truly Gull
tured man will not "calculate the chance
Of living or dying, but will consider wheth-
err in doing anything" as Socrates says,
che is doing right or wrong, acting the
part of good man or bad Ray STAN
nard Baker,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
YOU AND THE BANK

ONE trouble with a lot of people is
I that they think of bank as a
place to get money out Of, rather
than place to put money in. We all
spend too much money for luXuries, and
never think that we will sometime need
assistance Rather save few dollars
each week and put it in the bank; keep
this up as long as you are able to earn
money, and then when dark day rolls
around you can say, we'll I've got a few
hundred dollars in the bank that will help
out nicely, till things get better, money
that would have been foolshly spent, had
I not placed it in a bank-Vesta Censor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
THE HERALD'S BOUQUET

7 Asst week the Duluth Herald did one
of the decentest things we have ever
~ known a metropolitan paper to do.
In personal, good-fellowship sort Of a
letter signed by it's publisher A. G.. Weiss,
The Herald told each of it's country ex-
changes that it felt it was receiving dol
lar for dollar in actual value by the ex-
change; in other words that the few dol
lars Offence between the big town daily
and the small town weekly is quite made
up-and even little better than that
by the service the Herald gets from these
same weekly visitors. We think that is a
most gracious thing to have said to us,
the particularly gracious part being the
sentence that reads, "The country press
tells us more about what the state is
thinking about, what it needs, what it is
doing and what it ought to be doing than
we could learn from any other source "a
very real and valuable service, service
we couldn't get along without"
It means much to the little fellows to
feel that at least one of the big fellows
feel that they have real work to do
and do it.
The Herald is a real gentleman. The
Gazette for one is most grateful for the
appreciation expressed in this letter to
country editors.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

The other day we heard father in
sisting that his nineteen year old son
should become law student. Sons soil
tary and soul ambition is to raise fine
herd of booded cattle. Now if Son turns
out to be street-sweeper or politician
whose fault Will it be?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

JAG. Brynildsen in his Republican Ga
zette says, Governor Hammond's success
sor, Governor Burnquist, is at least hum
dred per cent more popular than the sue
cessor of Gov Johnson" That, we esti-
mate, makes him just exactly one hundred
per cent popular. And we had thought
the percentage much larger than that
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

w. j. Bryan says, of | had lived two
centuries ago and advocated what | do
now | would have been hanged" There
are some people who think it would have
been better for present-day people had
William arrived upon this terrestrial globe
at least two cycles ago.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

Lord Northcliffe says, Unbalanced, ig-
norant, but well-meaning people like your
Mr.. Ford are supposed to be typical OF
many in the Unitetd States" In spite OF
Frank Days championship Of Henry, we
protest again any more of this sort OF ad-
vertising for United Statesmen.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

Emerson says, Few men know how to
take a walk. The qualifications are en-
durance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye
for nature, good humor, vast curiosity,
good speech good silence, and nothing too
much" We have two Of these quallfl-
cations anyway.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

Something more to worry about; Col.
Geo. Harvey, recently returned from Eu-
rope, says Pres. Wilson is regarded in Eu-
rope as the most unpopular government
leader in the world. How the United
States is going to stagger along under that
load is more than we are able to figure out.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

The cheese makers at the recent Mil
waukee convention were asked to use less
water with their cheese. Certainly manu-
facturers in the vicinity Of Milwaukee
should know if anybody does that water
is not the proper beverage with cheese
anyway.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

''The corn-crop this year is an awfully
small thing to be talked so much about"
remarks a brilliant Redwood agrlcutur-
ist. He might have added that it's also
mighty small thing to be transformed in
to such a big excuse.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

Man is queer animal! He'll work Ike
sixty to pay life insurance so his wife may
have ten or twenty or fifty thousand
dollars to spend after his death, but he
deems her absolutely incapable Of hand
ling an occasional fifty-dollar bill during
his life time without his close watchful-
ness and sage advice. That's fair sam
pie of the much lauded logic of the mas
culine mind.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

Some brides have a dreadful time trying
to figure out why when they cook the
things che" likes, "he" doesn't like the
things they cook.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

Of course we can hardly be blamed for
hoping all those subscribers who've paid
their subscriptions in advance have hap
pier and more prosperous New Year than
the de,lnqs. We don't calm to be any
thing but human.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

Many people have caught the grippe
We wish some kind soul would hold onto
it so it would cease its tearing around in
this community.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

A writing physician statets emphatical-
" that 1.-THE tongue in health is always
under the muscular control Of its owner. 5"
Quite large percentage Of the tongues
we know must be possessed by owners IN
a bad state of health.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

When some Of us got the butcher, the
baker and candle-stick maker paid up last
week there was mighty little left for the
banker.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

A woman may declare ever so stanchly
that she is perfectly frank and honest, but
we never knew one yet who wasn't Tucked
to death to receive an undeserved com
pliment before other women.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12
When you've got a lob to do

When you've got job to do
Do it now!
If it's one you wish was through
Do it now!
If you're sure the Jobs your own
Just tackle it alone
Don't hem and haw and groan
Do it now!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

A ready-made ad. for bank pictures a
bride and groom hustling up to the win
dow of an institution of finance and shov-
ing large, corpulent roll of bills into the
meath are the mystic words "After the
honeymoon, start right" It's a pretty
safe bet that the man who "doped out"
that ad, from his fertile brain was a mas
culine spinster-or he'd know there is no
such thing as roll after honeymoon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

If you set out to be fool, at least be
4 big and impudent one and you may get
away with it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

A man came into our sanctum the 9TH
err day and during his whole hours stay
refrained from saying a single word ABOUT
himself. He was dumb. But his written
conversation was truly masculine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-01-12

We are not wise enough to decide whetn-
er the policy of national preparedness IS
good one or not. But we do know that
personal and individual unpreparedness is
the cause of the greatest human tragedies.