The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-11-28
Society and Club Life
"CLosE UP TEE RANKS"
AT HOME
ON THIS THANKSGIVING DAY
BY Nellie Kedzde Jones


Never Thanksgiving like this has
occurred since you have been keeping
house Back in the dark days of our
civil war, your mother, or your grand
mother, had to face with a failing
heart the vacant chairs, Thanksgiving
day at the family table. A great pIa-
cue has been sweeping our country,
leaving many chairs vacant; and then
in many cases, our husbands, and sons
are now overseas, or at least in milf
tary camps in the homeland, too far
away to get back to keep the usual
tryst at the home hearthstone.
Other family circles have been hit
as hard as your own, so let US change
the usual order this year; and make
Thanksgiving, not merely home af-
fair, but also gathering of both
family and friends. AS the ranks thin
ned cover there the brave officers
called "Close up ranks" and like
wise we home-makers must keep the
table full for Thanksgiving by com
bining; in other words, seeing to it,,
that friends and neighbors are brought
in to fill up the chairs that otherwise
would be vacant. Two broken family
circles must help each other this year.
1t will be so much easier for all. Two
depleted households, must make a
replete Thanksgiving group in this
wonderful year Of Grace 1918, this
epochal year when more great things
have happened than in any other year
since human history began.
Your guests will not notice very
much about your dinner this year, I'M
less you obtrude it upon their atten-
ton, by making it the usual American
marvel of super-abundance and multipi-
city of varieties, serving two or three
times as much as could possibl be eat
en-, and four or five times as many
kinds as are needed. Do not do it..
Please remember that the world never
had so many starving millions, as
it has right now. Our allies, the neu-
trail nations, yes, cur enemies we must
feed or help from now till the 1919
harvest is safe in the bin. Even
the produest housewife, desiring to
glory in culinary triumphs in ordinary.
times, will not be thinking or caring
about the dinner, unless you shock her
with an elaborate dinner But I
know, the Wisconsin women too well
to fear for moment that they will Of
fend. know full well that we are
all going to enter into the world spirit
of frugality. These are high and holy
days. Again the ideal, peace on earth
and good will among men, is emery
ing above the smoke and weller Of
the world s battle fields. "Not what
we give, but what ve shareo is to
be our high privilege, this year, so
we are all saving to share.
Some time a hostess does what she
would rather not do, tearing that her
guests will expect at least SO much in
the way of making celebration. This
year, what you deem fitting in this
hour fthe world s need will find the
heartiest response both in your own
family and among your friends. Yes
peace is coming, even now, but not
plenty. There can be no possible place
for feasting, when feasting is en-
forced rigidly on scores of nations. The
plain dinner, seasoned with simplicity,
is just what we ought to have.
Make your dinner "home grown y
dinner. The city housewife denied the
privilege Of vegetable garden right
AT her back door will have to buy her
material, but buy stuff grown in our
own state and so help relieve the
strain on transportation. Mr.. Hoover 3
9 home grown = means for you, Owls
consin grown and why not for even
the most fastidious, in-asmueh as. we
have wonderful variety produced
right within our own Badger borders.
Wisconsin fowls, Wisconsin cranber-
ries, Wisconsin vegetables, Wisconsin
butter, cream and cheese, Wisconsin
fruits and nuts, yes, even Wisconsin
sugar. The list Of good things grown
here in our own state is too long for
this article, but we can sum it up by
saying, that like Canaan Of old, Wis
consin is land flowing with milk
and honey. We as state ARE de-
voutly thankful to the good God above
for crops more bountiful than we can
ourselves consume; but nevertheless
we must be most careful not to eat a
bat more than we really need. The
real measure of orr cratitnda is fha