Oxford Democrat., 1921-11-22
Polly's Thanksgiving Party.
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The idea for the party came to Polly
one night - she was washing the dinner
dishes, and that very evening she waved
away the boys objection that Thanks
giving was family affair pure and sim.
pie.
"I'm not planning to have any one In
for dinner" she said, "though there's
nothing that would suit mo better, II the
apartment boasted q larger dining room.
But there are three girls In my Sunday
School class that can't possibly 60 homo
this year, and I've no doubt you boys
could find somebody that Won't be In
vited anywhere. Thanksgiving is suoh
q cheerless place In Q boarding housed
II We ask few young people In for .
party in the evening, It will liven things
up bit for them, and I think 1t will be
pretty good fun for us, don't you?"
In the end Polly had her way, and just
week before Thsnksgiving she sent
Invitations to three girls and to two boys
whom Rupert and Harry suggested.
Polly searched the shops for card OF
two-eyed white buttons of the size Of
ten cent pieces. She carefully sewed .
button on the upper part OF CORE
spondence card, added eyebrows, nose
and mouth with India ink, copied body
| aud cap from Palmer Cox's "Brownie
Book" painted the drawing brown, and
behold, saucy brownie grinned ct her
from the invitation. Underneath the
picture, she carefully printed jingle.
"This Thanksgiving Brownie brings = message
To visit Il our our house ON Thanksgiving Day.
To help celebrate with al kinds Of good cheer
The feast Of the harvest at the end Of the year."
The boys took walk into the country
on Thanksgiving morning and came
laden with sprays of high.bush cranber
riss. These, with the bunohes Of chrys
anthemums which they bought, and
Polly's fern and palm, gave the small
living room festive appearance.
Assisted by her brothers, Polly served
the dinner early. After clearing the
dining room table, she placed pumpkin
JACKIE lantern In the center, and arranged
around 1t piles of apples, grapes and
oranges.
After the guests had been introduced
to each other, Polly passed each one Q
paper plate containing picture, cut and
l Ijumbled Into small pieces, and tiny
paper of paste and . toothpiok. Esob
girl and boy was asked to put the "p"
! together and paste 1t on the inside OF the
plate. When arranged, the pictures
were found to be of Thanksgiving flavor,
| "Priscills at the Wheel" "The Pilgrims
Going to Church." "Ths First Thanks.
giving" and others Of the same type.
To the person making his "pi" first .
small and delicious mince pie was
awarded.
Pencils and paper were then passed.
| On one slip was written, "What / have
to be thankful for" on the other, "Why
l am thankful for It," The slips were
collected, mixed up, and distributed
| again. Each guest was asked to read
| the first slip handed him with the an.
swer. The result caused much laughter.
This was followed by modification OF
the famous donkey game" Polly had
painted huge picture OF bronze tur-
kew, but minus the tail, and this was
pinned to the wall. Real turkey feath-
ers with pins carefully thrust through
the quilts were handed about, and each
guest was blindfolded and turned about
In turn. To the one who successfully
pinned feather in the tail was given q
turkey shaped box of candy, and the
consolation prize was q copy OF "Chick-
| en-licken."
A pumpkiu-hunt came next. Tiny
yellow and green cardboard pumpkins
we're concealed about the apartment
The yellow pumpkins counted FIVE and
the green two points. At the end OF the
search small pumpkin scooped out, and
6lled with small maple sugar hearts, was
presented to the guest having the high
est score, and . toy book of "Peter,
Peter, Pumpkin Eater" was awarded to
the unfortunate holding the lowest
score.
Polly determined to keep the refresh
| mepts very simple. The day before
Thanksgiving she made an easy salad
dressing by beating two eggs, adding
one-b bali q cup of cider vinegar, two
tablespoonfuls OF sugar, one teaspoonfnl
Of mustard and one-bslf teaspoonful OF
salt, and tablespoonful Of melted but,
ter. She placed the ingredients In q
bowl, set In dish of water on the front
Of the stove, and when they thickened
she removed 1t from the fire and thinned
! with cream. To make sandwiches, she
mixed the dressing with minced turkey,
added half flne-chopped pepper, and
spread the mixture between dainty slices
Of bread.
The sugared doughnuts she made by
beating two eggs, adding one cup Of
sugar; enc cup Of sour milk, three table
| spoonfuls of melted butter and -four,
sifted with one-hslf . teaspoonful Of
soda and two teaspoonfuls Of baking
powder, to make the mixture thick
enough to roll without sticking to the
moulding board. They were cut with Q
small cutter, fried In deep, hot fat, and
sugared plentifully.
Rupert contributed "Corn Popped IN Q
Kettle" A large spoonful of lard and q
lteaspoonful of salt were placed In the
bottom of large kettle over hot fire.
A cup of shelled popcorn was added and
stirred briskly with q mixing spoon.
When the kernels began to pop, the
kettle was covered and shaken rapidly,
back and forth, until filed with fluffy,
white popcorn.
With the fruit and "grape-juice lemon
ade," the sandwiches, d0ughnuts and
popcorn made pleasing "spread," Polly
felt. She seryed everything on paper