Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-11-24
OF yE old TYNE
Humorous Description Of Thanks
giving Celebration
Some Difference Between the Observ-
ance OF the Day Then and the
Festivities Of Today.

From picking the stuffing out OF q
wild turkey to kicking the stufilng out
OF a wild football player, Thanksgiving
day observance has undergone a de-
cided change, even within the ken OF
the present writer, who, at that, Is
quite old enough to gain Il permanent
home among the mummies ut the Me-
tropolitan Museum of Art, Roy K.
Moulton writes In the New York Eve
ming Mail. There were days away back
In Puritan times when people had a
lot to be thankful for and enough
sense to be thankful for 1t. 1t Is still
true that II portion of our great metro
politan population find time to render
thanks In the old-fashioned style, but
the rah-rah Thanksgiving has been
with us some twenty years now, ana
1t seems to be gaining momentum.
In the old days they used to leave a
platter strewn with the bones Of wild
turkey. and now 1t is the general Gus
tom to leave the grldiron strewn with
arms. legs, ears and other more or less
important impedimenta.
The history of Il Thanksgiving day
used to be set down by the church
clerk, and now it Is set down In jazz
by the sporting writer, all OF which
goes to show that civilization Is NOV
Ing. though we can't always decide
which way.
Ye oIde Tyne Thanksgiving.
"Know We all men by thefe p%refentf
"That l, M~akepeace Wharburton
governor, do nominate T%hurfday, ye
!. twenty-f ixth of November, to be {
day Of Thanksgiving and a day of pray
:, or in remembrance Of the grent bleff
inrs we have received during the PAT
y year. All and fundry of the popula
ton are ordered to attend fervice ant
profoundly render thankf for peac
and PROPERTY or pay penalty on tn
plllory, the ducking fool or the ftocks
"MAKEPEACE WHARBURTON,
Governor"
Those were the days of real Thanks
glvlngs. Peleg prouty did not have I
20 10 a butcher shop and barter h
soul his house and lot and his For
for n turkey. He kissed his wife, Pr
dcnce. and the kids good-by for mayl
The last tine, and set forth for a wi
"a turkey. He carried over his should'
th nm s5-nound hlundel huss with a Spri
1t kler attachment on the mu2zle whit
's would scatter shot over n rairsiz'
~ township and would kick Peleg for
goal when Ii went OF. II the India
got n bead on him first 1t was goC
he night turkey. and If he got a bead
IN them first the sprinkler attachment
hs ahled him to put the raspberry
=, eight or ten Of them at once.
90 II Pelcc got home all right with I
he Wild turkey they had a Thanksgiyii
'ns " he Didn't they had a funeral.
icy Tie family would so to church
Up the morning and arrive there with $,
cral arrows sticking through tn
hi. clothes and hats, and after good
DR.. Elder Hudnutt had preached for II
a hours and n half and finally stopl'
'h' the congregation had something to
thankful for.
When the feast was ready, Pei
,rs his wife, Prudence. and the ch'ldr
Stcadtest. Charity. Prosper. Fat
'bc Cromwell AM milestone, seated TIL
,ch selves about he table, the room wo
Der suddenly I'LL With smoke for the rea'
en- thnt there would be an Indian sill
On the chimney top trying to sln'