The daily Alaskan., 1922-11-30

 wild turkey to kicking the ,stuffing out of a wild football player, Thanks giving day observance has undergone a decided change, even within the ken of the present writer, who, at that. is quite old enough to gain a permanent home among the mum mics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Roy K. MOulton writes in the New York Evening Mail. There were days away back in Puritan times when people had a lot to be thankful for it. It is still true that a portion of our great metropolitan population find time to render thanks in the old-fashiOned style, but the rah-rah Thanksgiving has been with us some twenty years now, and 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 gen eral custom to leave the gridirou strewn with arms, legs, ears and other more or less important impedi- menta.
 The history of 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 moving, though we can't always de- eide which way.
 Ye Olde lyme Thanksgiving.
 Know ye all men by thefe pref entf:
 That I. Makeplace Wharburton, governor, do nominate Thurfday, ye twenty-7xth of November, to be a day of thanksgiving and day of prayer in remembrance of the great blening we have received during the paft year. All and fundry of the population are ordered to attend fer vice and profoundly render thankf for peace and profperity or pay pen alty on the pillory, the ducklng ftoOl or the ftocEs.
 'MAKEPEACE WHARBURTON,
 Governor"
 Those were the days of real Thanksgiving. Peleg Prouty did not have to go to a butcher shop and barter his soul, his house and lot and his Ford for a turkey. He kiss ed his wife, Prudence, and the kids good-by for maybe the last time, and set forth for a wild turkey. He car ried over his shoulder an S5-pound blunderbuss with a sprinkler at tachment on the muzzle which would scatter shot over a fair-sized town ship and would kick Peleg for a goal when 1t went of. If the Indians got a bead on him first 1t was goodnight turkey, and if he got bead on them first the sprinkler attachment enabl- ed him to put the raspberry on eight or ten of them at once.
 If PeIeg got home ali right with the wild turkey they had Thanks giving. If he didn't they had Q fun eral.
 The family would go to church in the morning and arrive there with several arrows sticking thru their clothes and hats, and after good old Elder Hudnutt had preached for four hours and a half and finally stopped, the congregation had something to be thankful for
 When the feast was ready, Peleg, his wife, Prudence, and the children, Charity, Prosper, Faith, Cromwell and Milestone, seated about the table, the room would suddenly fill with smoke for the reason that there would be an Indian sitting on the chimney top trying to smoke them out and glom the turkey and Peleg,s fagOn of fire water.
 Indians Took Part.
 Peleg would nonchalantly wander oven to the fireplace and throw a handful of gunpowder into 1t and the Indian would make a dash for the creek near by, angrily pursued by his burning breechclout. I
 Peleg would return to the feast and say, For what we are about to receive let us be truly thankful". And he received it quickly. A noble redman poked his arm through the window and firmly niCked Peleg on the bean with a tommyhawk. Being a hard-headed Puritan, Peleg would go on with his dinner after throwing the tommyhawk back over his shoulder and catching MT. Shinne-