The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-11-27

No icy blast can shatter
This air of peaceful calm;
Nor chill the burning rapture
Of loves all-healing balm.
The wind from off the river
Is bitter cold tonight;
But love CLOVIS warm within me
And fills my eyes with light.
For these-my home and com
rade--
I thank my God tonight;
Twas thus my restless spirit
Found surcease from its fight.
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Thanksgiving should be a state
of mind and not a safe of dined.
Think that over!
1t is deplorable that the virtue
Of Thanksgiving should be attended
Dy LEe Sill VI RiuLtoHys
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The Thanksgiving turkey is well
named-judging by the way he is
gobbled up.
"What moistens the lip and what
brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like
the rich pumpkin pie?
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Thus sang Whittier. 1t would be
more appropriate to say
What sours the mind and what
keeps you awake,
Like Thanksgiving dyspepsia and
belly ache?
The Puritans were noted for their
grouchiness.
The Puritans were the founders
of the Thanksgiving feast.
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Evidently they had chronic dys-
pepsia from gluttony.
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No wonder they put people in
the stock for laughing on Sunday
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"They are as sick that surfeit
with too much, as they that starve
with nothing" said Shakespeare.
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And it is a self evident fact that
gluttony is as destructive as drunk
enness.
Yet there are thousands of sane
timonious fanatics who eat like hogs
swilling slop, and will condemn to
eternal damnation the man who
takes a drink.
| had rather put drunkard to
bed than to nurse glutton who
upsets the whole neighborhood with
his groans.
s*%&*%
The drunkard goes to sleep, but
the glutton does not sleep, nor will
he let anyone else sleep.
**%+*s
There have been more doctor bills
for gluttony than there ever has
been or ever will be for drinking
intoxicants.
Bernarr MacFadden, celebrated
physical culturist, says that we dig
our graves with our knives and
forks.
AS we count up our blessings we
find there is much to be thankful
for, but we cannot include among
them the return of the books that
Rev. Michael Evans borrowed so
many months ago!
Apropos our rawlings last week on
the crossword puzzles, Bill Tay-
Tor sends in the following:
THE FOREIGN WORD PUZZLE
Four letters, meaning lin French)
to faint;
Two. meaning Tin Creek a fall
Now you got it, and now you
amt"
Said the solver, with rising ire.
And crumpling the puzzle into
ball
He threw it into the fire!
II all the hours wasted on cross
word puzzles were laid end to end,
they would make an awful dent in
eternityi
The Chinese are original il moth
ing else. Now comes the report of
their precautionary measures to pre-
vent street accidents. The North
China Herald says men are en-
ployed to walk the streets like the
old town cryers and shout warn
ings. The following is sample
of their dope
Now the swift motor car and
the changing street ear are Just like
tigers, and if you do not take care
to watch the policeman at the cor
ners and obey his signals you will
not live to grow old and acquire
many sons, but will be killed and
yours sons, too, so that your an
eestral tablets will go INTENDED. The
road is like tigers mouth: from
its center keep away"