The Medford Star. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1905 Page: 3 of 9
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thanksgiving of ye olden times I Turkey Talk.
I - ... I nu. - ... .
-Th. ff!bb,e JOU(> nnd stirring
r>oTi 5 n®LP 'urkey-flock
i«,1 u" J1'8 '"WectJi to him.
And made this little talk:
"Ti1,'* 10 our >'far. my brethren.
I i> ve wa,,e'l for It long;
I Let"aehan reef.va8 tl,rkeV meat,
I L,et 8 nail it with a song.
Pound °f flesh they're after—
I *> * ! . ** ^ey may bo fed;
i wmi'ki® ,fa<2' ,holr Shylock act
I Will bleed them all, Instcud.
BALLAD OF THI WISE TURKEY.
Ordered HI. Life *0 HI* Day. Were
Long In the Land.
Yes. I'm the same old turkey
Of some years ago. and I
Possess to-day the plumage gay
And eke the manner shy.
Once I was vain and haughty
Same as other birds 1 know—
Or did—they all have pussud the board,
Ah! yeaia and years ago.
"■^rrd.,,a8 tor bolr'8 roasted.
I Whi L8","1™ tnke thc'f 'urn.
Th2t fo",u3 t0 8et us browned
I I hat monej" has to burn.
"So gobble, gobble, gobble!
I p^n,i,,?u>;Ly "i'1K the dust;
1 All h.n we'" tak0 K°od cheer,
ah nail the turkey trust!"
—Carolyn Wood,
£y CAROLYN
WELLf^
THE DAY IN HISTORY
Significant In the United State. with Turkey and
Football—Began with Lincoln
• Thanksgiving day, coining with the
regularity of a movable feast, is pe-
culiar to the United States. Other
countries now and again, as in Great
Britain upon the occasion of the ju-
bilee ef me Tate Queen, have a day
of thanksgiving, but here, by an un-
written law, almost by the general
will of the people, and aertainly by
the power of custom, Thanksgiving
day comes each year, as regularly as
Christmas.
• Although Thanksgiving day must be
proclaimed by the president or gov-
ernor, and usually by both, and the
time of year and the date itself are
left to their judgment, so strong is
the custom that the calendars for
next year have denoted the day far
ahead of any proclamation. On the
last Thursday in November the fig-
ures are printed in red. The banks
know it will be that day, although
there is nothing but precedent to es-
tablish it; business men know it will
be a day of thanksgiving, and never
stop to reason why. The schoolboy,
the football enthusiast, the farmer
the poulterer, all know Thanksgiving
day is the last Thursday in Novem-
ber.
As a generally observed national
holiday, Thanksgiving day is only
forty-one years old this year, yet its
history Is in a measure of much
greater antiquity. Like many anoth-
er custom, we owe this to those stern
Puritans who "separated" and came
to Massachusetts bay to make a last-
ing impression upon the social life of
the New World. The history of the
first Thanksgiving day in the Mas-
sachusetts plantation has been vari-
ously given. In 1621, it is said, a day
of thanksgiving was observed in ac-
knowledgment of the Pilgrims' first
harvest in America.
Those were trying days for the
colonists. The winter was one of
great severity and scarcity. The peo-
ple, we are quaintly told, "were ne-
cessitated to live upon clams anil
mussels and ground-nuts and acorns,
and these got with much difficulty in
the winter time. People were very
much tired and discouraged, especial-
ly with the last batch of bread in the
oven." Winthrop had early in the
preceding July sent the ship Lion to
England for a cargo of provisions, but
after an interval of many months the
ship was not forthcoming. On the 5th
of February, 1631, while the governor
was giving "the last handful of meal
in the barrel unto a poor man dis-
tressed by the wolf at the door, at
that instant they espied a ship arrived
at the harbor's mouth, laden with pro-
visions for them all."
A general fast day had been pre-
viously appointed, but the arrival of
the Lion, bearing this sorely needed
relief, changed their mourning Into
joy, and, as Winthrop records in his
Journal, a day of thanksgiving was
held in "all the plantations."
Franklin has left an Interesting ac-
count of the origin of Thanksgiving in
America, which is not without his hu
morons touch, and which, like most of
his similar writings, is perhaps not as
veracious as it might have been
"There is a tradition," he wrote, "that
*Ae plantations of New England
settlers met with many dif-
ficulties and hardships, as is generally
the case when a civilized people at-
tempt establishing themselves in a
wilderness country.
"Being piously disposed, they
■ought relief from Heaven bv laying
their wants and distresses before the
Lord in frequent set days of fasting
and prayer. Constant meditation and
discourse on these subjects kept their
minds gloomy and discontented; and
like the children of Israel, there were
many disposed to return to that Egypt
which persecution had induced them
to abandon.
"At length, when It was proposed in
the assembly to proclaim another fast,
a farmer of plain sense rose and re-
marked that the inconvenience they
suffered, and concerning which they
had so often wearied Heaven with
their complaints, were not so great as
they might have expected, and were
diminishing every day as the colony
strengthened; that the earth began to
reward their labor and to furnish lib-
erally for their substance; that the
seas and rivers were found full of fish
the air sweet, the climate healthy'
and, above all, that they were there
in the full enjoyment of liberty civil
and religious; he, therefore, thought
that, reflecting and conversing on
hese subjects would be more com-
fortable, as tending more to make
In7twnl?nted Wlth their ^tuation,
and that it would be more becoming
the gratitude they owed the Divine
Being If, instead of a fast, they should
proclaim a thanksgiving.
a"™8 advice was taken, and from
that day to this they have, in every
fr?r;,ffiSfrVed circurnstance8 of felic-
Uy sufficient to furnish employment
thL r thanksSlvinS day, which is.
therefore, constantly ordered and re-
ligiously observed."
ln!h"epTkrk!8lviDS Papered
tfmo T ,^ng! ' 11 was not until the
time of the Revolution that it became
nZT ) • TbGD a day of n&tional
thanksgiving was annually recom-
mended by Congress.
As we now have it, the festival
dates from 1864, when President Lin-
coln Issued a proclamation for setting
apart the last Thursday in November
3LS&XZ as a day of natlonal
In his proclamation, Lincoln says-
It has pleased Almighty God to pro
long our national life another vear de-
fending us with His guardian care
against unfriendly designs from
abroad and vouchsafing to us in His
mercy many and signal victories over
the enemy who is in our household "
Each succeeding president of the
Lnlted States his annually proclaimed
a thanksgiving day, and this Is gen-
erally followed by similar proclama-
tions by the governors of the various
states. The day, however, |a not ob-
served in every state, for in Arkan-
sas. Colorado. Delaware, Georgia
Louisiana. Mississippi, Oklahoma and
Utah. Thanksgiving day finds no place
In the list of holidays by proclama-
tion of their respective governors
After dinner there are many games
to be played in which old and young
may join. To a drawing-board on an
ease fasten a number of large sheets of
blank paper. Whisper the name of an
animal to each guest. Give each a
■lip of paper and a pencil. Now let
each In turn draw a picture on the
large papers, representing the animal
designated. The others must guess
what animal it is and write the name
n their lists. The greatest aggregate
of correct guesses may .-eceive a
prize. A blackboard may be used In-
stead of papers, and this game is in-
terest ng to all, as often the children
Another merry game is tossing
bean bags through a hoop. Suspend a
gaily decorated hoop In a doorway,
and the party being evenly divided,
et those on one side throw bean bags
through the hoop to those on the other
side, who must catch them. Have
bells on the hoop, and let a careful
score be kept—If the bell rings, It
counts less than a clean throw. After
the smallest children have retired the
other members of the family will en-
joy games of a mental order.
A good one is called "The Music
Lesson." On a table arrange the fol-
lowing articles, let each be number-
ed, and on prepared cards let the
guessers write what musical term
each article represents. A door key
(key), a clock (time), a tape measure
a
"My form In days ago It wa
A dream of bliss, so said
The master of the poulterers
The dream, you see, has fled.
For now I am a rack of bones.
My wattles they are pale.
And why this change? there's method In
The subject of my tale.
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"I watched the market, and 1 kept
Close tabs upon the list:
When turkey meat was low In price
No meal I ever missed.
But when the price uplifted, why,
I took to gravel stones
Until I grew attenuate—
A walking rack of bones.
T had some haughty friends, alas;
'Twas years and years ago:
They took to glutton ways, and now
There's nothing left to show
They ever trod the barnyard; ah!
They're gathered to the hosts
Of things that were; alack! but now
They're phantom forms and ghosts.
\H', consi,lere'1 that only urinary and
bladder troubles were to be traced to the kid-
neys, but now modern science proves that nearly
ail diseases have their beginning in the disorder
01 these most important organs.
Therefore, when your kidneys are weak or out
«nHr. T' V°u.uan understand how quickly your
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Thanksgiving Thoughts.
Of all the days. Thanksgiving u
The one of greatest cheer;
ft brings to mtnd the bleaslnn
Of the past and present year.
With nuts so brown, and pumnkln*
The apples red and yellow; riP*'
And all the grain Is garnered In
And frost is on the meadow.
The jay-bird, now has disappeared
The mocking-bird is silent:
The bob-o-llnk has followed suit
To a distant warmer climate. '
^'""ye crow alone remains.
t> . .. rival black-bird brother-
°SSdJB1SA«!2SK. «~.
AnA IB'role* have prevailed.
And taught us to rtmember.
—J- A. VNlt,
Through a Hoop.
(measure), a knife (sharp), a low
broad-brimmed straw hat (flat) a nat-
ural flower (natural), an autograph
(signature), a few fish-scales (scales),
six beets in a wooden measure (six
beats to a measure), a bow of ribbon
(tie), a promissory note (note) a card
on which is written "To Sell (pedal)
a cane (staff), forty beans or buttons
(forte), picture of cat's paws (pause)
a wooden or iron bracket (bracket)
the lower part of a broken vase
(bass), a bit of string (chord), bar
of soap (bar).
Another good game Is the guessing
of book titles. Cards for this game
may be bought, but better ones may
be made with little trouble or ex-
pense. On a blank card paste a pic-
ture of Napoleon. This represents "A
Gentleman of France." The letter
B In red ink is "The Scarlet Utter "
A small figure 2 is "We Two" p|c-
tures of Washington, Dewey George
W. Cable and George Eliot, all pasted
on one card, represent "The Four
Georges." "Three Men In a Boat."
The Woman in White," "Little Worn-
en" and many others may be easilv
represented by pictures cut from
papers or magazines. Two capital I's
painted blue are "A Pair or Blue
Eyes." "As" written backward is "As
In a Looking Glass." while the word
Gnlkool printed on a card is "Looking
Backward." A glance through any
library catalogue or publishers list
will supply plenty of suggestions
Another merry game Is "Advertise-
ments." Cut from the magazines
popular pictorial advertisements, and
carefully removing all printed words
paste each on a card. Number the
cards and let the guessers determine
the articles advertised. Similar to this
la the selection of portraits of faintly
well-kr.own authors or other celebri-
ties or public characters whose names
•re te be guessed.—The Stmday Maga-
" 'Twas In the year of '69,
A goose sagacious told
i'o me the points I now relate—■
He then was forty old.
He practiced what he preached—alas!
But quite forgot this year,
Me fattened up, and now he's passed—
Forgive this falling tear."
—Horace Seymour Keller.
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• Sterner, 31. A, Manulaoturer.Sprtnfl/leW, 3to.
Typical "Home" Day.
It is a far cry from that first
Thanksgiving of the forefathers on the
bleak coast of New England to the
present elaborate and sumptuous an-
nual fasting that marks the end of
the harvest in this country.
Many a man will go hundreds, even
thousands, of miles to sit at the old
home table, and partake once more of
the old home cooking—the mince
pies and the turkey "dressing," just
the same r at least just like what
"mother used to make." It is a day
when the home is supreme. Lonely
men in the big cities dine at the big
hotels, it is true, and they may have
every luxury that the mind of man
can conceive and the money of men
can buy, but they would give it all
gladly for a place even at an humble
table if it only were at the old home.
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