The Oklahoma Miner (Krebs, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 43, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 24, 1921 Page: 6 of 8
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Cranberries Always Have
Played Prominent Part
at Thanksgiving Feast
It is n tiadition in IM. mouth that
the eating of tc.key and cranberry
ranee on TbanUsghing day goes back
t the first I'ilgiim Thanksgiving.
That little band of self exiled do-
Mted Phi Nt inns ciovm'1 the stormy
n in the Mnj flower and lnnded n't
J'lj mouth Hock on December LM 1020.
Their first winter in the New World
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was one of gient suffering marked
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wlih famine and haidshfps.
tiovornor Ib-adford. in his account
r tlie Pilgrims first Thunksgiviiig.
does not ghe a menu of the dinner
! ut he often icfers to the wild tur-
kes as one of the luxuries of the
tolony. However John Josslvn. an
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j.iiimii iimuuT hiiu liaiUinilSt WHO
islted New EngJand In 1GJW and wrote
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"" imt.iuii vi xis lianties snvs
iianbeiry or bearberry (because
luars used much to feed upon them)
is a small trajling plant thnt grows
in salt marshes that are overgrown
with moss. The Indians and English
ie mein much boiling them vUtli su
uir for sauce to eat with their meat." I
That cranberries belong to tlu tra- j
dliloiml Pilgrim dinner is shown by
the menu nf thn "iiru.unt i-.r...u ...
the menu of the "decent repast" served
at the first "Celebration of the Lnnd-
ing of Our Forefathers" which was
. . v-ii j 'i i-huiiui which was 1
..liscrved on December 12. I7nn Ti.ie 1
i i was celebrated by the Old Colony
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...... i 1 i.Miiunui wiiii a procession
and a dinner consisting of a large
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nv ; a dish of fowj. crnnberr tarts
a dish of fresh fish and eels n'n applo
pie a course or cheese made in the
old colony. These articles were
dieseed Jn f plainest manner (all
appearance 01 luxury whose memory
we shall evor respect).
Turkey succotash and cronberrlea
still play Uiolr part tn the TJmnk-
glving dlnnort In Plymouth and five
grains or parched corn are laid beside
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ttTL f$ crease and in all the works of thine hands therefore thou ffi$$l' i '
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....!. u jmiiiiru tiifii are laiu uegiUB - - a"wi uungs 1 uui-umu sun-
each place In remembrance of the. . 0i0Ud anil forget my obligations to
ly jears of famJtw j
MD THOU skalt keep the feast of
the Lord tlr? God with a tribute of a jreewill
nfinrind of ti-iinrk Uar-1 ikiK Cksmi fflialf Aiwts
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the Lord tlvC God. accordirui as the Lord tk? Gcd
hath blessed thee.
rXND thou shalt rejoice before the Lord tlv? God thou
end tlry son and tirv) daughter and th;p manservant and
th maidservant and tKe Levite that is within th gales
end the stranger and the fatherless and the widotf that
are among you in the piece which the Lord thp God has
chosen to place his name there.
ND thou shnlt remember that thou wnst n bondman
in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
I HOU shalt observe the f-ast of tabernacles seven days'
after that thou hast gathered in thy" corn and thy wine;
ND thou shalt rejoice in thy feast thou nnd tlvy son
and thy daughter and th manservant and thy maidserv-
ant and the Levite the stranger and the fatherless end
the widow that ate within thy gate.
oEVEN days shalt thou keep a solemn fe3st unto the
Loid thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose;
because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in nil thy in-
crease and in all the works of thine hands therefore thou
shalt suiely iejoi.ee.
DEUTERONOMY.
j Thanksgiving Should Mean
I More Than Merc Feeling
i of Gratitude for Favors
1 It is to be 1 egret ted that the beauti-
ful and appropriate custom of observ-
ing u day of Thanksgiving has become
j associated with an abundance of muto-
' 1i.1l things if crops lme been bounti-
ful. If the harvest has been great If
' theie lias bem an overflow of the
I 'Vood" things of earth and if the
Uuics lane been peacetul reasons for
. !.!.-. lununn lui
' Iiuiks.Kllnir nro supposed to Increase
ffiriovimiifliiivlt
t There lh something in the outward
tradition of Thanksghlng that would
appear to justify this stressing of the
Importance of materlul things; but
theie is also something in the real
'IhanksgMng that wmilTl demand the
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innlhtlu pnMi.kt. iliun ........ .......lul....
strsslng of other things demand the.
uuitUMH rather than upon conditions
which pertain sulci to the physical
ell being of man.
1 The real Thanksghlng demands a
' feiliug of deep appreciation for what-
ever has come the accent anco "with
equal thanks" of the good fortune or
''e l'a'1 fortunt "' previous months.
n's 'rimnksghing Is essentially nn In-
t';'nn 'I'b'K It can be observed re-
gnrdless of what one luul fm dinnnx
gardless of what one had for dinnoc
thut day and Its observance is nil
affair that should be open to the rich
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H"'1 t'u poor of the earth
II umy w ne tlmt s'p. n this
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ttttu'Jt f"' blessings can find llttlo
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Interest its opportunity for service;
for the great and durable satisfactions
of living that center about home and
w ork ; for deep and abiding memories
of joy tlmt bereavement has brought
Into sharp relief; for all" theso blegs-
ings may I be truly thankful."
To this prayer may be added by
those In prosperity:
"And may I be mindful lest in the
excess of good things I bocomo self-
mV follow 11100.'
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Pessimism Has No Place
in the Real Spirit of
Time of Thanksgiving
After having devoted so much of
our time to bemoaning the misfortunes
that have come to us as a people dur-
ing the past .vear it will do ns good
on this Thanksgiving day to stop and
look at the other side of the ledger
and cast up the account of the good
things thnt have ome to us.
Our situation admittedly has not
been as favorable in many respects as
we couhi desire We have had nmli.
iems and difliculiies which naturally
I aroused dissatisfaction and discontent.
I We have been feeling mighty sorry
for mui selves.
J Pel hups Thanksgiving occasion coulH
j bring no grtuter blessing to us as a
people than to readjust our perspec-
tive and displace pessimism with a
I new spirit of optimism.
t Pefoie we entei Into the true spirit
of the day It Is necessary to put away
our hatreds our grouches and discon-
tents and center our thoughts upon
the blessings tlmt have come. If one
would give thanks he must teallxo the
fact of having been blessed and in
doing so he minimises the misfortunes
he has eperlemed. Tlie pessimist Is
in no position to give thank's. The
spirit of optimism will possess us to
the extent that we are able to give
thanks In spirit and In truth to the
(liver of All (Jood Clfts today.
For the lact remains that In spite
of our difficulties we ate tlie most
prosperous and the most favorably slt-
unted nation on the earth and that
wo have more reasons for coutenMuent
and gratitude than any other people.
This Thnnksglvlng day. if observed
In the spirit of those who inaugurated
it. is capable of lifting the spirit and
thought of the American people to now
heights and of uslieting in a new era
of contentment and happiness.
Thanksgiving day conies to mean
today not only an occasion when we
may express our gratitude to tho Most
High for Ills eaio and kindness In the
imst but likewise a time wlion by
innrahallng our hloeetngs before us we
are Inspiied with now hope and cour-
age for the futuie.
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OF A MAT
J Turkey mid ciiuil)t"rry situco crisp
I weather n jtenernl slmiso (if woll-lieing
and footlmll are in the air at the ;ry
tiieiiMon (if Thanksgiving writes Mhr-
V'tierlte Siuuuels In lliu Now Orleavs
Tiines-l'Icnyni'e.
lint fontlirill and too mii"h dinner
111c not. In the final analysis nil of
Th:inks:;iIn. Thete is n c'eeiier In-
Hulrnt loi al side to the day Ket aside
through three hundred years of Amer-
I lean history a the gient national
telehiatlon of jjrntitude.
I Po joti reinoinhe.1 the hiinple story
of that first ThunkstftvliiK day as ou
lend it lit jour pilniary lender? And
the thrill of thankfulness for national
Krentneo nnd poodness that eamo to
.Mm as jour chubby finders diew de-
f onned turkejs and lound-eyed 111-
riirliii fathers on the school blackboard?
It was in 1C21 the fall foUouliiK
tlie landing at 11 mouth that the t'il-
priuis celebiated the fiist Tlmnkiv-
Iiik da. The little colony one bun-
died and two souls who had -fared
westward from England for their con-
beleiue'i sake had weathered the
sto'ins of the Atlantic and the worse
hardships of a New- England winter
and they had won through at last
to a sort of tranquility comparathely
speaking.
Hack from the rocky coastline of
Massachusetts with its thunder of
limitless waves a little group of io'
houses crowded together behind the
tail stockade feeling safe in their
nearness to each other.
Gaineied corn filled the barns nnd
the storerooms of the houses were
pungent with lipe apples. The colony
feJt firmly established in the New-
World of Its seeking. Even the silent-
footed Indians bad begun to under-
stand that there was room for them
and for the pale faces too. The de-
Stuffinq!
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vouf Puiit.m spirit of the travelers in
tho Ma flower felt that there was
sulllclent cause for thanking God.
The First Thanksgiving.
Aid so it was that the first day of
organized thanksgiving was set. Tho
whole little co'oriy. In its best buckled
shoes and high hats with blunder-
busses across squaie shoulders sallied
forth from the stockaded homes
through snow to the log church there
to give community thanks for tlie free-
dom of their stern lives.
Outside the Indians crouched be-
hind the firs and beeches watching
nnd wondering.
From the Pilgrim colony the custom
spread to others in tho New- England
states. In .1080 the Massachusetts Pay
colon u aside a day for thnnksgiv
Jug and frequently thereafter until
1080 when It became an annual festi-
vnl in tho colony.
Connecticut appointed a day In
1G80. and annually after 1G47 except
in 1075. The Dutch In New Net hoi -lands
set aside a day In 1011 and oc-
casionally thereafter. During the War
of Independence the Continental eon
giess appointed one or 111010 thanks
giving da.vs each jear except In 1777.
President Washington set aside Thins!
day Nov. L'G 17VJ as a day of na-
tional thanks and again In 17fi."i he
called the country together for such
a colebi ntlon. President Mndison at
tho close of tho Wnr of 1812 appointed
a day.
In New York state from 1S17 on
tho festival was annual.
In some of the southern states a na-
tional Thanksgiving day met with op-
jigsltion as a ioIIc of Puritanic bigotry
mi utterly at variance with the Cav-
alier Ideals of the southern colonists;
but by 3858 proclamations weie issued
by the ovornora of 25 states and two
ten Tories.
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Is new England Festival.
Perhaps it Is natuial that the S011M1
so far in thought and evpeiimico from
the colonisers of New England should
even yet be less wholehearted lu Its
celebration of Thanksgiving than Is
the eastern section of the United
States. With Its commemorat'on of
hardship of IGL'O with Its cetenionles
of the harvest Thanksgiving is even-
hilly a New England festival. And to
see it truly carried out ou must see
it theie.
In .Massachusetts it is the signal
for great family 1 minions. From Cali-
fornia from the high seas fiom the
neighboring town tlie sons and daugli-
ters and cousins and aunts and uncles
I foregather at the old homestead on
1 Thanksgiving hiy. with the first
snowfall of tho season general I v
scheduled for the last week in Novel 1
ber the roomy sleighs and the vast
bearskin rugs are hauled out of tin ir
summer mothballs; and from onHv
morning until noon there Is a gay
I Ungle of sleigh bells going and coming
between the railroad station and the
fntnihnuue.
I After the dinner a tremendous af-
I fair the old people sit half dozing
about the open flics telling stories of
the Now England that Is gone.
"Do you remember?" says one; and
tbe.v are off In a glorious revel of
lecoJlection of their own outli when
' automobiles were unknown and Bos-
ton might have boon 1500 Instead of
l.r miles away.
I TJie young people of the fam"?.-.
deeply wrapped In fur couts ard rugs
already bad dashed off along ho
shppu.v roads to Cambridge and "liio
Uame."
The Harvard stadium on Thans-
glving day was n view of serried rows
of excitement never to be forgotten.
The grey rhjthmle curves of the coli-
seum all llamlngly gay with banners
and flowers and girls' holiday hat .
Along the Ilarvnid section led roses
and crimson sweaters bloomed in the
menagerie of fin coats and ru .s.
M10ro the Yale contingent cheeied fi.r
tlie bulldog the blue of Parma viole
was like a twilight mist along the row-
of spec.tntois.
A whistle and tlie game Is on.
Tensely leaning forward the SO.'HM
watch as If life and death wore helm'
decided in tlie arena below. At the
first touchdown the winning side goes
mad with joy. Flags wave arms and
hats are pinmiscuuiisly pitched about
perfect strangers pat other perfect
strangers on the' back ; and thrilled
girls shake hands with boys they never
saw lief ot e.
Meanwhile the snow comes down
softl. in a powdery rain and the final
goal sees fiozen hands and feet res-
tively glad to race off to worm dormi-
tory teas where the victory Is cele-
brated !i English bteaklast or tlie
defeat drowned In orange pekoe
cakes and luughing chatter.
In Huston Thanksgiving morning
greut crowds fill Tiinity. or nimtever
church lias been designated for the
union serv'co. The pigeons in Copley
t(iiare flutter over them tamo friend-
1 doves of "pence on earth good will
to men."
Thanksgiving in New Orleans.
Ileie in New Orleans several of (lie
churches hold special union services
and tlie da is commemorated In typi-
cal New Orleans fashion thanking
Ood by giving others something for
which to he thankful. Magical basket
dinners containing ever tiling fiom
turkey to desscit. are given to the
hungry poor of the city by tlie Elks
the Khnaers. the Salvation Armv.
Klngsie.v house and other benevolent
oiganlzatlons. School childien lemeni-
lior with fruit and nuts the suffeieis
at the Home for Incurables.
For the Great Day Coming
The pumpkin pie as it may be een
In its natural state
Ten Building in Guthrie Condemned.
Ten buildings in tho Industrial sec-
lion of Gutluio have boon condemned
by Mrs. Nola Stokes Landeis aasisf-
ant stats fire nmiahall sho announced
upon her return from Guthrio. Mrs
Lander o.xpocts to lotum to Guthiio
to Inspect school buildings and will
go fiom theie to Tulsa.
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