Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1913 — Page 2

Iways Meant Hearty Feeding

THE DAY of REAL THANKSGIVING

7 . VEN those early Thanksgivings that crop up in history are associated -with much uImID —usually too much — turkey and cranberry ' S (uf J %\) sauce and pie. As a child, of coursfe, he was thankful .j that Thanksgiving day had to come on Thursday every year, instead of flopping all over the week and coming in turn on Saturday and Sunday, when there would be holiday anyway. For is there anything so tragic as a holiday that does not fall on a school day? -v^v_ Thursday is just right, for then, you see, the school people reason that there is no use bringing the children . back for one day, and they might as well have Friday, too. Thanksgiving on Wednesday would be overstepping the mark, since they would not allow two extra days, and Friday meant only one day off, Thursday w T as the one to choose, and looking back now you cannot help wondering how the president ever happened to hit upon such an altogether satisfactory day. On Wednesday, you will remember, not much work was done, for everybody was looking forward to the “intertainment.” Perhaps you even spoke a piece. If you did your selection was limited, for the poets seem to be kept so, busy grinding' the mills for Christmas that they have not one little inspiration left for Tranksgiving. But what Thanksgiving poetry there is agrees on one point —a lively veneration for the “eats.” No matter how the poem starts dinner will be served by the, end of the last verse. ■Jake that one you recited about “Thanksgiving Eve.” Sentiment riots in the opening lines. The snow falls gently outdoors, for the scene is not laid in Baltimore, Md., where they usually reserve snow for a Christmas treat. We have a touching picture of the little ones creeping silently to bed. you get in a melting good, sort of anticipating that when the youngsters reach the attic the .poet is going to spring a vacant crib at you. But no. Listen!

It Was Thanksgiving eve, don't you think, The pies were In rows on the pantry shelves. And- nice things to eat, and nice things to ‘ drink. Resignedly looked for the morrow to • bring A miserable end to everything. Not that it rhymes especially and the last line is painfully ambiguous as to where the miserable end is going to strike, but what matter when the rows of pies and various beverages are safe on the shelf. After you had stumbled through this, getting purple-red in the face and wondering why all those “fellers” you could lick with one hand down in the school yard should look so terrifying assembled before the platform, you beat a precipitous retreat, falling over a hole in the carpet on the t way. The next number on the program was “The First Proclamation,” done by another boy. The family of that other boy had suffered because of “The First Proclamation,” for it was to be recited in epstume. Now, how should a plain American mother know in what garb Governor Bradford delivered that first proclamation? Father found a picture of the Pilgrim Father in the history and thought that would do well enough, and grandfather said: “Oh, pshaw now; don’t be look like one of them big-hat fellers around Pen-Mar?” Finally they borrowed a suit that a neighbor's son had worn when he went as John Aldqn to a mask ball, though It was much too large, and Johnny protested violently against wearing It Just so does a simple thing change the course of a noble life: If the suit had not been too large Johnny might have been able to take his mind from his appearance and divert it to the lines be was to speak, but terror that the boys would guy him occupied his young, brain to the exclusion of all else.

MADE AN EXPENSIVE DRINK

Ball Player Bhould Have Appreciated Refreshment, for It Certainly Cost Him Enough. * The most expensive drink imbibed by a member of a major league team during the 1913 playing season cost exactly 1600.06. The player who drank the costly beverage Is one of the best men in the buslnew. but he has long shown a tendency to topple from the water wagon at times when his serv-

THE THANKSGIVING PIE,

“ ‘And now,’ said the governor, ‘gazing abroad,’ he began. Pause. “ And now,’ said the governor—” Pause. “ ‘And now —’ ” And now Johnny burst into tears and rushed from the platform, stumbling over the hole in the carpet on the way. Then teacher got up, you remember, and said if you would all excuse Johnny she would read the poem, and there being nothing else to do under the circumstances but to excuse Johnny, you permitted her to go on with “The First Proclamation!” The poem was no exception, for you found that in even those early days Governor Bradford’s Thanksgiving greeting had to do with “eats.”

So shoulder your matchlocks, masters, tfiere is hunting of all degrees; And fishlrman, take your tackle and scour for spoils the., sea*. And maidens and dames of—Plymouth, your delicate crafts employ, To honor our first Thanksgiving ttnd make it a feast of ioy. We fail of the fruits and dainties so close at our hand in Devon, Ah! they are the lightest losses we suffer for sake of Heaven; But see in our open clearings how golden the melons He; Enrich them with sweets and spaces and give us the pumpkin pie. Remember It, don’t you? But even then it perplexed you to know why you were hearing so much about pumpkin pie as an attribute of Thanksgiving when in all your innocent young life you had never tasted a pumpkin. You did not know then that “pumpkin” is sort of poetic license for any kind of Thanksgiving pie. One of the very limited collection of poems for this season was dedicated to "Thanksgiving Pies,” and this was delivered by a girl of the school, because of her deeper understanding of the subject. Such baking, boiling, tasting, beating! Such preparation made for eating! Such unpremeditated Joys For little hungry girls and boys. : ~h You could hardly livait for tomorrow ‘to come when you heard these lines. It was a very long poem, all about how the hungry girls and boys of a certain household appeased their hunger with pies cooling on the pantry shelf, and you thought how nice it must have been to eat those pies “twelve in number, brown as umber,” though you had not the remotest idea what umber was for, save to rhyme with number. But you had a very definite idea that what would happen if you and your hungry little playmates should go and do likewise with the pies cooling right then out on your mother’s shelf. And right when your mouth was "watering like anything,” that elocutionist from the big. girls’ class and and told teacher she was going to recite a Thanksgiving poem for tbe little children and teacher said: “Very well, if you wish to.” As for you, you didn’t wish her to. You did not like her brand of poems. “Cur-

ices were most needed. Before signing up with his club for last spring, be promised not to take a drink during the season. If he kept his word he was to receive a bonus of S6OO from the owner of the club, who believed that his outfit stood a good chance of being in the pennant fight and, consequently, was willing to offer extra Inducements to keep his men in good condition. The player in question kept his good resolution for many weeks, but one day he slipped from the narrow path and, entering a sa-

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few Shall Not Ring Tonight” was high in her repertoire, and “The Polish Boy” and “Spartacus to the Gladiators” and another about Robespierre in an unspeakable place where the poet would ne’er have sent him if he had been better behaved. Naturally you did not know the names of the poems then. These you have learned since from constant reading. At that time you knew what she was going to give by the gestures with which she began, and every piece she eves spoke struck terror to your young soul. Even her Thanksgiving treat for the children made you feel shamefaced about having been so excised over the holiday. “Thanksgiving—for what?”—and he muttered a curse— For the plainest offtood and an empty purse? But it is idle to talk of a poor man's woes. Even after this lapse of years, these features of the Thanksgiving entertainment linger ip your memory and spring up when you pick up the paper and read the president’s Thanksgiving proclamation or the youngsters come in from school and announce: “Say, pop, I got to speak a piece Thanksgiving., Do you know any?” After a while, of course, Thanksgiving came to have other significance, too.. There was the first year you wore long trousers and a flower in your buttonhole. It would be more appropriate to say bouquet in your lapel, for that was the season that men wore the most enormous chrysanthemum they could find as a boutonniere. They simply could not get the flower big enough. Remember how the cartoonists took it up and depicted the gilded youth wearing huge cabbages in their buttonholes? But it was a very serious matter to you, the selection of your chrysanthemum the Thanksgiving you donned long trousers, and you finally decided upon a great yellow one that made you appear to be bearing a glowing pumpkin to the Thanksgiving feast. Then after you attained to the dignity of a sweetheart to take to the Thanksgiving matinee. How did the theater come to be so inseparably connected with Thanksgiving celebration? It is, at any rate, so that when you present yourself at the box office as the afternoon performance is about to begin the man inside is apt to ask superiorly: "Do you prefer to stand on the first floor or the second?” But you did not stand. You sat. “Eats” got shoved into the background around this period, and, dinner being late, as Thanksgiving dinner usually is, you instantly had to ask to have your pie saved for supper, the clock pointing perilously near the hour of two, and the girl yet to be “called for.” / Many Th&nksgivings have come and gone since that time and the celebration for you now probably means lining up your little family and marching them down to grandmother’s where they will have a long, happy day playing and fighting with cousins from other offshoots of the parent tree, for about the only distinctive feature of thanksgiving, save the church service and “eats” and the football game, is the homecoming it inspires. Then there is a hurry and bustle in the old house that it has not known since the boys and girls married and left one by one. The newest baby must be admired by all, and the family connection is called upon to notice that Bob's youngest no longer wears dresses. Then the women go into«.the kitchen, and by and by there is wafted out aromas from cooking things that ought never have been thought up in these days of high prices. But for once the housemother forgets the high cost of living. She beats up eggs as if they were selling around a cent apiece and, honestly, the way she drops hunks of butter into pots and pans you would think it just most nothing at all. But, like Christmas, Thanksgiving comes but once a year, anti if we can’t be a bit extravagant then, what is the use of having the old holiday?

loon, ordered a glass of beer. While he was drinking it the wise manager of the club strolled In to see what was going on and, taking In the situation at a glance, informed the surprised and dazed player that the nickel's worth of forbidden liquid would cost him the entire bonus plus the price of the drink. —Leslie’s.

Paradoxical Attraction.

"She has such a sunny disposition.’* ‘That accounts for her popular reign."

STILL ONE HOPE REMAINED

Frederick’s Idea Showed That Ho Sould Shine in Future on Diplomatic Service. Mrs. Titus carefully locked the Jam closet, and £old her two sons, eight and ten years of age, that she was going shopping. “All right, mom,” came the chorus. The street door had hardly shut behind Mrs. Titus when the two youngsters made a concerted rush for the jam closet. It was locked. A hunt for keys produced half a dozen. Each one was tried patiently, but' not one fitted. The lock held, the Jam closet remained inaccessible. “What a shame!” said Thomas, the younger. “Well,” said Frederick, the elder, “we can wait until mamma come3' home and ask her for something for being good boys.”—New York Evening Post.

ERUPTION ON CHILD’S BODY R. F. D. No. 2, Jackson, Mo.—“ Our daughter who’ is ten months old was suffering from an eruption all over the body. In the beginning they were smalFred spots and afterwards turned to bloody sores. We tried all sorts of ointments but they did not procurb any relief for our child. She cried almost day and night and we scarcely could touch her, because she was covered with sores from head to foot. “We had heard about the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and made a trial with them, and after using the remedies, that is to say, the Soap and the Ointment, only a few days passed and our child could sleep well and after one week she was totally well.” (Signed) August F. Bartels, Nov. 25, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.” —Adv.

Daylight at AM Hours.

Dr. Herbert E. Ives of London has Invented daylight, he says. Scientific men have worked for years trying to accomplish this task. Doctor Ives has been at work for at least a dozen, and he asserts he has finally produced a light which is in every way equal to sunshine. The scientist has designed a powerful incandescent lamp with a special mantle, which is so placed in a cabinet he has designed that its rays are immediately beneath a reflector. This is made of metal, and the light is forced downward through a series of delicately colored screens, so arranged that the average rays which are not found in the north light are eliminated, and the effect, it is said, is that of a perfect harmony of light similar in every way to the rays of the sun.

Maid Had Helped.

Young Van Winkle waited nervously in the parlor for Julia to appear. He had been sitting there, twiddling his thumbs,, for half an hour. Finally a step was heard in the hall and he rose to his feet expectantly. But it was not Julia. It was her maid. “Marie,” said the impatient young man,, “wbat keeps your mistress so long? Is she making up her mind whether she’ll see me or not?” “No, sir,” answered the maid with a wise smirk. “It isn’t her mind she’s making up.”

She Scored.

He was trying to make up their quarrel and came home with a package held behind him. “Look b<sre, dearest,” he said, "I’ve got something here for some one I think more of than anyone else in thf world.” 9 “A box of cigars, I presume,” she said sweetly.

Rather.

“I had a great surprise the other day.” “What was it?” * , “I got a square deal from that rounder.”

WORKS ALL DAY And Studies at Night on Grape-Nuts Food.

Some of the world’e great men have worked during tfce day and studied evenings to fit themselves for greater things. But it requires a good constitution generally to do this. A Ga. man was able to keep It up with ease after he had learned the sustaining power of Grape-Nuts, although he had failed In health before he changed his food supply. He says: “Three years ago I had a eevere attack of stomach trouble .which left me unable to eat anything but bread and water. “The nervous strajn at my office from 6 A. M. to 6 P. M. and improper foods caused my health to fall rapidly. Cereal and so-called “Foods" were tried without benefit until I saw GrapeNuts mentioned in tbe paper. * “In hopeless desperation I tried this food and at once gained strength, flesh and afppotite. I am now able to work all day at the office and study at night, without the nervous exhaustion mat was usual before I tried Grape-Nuts. “It leaves me strengthened, refreshed, satisfied; nerves quieted and toned up, body and brain waste restored. I would have been a living skeleton, or more likely a dead one by this time, If It bad not been for GrapeNuts." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mlcb. Read “The Road to Wellville," In pkga. “There’s a Reason." > f x Ever read the sbsrs lettert A new one appears from time to time, They <re ireaulne, true, and (nil of hnmae interest.

PALATABLE DISH OF CODFISH

Method of Preparation That Every One of the Household Will Appreciate. Cream Sauce for Codfish—Two tablespoons butter, one and one-half tablespoons flour, one-half cup hot cream, one-half cup hot milk, one-half teaspoon salt and few grains pepper. Put butter in saucepan, stir until melted and bubbling. Add flour mixed with seasonings, and stir until thoroughly blended. Pour on gradually the milk and cream, adding about onethird at a time, stirying until well mixed, then beating until smgpth and glossy. If the cream is thick one tablespoon of flour will be plenty. Prepare your fish aB I have written, and when ready for the third water add two heaping cups dried potatoes (cut before measuring) to one cup Balt codfish. When potatoes are soft the fish will be done. Drain through strainer, return to kettle ard mash thoroughly; be sure no lumps of potatoes are left; add one-half tablespoon butter, egg well beaten, and pepper. Beat with fork two minutes. Add salt if necessary. Make into little cakes. Fry out thin slice bacon and then fry cakes. Codfish —Prepare codfish as I have Written, having three-fourths of a cup. Pick in flakes, when cooked add one cup cream sauce. Add one bi aten egg Just before sending to the table. — Boston Globe.

SAFETY CAN OPENER

A new can opener is shown in the drawings which is said to work quickly and without danger of cutting. It has a handle like a sad iron and two cutting points below. The points are set on either side of the can top and the handle Is then pressed down. The

Saves Hands From Danger.

points enter the metal and the edges then cut either waV and the handle is pressed further. There is no need to hold the can, as the pressure is all down, and when the can is opened the handle bottoms on the lid so the fingers do not come near the tin edges, which, however, are rounded off Bmooth and turned under. With the old-style cjui openers the can had to be held, as in the lower drawing, and a slip might mean a nasty cut. With the new one this is done away with.

Strawberry Basket.

" Make a good sponge cake. Here is one "good recipe: Beat the yolks of three eggs till they are very light; add a small cupful of sugar and "very gradually half a cupful of boiling water. Sift one teaspoonful of baking powder with one cupful of flour, and add this by degrees; last of all mix in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in individual tins. When cold cut a piece from the center of each. Fill this with preserved strawberries and put whipped cream all around them and cut strips of lemon peel to form handles.

Buttered Apples.

Pare six large apples neftly, and keep them whole, take the tores out, have a piece of bread cut for each apple, the same size as the apple, one Inch thick. Grease a pan big enough to hold the bread and apples well, place the bread first then an' apple on each piece, fill the cores v Ith sugar and butter. Put in oven and cook until soft, when ready take out of the oven and fill the cores with any good jam, and place in oven again till jam is heated. Serve on hot disli pouring the juice and butter over tbe apples.

Brown Stew of Beef.

Remove all fat, bone, sdn and gristle from one pound of roi nd steak of stewing pieat and cut the latter into one-inch scares. Try out th» fat and in it brown half an onion, chopped fine. Sprinkle three tablespconfuls of flour over the meat and add to the fat and onion. When the meal Is well brow'ned add one pint of boiling water. Lower the heat and simmer one hour. Add the dumplings 15 mlnu’«B before the Btew is done.

New Washing Machine.

The vacuum principle in cleaning has fnvaded the laundry. Formerly washing machines were arrangements of cogs that mbbed the clothes as they would be rubbed on a board; next the perforated cylinders, which were turned by water or other powers, appeared. The latest devlca is a tin affair that can be put Into any clothes boiler, and works exactly litai a coffee percotor.

Kettle Cover.

Should tbe knob come off any kettle cover, a screw can be Blipped through the hole with tbe head Inside the lid, screw a cork into the protruding end; this will not get hot and can be replaced In a hurry. 1

Cleaning Enameled Dishes.

Salt moistened with vinbgai will remove burnt marks from enameled saucepans and dishes, but don't forget that they should be soaked in cold water for a few hours first to loosen the stains.

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