Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — For These Things We Give Thanks. [ARTICLE]

For These Things We Give Thanks.

Thanksgiving day we should all he able to give thanks to our parents for these things: For a clean name, unsullied by questionable transactions, honorable in human relations. For an untainted birth, with such health as purity transmits, and for the brooding tenderness that guarded and cherished us before birth and made careful preparation for our coming. For wholesome food, sufficient clothing, and comfortable shelter until our coming of age, or during the lifetime of our parents. For education, according to the best standards of which they knew suited to our individual needs and possibilities, and preparing us to earn our own livings. For such knowledge of our bodies and minds, and such reverence for them as makes intemperance Impossible.