Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1920 — THANKSGIVING AT ITS BEST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THANKSGIVING AT ITS BEST

City Boys and Girls Don’t Make as Much of the Day as Do Their . Country Cousins. The joys of Thanksgiving are not partaken in the fullness thereof by many city boys and girls. They simply know that It is a holiday, when the pleasures and trials .of school life are temporarily laid aside, when churches are open' for those who want to return devout thanks for the manifold blessings with which they may have been showered, and when the larder fairly groans with uncommon delicacies. It is in the country that the manifold blessings of Thanksgiving da/ reach their full fruition. It is not a mere episode there, as it is in the city, but an event that is anxiously looked forward to for weeks before it dawns. In its celebration it differs from the ways of the city as widely as does day from night. In the thickly populated towns the religious aspect of the holiday has been lost sight of to a great extent, and in its place there has grown up the habit of feasting and making merry. It IS a time for family gatherings, for balls, for football, for theatricals and the thousand and one pleasures city life is beset with.