The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1906, Page 8

@udlishea by the Press Publishing Company, No, 62 to 63 Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Afa!l Matter: i No. 16,586. _| VOLUME 47. eccseeces vee THANKSGIVING. Thanksgiving is a venerable festal day. New Engiand autho tribute its origin to the Pilgrim fathers, because Governor Bradtord in 1624, called Wday of thinks for, the fruitfulness of the first harvest But thanksgt tedates the Pilgrims and: Puritans by thous + years. | pos | 1, The which was poetry bef riting +was the Gr rvest festivals. Ev November the Greeks season and celobrated a féstiva same thanksgiving for the bounties of called the. Maimakteria of Zeus. fom’at the, same season by their Novemb. aie Romans. followed | ival called 35] Neither ‘vas th iving un-) non: this hemisphere -before | Pilgrims landed. | The Aztecs,’ Mexican cl ation” existed: ot centuries prior to Cortez and tro, celebrated in early winter | and offered sacrifices. fo their, gods} in appreciation of the bounties ot. that year. In likymanner the Peru-| vians- had a thpksgiving festival about the time of the winter’ sol-) stice. Even to-day the Indians cele- brate this ancestral feast. In all northern lands where the winter months: are so cold thav wegetation then ceases to grow and the garnering of the’ crops marks | the completion of the agricultural year, there is a harvest home festival, a thanksgiving. Cl had Such a festival at the time of the winter | solstice. So did the ancient Persians. A like festival has been known from time immemorial among all Germanic peoples. Where the American Thanksgiving is distinctive is in its glorification of the turkey. Like the historical error which attributes the invention of thanksgiving to Governor Bradford is the erroneous tradition which | attributes to turkeys nativity in Turkey or Turkestan. | The turkey is the great American bird. It ran wild over North ‘America long before the Pilgrim fathers got here. It was not knowa in Europe at all before the sixteenth century, when the Spanish explorers brought back a few turkeys with them. It was called the turkey bird because the Spanish at first thought that the land they had discovered was part of Asia. The French for turkey, dindon, which they call the Indian bird, is based on the same geographical misconception. The New York Thanksgiving is descended more from the German , festivals than from the Puritan church day. The habit of New York boys in dressing themselves as mummers {5 of English and German descent, far removed from the Purltan manner of observance. The ‘early Puritan Thanksgiving was a fast day, not a feast d: Y However its origin, Thanksgiving has become a distinctive American holiday. The Continental Congress ordered thanksgiving by resolution. The first President to declare a thanksgiving day in November by pro lamation was President Lincoln in 1864, i Before tiat Thanksgiving had not always been celebratéd on thé! same day, although the general usage had fixed vpon the last Thirsday | of November. Some of the earlier thanksgivings were in Decem¥er, and there have been thanksgivings in October. But since President Lincoln's | ae the same day has been observed throughotit the United | States. : A S- 4 re re ee Sinaia eSrar The giving of (hanks is a necessity to preserve a proper balance to} the human mind. rerybody has something to be ‘thankful for. The} three greatest blessings, Jife, health and liberty, are possessed by almost evary American citizen. For the lack of any one of these three no Amount of money or of power can compensate. ; The nearer approach to happiness individual men and women can attain, the better off is the world at large. While perfect bliss may t pe ~ impossible of earthly attainment, relative happiness is a matter of propor- tion. And its possession depends greatly on the point of view. —Fhe | more a man thinks he has and-thedess-he thinks he wants the happier | ice in remedying ills and bringing | he is. ‘ Discontent does its good servi about a change from. bad conditions. - > But there/is one day in the year fromy which discontent should be absent, and to-day every man and every woman should repe: Selves a list of (he maily bountie 2 at to them- and blessings which they enjoy. Letters from the People. To Neatrict Auto It ce whera the com no ey | Temlster. The papers wo 1 of 4 were made wause| for a week. Thera woyld be ones yeles. Why not have| vaudeville gagw and a learned bore His-almilarly set apart | two. and tron ¢ blest would meg i om “clsew 7] no re Ab Wumanity, and serve, crossitigs| moro purpose than Jo the moons ot Jupiter. And iis tor thts ¢ lives und fortunes have utter absurdity! A Nelnted ¢ only natural should for pedes- % On autow would easily At ac Caruso. What! a Stree(-Car ‘Ode, of The Did ever you | horse-car, | That thing of the past, an echo afar? } | | How it crawls up the street tila | and Labor, At: | ny, Bara the ways 1 eoretary of the | TP eta lively! and d the Navy, Bec- MAUD LOPEZ, The Uneless North: to. © Evening’ Word Sr expeditions are, to my indy ts tay " take’ it delight, ra ( there tn Pol id horses and 0 ain No good alight, ne id come! Dash for the sidewalk ear, ®) Or mak ile and md |. for wit tri, ph a ad “lank syne, elves ony a sighing will ce on this Ine, polar sen), wall explorers would find the: ges of ce (or at be: \ Hs sour hours at orld’s ES -- A Thanksgiving Review. By Robert Edgren. SYMPTomS oF INSOMNIA — HIGHER, DR. ELIOT oF HARVARD WANTS To “tPRovE THE STUDENTS BY ABOLISH/ING "DISHONORABLE SS Cur ‘cers aye IN 2 IN Daily Magazine. Thursday, No OF THE GARAND OPENING OPERA SEASON | mber 29, ve Love Affairs CO Fx ‘by Ztrola Greeley—Simtly Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, “4 1 ER idurat post touch pen to write inti his ine Were ered witli love's atghat— Wrote 8h but in Dis ease it waa hig not his pen, that was tempered, and-very badly tem: “I at that. For At Hlothdway, the mature: young woman of twenty-six who married ovr greatest poet when ° eighteen years old, and even more hapless than older n in the same wile fu belng fair one ute, melting tie next; and w shrewish remknisoence ne time. ; urtehip exoent that. it Was r \ihexnected, at Jeast on ‘en Ww porn of It, the thers a boy anda herpear 1 { helpless hergency’, ot March about! lier, all the marringo rat aside, i yeanna, the o cuistdered a Calle Jer, being pullt mito tungentie Anne the enious explanations ons, being Chat Shakespeare's niantiage sts gen The hasis ‘for this copctuston, liowever, fs rather ale fact” that the poet's) will devised ond best bed," end mado no other mention of her at ail, Of this fact have beon mven, however: heron the Tootine S cording to the bingl«n code, the best bed had’ to revert to (The Marriage {tne heir at Jaw, anil there was conacquently no slur, but ¢ a Failure? °) rather a compliment to Anne, Hathaway, in apecifeally « devising her tho second best Shakespeare fell in love with her In 18 or 158 young woenan. Several of Shakespoaro’s sonnets are sald to ther, among them this’ punning rhapsody: was a yery © been er hast her wish, thou host thy ‘Will! ad ‘WHI to boot, and ‘WHI! in overplus, More than enough and I that vex thea still Go thy sweet will, making addition t i nts In thelr long married Hfs when Anne Hathaway quite overplus, ra mo th the poet when she had “Will they y have been when Sha went from hls birthplace z on-Avon to London, he le haway Ddetiind, But every uring hls long Ldndon rojourn hy s family tn Stratford. SESS SHis childrens w ed and buried there, and all his earnings w tea there At Anne Hathaway's husband's, she expre © the same grave with ? Hamnet, died at the ow tow ndant of y to think of & Anne Hathaway's Last Wish. many years after her , Strong wish to be buried Im welve. His two daughters, though neltier had any nne Hathaway exists, 1 {nto contract nkespeare 1t ik/customa THE JARR ° things,"* in the cozy "If the “Tecan pr any @x about bu! remembe owing a ho der tn the ¢ ‘Oh, 1 supy afraid of burgl this hornig m “You know T dn oe just ILY 4 2 By | Ard never caught one don't you wor FAM You are going to~be out late, to-night," anid & I koow Jabal be so frigh' old girl 11] you Ye frightened abe xked Mr, Jarr. | forblds it, The aro ait-fer Klats, of course”? replied Mra, Jarr. “Pitts- “What foolishness are you ta replied Mr, his regular‘working hours hag a trained mouse in jt with burgla it is too far for the burglars to run over from Jatt, reassuringly; ‘eo you're all Ja fm not all rl terrible Any burglar * sald Mr. Jerr. repiled Mrs Those burglars <0 into this house only gets In| despe a ventured M ats eaxy on 1 to sey," fren Have know Whether—one'a things ; 1 W x ne Wouldn't care if he did! When he Jarr with the “How Fetiir wad Mr, darr, te tor stons ra of atuirs | t and some plated silverwa lie at eleven and no Mrs steal ee rome sneor, but we haya a lot plund, and the bur © A new dinner set Just the 4 Jarr, polemni won't t burglars « mo you for y ter the manner resolving not to stop 2 1 from the kiteh should be a. ged to some ° talking tu said Mre thing for me you won't stay you 1 care an Well, wold rel’ xntd Mrs an and ho I don't ave epnt for a p. Next day all the ladies of burglary and dtc the landlor safes, under at looked red ‘Jar yi" esid Mr, ht any more. nd they use t anyway? asked Mrs iterprising burgla: lady of the House th moe McCardell sh burglar and mou works, and par- * throughout {ing an unfortunate marriage. ticularly in the sonnets, Indica a Inck of any code of morals which would Nave mado st (mpossible for any woman to live wilt him. There is no record of his having a serious ove affair with any otker woman. Tlie wife's name, Anne linked with | Hathaway, ts the only one that has come down the aga Hue union | r 4 The ralned mice." - New York Thro’ Funny Glasses. By Irvin S. Cobb. Timely Thoughts for the Festal Day. s happy day ts done, when the last mortality has paseed th wgh the hands of > obit an, when we have ident’s proclamation that every: Jebritte three companies of poldlers down in-T ax, when we have n of remembrance upon s of ours who, janding {Nn Eni nd, at Indians seemed body} Williams and Walk. dropped the tmely 1 of those Imerortal an exe ehrysanthome at Raves id shores held a fo pe such ney and th nty of good ary wood handy anyt n witch or a . juaker=when Ww hese things, it will be well havent Quaker—when these things, for dwellers h an home of the Lobster Tribe k seriousness to frisk thelr memories with a view t ascertaining what y } 6 thankful for, anyhow. one in these parts Ho cnn be wholly, entirely pgle mental reservation, {x the kind of person the doughnut or the tresh alr in the pretzel, for fut ference in = t Jerometa easly feral irder saniiarium before he getaja notion going to do something to somebody— ble optimism OT More THAN 10 Ibs.| | AT PTHAT'LE KNOCK You sitty! GREAT! GREAT!-) LESQUE SHow EVeRY Time} DLL GET A TuRKey GIVE ME A BuR- | Pouns 26 cENTS- TER CLOSE Em ovr! FULTON MARKET B80 STEAD TAKE ONE YOURSELF AND LET'S SEE THE "BEST SMOKES INTHE House! tter of the Th come down ing dinner. that glorious, the days when the to be scaiped at the lie may have lost hie example. in the hallowed -faatttution that ather was called away from the groan a total stranger of x deep » to us {roi hg t } front door by marcel, but he preserved hia digestion tn a comparatively intact condition, Can we, his descendanss, or ostensibly: so, sa¥ os. much for ourselves? Nay, nay, ymies back’ the’ answer from the pepsin pellet and the post-prandlal pil! s consider the “hank ng dinner ax it {s served to us here—and then even an the cattle of the flelds, which at hay and rejoles therdat. in this country ) that being in itself ‘3 some of the credit for. 1 that we are qualined” 8 to give the Pilg Ml flow in our yw what a real Thankaglving dinner should Le lke go Into A restaurant run by a ecion of the sturdiest and purest Puritan Lithu: A member of the Hungarian cranch of the Cotton Mather on ua, and the food {x prepnred by a disciple of the New England ¢ cooking mr It tx practised Hamburg. turkey that has bren on foe in Mr. Armour's custody aince the spring of the yetr that Parker ran for President, the deceased being garnished with « ung made up of all'the things that the cook didn’t have anywhere else to put. and s concealed them In the tonnénu of A helpless fowl. AWith this course ‘coe nome oranberry sauce, which gdod old Dr, Wiley has taught us Ie a cheery compound of glucoKe, Toofing paint and formaldehyde. Immediately on tasting the plum pudding we recognize the brand, and know all the chef needed to make {trendy for serving was a can-opener and a crock of hard sauce. Dost remember, at the old homestead, tn childhood's happy days, with what AND IT TooK TILL Mionig L GOT ONE!— A 10-POUNDER!- AT 40¢ - JUST BEFORE THE Joving caré and wentiment the Thanksgiving plo was evolved? Even good olf You Bute! You KING oF LiARs!- TUR Quorto AT 2 FOUND THIS PROGRAM IN YouR Pocket!) grandma lent her new set of store teeth fn order that the edges of the crust Init. be properly fluted, Dost remember? Well, the plo you'll get to-nteht will of an edition of forty thousand Sporting-IExtra ples run off on a eylindek ¢ ress ax a rush order to catch the uptown trade, No poetry entered nto Js architecture and construction, Its contents were mingled in a vat ‘ith: | epade by a sinewy Swede xentleman who was in a hurry to get through rey | go to the corner and enjoy his Thanksgiving 2inner out of a stain, en ae | THE FUNNY Nant: oy We don’t seom to realize that we ought to give thanks, | lying dinner, but for heving survived ft. ‘ | he KEYS ARE Be AND L é y not for the Thankse Thanksgiving. By Walter A. Sinclair. Y mfd-day in the oven hot the Turk should sizzle for an hour B Until icd) time to serve him’ up with cranberries so red With praties sweet and good to eat, with lusctous caulit With lettuce, too, to grace and strew the cozy little bower Wherein will rest and-coftly nest the Turk in all his power, ol And sour, lower, eng Not for Publication. | ent betwe | Pointed Paragraphs. MINUTE to-day |s worth an hoyr tosnorrow, Latid is about Uke only thing seilors have to bank on. Women who Kis each other are often guilty of counterfeiting, a wise nian Who olther speaks tho truth or says nothing. nyery man hasian excuse for drinking—and each 1s worse than the other. a woman Inughs Wt a man's Jokes it'a\becauso he isn't her husband, About (he only freb allver wo need expect Is the allver lining. of the aw nistako ot fe youn ra for his be- nge as contemplated may be sweet, but st {s always morn or less 3 mo van be a power for evi to be a power for good “ Only taw men ave able to appreciate the humor in a praoiicel ex aL UneM pot Hrat When a man attempta to Interfere with the affairs of a woman the beat nit {t takes a man an ong mon ko that uisiment and in- Fhe don get 19 the worat jof It. ewhen, on Ignorance ‘bf the law excuses no man, but {t sometimes accdunts for the boxen, sho H failure of a lawyer -to make good. card bearing tho It sometimes happens that the minister who follows hin calling too enuously {s called down hy his congregation.—Chicago News. _ CARDINAL GINBONS. of | Much rude 8(rung food has mada him feél internally quite ally, ; hag a ronse of | And througit the angulshed night the lagging hours travel snatly, : im was the guest | y1q wonders Sf he'll reach his work, where duty calls him dally, red ts ' oF et Muroh | And rises In the morulng feeling dry) and punk and stalcly, si ! eb UGS Ila Oh, mortals, that each year ye try this ultra-high high living, y { forme infort vinits to: the Well knowing of the finfsh, and yet call tho thing Thanksgiving. Wek homo its mistress had deen pea ; y of reminding the tinguished i We: present © ang-the bel}, the enance anaw a¢ turning, Murphy,’ ‘Please, Mrs. remnants has came." a. ith ed more } No one enj oughly of laug: then did’ the genial Cardinal hingpelt. ke more thor. While grapes and nuts and juley cuts of pic will add thelr dower, At midnight In hissgloomy couch tho diner tumbles palely, while round his bed the ghosts and spooks revolve in circles gayly. Where Leopards Are Polite. NDIA'S huntiog leopard, the cheeta, has a reputation as one of the most gene tlemanly of beasts. Three Calcutta visitors to Northern India were out on @ tramp when they were overtaken by a thundorstorm. Thoy espled a cave in the side of a hill, and Into {t they rushed. When the rain stopped they came out end fyund a cheetah sitting licking the heavy wet off his walstcoat and hia paws, 1¢ Was bis cave, but rather than deprive his visitors of thelr ahelter the polite creaturo had sat outside In the driving temppat. With a friendly mew ang gracefully wagging his tail the cheotab mage adlou to his guests and wallcg with dignity, inte dla house, ’ vis : 4 when the 2 man of im- ered, received std to your mum, eartiiy atelt |