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! vAimtf mnn who rlfesnlsea Thanks- rA aivlnel after It is over Is he who meets, the tnrter and is Bubdued by the bird. ' In plain English, about tho "most tuirble swain in town Thanksgiv ing nlghis he who has been asked to carve a turkey and the turkey has ob Ijectedr . When a turkey objects to being carved'tbere is no tellin? what the bird will.do, Engagements have been broken as tife result of the bird's antics in the hnffils of the inexperienced carver. Mothers-in-law-to-be have protested against receiving young men into their families who couldn't tako a bird to pieces with out frosting the damask cover of tho table with turkey pickings and the young men themselves have regarded their dress ehirts and frock coats mottled with flying . 1 1 1 A nannf rt :glve thanks again. Evjry gentleman ought to know how to take a Tbanksgiving bird to pieces. Such knowl?.ge should be a part of every gentleman's education. mi i t. x-U ' . xue oust carvec uu runu i-ku i tiuvn neatly unless the bird is properly arrang ed and well cooked. It takes a good cook to properly fix a turkey for table carving. , HOW THE LEG SHOULD BB PULLED OFF. It shouldn't be fixed with its legs sprawl ing, and one arm shoots out in one direc tion while the other goo in a contrary with a turkey like that - Its legs must be laid flat to its sides and then tied close ly together. Next, the cooking is import ant. The fowl must be cooked so that the legs will tear off easily. That is a test of the turkey's tenderness. To begin with, no man wants to Btand to carve a fowl or anything else. His scat should be a trifle higher than the others, and if he is short, why a careful hostess will consider that point. The fowl should lay with his ;nead toward the carver. The carver does not nourisn tne sicnaor carving uniie as u it were a weapon of war. .''The first move he makes should be on the legs. These should be lifted one at a time, and with the knifo two cuts made to form a circle about the second joint of the leg. Cut only through the skin and then the leg should tear off easily, leav ing the meat light and flaky at the end. ;After the legs are taken off the fork is plunged into the breast r.a near the center of the breast bone as is possible and need not be removed if the correct place is found until the turkey is p.acticnlly cut up. . The white meat on the breast should be ,the secondLportion attacked in the carving act. The meat should be cut in the thin nest, flakiest of slices so that while they will not break to pieces will still be tempt ing in their daintiness. Turkeys should not be served with wings on them. - Re move the wings before the turkeys are cooked. ' 1 If the turkey has a disposition to skate around on the platter or fly into the lap of the lady beside you den't get excited. A man has to get over being nervous. If lie's calm and understands bow to handle the turkey no well bred bird will make any disturbance. ; i After the breast is cleaned it is the carver's duty to carve the legs. He must ,11UI xivii) nuj uuv iu vt uuio ui uuisucn. ITTa mimf rIIpa flnflp to fha bona at tha lair up to the first joint an1 turn the angle and strip the bone of ths second joint in rthe game way. This supplies plenty of t That's all most men tiled to do. ' The small parts aren't generally needed in a family serving.- If a man wants to show that he really understands the art of carving he will turn tho fowl over and get the two choicest, finest bits of meat on the entire turkey. Right on top of the hack, one on each side cf the spine, are two depressions not bigger, than a silver dollar either of them. But In those two hollows is the finest grained, most deli cately flavored meat the bird carries. 1 In serving the party the same fork is used that was used in carving, while the knife can lay with the blade on the plat ter, where the fork also can be placed after the work Is done. Each person : HOW TO CAKVB THE TURKEY, I. Pull Off the Leg. II. Slice the f Breast. - III. Cross Cut for Stuffing. !nhould be given both dark and light meat The last thing before the portions are nerved a cross shonld be cut where the (stuffing was put into the fowl. It is com jmon to cut onl" one way, but by making 'the cross cut fpe stuffing can be served neatly. A good carver will not allow any bits to fall around tbe platter, and, in !fact, there shouldn't be any crumbs. Every piece of fowl should be clean cut j No plan has yet been invented which (will insure a turkey's stnying on the plat jter during the carving process. Practice (is the only thing able to achieve that re sult. But if a young man only carves turkey once a year, on Tbanksgiving Day, 'is he isn't likely to grow perfect In the art until his head is shiny and pink, and what Is left of his hair is angelic in its white ness. . IT IS ALL OUR OWN. Tbankssivlnnr Is a Festival Peeullar , to This Country. HEN, In the year of grace 1C30, sturdy Gov. John Winphrop and the Puritan colon ists of Massachusetts proclaimed and duly observed a ' "public thanksgiving," they probably had little idea of the importance which that festival was destined to obtain in the history of Amer ica. The first Thanksgiving differed Very materially from its successors, in that it was proclaimed as a fast and not as a feast Supplies had run short, the ships expected from England were delayed, and extinction threatened the "Governor and company of Massachusetts bay in New England." Winthrop and his coun cil decided to hold a day of prayer and abstinence, "so that ye Lorde be propi tiated and looke upon His servants with favor, in that they have humbled them selves before Him." Accordingly a crier was sent about the primitive settlement of Charlestown, and the colonists were each and all Invited to take part in the fast Their sacrifice met with speedy re ward. ' Scarcely had the noon hour of the al lotted day arrived when the long-hoped-for ship made its welcome appearance in Massachusetts bay, the cargo was landed and the fast was succeeded by a banquet of a sort which must have seemed sump tuous indeed to the exiles so recently plunged in hunger and hardship. ' On the threshold of dreaded winter Winthrop and his followers found what had been a prospect of fear and peril changed into one of happiness and hope. Such was America's first Thanksgiving, as cele brated 269 years ago. Thereafter each succeeding November was marked in the annals of the colony by a similar fes tival of gratitude. "'- But Thanksgiving in the early days of our history was not confined to the New England pioneers alone. Just fifteen years after Winthrop's proclamation, i. e.," 'THIS 'UN LEFT OVER FOR CHRISTHAS.' in 1645, Gov. Kieft of the Dutch colony, then known as Nieuw Amsterdam, but now as New York, ordered, the observ ance of a day of rejoicing and thanks, "for the rest and peace which God had been pleased to bestow upon His ser vants." Thus we see that the feast of Thanksgiving is not, as generally suppos ed, a peculiarly Puritan Institution, but is equally derived ' from the stalwart burghers of Manhattan Island, The next notable Thanksgiving day in history fell in 1758. On that date the British and . colonial army, numbering 80,000 nien, and commanded by Gen. Forbes, attacked and captured from the French, after a fierce struggle, Port Du quesne, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahcla rivers. The name of the place was changed to Fort Pitt, and was the. nucleus of the city of Pittsburg. Thus in a special sense the history of the great capital of the coal and iron indus tries is connected with the celebration of Thanksgiving day. :. -V. .:.' At the time that the British were con quering Fort Duquesne, Whitefield, the famous Methodist preacher, called upon all his adherents in London to join a "service of praise and thanksgiving for the victories of the English arms on land and sea." This British Thanksgiving was, we are told, widely observed, and awak ened intense enthusiasm, not only among the Methodists, ' but throughout all the different sects. Whitefield'g idea was af terward on several occasions revived in England. For instance, in 1814 the Gov ernment proclaimed a general thanksgiv ing for the victory of Waterloo. Again, two years later, in '1810, proclamation was made of a popular thanksgiving for the restoration of peace. After the Cri mean war a third jubilation of this na ture took place. But meanwhile, In .' New England, what had been begun as an occasional day of pious rejoicing had assumed the proportions of a fixed national holiday. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire it was especially popular. There was at first great latitude in regard to the day selected for the feast. Governors pro claimed the chosen date arbitrarily, and no effort was made to keep the anniver sary of Winthrop's proclamation. Some- times Thanksgiving occurred iu July, sometimes in midwinter. At Ifcrigtb, through the efforts ot the president and professors of Harvard College, it was practically fixed Upon tbe last Thursday in November. The last Thursday of the eleventh month suited the collegers, aud, influence being brought to bear upon the colonial governors of New England, proc lamations were issued making that day the regular Thanksgiving. SONG OF THE TURKEY. look my last on fields all bare. My fond wife shares iny sorrow, - For I'm to be Tbaukcglvlug fare, : , IVmoriow, oh, to-morrow. The cheerful suul'ght. mocks me so, It seem but gloomy weather; - Turkeys may come, aud turkeys go, But I'll Ut gone forevtr. Last year 'twas one grandma had batched, So thin a bird, the cook In looking at hlui, said be matched The master's pocketbook. But this year they mast have a bird ' Of weight: for hopea are greener. And Uncle Sam, so 1 bare heard, . Bun eaten I'bilopeoa. I gobble, gobble, as I go. To mount the groaning table. Because for this year, well 1 know, - Thanksgiving day's ao fable. THANKSGIVING WITH SOLDIERS. Veteran of the Civil War Telle of Some Experience?. "There Is no day," said Gen. J. E. At kinson recently, "that brings up the old memories as does Thanksgiving. It is the contrast, I suppose. Thanksgiving depends for its enjoyment upon home sur roundings, and its very mention suggests feasting. Now, if there was anything more sadly lacking in the camps of both the Union and Confederate armies than these two items, I can't guess what it was. It might easily have become a very dreary and homesick day, and to guard against that the boys used to set up all kinds of schemes to make it pass off pleasantly and seem more like the days at home. Those who were fortu nate enough to get boxes from home usu ally shared the good things with their friends, but when we had just been in ac tion or were on the march It sometimes happened that no boxes could reach us, and we were thrown wholly upon our own resources. Some of the forms of diversion that were originated then seem very laughable as we look back upon them from this distance. - "I remember that on one Thanksgiving day, when we had been on the move for several days, tho men organized a Thanksgiving celebration beginning with a fantastic celebration and ending with some impromptu tableaux, aud the sing ing of army songs. Discipline was usu ally relaxed a little on holidays, and the officers gave permission for the affair. Considering the unshaven and tattered condition of the men and the accumula tion of Virginia mud which adorned them, it was not difficult to get up a suf ficiently grotesque parade by turning coats inside out and wearing skillets and such other articles of camp furniture as could be had. One of the features of the entertainment that followed was a cari cature of our bill of fare for the preced ing two weeks, which was announced as 'coffee and crackers for breakfast, salt horse for dinner, fo'r supper crackers and coffee.' " . . - .-..; ; Highest Ideal of Culinary Art. There is no pastry on earth comparable with a pumpkin pie. Not only for the dellciousness of the article itself, but it recalls the pleasant days and memories of boyhood. It is a song of youth and a poem of old age. It awakens memories of past pleasures and cheers the present with delight. No man, unless he be a heathen, ever eats a genuine pumpkin pie without thinking of his mother, home, Thanksgiving and schoolboy days. Then, all hail to the delicious pumpkin pie, tho highest ideal of culinary art. " Thou art entitled to sit on the top -helf of the world's great pantry. .Thou ut a jewel more golden than the nugget 1 of Klon dike. Exchange. i- - . A Programme. Thflnksglvlng comes In glad array, ' ! - The poet's Jocund text. With turkey and mlnee pie one day And biliousness the next. Washington Star. . . ' .- f A Nice Prospect. Gobbler Oh, you feel very tickled over Thanksgiving' coming, don't you? . Boy Yes, and when it gets here you'll feel v;t much cut up over It, In 28 days not a scrap of food or nourishment of any kind passed the lips of Milton Rathbun, of Mount Ver non, N. Y. ""When he began his volun tary fast he weighed 210 pounds,- his abstinence caused the loss of 42 pounds and it has caused him no apparent in jury. - - ;- - Ft! 11 More Counterfeiting. The Secret Service lias just unearthed another baiid of counterfeiters and secured a quantity of bogus bills, which are cleverly executed." Things of great value are al ways selected for imitation, notably Hos tettef's Stomach Bitters, which has many imitators but no equals for disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia and constipation. 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The 'author begins his work with a sketch of the war with Spain, the causes which led to it and the resultant issues, as preliminary to the glimpses of history and description of the coun tries in and around the Pacific, their resources, commerce, climates, mines and manufactures, with a glance at the old-time traffio in trinkets and fursj on account : of the important voyages of circumnavigation, science and discov-! ery, the great gold gatherings, and kindred topics. The Bancroft Com pany, publishers, . 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.- Dr. Simpson, a Boston physician, says that old persons should not use ar tificial teeth. He says they enable aged persons to eat meat, . and nature in tended them to eat only soft food. When the teeth drop out it is a warn ing that only vegetable food should be taken. , A recent government census of India, contains a remarkable statement in ref erence to youthful marriages. 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