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“Only a Few Days, and Thou Too—”
Here’s to the Thankful Day
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Since‘af'to u ru n iver**l thanks were told
*»**««>*" greater In the world’s applause.
And fortune's newer smiles surpass the old—
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b { us * thankful-thankful for the prayers
" hoe* gracious answers were long, long delayed,
That they might fall upon us unawares.
And bless us, as in greater need, we prayed, tg I /
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“ >* thankful for the loyal h a n d 'r z " ’
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"L. \ ^ lat 'ove ^ d out in welcome to our own7 '
When love and only love could understand , -
The need of touches we had never known. " d
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Let us be thankful for the longing eyes
That gave their secret to us as they wept,
V et in return found, with a sweet surprise.
Love's touch upon their lids, and, smiling, slept
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And let us, tob, be thankful that the tears
Of sorrow have not all been drained away,
That through them still, for all the coming years,f
We may look on the dead face of today.
For Pride Gocth Gafore a Fall, and In a Few Day» Ha W ill Be In the Oven.
Tim e for N eighborliness
The charities of the rich are Indee
wldespreading, and to the heart reallj
attuned to the spM t of Thanksgiving
lr -seems a fa r more lovely thing to
rend of their gifts of clothing and food
at their s lttln ; at the bedsides of (hi
»felt and sorrowing, than to port
through their fine social doings In tl.r
society column.
Although the Bible
tells us It Is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than a rich
man to enter heaven, one feels in
cHned to believe thut exceptions will
be made. In truth, the rich and poor
are very close at Thanksgiving time,
and all the rest of us who can Just
scrape along try to do cur level hest
by the friends and neighbors who ure
less well off.— Chicago D aily News.
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Janet Thorn gut In the couch ham
mock on the shaded lanal und looked
out across a purple blue sea to some
far Invisible shore.
Somewhere be
yond thut misty horizon lay home. Not
thkt home meant very much to Janet
since the death o f her only relative, an
aunt. But. somehow, around Thanks
giving time a Stranger In a arrange
land Is likely to be homesick.
And thia heauttful H aw aii, with all
Its glories, still had no adequate sub
stitute to offer for the cold w intry
skies and bleak harvested landscape,
for the cranberry sauce and uroma of
rousting turkey w ith which the nation
al holiday Is associated.
Therefore Janet sighed und found
herself wishing that Jim Deming, JJte
good-looking young principal of the
school where she taught, were not en
gaged to the duughter of the Island's
wealthiest sugar planter.
I f he hadn't been— oh. If only he
hadn't been! Then.the friendliness he
hii/J yhown her stripe her arrival could
have meant so much more to her— the
forerunner, perhaps, of something so
much more satisfying even than friend
ship !
Janet rose and. w ith an almost un
conscious gesture, stretched out her
arms to w a rd . tjie purple seg. " A'hal
does life hold for one?" she murmured
A lb a n y ’s
EVERYTHING OPTICAL
No Türke
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Thanksgiving
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A trip to RHo and the crater V
JsnFt thought for an Instant that
someone had apoken. then realized that
It was merely her own thought. That
little Im p w ithin which represented h
great longing sr yet unfulfilled hgd
taken this moment when lonesomene»«
surged within her and tim e hung
heavy on her hands to prompt her
W hy not. use Ihe emergency fund^aud
take the trip to H ilo? Not that It
would take the whole of it, at that,
only, once the meager hoard were
broken Into. It would not again easily
withstand temptation.
For Janet had decided to lay by
each week out of hqr small salary a
little contribution toward an amount
to take her home should the occasion
ever arise. To draw on what little
she had already accumulated would
be Io put the goat still farther away.
Yet -the psychological combination of
the moment proved Janet's undoing
'T in going to H t l * ' I'm going to Hilo
Sh» sang the words, pirouetted madly
on one foot, and turned Indoory to get
ready.
If that same little wicked demon
within her whispered that she knew
she was going to Hilo because Jim
Deming had told her she ought to,
she pretended not to hear. W|^at In
fluence ought lie engaged as he was
to the haughty Gloria Tremuns. to
have <« her life? Janet felt sorky for
Jim. In fact, she hnA felt sorry ever
since the day wMPtt Gloria had rolled
for him nt the school. It s * found him
telling her ab'iat the wonders of Kll
sues, and had peremptorily sum moped
him to her side with the most frigid
of glances at Jsnet. Jlrti engaged te
that Iceberg I
Two days later, seated loxnrtouslv
In the party automobile which - runs
to t3j« crefer of KUsuea for the bene
fit of tourists, Janet wondered why she
was not happier., Here she was. tern
porarlly seated In the lap e f luxury.
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hired- though It was. about p. g„.
one of the world's greatest sights, the
bubbling, restless lake of molten lava
which Is the crater of Kilauea.
It
must be because 9he was. In spite of
the score or so of effervescent, gusli.
Ihg tourists. In reality alone. She had
no ofle with whom to share the wonder
Then, ns she stood on the very hrlttk
of the vast la v , sea. she saw him —the
man who had been so persistently In
her thoughts. He was nlone, and had
withdrawn apparently from a second
group o f tourists whose automobile
had, no doubt, preceded hers.
He
Stood with arms folded, gazing down
to the colorful depths below.
Where was Gloria?
Janet’s pus-
ded eyes searched the crowd In vain.
Then, resolutely, she crossed over to
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"It's my first Visit. M r. Deming."
Oh, h er« ', to H a rv est Tim e, the end of the fa ll!
The laet m onth o f a u tu m n — the beat o f them a ll!
The m onth o f T h a n k sg iv in g . w ith tu rk ey s and plumat
r hH kTOo'idh N *IOr*t,Chrl.’ lm “ ’ Wh*n S a n ,a C U u* e°m » sf
I lik e old Novem ber, because It 1« not
Too w et nor too dry. nor too cold nor too hot
J j i t J o l l y and sunny and full o f good things'
Oh. h a r e s to T h a n k a g lv ln g . w ith a ll th a t It brtaggl
Janet!" be aamonis'nea ner tenderly
possible at the Feast of Thanksgiving,
after hearing her purt of itie story.
for It Is a festival for the synagogue
‘O ur honeymoon ahull be u trip to the
und the home, and there are no ob
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s tacles In the Holy Land to the flit-
Janet sailed. "It doesn’t need tu r tilling of every letter o f the law In rw-
key and cranberry sauce a fte r all tu gard to this celebration. Setting car»
make a Thanksgiving.
Tltls Is the ¡and business aside, he dons his hand-
realest Thanksgiving I ever h a d !"
jsomest gowns and goes to the sy n a -
by M cC lure N e w ap apcr R yndloM e )
gogue, which has also been decorated
In festive nttlre. and with n thankful
heart he enters Into a service which Is
I all Joyousneas.
Thanksgiving
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Cslcbrats In "Tabernacles.”
The principal feature o f this Feast
,o f Thanksgiving Is the dwelling la
“tsheniacles“ or booths for s e re *
;,day». Under a p e -’ecl blue aky, anr-
i rounded by the eternal "hills round
I ¡about Jerusalem," amid ancient olive
'■trees, or in desolate stony Acids o f
ruin stand the little Jewish colonies,
and by each house Its little "succa"
for celebrating the feast. Each colony
has Its own synagogue, snd here the
rabbi leads the congregation In tho
songs of tlmnksglvlng, while the wom
en prepare the festive menl to he
the said abruptly, “and I'm even more
mpressed thuu I hud expected."
At the sound of her voice he turned
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Ihe leek of surprise In his expression.
’Janet! But what— why— ”
“Yes.” laughed Janet. “T h a t’s what
I want to know ! W hat are you doing
here, and why ure you not spending
ibe holidays w ith— w ith— ”
“M y— er— form er fiancee?" Jim gave
T he ttvvruge American has an idea sorted within the green booth. , Here
t strange little laugh. “Miss Tremuns
that Thankaglvlug Is s national holt llie fam ily meet In deep happiness be
and I are no lunger engaged. In fact,
day peculiar to his country Hud Cele cause they have been able to fulflll the
the Affair was broken off because of
brated because of proclamations Is commund of Moses their "law giver"
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sued by the President and by gov once again, and In the Holy land.
The Feast of Thanksgiving com
Janet drew back. “I — I don’t un-
ernors of states, whereas the feast of
dertsked.” she murmured.
Thanksgiving Is observed In m%nj memorates God's goodness in the past
to the Israelites In the wilderness.
"W e! had a—e r- little disagreement.
other countries. One of the many In
She accused me of being Interested
terestlng observances of this fen«J It Their long wandering In the Journey
In you, too much so. W att, don’t look
held b.v the Jews In Jerusalem. though to the Promised Land Is symbolized by
that Way. Janet. I'm telling you ibis
It Is celebrated In a very dlffcaeni their residence by day In these booths
b e c a m e — oh. Janet, my darling. It’» . manner from thut we are accustomed for the space of n week. This festival
true I"
to think of as Thnnksglvlng. says a is also called the Feast of Ingather
ing This thought Is Illustrated by the
Tit«- gathering dnrkness was cloak I w rite r In the Los Angeles Times ,
ing the two of them as Jim drew
W h lle .s e here 'celebrate the day. by plants In the “succa" and by Ihe
nearOf.
discontinuing all business and glflng branch with which It Is b u ilt; also by
Ihe palms and willows and letnona
.larfet's heart had leapt within her
up ourselves mostly to the Thnnkgjlv
Ing dinner. In the F a r East the i which sre brought Into the synagogu»
f>’1* **** held herself sternly In check.
and rejoiced over.
1 “I — I —oh, i sn't you se e that even If
Thanksgiving la continued as u re
Picturesque 9«evicts.
llglotis service for several days, thdtigh'
' care<l. we couldn I accept this at the
All the services are exceedingly
accompanied by much merrv making, j
' expense of another's happiness?"
picturesque and all the customs sre
during which sll business I t sfspdnd
Jim smiled grimly. "Don't worry,
I have suspected fo r som e tim e that
cd. This ancient
Hebrew people > anrrutinded by symbolical tokens anil
figurative acts and parabolic speech.
Gloria was tired o f me. You merely
clinging to the m m iory o f tbelf glerl
served J as an excuse. And she saved
■us past, drawn near to each ofher b»-i I'"' i this nncienr people belnns to a
me from doing w hat I should have
cause of their common love for thelt | poet axe when inon clung to symbols,
had to have done In Justice to her— ■ peculiar traditions and fo r their "To j anil to un oriental Clune where all
speech Is lion ery and tilled with
and y o u !’’
rah"— their solace through the
a m
In this land, sacred by Its
ra th e r In colonies nt sites tlielnWHkT .
Some tim e later. Jim txplnlned how
■tiderful
history, mystic
by Its
he had reached the bungalow where
right through Inheritance, tho ugh*tiot'
trnugc traditions, ancient, becst.se
lanet boarded Just a fte r she had le ft;
granted them by the usurpers of t h e li;
the blrtbplute of venerable religions,
how- he bad missed tlie steamer, but
land
Driven through the centiwle'
from country to country persecute«: I v.here the city walls Inclose beloved
loined a party going over In their own
for their religion and messacretb h\ | ruins, snd the barren stony bills speak
sorrowfully of what lisa been and la
the Intustlce of radical prejudice, the-
now flock to their own opuntry. sSllliir | no more, there Is something peculiarly
touching and appropriate In the con
sll they possess to pay the voyage
snd come, to look upon the land wjip-rt ■ tinuance of these old time customs.
The construction of these "tsber-
lived their patriarchs snd prophet»
nucies" furnbjies a time of great
snd to die and he hurled on holy soil
uinnsement to young and old, for nil
Thres Great Festivities.
members of Ihe fam ily take part In
The three greatest tea»!« in wb'elt I the rearing and decorating of this
the .tew remembers h|s pa«t and fill
slrv home within which the feast Is to
fltla ltd sll the details possible the old he lelehrafrd
Rome chouse the large,
Mossls la w In the land promised to open courtyard of the house for the
Moses so many centuries ngo. are the sllc of H il. temporary residence, while
Pseanvfr, Tabernacles snd Pent-cost o th ers prefer to hnlld It on the flat
It ta a t the Feast of Passover that he roof of the house
offers the Paschal sacrifice In the tern
p'e on Mount Sinai, since upon Its spe (
stands a gorgeous mosque where only !
Plowing stubble or sod Innd foe
Islam bends the knee and bows the
wlteal stern a fte r harvest, or as Siam
head In adoration to Allah and Mo
ns some gre,n m atter Is up. Is a rec
him m ed
Yet there are times when
ognized and safe p ra rflr* season af
the Jew la hla own ancient land re
ter season
In some tents, an actual
joices snd la glad
W ith (hanks to Ids difference of five bushels to the acre
God for the existence todav of hla
hove firm shown. In favor of »arty
race— still set ap a rt—and with great
fall plowing
It opens the soil for
festivity he commemorates God's won
moisture during the fall and winter,
derful preservation of this people and
kills weeds makes green manure of
celebrates the rem arkable events In
the sod. makes s tinner snd better
He Was Alonst
their history- H e I t elated at the se»dbed. and makes less work In the
privilege o f helng able to rrteh rate hla
yacht; how be had planned to tell her own feasts In the piece where they early spring, when planting season 'a
i on. U Is also heat when lime Is to tie
everything at the very summit.
were Instituted, and thli la entirelyj
fur tbs uexi wheat etui» »:
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"And now—no more homeslc
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