THE MODERN THANKSGIVING.
By Robert J. Burdette
Now, we are going to show our national and individual gratitude this month by direction of the President. We are a grateful people. If you don't believe it, see us eat. Some of us—and these are not men—are so thankful we will not go to church at all on Thanksgiving day. We will stay home and get dinner for a host of other grateful people. It is the dinner that makes us thankful. Some Thanksgiving day just you pitch the dinner over the alley fence about ten minutes before twelve o'clock. Then see what a devoutly grateful, what a sweetly thankful crowd will come home from church. On second thought, perhaps you had better not wait until they come home. You had better run. And keep on running until you get to the middle of the Great American Desert. And stay there.—Robert J. Burdette, in Ladies' Home Journal.