| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. The North Dakota Banner. VOL. XX. DEVILS LAKE, N. D., NOVEMBER 12, 1910. No. 4. OUR AMERICAN THANKSGIVING EY MARGA ET E. SANGSTER IN WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION WHICH of us has not a memory of standing on a school platform and reciting before, an audience of teachers and children Mrs. Heman’s p)e;n on.the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in America;? In hm nation 1 see mvself, aged eleven; tired with enthasias a, as in ringing tones I repeated The breaking waves dasV*rl high /&Y'• On a-stern and vock-bou.,1 coast; Y* And the w oils against the sto/my sky Y Their giant branches to^ed. The heavy uight- hungdai‘1^ The hills an 1 waters o’t^.lyy ing behind boyish leaders, tooting their on a flying express, but it lacks the real tin trumpets and dressing in holiday |lixk of delight if it be not somewhere tnasqtu^adc. The free kindergartens (|algrated by kindred and friends in a settlements gather in that has individuality arid the sen-rmg and add lament of permanence, lo.tic exerci^»^Biiit^i5'^f^^p|'?t> A snug tor Thanksgiving! to Him be the p*ais3 Totato, an apple, a carrot#,koihddf^\bo pTeaeged t0 nis Pe°Ple ful1 s^n«tb f-teBerWgrtfer uinfy-t K When a band of exiles mofii-eAtheiid llarqiie J Oil the wild .New Englaild ‘shore.; ^ jjj The -irst Thank:givmg 0 It is a far cry from niu'^tee'ntbiTrfdfe*p and ten, when the im nigi'dti m prrdkleitfj and the extent of our ay’^ among the difllcuibi.-- .licidVfrbivt. disk to sixteen hundred a.i Dtweiyty little group of men anduj^iiy.bvkyje^t / of bravo, amid the ice and sleet, \ fYty&y? oember, lauded at Plymouth. Rock. > I if sixteen hundred and twfruty-qJxei aftej a year of incredible hardship'and dauut-less courage, the indomitable setilers, - upon the ingathering of their lirsi: bar- . ves:, set apart a day for. thanksgiving to Almighty God. We o^c this jewel in our diadem to those soldiers of:bi>iyb scicnco who crosso. I th.e.-ocodh;caido/id-an unknown shore aml -taf 11pod; ^.Leiy jus.', hopc forever, on the. character/-,of. republic reverence for G_(Xl and devotion to liberty. Gradually Thanksgiving.- Day, not;';; immediately accepted as other than localy;. has become an annual festival ■ wi th; pToT; clamation issued by -the different states, and since eighteen sixty-two by the president of the l nited States as a day to be observed, the last Thursday in November being the one selected. Notwithstanding the fact that our population is now drawn from sources widely divergent, the tendency is more and more to make our people homogeneous. On the East Side in New York, on a Thanksgiving morning, the little children of Italian, French, Syriau Russian, Polish, Lithuanian or Hungarian lineage arc ouf in full force march-. thin that it ma r t/> so me hod tlyiDtheymot Mlp in sefidmg^l Mse wlnyis poivr. ALsong for Thanksgiving! We honor the name OJui- Father in heaven, throuh ages : ionshnvless numerous than they sh< j 1 ( b j[jrc ;>day inMng?’impf#cep't-ibiy\ the same! Then and Now eturuing in though to that first TMnksgiving at Plymouth, the contrast mid lietWeen then and now is as sharp and ■■■Pi Fi/, *,L‘" striking as any in history. Perhaps it l^mB\ pleasure .^rather'thann° parallel in the annals of the t\m religious ceremonial. world. When first they landed on the tout-ball, so decidedly a popular . icy .^oasfc, these brave pioneers were game with us, though it has its shadow forced to live under a single roof, the /7j 0, brutality, • Jyiik.its filial icning.s. ineldinent winter preventing them from ;N>n I hanksgiving'Day^ Great uniyer- _ building separate homes. Those who |:s.itics compete ia^Triendly rivalrv on visited the old cemetery at Ply-the. foot-ball field, and thousand of spec- jAic^iith remember how great was death’s tutors, iuclusive of enthusiastic.yotib^ harvesting in the early the days of colo-fcllows and their sweethearts,':<)|;sl:at^|^A^y< ,]0hn Fiske in his t:Beginnings of .men, mcrchantsplearned pi-pfksdors d^f^ew tells us that when the everybody who yam get within sight, or ^ long/bmiter came to an end fifty-one of the contest,meet shoul and cheeify /hundred Pilgrims had died, uu tii they aiT^ hdarse' 'Fo0;t-ball is*:/ -s\ \/Lv/./n* -t.hr. first reaping of the utest, nu^ct to sl|but bind checij/ jhundred Pile .thyy are,. ■h^u?s|^^to-bal^iiV/ - the firs ha.tto‘tbiaitie-:''^)fe/fehe%srl ,l ' i>-e-i.n thb. <*hu f^Hos iuifl -c;n.ce.\VV;iU:i (he lnkhlay 'dinini.r i versaIV-. ‘ |V'haktfot, hp.woyer, ,(h .'.G , 4-L ■■.4C A k-’XAV .vrt"' ;■/> i. • 7 , onco.uni luisetts field in the autumn of ith the magnificent crops for \f$jch We thank God in this year of “be iiw^ty Ages ago tho wisest of men witli the (linner as a most important said, "The-.king himself is served by the feature oi the lesi.al day. \\ e still |iepi,v ThjJ merest novice in the study have the groaning board with the of political economy knows that upon turkey as the d*. the siicc.ess-;dr failure of the crops chiefiy the dainties find (lelicticios of thtf season depends thc'firosperitv or adversity of lavishly pueparcel tdcopijptete the. ntciiu.' the nAtiah^ Tho cities look to the Family reunions are m order. From coU^^br food as they look to tho ban hranpiscoy from Diihith, from the e&uWfry for the men of brawn and br IHiili \)piries, from' iTimualYg'arTaicefhe. who carry on mercantile interests. and exploring in the arctic regions, the scattered sons of the republic so manage their return to the old father and mother and the homestead, wherever it may be, that they are back in time to keep Thanksgiving. If the homestead has passed into other hands and the farm has been abandoned, if father and mother are resting in the last sleep, the children still hear the old homecall, and those who remain get together at Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving may he kept on shipboard or in a hotel or even in a desert tent or ■am Agriculture is back of every other culture. Our debt to the farmers is never paid. Glancing back to 1621 with the handled of undaunted immigrants and forward to 1910 with its eighty millions, we are almost overwhelmed as we consider the phenomenal growth of this new land. We have returns so large that we may replenish the granaries of any other part of the globe on which famine lays a gaunt hand, while we do not so much as feel the loss ourselves. The wheat-tie Ids of the West, the
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