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The Brussels Post, 1919-10-9, Page 74 Thallksgh hip; Husband "I cert'n'y do think, Mrs. Jaime," observed Mee. Todd, "that Loreny Green i 111(? (to ,rot eretur the Lord ever made." Mrs. Jones, e neighbor who had "dropped in" 10 Spout' the day, at once became interested and alert, for Mie Green'sl eccentricities had for many yeinee been the subject of mild scandal among her atemaintances. "There he goes Mrs. Todd had been putting her knitting into the snow," exclaimed the next instant, "traipsing bagein which she (wrier'. .t, with off to the bakery, I'll bet, to buy some hands that trembled visibly, tend she of them greasy plea or soggy entree I now faced her accuser with angry wouldn't give etonmeh room to, Lor- eYee. eny ain't limy," she went on, ne she "I never suspieioned before that I slammed the oven door on a peach was a scandal en' st, byword among shortcake of great magnitude, "for them that pretended to be my friends," her house hines, it's so clean, and he cried. "But it you want to know she al'ays 'Doke neat as a pin. But the reason I live the way I do, you can. My own mother died when I was jeet won't cook—there ain't a real good meal of victual( litem cooked MI born, an' my step -mother was one of thein stayers for work who never that house since she bought it tun spare ilienieelees nor nobody else. We enure ago." "t"raps he can't afford to live clif- lived on 0 farm and we boarded the ferent," ungeared Mr. Jones. fermium's. 1 coald stand the rest o' 'You knew ;is well as I do, Ann the worts, but the eookin' most killed Jonee," retorted Mos. Todd, "she could ine, specially durin' harvest, when live 00 hid:gene home-made feed for there was sixteen n' them to feed. So belt elm,. she pays' for baker's stuff, „ten years ago, when my father an' my ep, eiany eine, the war sent poets etep-mother both died o' typhoid the mien, up to flinty" mono know seme week, I sold the farm, come here \there. 11, ,;11c cold victuals ain't fit to live, an' vowed I'd never do any more ceokin' for myself nor for Do- ter a teddy diet—Lereny's gettin' scraggier and eallerer every day she body else." She ended\ with a storm of tars "Meldie she likes 'em better," -Mre, and rushed from the house, although joneventured. he dontneither; there ain't Mrs. Jones tried to detain her by ein- 'N,, effectual clutches at her skirts, Mrs. s', ll• 1 d • •dle nobody enjoys a han'eum meal o hot told you she'd be mad," wailed hardly think he'll pull through—and "Oh, no, no," Lorena stammeeed, victuals muee'n Lorene Green deee. Mrs. JOIlei with keen reproach. 4 he does he may have to lose his finding her voice at last. "I—I love Here ehe comes been' agene I'm "Don't eare,"eald. Mrs. Todd ceolly.I rierht leg, for the knee is badly crush- you, mouser.. asgesin' to call Inc in 'o dinner, an' "She'd ought to know how folks re- ed. He ought not to be moved. Do "Then all is well!" the chef ex- rightalter dinner I'm aseedur to ask her, Bard such heathen ways. When she's you think you could keep him here?" claimed repturoussly. And he proceed - out, e hat she means by livin' had time to calm down a little mite he asked, turning to Lorene . ed tesprove that his arms, at least, like a heathen. I've had it on my mind we'll go over an' set a while." "Oh, yes, indeed," she ceplied,. with were not crippled as upon the two to do it for years, but somehow I But ..when they attempted to carry tears in her eyes. "I'll be glad to do humble lovers shone the light that ain't quite got to the .p'int—Loreny's out this plan the little white cottage anything I can for the poor man." never was on sea or land, and which so kind o' stiff an' -elandoffish 'bout across the garden themed hermetically "We'll all help," the other women never seems so bright as to those who her own affairs." and . even the intrepid Mrs. .assured her. And in fact, during the have seen the shadows of a lonely old "Land, I wouldn't if I was you," sealed' Todd was foiled in an attempt to weeks that followed, Lorena's labors age gathering fast. Mrs. Jones elemurred. "She'll be force an entrance through a window, were light, for kindly neighbors "Shall we not marry on Thenkseeiv- madder'n hops." for she found tliem all locked. Lorena, undertook the night watching, and the ing, petite?" he urged. "What ban - But further remonstrance was cut cut to theeheart, WES enduring what invalid was supplied with quantities quots have I not prepared on that ehort by the entrance of Ildies Green, little• wl weed. I meet of us, unless NVe are so unfortun- of delicious soups and jellies prepared great feast day of your nation! In o fragile . -her forty' ate as to number among our acquaint- by .the best cooks in town. Jean Boul- two weeks I can use my crutches well, have Leen pretty, in spite o ances some frank and fearless soul igny did not die, and Doctor Thompson and we shall invite our friends to a sato, o '.s g like Mrs. Todd, are mercifully spared. saved the injured leg from amputa- wedding breakfast such -as they never weeks had not been justified by the The scorching spotlight of neighborly tion. before enjoyed, and I—moi—Jean facts. Miss Ce'reen was undeniably She opinion had been turned full upon her It *was during the long, tedious Bouligny, •shall do it all. You consent, both "scraggy" and "salter." and, in its lurid glare, What had •seem- convalescence that Lorena's troubles is'It not?" greeted her two old friends with a ed to the little spinster a harmless began. Public interest in the invalid "Jest as you like, Jean," Lorena re - smile that had in it a touch of wis1,- ; recompense for past suffering had be- was no longer at fever heat, and one fulnees, s touch of pathos, and accept- sponded shyly. come an irreparable disgrace. day Lama, like Old Mother Hubbard, Long before light on Thanksgiving ed Mrs. Todd's invitation with evident That night she -could not sleep, and went to her cupboard and found it morning', . Lorena heard the tap of pleasure. Moreover, when dinner was as ehelay,restlessly tossing and turn- bare. Long- ere this the pity that as Jean's crutch as he went about pre, served she partook of the corned beef, ing, in the stillness of the hour before akin to love had done its work. Lorena paring their wedding feast. Her part b t • and 1 I dawn, there came the.rush and roar had forgotten her vow never again to of the work was soon done, for the peach shortcake with a relish that of an express train thundering become the slave of a cookstove, for little white cottage had been swept nucl caused her hostess to nod triumphant - through tho quiet town. The next mo- the patience and good humor of the garnished from attic to cellae, and ly at Mrs. Jones. meat Lorena heard a terrible crash, comely Frenchman had made a_ deep nothing remained but to fill every When Mr. Todd and the four chil- followed by the still more terrible impression on the little spinster, and nook and corner with a glory of crim- dren had departed on their respective sound of human shrieks and groans. she ,was glade to expend herself . son and purple asters that she had ways to :Thep and school, the -guests "Oh, my soul! Oh, my soul!" she nursing and feeding lum. But,. alas, gathered from her garden.* helped Mrs. fodd "clear up" with such gasped. "The train's gono. through the long years of disuse had deprived When the guests arrived, they good will that the kitchen was. soon, that trestle; I always knew it would."1 Lorena Green of the small amount; of found the bride arrayed in a pretty restored to ite usual state of spotlese A particularly high trestle, just; culinary skill she had formerly pos- gown of dark blue voile, and eo beauti- order and after Lorena had run across e ,,, back of Lorena's garden, had in truth' sessed. She could not even make fied by happiness and love that they 'd f th 1 toast or boiipotatoes properly! and as stared at her in amazement. The to the decoction she called coffee, the groom was superb in a suit of spotless ,fearsome brew compounded by the white linen, for he had donned the *itches of Macbeth coulel scarcely shave more offended the critical palate of Jean Botiligny. Patient and grate- ful though he was, a particularly bad- ly cooked meal was -the proverbial last straw that brought matters to a crisis. Coming to take away his tray, Lorena saw that his dinner had been barely tasted. "Didn't you like your dinner, mon- sir?" she asked anxiously. 'taus,. you're too peer or too lazy to get 'em, that you don't never have decent Dual o' victuals vookeil 1(1 your houve. Bet to tell you the truth, Loreny, AVOW just flabbergasted our- selves to thinlc you can't live like a Christian.. It's a shame! There's a. likely a mess o' widder men in Ws town as you'd find anywheree, an' more'n one of 'era's leolcod at you pretty shareeince you got (hat last new hat, though to my thinkln' ender ain't a mite becomin' to a sailer complecteid person Elea you're gettin' to be. But that's nyther here nor there, for no man alive's goin' to run the risk o' Marvin' to death by marry - in' yen." Dining I his arraignment Lorena liitiror • . . , -.'"'""i'fr $15,673,240. CAUSED BY 0.740 glees, 80 PER CENT. OF WHICH WERE PEVENTABLF., DAILY BONFIRE OF 42,;42,00 oe MOH- CHANDISE. BUILDINOS AND 74. HFRiAo‘cemoTsoritui;eete see ARE A FIRE MENACE IN Rl5-"41 34.t01 RUDEilSH AND LITTER ACCUMULATIONS 0 isS.ToliES AND • r!".. ,,,00tootoot& -000, -seseeleseresreetee" -gesnee • • enesee" sio A ra 1, CAUSDW • my • r:•-• .0'0; • Fuse WASTE FOR YEAR ;! 1'418 IN ONTARIO e • es4.1es.ee 4."40 <se -i' ''., ;. • telvAip 1'1CitAE TC2;it'oN IPAT,IESS 7COWN. owrAP.le:.) • ri..1 P,R-cut:0,i (0 N Tt; ti 7i6 at,a.a crq • 111; Qe194I\ (1n-1,";: (4A ! I )-1 • c, Hangersin attractive colors, similar to this cut, may he had from your local Fire Chief, or 1111ANKSWIVNG osile This is the day to let the oil of joy rub off the met of selfiehnees. 'Ties a time for great thanksgiving. There le re, Doan in our hearts for peevish - nese, vengeanee or tine-Neill:lee regrets. Jr, this' hour the language of the Soh? h'ul'l be to bless tier Maker and our • vies should ming -Hie praise•cone tinnously. The material werld pities equators- ance to the of joe and thanks- giving. Besides unr good crops, our well-filled greneriee and ettildee, we have on every hand the call of •grate- fulnees. The sunbeams write it; the waters chime At en every shore; the forests glen thoir hands; cm did not paint the sky with ink, iter pencil his flowers in aehen celere, bill lying in the heavens a curtein of alae and spread over the 1,loesonie segitle tintes the streams rims Me prniso and every nook and dell Is adern,,1 Itsnitty 11," • rinT; with laughter and jeyoue prattle. Even in home; where serener has reale will we find thenetel hearte. lee -Imre there heee been 1' 11144 in the houeehold, cr 7.1V:y Le leeeee businese, er 1!'k 11.1 with blitt:ht. p0a1 saas at Philippi, with their feet jn etocka and their leeks hseeretad with sconrgings, thy httys ssin•-i•; cf. joy and tleankfulnees or their But thin year is fraught -with great - France a few years ago, and he lute 110 other relative in thi.s country. I cripple—is it not so?" ,,e-s.e.s-seseee,.., —. atamasemtsonassamenens.estmantetennasto 4O.D.BOODOS=0..TDT 2.3" I,. . . 'TIDT7II/OFITOTOD...-..• ..1/3==. "But you wiah not to marry the .„."....--- ONTARIO FIRE PR_Ez\r,,,LE;IN,,,,,:i0:\L:AGUE, INC., 1 53 University Ave., Toronto . CD A , K6-'".EPAPER . . ... ____ _.. ... . .. th,....„ y,„11. stsb):. alai rare (11 the et,Itt, ,uffering with it You ean paar,sit this loathsome di:to:tart Pram rannitall . vthiall Canadeee sews were fighting on sess„.......e. e.....=, ea...., ....... ,,===,,,,,,, et1S1.0,711 eff, to reeeont. At no eires‘ in the IT -A -; . .... pnet hae a seasen gone, by in which or bleesnere than thoe,r, we ere ae- g.FOUSPEI DIEITi.:PBR. COILLPOtgrO is a ole to Ime. on any ten in last Thenkeeleing Day have 'seen terit- V4 - '' g ovil 81`10502VEL, ta 7,, wil,ta rust latian the trent tnont. Nt, Inatt,,r !tow young, • - ", ' '...' • ' woad-tr.:el haw It prE,V:ait6 all dIstemper.s, DO gold attro:,:s tht: sky of the werld. e t, We rehelee that right -has prevailed ',tatter how caltta t,r heroes at any age aro "umlauted.' All - 3 - ,o. good erne -else,, turf goods litusea and ate onDuraeturers ever might. Nue has voine, and to . . . ; we nth made oe prase. gi,-eth On, victory SVOITIll 114..VZIO.A-2, 00., Miro., Goehen, Sado D. 0. A- l tike ,G.?(I,W11`) al 4sne - . 1 AnEuropean botaniat, who has I ! studied 480'. species of ilowere, aeserts We are thankful that democraey A Song of Thankegiving. For purple aster and ter golden -Tod, that white or crearn-colored ones have"' w"14 'war livee. Out of the throes of the great veiled hill, 1 the most agreeable odors. , These infant nations. nurtured with many nations were born. For azure dreaming sky and haze-• For floating crimeon leaf and pungent: : kindness and unselfishness, will no , doubt become exalted in the world of Of pine wood whence the blue -jays nations to come,. We Mee see ahead the opportunity yet call shrill IN TEN YEA R5i for -a league of the peoples of the We give Thee thanits. 500 0 ars i earth. Co-eperation will spread its For sheltered nook that hides the late If invested at 3% will amount to $697.75 ' beneficent wings over 01 lands and harebell, If invested at 4%, interest come its blessings will reach the poor and For sunny slope where still the pounded q u a r t e r 1 y, will I the downtrodden everywhere. Weak crickets cheep, amount to . nations will come under the protection But if invested in our Weee, $74426 For fragrant dropping fruit, for ; of the stems and their rights can no smooth brown nut r longer be invaded with impunity. Debentures will amount to$860.2* Wherewith the squirrel builds his Write for Booklet. Vre praise our Maker for the part Loan Company. SO King st,we were called upon to act in the winter heap The Great West Permanent Toronto Office Weat 1 great world drama, that He had ao We give Thee thanks. . ,_ been the subject of many dire predic- e. work—a sweater destined for some tins among the dwellers of Akron. homeless Belgian child—the three.wo- Lorena lighted a lamp, hurried into men settled down te reek and knit T her clothes, and flung open her kit - the pleasant living room. After a bit ,. cnen door upon a group of 10011 bear - of harmless preliminary chat, Mrs. ing an *bled se covered with duet and Todd cleared her throat in a manner blood that it had little semblance to that caused 11,5, Jones to twist un - anything human. In a voice quite easily in her chair, But the form& unlike his usual drawling accents., Mr. lady prided herself on what she called Todd called excitedly: her "tack," and 'she, began by remark - "He's the worst hurt of any of 'em, ing tentatively: Loreny, so we brought him to the "Say, Loreny, I'd feel a sight safer nearest house." about you if you was married. 'Tain't "Oh, ain't it awful!" cried the little sate your livin' all alone so. The spinster. "Is he dead?" Although Jean spoke fair English Smithscs was 'lain' mo only t'other "Pretty nigh, poem feller," one of ordinarily, in =gents of excitement day that they'd had some more meat the other men anewered gravely. his command of it gave way altogeth- stgle out o' their shed room, an' "Bring him right in here," she er, and he now exclaimed explosively, triey're sure there's burglars round." commanded, ushering them into her in a -peculiar mixture of his native 'I guess if the Smithses wa'n't little spare chamber, They laid ham tongue and Canadian slang: '"Like it! quite so skimpin' with that poor, lean gently on the bed and then hurried off Pas si bete! This cooking so terrible dog o' theirs they wouldn't have no to look for other victims of the wreck. will kill me—I, Jean Bouligny, say it! call to set a trap to catch burghers, Mr. Todd lingered for a moment to Ah, but I am ingrates so to repay replied Lorena calmly. "An' if there say: "Doctor Thompson's over to our your so great kindness to a stranger, Wats burglars round, them that thinks Musepatchin' up some that ain't hurt but I—moi—am up against it, sure husbands is a means o' safety is wel- so bad as this one. I'll send him mike" I had a cousin once come to 'em. right over." "Oh, monsir," Lorena faltered, "I'm removed on my mother's eide, she "Tell him to be quick," quavered so sorry, but I just hate to cook." continued, carefully picking up a Lonna. "Mees Green!" he gasped. "You dropped stitch, "cm' one night she an' Faint moans were heard from the hate the art of all the grandest? This her husband woke up an' SEM a unconscious man and Lorena's tender is fierce! It is the limit. Knew you a burglar standin' right over 'em, He heart was rent. She bent over the bed not that the greatest n6bles and sav- told 'em, civil, to keep still or he'd distractedly, and then pulled herself ants of Frlince have spent yeara in shoot. My cousin, like any other wo- together. 1 attempts to perfect It sande -sauce? man on the face o' the earth would 'a' "I'll blaze a fire in the kitchen Know you not that a mighty king done, covered up -Inc head with the stove, an' get some water good an' deigned to reward the success of his bedclothes and kep' still, but her bus- hot. Then, if the doctor ain't come, cook in pleasing his royal palate by a band was so abundantly foolish ae to I'll wash the blood an' dirt off his decoration of the most superb? lila jump right at the burglars throat. face, an' poise that big liottlen' witch foil .What do you know about thaf ?" The bullet etruck the headboard just hazel over him. I don't know where The superb saiorn of him .was too half a inch above my cousin's pillow, he's hurt, but it might hit thd right much for Lovelies compostthe, and It was the Lord's mercy she wa'n't spot, an it's awful- healin'." bursting intothars, she sobbed out the killed—not no fault o' her husband's, But before the water was hot; Doc- explanation of her aversion to the Thanks be, if I've got to have burg- tor Thompson, big, cheery, arid ef fi- culinary art which she had given her lire in my house I haven't *got no cient, arrived, and Lorena breathed a friends's., Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Josses, husbaeck round to be vielein' my lite sigh of relief, The doctor looked Jean's expression of horror and 0011- W11.l1 his ferthputhin' ways." very grave, however, when he came tempt changed as she went on to one "Men am awful brash, that's a fact," out of the little room with his assist- of compassion, Mrs. Todd admitted, "But they're ant an hour later. "Pauvre petite," he said softly. "It kind o' handy to have round who it "Tho poor fellow has regained con- is that you understand it not—my tomes to shovelin' snow an' carryin' science," he informed the group of glorious profeseion. But see, Lorena," in coal. But anyhow, Loreny, Mis' men and women assembled in Lorena'she went on eagerly, "in these weeks Jou., are ma said a thousand times, if -living room, for the other passengers I have learned to love dearly my kind we have once, tinit you couldn't get 11:01 proved not seriously injured, ned nurse, and if elm will accept the poor a husband if you weineed one." in coneequenee Laremt's home had be- cripple for a husband she need never Al: this 1en, ,lineieing cf her ne nn come tho mitre of interest. "1 -Io'- a to cook egain—T, Jean Bouligny, will necemple;', llee, Jon, 3 looked both Vreeehmee by the name of Joan cook for her so long 101 eee both live." eiereleo, ;eel le 1:enent, wiii:e Lorena's • Bouligny. Ile tang me that he's a Lorem WAS silent for Sheer joy, for eine; ,•1•, eee 11,' 1,11, for .in wernae Clef at the Prince George in Toronto, when a W0111011 is forty the knowledge lied, 1- •. • 1.;; , eehl 11 :en to eeeli en end he Iio'l word yesterday of the eud- that alio is loved e011105 as a beautiful 41 , 1, leoselh of Ids mother, who was seeprise—not SS a metier of comae, , "Ar i .' r. , t• • ' • e - , ,,-.1 ----------------,:',- e in North Ply. Be was on his es it does to, a r. rl of twenty. dean An airplane that actually lifts itself ., 0011 tha fteehlont llennens mistook her eilenceial seie tic:le:A01- from the ground with flapping wings nee,. • h s al'' ,1 ,"' - , eel 'rele. ` , '1" :' : r:1:1 the old lady mime Prom, sy, . bras been built by a French inventor, 47 For stubble -field the slow -winged crow sails o'er, Telling of garnered grain the great barns keep, For cheerful sound of thrashers -at their work, For evening firelight and night's restful sleep Accept our thank. Why We Give Thanks. For summer rose and autumn grain, For gold of sun and silver ram, uniform of his profession eo that there For frosty morn and dewy eve, might be no delay in -serving dinner For daily 'blessings eve receive— after the ceremony had been per- We thank Thee, Heavenly Father. formed. I For bubbling brook and ocean blue, The stiffness which frequently at- For home and friends and loved ones true, tends the ordeal of formulating grace- ful and appropriate congratulatory speeches was entirely missing on this occasion, due to the frantic exclama- tion of the bridegroom, following close on the final blessing. "Lorena! Lorena!' he shouted. "My crutches, tout de suite, quveek! The gravy burns: all is lost!" But notwithstanding the despair of the chef at a barely perceptible burnt flavor in the gravy, the memory of that dinner woulcl long be preserved in the annals of Akron, and when they departed in the gathering twilight of the sheet autumn day Mrs, Todd voic- ed the geneeal sentiment by remarking loudly as the guests lingered for a moment at the little white gate: "Land, don't some folks' luck cones to 'ern buttered? To think," she added bitterly, "of bein' marnied to a man who can cook like that, instead of to one who, when his wife's fiat on her hack, will git the hell house to lookin' like a hurrah's nest, jest tryin' to bile a mess o' potatoes." But the scorn wave had hardly set- tled on Mr. Todd's guilty bead tvhen hiss -wife thcovered cheerfulness; "Well, there; 1 dunno's I grudge Lonny her luck, for she's a real weight off rny mind. , An' I shouldn't wonder one mite ,if the hand o' Provi- dence wasn't in it Loreny's awful pigherned, an' since she lid out never to do a hand's turn o' cookin' she never RENOVATOR POWDERS would, an' thein' things was as they This ie 10,, Most effective Diced Puri. was, mebbe the Lord tipped that train tier and Cleanser for horses, cattle, off that teostle a -purpose." sheep and swine. Invaluable for the treatment of eonghs, cotes, I3ut at the very moment when Mrs.i Indigestion, heaves, stocked legs, Todd gave voice to this remarkable, ErgllgVe't,TtttiVI egit youn,iitlg surmis, Lorena, 1120 bead on bar bus-eiweesstry A. CI. DeadBelo- band's shoulder, was murmuring fgtl',7di!git'11‘1iZa%suie:Creeil1 (8,0!Trs softly; AAA these 4,0151er0 1.0 the 000,1 "Oh, Jean, do you shiese, if I tried 1111(11 11 1 i "nic‘eeintiVir real hard,40ou ccukl learn me how to „n.,Xiie'se in one 1101: and 111 tWo dayS o. cook?" big Improvement In the arrhnii.1.8 0011- 01 (ina will he Itetteeable. 0lu,y Mace All, well, "an ever.changeful and it win ada 25 to no pound* to an caprieious thing to woman," animal's weight inahle otie menth, (Tho End.), PRICE 60c. For toil and courage, hope and ehedg, For faith that crowns the passing year— We thank Thee, Heavenly Father. Autumn Twilight. Withered field and ragged tree, cloud - lets rosy -tinted; Scent of seeding grasses, tang of leaf decay; Muted insect melody, to the ear half hinted— So the pageant passes, fades the autumn day, setae- „.. • Fi7:1‘• • 11 it IN ONE DAY a sick horse will be on the road to recovery after treatment with DR. A. C. DANIELS STORM WINDOWS &DOORS -4. 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LEADING DIIUGGISTS KNOWLTON • s: VoTAt221342MtilhTlali . nurtured lie in the ways of justice and right as to fit nsto-eacreifice for others without thought 3 gaining plunder, power, or Ian 1, and without the spirit of hate or vengeance. We are grate- ful beyond expression far our soldier boys and what they have accomplish- ed, for the good mothers and wives of these boys, and for thesis splendid men and women who went out on the fields of battle, to hospitals and else- where to give succor to the hungry, the Wounded, the sick and the lonely. We are thankful for peace within our borders and for the hope of peace- ful years to conte. We are thankful for the privilege of a piece in the now world now in the making. When all 0110 mercies, 0 our God, Our rising soul .surveys, Transported with the view we're lost In wonder, love and praiee. Thanksgiving. "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.” Then why do we not do more of it? Probably WO would have to think awhile before we could answer that question. And why is it such a good thing? It might take a. philosopher to really answer that questitesiebut any ordinary individual can at least glimpse an answer. It is a good thing, beenuse it is a seemly thing, and no man ems :Ilford to go through bite neglecting, todo that which an enlightened intelligence and a good heart would unhesitatingly tell him he ought to do. It is a good thing, because the one and only way that a man may hope to really enjoy the gifts and blessings and oppor- tunities of his life is to have a spiciit that is appreciative of and thankreit for them. Men are miserable and grasping and dissatisfied, not because they have not enongh to make life comfortable and happy, but because in their eagerness to grasp for more they fail to rightly appreciate and enjoy what they have, A -peeper epirit o appreciation would that fin:wands 01 miserable lives into happy ones. There are those whet ever mindful of the unequal measure in which privi- lege, opportunity and all matenial goods are distributed in this world, are always consciously grateful for the ordinary, overy-day comforts; foe food, shelter, decent surroundings and a peaceful life. But most of us are prone to consider that all we are to have is ours by a natural right, and that on the whole jt is rather a hard- ship that eve can not contrive to have en ever-inereas,ing sherd of sugar- plmns allotted to us, We who .are of, that disposition must try at Thanks- giving to come to a fuller appreciation of our more hidden blessings, as well as of those which we accept as mat- ters p£ course,