Zurich Herald, 1920-10-14, Page 2•
CELEBRATING THE
DAY
With peace nt home and an abun-
dant harvest, this year will be the
happiest Thanksgiving for many a
long day. The pleasure of the family
feast will be increased if some one, the
oldest daughter possibly, has provided
special decorations and jolly games to
keep up the festive spirit of the day.
First of all, the table should have
an appropriate centrepiece. The pret-
tiest kind of effect can be had by
scooping out a huge pumpkin and set-
ting' inside of it a bowl of water with
a large bouquet of ragged yellow and
bronze chrysanthemums. Better make
this as low as possible, so it will not
hide the view across the table, Even
the family will like to see each other
smile on Thanksgiving, Around the
pumpkin place a mat of autumn leaves.
For nlace cards a lot of fun can be
had out of cartoon cards made from
ads. Cut from the newspaper or old
magazines funny figures or sketches
to represent the foibles of each mem-
ber of the family, and instead of the
printed face use a face cut from a
snapshot of the person for whom it ie
intended. Paste these on bright yellow
cards. For instance, the man whose
another always brags about his being
such a good baby could have his face
pasted into the bonnet of a big fat
baby from a food ad.
The place cards be sure to get.
everybody in a good humor, even
mother, should she be worried about
the turkey being done too much, or the
pies a bit scorched. But just to keep
up the good spirit, try a. game at the
table. Give every one a small piece of
paper and pass around a pencil. Then
tell them that each is to write on his
or her slip a single word, a noun, the
name of the thing he is most thankful
for this year. These can be serious or
funny, as they choose, but they must
not be shown to any one. The slip can
be turned face down until ready for
use. Then some one reads a little
story :in which blanks have been left
instead of nouns, as many blanks, in
fact, as there are people seated at the
table. As the story is read and the
reader comes to a blank, she stops and
the first person to her left supplies
the omission.
Besides being a perfectly ridiculous
story, there is sure to be fun over the
reasons for thankfulness, especially as
every one knows every one else.._The.
esterycaii be some little tiling made up
for ;the occasion upon seine family joke
or tradition,, or the following could be
used
A Thanksgiving Tragedy.
Bessie Brooks and Tommy Snooks
were walking out one Sunday when
suddenly he spied a —. Said Bessie
Tommy, "We'll simply have to have a
----- this year, dear." "Yes," answer-
ed her spouse, "but where is the —
g,fing to come from?" "You will have
to work hard every night overtime to
get it," answered Bessie. So Tommy
did. He went without —, and —,
and -- . His cheeks grew thin and
he had to tighten his belt a notch
every day. But at the end of each week
he put aside — in the little — on
the —. The big day came. Bessie
went out with her — on her arm
looking for the biggest -- she could
find for the money. At last she found
it and had enough money left over for
--- and —, too. "See!" she cried,
rushing in to Tommy, "see the beauti-
ful . -- I found." But Tommy ans-
wered: "Take it away! I have lost my
—, and never want to see a —
again."
When friends of the family come in
for the evening, as they are bound
to on Thanksgiving, have a few sma i1
tables prepared with some simple
games for amusements. For instance,
at one let four of the guests string
cranberries, the first to string his al-
lotment to get a small Thanksgiving
sticker, a pumpkin, turkey, or similar
gummedlabel on a card given him for
a tally. At the next table to which
these four will progress there will be
a game of tidclly-winks improvised
:from a large tidily -wink dish and four
or five pumpkin seeds apiece. The
first toet his ms seeds into a dislc in
the centre of the table gets a sticker.
Next arable contains four jigsaw puz-
zles to be
put together, the
g first to
finish getting a sticker, and at the
last table there is a bowl of popped
corn and a paper of pins from which
each player is to make a funny little
'figure, the best to win the sticker,
For prizes for these games present
some homemade candy or a ginger-
bread man.
For refreshments in 'the evening
serve on paper plates a square of
fresh gingerbread with nut filling, two
doughnuts, peanut brittle and a tall
glass of cider with a straw,
To !Discover Bullet.
'rhe army surgeon now finds that by
connecting one terminal of a tele-
phone with a moist ;ned electrode ap-
plied to the patient's skin and the
other terminal to a metallic probe it.
is possible to discover a bullet in a I
rnlata"s body.
Canadian Autumn
Who is it says May is the crown of the year?
Who is it cries June is the gladest?
Who is it declares Autumn, withered and sere,
The gloomiest season and saddest?
You shut your doors when I come out with my train;
And heed not the challenge 1'ni flinging
The ruddy leaf washed by the fresh falling rain,
The scarlet vine creeping and clinging,
Come out where I'm holding my court like a queen,
Come out where themild grape -vines clamber,
Come out to the forest that yesterday green
" To -day is all crimson and amber.
Come out to the hillside, come out to the vale,
Come out and be cured of your blaming,
Conte out where my gold is, my red gold and pale
Come out where my banners are flaming.
Come out where the bare furrows stretch in the glow, ,
Come out where the stubble fields glisten,
Where the wind it blows high and the wind it blows low,
And the lean grasses dance as they listen!
—Jean Blewett. •
October.
In trailing robes of gold and crimson
drest,
Serene she walks the woodland
paths along;
The purling brooklet threads its course
among
Soft, fringing grasses which her
feet have prest;
Dame Nature greets the fair autumnal
guest
With full, rich melody of wild bird's
song;
While at her feet, a meekly reverent
throng,
Each lowly aster bows its purple crest.
Beneath the steadfast gaze of her
clear eye
The ivy blushes scarlet; all abroad
The maple lift their flaming torches
high
To light her way where late the sum-
mer trod;
So, 'mid green fern and plumed.gol-
den-rod,
October walks 'Heath autumn's calm
blue sky,
Indian Corn.
The corn -shocks with their tasseled
plumes
'The autumn fields adorn;
They look to me like Indian chiefs
In khaki uniform.
Lvonde Whotheeethat is why
- They call it Indian .corn?
A man who learns to do anything
well enjoys doing it. This is the hire
which wise Nature uses to lead us to
finish our work.
Every -Day Blessings.
There are some folks who would
never think of being thanlful if the
Governor-General didn't remind them
of their duty. Those who need to have
their memories jostled in this regard
scarcely deserve to have blessingsfor
which to give thanks.
Now and then one finds a man who
thinks the world owes him a living.
He who earns his bread by the sweat
of his brow, however, is most gener-
ally willing to thank the Lord for all
the good things which have come his
way.
Thanksgiving ought to come once:a
week instead of once a year. There
are so many things between every
sunrise and sunset outer which to re-
joice that one is sure to overlook some
of them if he only takes stock of them
on the one day set apart as a national
Thanksgiving.
He who has the spirit of thankful-
ness in his heart, enjoys continually
an appreciation of even the most com-
monplace things. To such, Thanks-
giving Day affords a look backward
over paths which have led from one
blessing to another.
If there are any folks who should
enter whole-heartedly into the joy of
Thanksgiving Day it is those who are
in partnership with the Lord it the
busi Gess of tilling the soil There
isn't atiy iiietter'biasiiness thanthin-one
no more dependable partner.
An electric candle for bedroom use
lights when it is lifted and thea -cur-
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Thanksgiving Festivities
For Our Boys and Of is
Well, young folks, have you planned
a good thanksgiving party? If not,
don't lose any time, but get busy at
once. We want a real Thanksgiving
this year and let our boys and girls
blaze the trail.
Here are some games you can play
at the party; they are all good:
The game of conversation: This
game is an excellent one to start out
with at a social affair and it causes
a great deal of amusement and real
entertainment.
Slips of paper are handed to each
person, each slip containing five lines.
The young men are to seek five young
ladies whose names are filled in on
the lines, the young ladies putting the
names of their partners thus obtained
on their own programs. When all are
filled out, the game is ready to begin.
The host instructs each young man
to find his first partner and announces
a subject on which the young man
must talk to the young lady for a full
minute, after which the young Indy
will give her own views on the same
subject far another minute. A signal
should be given to inform the couples
of the time of starting and ending of
each period, and the subject—which is
known in advance only to the host --
should not be given out until after the
first signal to start has been given.
five
same method is followed fm e
times, with a change of couples and a
different subject each time. Thus the
young men find themselves obliged to
discuss such questions as woman suf-
frage, league' of nations, baseball
teams, etc., upon a moment's notice,
and the young ladies the same.
A prize for the best conversational-
ist, and a booby prize, may or may
mot be awarded. If this is desired, it
is a good idea to provide each person
with five lumps of sugar and five nuts,
and if the person thinks his partner,
is a good conversationalist he will
present the partner with a lump of
sugar; if he thinks not; a nut may, be'
presented. When the game is over,'
the person with the most sugar will be
entitled to the first prize and the one
with the most nuts the booby prize,
Imitations: Forma circle around the
outer edge of the room. The leader
goes to the centre. Three judges are
placed so that they can see all the
players. As the music begins, the
leader goes through all kinds of funny
movements with head, hands, feet or
body, makes faces or imitates the
movements of birds or beasts. All the
players must try to do the same move-
ments simultaneously with the ]eader.
When the music stops (generally in
about thirty seconds), the judges trust
decide which player made the best at-
tempt at reproducing the antics of the
leader. This decided, the winner goes
to the centre and leads.
"Tucker": A leader stands in the
centre of a circle without a partner.
All the others get partners, and when
the leader calls out "March," they
circle around him with their partners.
Then the leader calls, "Girls on the
outside and boys on the inside," and
they change places. The second all
is "Girls march in front of boys," and
the girls step tin front of their part-
ners, but all keep marching in a circle.
The third call is, "Halt and face your
partners," then, "Grand right and
left," and the girls wind in and out
in one direction and the boys ,in the
other,uddenl
S y the leader calls
"Tucker," and captures e , p s a
partner of
the opposite sex if he can. The one
who does not get a partner is leader
the next time, and calls out the figures
of the game.
Geography: As a test of one's
knowledge of geography, a good game
in played in this fashion: The leader
explains that he will mention some
country, province, or island, and be-
fore he counts ten"the person to whom
he suddenly points must give the name
of some city,,mountain, or river, which
is located in that proviuee or country,:
Exchange: Ten nr a dozen players'
are seated in chairs forming a large
circle, and are numbered consecutively
from one upward. One player is
blindfolded and begins the gime by
standing in the 'centre and calling out
any two numbers. The players who
bear these numbers must exchange
places. While they are doing so the
blindfolded person tries to tag either
player, ar to secure one of time chairs.
If one is tagged or robbed of his sent,
he is blindfolded.
POOR BEATH
LIFE'S HANDICAP
Ric1, Red Blood and Strong
Nerves Needed to Win Out.
It has been well said that life is a
race, Tlie full blooded man with
sound nerves, the bright-eyed, rosy -
choked woman, invariably win. The
nervous, dyspeptic man, and the ail-
ing anaemic woman are left behind.
Success in life is largely a question
of good health and sound nerves. It-
is never the shaky, undecided amen
who are chosen for promotion; the
sickly looking, pale woman is not
sought after like her happy, rosy
sisters.
What makes all the difference is
the condition of the blood. If your
Blood is thin and poor, your nerves
are bound to suffer, because they have
to depend upon good red blood for
nourishment. Headaches, undecided
will, a shrunken figure and pale, un-
attractive face tell only too plainly
that the blood is at fault.
Both men and women in great num-
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heart was affected, and that medicine
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He began their use and in a short time
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Autumn Lights.
Still within the season's urn
Bright the salvia's embers burn;
Still the aster flambeaus flare
In the crispy morning air;
And the goldenrod is still
Like a flame upon the hill.
These, with all their glow and gleams,
Light the autumn's path of dreams;
Light the path of promise to
Vernal loveliness we knew;
For we cannot quite forget
April, and the violet;
Golden April that is gone,
April that again shall dawn!
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