The Western Outlook. (San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 20, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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The Western Outloo
▲ JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TUB INTERESTS
NBORO or* THE PACIFIC COAST AND THE BBTTERMENT OP MI!
CONDITION
VOL. XXII
I not forgotten. Instead, I have just
given you an example of wisdom which
will be of great service to you to
know, which 1s that nothing is ever so
hard as it seems."
s. FA.
VIKLKER
<*©rsnaioHT Ar«»cuAtt
s*Hpu:ATUt J
MR. FOX VISITS JACK RABBIT.
Jack Rabbit had Just the kind of an
experience that Mr. Fox told him he
would. In trying to grow a long tail
by wetting himself in the brook and
drying himself in the sun he caught
so bad a cold that for a week or more
ho could not get out of his burrow,
and finally ho sent a squirrel to ask
Mr. Fox if he would not come to visit
him and bring some wisdom with him,
for he was still too ill to go out. and,
more than that, he was lonesome from
staying so much alone In his burrow.
"Tell Jack Rabbit that I will come
this afternoon," said the fox, when the
squirrel had delivered the message
and early that afternoon he set out for
the visit to the rabbit.
Jack Rabbit certainly was glad to
see him and set out for him the best
that he had in his home. There were
bit3 of lettuce and a fine bunch of
sweet clover, and, most delicate of all
to the rabbit's palate, were tender tops
of some celery plants which had late-
ly put their heads above ground in
Farmer Johnson's garden.
Mr. Fox made believe that he en-
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MYSTERY PARTY IS AMUSING
SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1915
"he first offer up thanks
THANKSGIVING
By T. C. I'arbaugh
NO. 9
QUEER CIS MAXIMS
While Weird Story Is Being Related
Candies Go Out to the Amazement
of Children Present.
Instructions to Housewives That
Were Considered Apt by
Our Forefathers,
If you are looking for some form oi i
nove? entertainment, give a mystery |
party. Not long ago a hostess enter-
tained at a party which was a great j
success. She led us into a darkened j
room, and, when all were seated, she j
brought In a shingle on which were j
placed three candles. This shingle j
was set on a low table, in full view '
of all, and the candles were lighted.
When all was quiet, she began a
weird ghost story, in the weirdest part
of which the first candle went out; in
a few minutes more the second candle
went out, to the increased amazement
of the spectators. When the story
reached its thrilling climax and the
third candle mysteriously went out,
there was a rush for the door, and the
hostess felt that her scheme was a
success.
The candle extinguishing is easily
explained. The wick of each had been
previously cut, and each was cut a
different distance from the top of the
candle. This is done with a sharp
knife, and the two pieces of the candle
are then pressed together, so that the
cut cannot be detected. If any diffi-
culty is found in making the two parts
stick together, it is overcome very
simply by heating the wax very slight-
ly before replacing.
H
ERE are some queer old m aximS
to housewives which are suitable
to copy on dinner cards or to be
read at the Thanksgiving dinner:
"Good housewife in dairy that needs
not to be told
Deserveth her fee to be paid her in
gold."
"Keep kettles from knocks, set tubs
out of sun
For mending is costly and crackt ia
soon done."
"Though scouring be needful, yet
scouring tco much
Is pride without profit and robbeth thy
hutch."
"Three dishes well dressed and wel-
come withal
Both pleaseth thy friend and becom-
eth thy hall."
| "Save wing for a thresher when gan-
der doth die,
Save feathers of all things the softer
to lie."
Long ago the Pilgrim Fathers
In the forests cold and gray,
With the tempests roaring
People of Switzerland Devout in
Their Gratitude for Har-
vest Blessings.
EDNA P. HALLORAN.
THANKSGIVING in Switzerland is a
movable feast, coming at the end
S^ept trie first 1 ftanttsgiVing of the harvest season, and usually
Dayi falling on a Sunday in the middle of
Near their homes the tvar' October. The country is at the height
tuhoop sounded, of its beauty in this month, the
But they heeded not the cry, I chrysanthemums are in full bloom in
As thev knelt with prayer and !ovcry Sarden. tbe terraced vineyards
an*^em 'are BhowinS autumn colors, and there
'Neath the dark and stormy i3 a golden haze over the rugged moun-
sky.
Fleeing far from foul oppres-
sion ?
Unto Freedom's lend thsy
came,
Where they raised their holy
altars
tains. A feeling of peace and plenty
prevails; the harvest is garnered, the
| wine is made, and the people of this
thrifty little country are grateful for
j the earth's bounties.
| It may not be entirely according to
| our ideas of artistic decorating to
j have the Interior of the churches on
i Thanksgiving Sunday resemble a mar-
"See
cattle well
within
served without and
ROBIN DEVOURS MANY WORMS
Little Songster Includes in His Daily
Menu White Grubs, Beetles, Wasps,
Moths, Ants, Etc,
"He is Weaving His Web," Said the
Fox.
joyed the green stuff, but really it was
not at all to his liking, and he was
glad when the meal was over and he
settled back for a talk with Jack Rab-
bit.
They were sitting very near to the
opening of the rabbit's house and were
talking contentedly when Jack Rabbit
startled the fox by saying: "Look
there at the opening to my burrow.
There is something growing across it."
The fox looked and saw a spider in
d.istriously at work. From side to side
of the hole ho traveled, carrying with
him the tiny thread, out of which he
was weaving his web.
"Did you ever see such a spider be-
fore?" asked the fox.
"Never," said the rabbit, "and what
is ho doing and why should ho come
here to my house?"
"He is weaving his web," said the
fox, "and a wonderful thing it is, too.
No other insect can make so wonder-
ful a fabric nor one so strong."
"How strong is it?" said the rabbit.
"So strong," said the fox, "that
other insects caught in it cannot es
cape but are held fast for the rest of
their lives. What the net is to the
hunter the web is to the spider,
though the spider is more wonderful
in that ho makes his web from mate-
rial which he himself supplies."
As the fox and the rabbit watched
the spider he completed his web and
retired to one corner, where he rested.
"See," said the rabb;t, "he has cov-
ered the whoie of the entrance to my
house and we are both prisoners with-
in."
Just then a beetle walked lumber- j
ingly up to the opening, intending, it j
appeared, to go out into the sunshine j
for a little while. As he tried to go
out he ran suddenly against the web
and stopped. Hunt is here he would
there was no opening by which he
might get out of the burrow. Next a
bumblebee buzzed along the ground
and, seeing the hole, thought he would
like to visit the rabbit's house, but
when he came to the web it stopped
him and he flew away disappointed.
Jack Rabbit began to get alarmed.
"How am I to get out?" he asked the
fox. "And if I am imjirisoned here,!
shall starve to death."
"Do not be alarmed," said the fox.
"You are about to learn a lesson that
ought to serve you all through your
life. You have seen the beetle and
the bumblebee trying to break the
spider's web in vain. You have seen
them try once and. not succeeding,
have seen them give up the task. But
what seemed Impossible to them Is
really not hard at all. I have enjoyed
the afternoon with you very much. I
hope that you are on the way to being
well again and now I must be going."
The rabbit watched carefully as the
fox went toward the entrance, expect-
ing to see him unable to break through
the web and go into the open field. But
when the fox reached the web he
walked straight through without the
least trouble. Jack Rabbit was much
surprised, but not too surprised to call
to the fox. "Mr. Fox. you have forgot
ten to tell me the wisdom you were to
teach me today."
"No, indeed," said the fox, "I have
Could you, upon demand, with youi
eyes closed, recall to mind, and de- j
scribe accurately enough for identi
fication purposes, Robin Redbreast, j
the cheerful companion of everybody,
everywhere?
Put to the test at a dinner recently
not one of the diners could depict Mr.
Redbreast in a way to set him apart
from his bird fellows. And yet, Robin
is the most common and familiar of
our birds, recommended by orni-
thologists as a convenient size for com- ;
parison with other natives of birddom.
His clear song is held up to the be-
ginner in bird study as a standard of
comparison by which the student may
learn to distinguish the song3 of other
species.
If you have any sentiment left in
your soul, at the mention of his magic !
name you will fly away with Robin
Redbreast to the land of your lost
youth, where old-fashioned sweet-
smelling posies bloom in the door-
yard, and on the limb of the old ap-
ple tree, close by the open window,
you will hear him persistently calling
again and again—far too early in the
morning—"Cheerily-cheerup, cheerily-
cheerup."
Is he not worth saving for his beau-
ty and good cheer, alone?
Besides being a general good fel-
low Robin is a most useful and indus-
trious citizen. Mrs. Robin demands
very fine grasses with which to line
her cozy nest, and when the baby
Robins arrive, they have such enor-
mous appetites it keeps both Mr. and
Mrs. Robin on the jump to supply
their steady demand for fresh earth-
worms.
The Robins include In their daily
menu white grub, beetles, cutworms.
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And
*Mid the dashing of the spray.
To loving keep aiid beautiful,
Every year, Thanksgiving
Day*
in the dim aisles of iiie forest,
Where the. oaks th?.ir
branches spread
The wild deer and the panther
Heard the words the Pil-
grims said;
And the hymns that floated
skyward
Echoed sweetly far away,
Till the dusk, descending
softly,
Crowned the first Thanhs-
giving B*:y.
N w
' Thsy were stem, those grana
old Pilgrimi,
hlen who harked So Free-
dom's call,
And amid the snows of
Plymouth
Kept the Day beloved by alt;
In the bleak New England
woodlands,
Lit by Autumn's fleeting ray,
To Columbia's chosen children
There they gaoeThanksgiving
_ Day.
"Provide for thy tallow ere frost com- ^ hM ^ ana' ho!y ggiil
And make thine own candle ere winter whcre the Pine £rccs
begin." grow
To where the golden crarsgs
"Maids mustard seed gather, fore be« swings ^
ing too ripe In lands devoid or snow;
And mather it well eye ye give it a From the rochs of proud
stripe, A tlan tie,
Then dress it and lay it in seller up Where the tempest flings
sweet, spray,
Lest foistness make it for table tin- f0 the sun-kissed, mild Pacific
meet."
"Wife make us a dinner, spare fleall,
neither corn
Make wafers and cake for our sheep
must be shorn."
"Who many do feed
Save much they had need."
"Buy new as is meet,
Mark blanket and sheet."
"Save feathers for guest,
These other rob chest."
—National Food Magazine.
And all things at quiet ere supper bo-
gin."
"Wife make thine own candle
Spare ponny to handle."
from arch to arch, clusters of grapes
adorn available corners, the altar and
pulpit are banked with every kind of
vegetable, carrots, turnips and even
cabbages being used. Song prayers
are offered in gratitude and thanksgiv-
ing for the good harvest and a lengthy
sermon is delivered appropriate to the
occasion. The sun outside is warm
and the air inside is heavy, laden with
a strong odor of the Marche. At the
end of the last hymn one hastens glad-
ly into the open.
The Sabbath stillness of the after-
noon is broken by the blare of a brass
band. A long procession winds its way
about the narrow streets, followed by
a crowd of men, women and children,
for the Swiss people have the love of
a small boy for a parade, and they in
dulge themselves in their fancy on
every possible occasion. On this day
the procession goes from church to
church, stopping in front of each one,
I while the band plays a few selections.
! The crowd is not particularly atten
tive, but it makes up for that lack in
good humor. Small groups stand about
tho church square, talking and laugh-
ing, until the last number is finished,
and then take up their position in the
rear of the cortege and follow it on
to the next church.
Thus tho day wears on, in gratitude
for the bounties of nature. A strange
Thanksgiving and a simple one com
pared to our historic holiday and our
elaborate manner of celebrating it, but
beneath the surface runs the same
undercurrent of sincere gratitude.
Oakland Bank of Savings
THE OLDEST AND LARGEST BANK
IN ALAMEDA COUNTY
Resources over - - - - $27,000,000.00
SAVINGS. COMMERCIAL AND TRUST
Safe Deposit Vaults
4%Interesi paid on Savings Accounts
Broadway and TwelftH St., OaKland
OaKland Branch—122 & St-ver.ih Street *
PerKeley Branch—Cor. ShattucK Ave. ar.d Cei St.
Central National Bank of Oakland
[Largest National Bank in Alameda County]
AND
Central Savings Bank of Oakland
[Affiliated Institutions.]
Capital, Surplus & Undivided Profits $2,227,000.00
Deposits, over 13,000,000.oo
Total Resources, over 1 S,OOO,OOO.oo
Accounts of banks, firms and individuals-solicited and received
on the most favorable terms consistent with prudent banking.
The largest and finest safe deposit vaults in Oakland.
Boxes for rent—$4.00 per year and up.
FOURTEENTH AND BROADWAY.
LOS ANGELES
PUZZLE—FIND THE TURKEY
Quickly Popular in V/est.
As tlie first new states of the West1
were quite generally settled from New
England, the festival was perpetuated
and soon became a custom not only in
these, but in oilier western states aa
they were formed. In the South thero
was no recognition of he custom un-
til after 1V5S. In that year eight gov-
ernors of southern states isued proc-
lamations after the model of New Eng-
land, calling upon their people to ob-
serve the last Thursday in November
for thanksgiving. But the
was at hand and the bitter-
inderel in the long contro-
MilHons keep Thanksgiving
Day.
Blessings on the Pilgrim
Fathers!
They who sought a home afar.
And builded ihem an altar
In the beams of Freedom's
star;
Let their memories be sacred,
Though then" graves are fat
away,
For the legacy they left us
Is our firstThanhsgiving Day.
(Copyright.)
WHO SASD TURKEY?
JIMMY !S THANKFUL-
Robin Redbreast, a Good Fellow Who
Rids Field and Orchard of Insect
Pests.
grasshoppers, crickets, moths, ants,
wasps, caterpillars, larvae of the
gipsy-moth, the brown-tail moth, the
forest-tent moth, canker-worms, leaf-
eating and wood-boring beetles, wire-
worms and army-worms. It has been
noted that when Robins are scarce,
the army-worm advances, and on the j
coming of numbers of tho Robins the I
army-worm disappears.
Most laborers ask more than board !
and lodging for their toil. For all his
useful services (for which Robin only
asks food and shelter, and hustles
these for himself) some selfish and un-
grateful folk begrudge the faithful lit-
tle worker the bit of fruit he gathers
now and then for himself and family.
Uncle Sam is authority for the state-
ment that the industrious American
Robins really prefer wild fruit when
they can get it, and advises the man
who wants his orchard free from in-
sects, to allow a few trees for the
birds or plant some wild mulberries
for these profitable tenants of field
and orchard. Tke Russian mulber-
ries, which ripen the same time as
cherries, are preferred by the Robina
to cultivated fruit.
as a clay
Civil war
ness eng
versy over slavery can
lent opponents of the North to opnoso
tho proclamations because of their in-
troduction of a "Yankee custom."
a many vio-
For flow"
For terule
For po-ncr
For nil
■or fr.'.
■"or beau
Father
V-/e i Hank Thee.
rh.nt ' ■ m about our foot',
so fr Oi, sri swoct;
Thanksgivi
(Re; Treat.
Quickest Service
Shortest
Routes
VIA
That mother hasn't a broken arm
and can stuff the goose.
That the judge let father go on sus
pended sentence.
That I'm not dead on a battlefield.
That I haven't got five brothers to
share the Thanksgiving dinner with.
That we won't have to move until
the day after.
That we won't haVe to pay any ol
the war tax.
That we live on the sixth floor, and
no tramp will climb all those stairs to
ask for goose.
That I found a pair of skates in a
boy's back yard last summer.
That I traded off our cat last July
for a sled.
That I'm not lost in the woods, with
the wolves howling around.
That father dropped ten cents on
the floor and I found it.
That no boy has threatened to lick
me if I stick my nose out of the house
on Thanksgiving day.
That it's a big goose, and that I can
just stuff myself.
r g
of
thank thee!
n 1 3 i rh ;
i.-.ir bre- ze;
e?,
♦ • ink * 1 i r* I
v. . io Kmcrson.
cf
id
fes; ivai3 was th<
When li e app"
and the cider *
• estivals.
I :*nr. tha:
we:r> all
it
many a hiil ir> hi
corn was \u»k"d
3t_a:-on were don
days oi Indian
dre any and eair.
t of all
ksgiving.
gathered
e and tha
i in from
Id and the
t-3 of the
warm late
came in
th just
First Thanks
So far as is kr.ov
! "Harvest Thanksgi\
held in modern tii
i vided for in an of:
i titled "Form of Pra
ing to Almighty Go
churches and chap
Wales and in the to-.
Tweed c-n Sunday, tli
tober, 1517. being tl
for a general T4:al-
mighty God for th
Harvest, by Her I\
Command." Y\
one in Novembt
for various succt
including the ca
for "an uncomi
giving Service.
l, one of the first I
* j
ng Services" ever I
(•s was that pro-
ial document, en-
er and Thanksgiv-
, to be used in all
s in England and
n of Bethwick-on-
le 17th day of Oc-
b.e day appointed
'ksgivirg to Al-
ato Abundant
Majesty's Special
h the exception of
, 1769, in gratitude
• s on nea and land,
re of Quebec, and
English Harvest Homes.
If the Plymouth festival ha3 Imme-
diate kinship with similar events in
the past, it has analogies with the Har-
vest Home of England, which may re-
late them. The Pilgrims were famil-
iar with the English celebration, and
many of them, no doubt, had partici-
pated in it. The dominant mark of
each was the joy over the ingathering
harvest. In some districts in England,
too, the festival had continued a week.
Richard Carew. in his "Survey of Corn-
well," in speaking of the English fes-
tival, says: "Neither doth good cheers
wholly expire (though it somewhat de-
creases), but with the end of the
i weeke."
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520 FACIFiC ST., - S. F.
High-Class Entertainers
a Specialty Orchestra of
Six Pieces.
LESTER MAPI', Proprietor
A. E. SHAVERS. Manager
phone, Kearny 5863
1664
Phone, Oakland 4073
J". E. Henderson
Undertaking and Embalming
Parlors
Prompt atteutiou given day or night
lady attendant
Phcne, Oakland 1878
Cor. Telegraph ave and 23d it
llabla Eepanol
OSCAR
Phone Doug!a« 3648
HUDSON
attorney at-law
372-374 Monad nock Building
681 Market Strei
S. F
Children Like Bees.
Children in their teens can care for
bees and will enjoy doing it-
and tli
summer
and still.
pnough froct to cri-;j the ground of a
morning, but warn traces of be-
nignant. sunny hours at noon, there
came over the community a sort of
genial rerose of spirit, a sense of
something accomplished and of a new
golden mark made in advance, and the
deacon began to say to the minister
of a Sunday. "I suppose it's about time
for the Thanksgiving proclamation."—
Harriet Beecker Stowe's "Okitowzi
Poll"' "
>niy plentiful Har-1
vest," this was probably the first serv- j
ice of the kind held in modern times j
Cadences of Song.
As the custom is among certain
Swiss herdsmen on tbe Alpine slopes,
as the sun goes down for each to call
to the one above him, through his
horn. "Praise ye the Lord," so across
this land, through its valleys and over
its plains and up its mountainsides—
everywhere ought to ring the note of
praise to the decli: .rig sun of another
year, and to tbe ever-rising sun ot na-
tional greatness and destiny.
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Strictly lirst-class up-to-date accommo-
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Mrs. Will Lashley, prop
Phone, West 4819
The Thanksgiving Table.
I think that today must be Thanks-
giving day. To a wanderer like my-
self there is no season which so vivid
ly recalls the endearments of home
ard so fully awakens the recollections
of its blessings as the return of those
annual holidays which signalize the
close of the year. I imagine myself Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, and
r\f mil raAolltnf* 0
Smokers' Articles
CHARLES BESTHORN
Importer and Jobbet
C. A. ANDERSON
Funeral Director
1387 VALENCIA ST., at 25th, S. F.
Phone Mission 151
Imperial Dancing Academy
FRANKLIN HALL
18S1 Fillmore SL, San Francisco
The best conducted social dance
in the city. Come 0111 and meet
our visitors, and enjoy a pleasant
evening. Our orchestra is featuring
the latest musical selections.
Dancing from 8:30 to 12 p in.
Every Tuesday Evening
Admission: Ladies, 15c; Gents. 25c
Jack Miller and Harry Piersou
Managers
V?
seated in the midst of you, recalling
earlier days and renewing the broken
links that absence has made in the so-
cial chain.—Letter from Longfellow
to his mother, written from Rome No*
vember, 1828.
910 Franklin Street, Oakland
Phone, Oakland 1493
DR. T. R. WALKER
DENTAL SURGEON
Bridge work a specialty. Hour6
2695 Mission street, San Francisco 9 12, 1-5. Sunday by appointment
Phones, Oakland 2745 Home a 3824 926 Chester St., Oakland
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