Life — November 26, 1885 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: ADVANCE SHEETS OF THE WHIRLED'S FORTHCOMING GALAXY OF CELEBRITIES. GROVER CLEVELAND, LORD TENNYSON, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA. MARY ANDERSON. THEMIKADOOF JAPAN. THE DAY WE CELEBRATE. BOUT this time some bold, bad iconoclast of a news- paper man, cuts short his three-column account of a triple hanging or a peculiarly interesting parricide, to make room for the observation that Thanksgiving Day is a hollow mockery and a delusion, With a gentle sigh of editorial re- gret, he drops a tear over the degeneracy of the sons who devote that day to fleshly pursuits and godless enjoyment, which the fathers dedicated to fasting and prayer. And hav- ing insinuated that the nation is morally culpable in per- petuating the observance, he pigeon-holes the subject until next year and turns to the more congenial discussion of the | latest black-mailing scandal. . This is wrong. The crying need of to-day is the creation of more Thanksgiving Days in the year—not the abolition of the one handed down from the days of the Mayflower and | the Plymouth Rock. A monthly Thanksgiving Day is the great desideratum of the age. It is not difficult to cram into the established holiday one year’s accumulation of gratitude for such minor blessings as health, peace and plenty. By working hard in the morning, we can square things with Providence on this score and still have an hour left for the traditional bird and the family circle. | | before which such a tough old campaigner as the Obelisk has weakened ? 3. The growing popularity of dynamite as an adjunct to the Fine Arts—as witness its recent application to sculpture, in the case of the late André monument. 4. That John L. Sluggervan of Boston has not made him- | self manifest recently. Thanksgiving on this score may be tempered by the fear, lest such quiescence is but too tem- | porary. Incomplete as this hurried enumeration of our major blessings is, enough has been set forth to convince the searcher after truth, that one poor lonely Thanksgiving | Day is utterly disproportionate to the torrent of our bub- bling and effervescent gratitude ; and the first duty of the approaching congress is self-evident and imperative. Ovell. A SWELL AFFAIR—The soap bubble. | A LIFE WORTH LIVINGC—The one at ——but modesty | forbids. i - The President's pro- | clamation is always a model of terse devoutness, and fits the | old-time idea of Thanksgiving like the paper on the wall. But the world has out-grown all that, and what the sixty million of people of this land demand to-day is a periodic Thanksgiving set apart for returning thanks for the real boons and blessings of this life—a few of which are ap- pended for the behoof of the thoughtful. 1, That the Great International Yacht Race has settled so conclusively, and beyond all peradventure, the ability of the Puritan to out-sail, out-point, out-weather, and out-every- thing the Genesta, under any and all circumstances. In this connection are added little blessings—blessingettes, so to speak—that: (a) the Race can’t occur again until after the January thaw at soonest; and (4) that the country at large has learned the meaning and uses of a spinnaker-boom. The advantages of this knowledge is a blessing immeasur- able as it is obvious. 2. Our climate as a national defense. For what invading hordes could survive our customary meteorological capers, FASHION NOTE. Australian Exchange. | THE LATEST THING IN COLLARS FOR RANK CASHIERS. comicbooks.com