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THANKSGIVING day was celebrated all over this Klorlous nation
tn Thursday. "The American Boy," In this month's issue, brings
home to us how very, very thankful we should be this ypar.
The editor write: "This Is a day which does not appear on the
calendars of England or Russia, of Oermany or Austria, of
Ilelglum. or Servla, of France or Japan. If these countries had a Thanks
f ivlnn day it would be a mockery to celebrate it thla year. Carnage, cruelty,
famine theee leave no room for thanksgiving in the aching hearts of
K'trope. Ruin, devastation, the suffering of the innocent would change
a prayer of thanksgiving Into a cry for mercy and relief. From these
horrors the United States is distant; they touch us only remotely. Though
our eyes ba wet with sympathetic tears, though our minds stand appalled
at the monster horror which grips our fellow men, jet we feel rising
superior. to every other emotion a spirit of thanksgiving to the God of
Ail Nations that Ila has selected us to abide in peace.
Not for fifty years, not since the last soldier of the last arsuy of our
civil war laid down bis musket, has such an obligation of gratitude rested
iipon'us.' This Thanksgiving day should for generations stand separated
from its follows; it should be freighted with deeper meaning; we. should
look back upon the day of 1914 not merely as a Thanksgiving day but a
the day of the Great Thanksgiving."
This week, first prize was awarded to Mary Wigdon of the Blue Hide;
berc.nd. prize to Gladys Brown of the Red Side, and honorable mention to
I.ydia Bender of the Blue Side.
Vivian
Ke&slex; .
wM Virymia
Winners in The Bee Doll Contest
Little Stories by Little Folk
. (First Prise.)
' - Harvest Time. !
Ry Mary' Wytnn, Aged jo years, Lyons, j
,'. . ",, Neb." Blue Side.
Harvest, time la when the grain, nuts
and apple art gathered In and the corn
Is husked' anfl the pumpkins put in the
cellar -or bam. Harvest time Is In No
vember. Ws Jnrva" Thanksgiving day to
thank. God 'foe the good harvest He has
cnt ; u?. . We' always have church on
Thanksgiving. We sing aongs of praise
.u,1 tbe nilnlator talks of what We have
to be, thankful for. The people uaed to
have corn husking bees and invite their
neighbors' 'In.- They would help the people-husk
the corn and pick the apples
and huts; Afterward they would have a
party.. Some times H Is cold enough to
aknte ort the ice, 'but sometimes is la
very-. warm. !' like Thanksgiving better
when It is Warm and the sun la shining,
tt aeerus like you have more to bo thank
ful for. v. Hera la a little. ThanksgvJIng
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I give thanks for the summer and winter,
rive thanks, for the aunahtne and rain.
For the . Xlowors, the-, fruit and the
grasaea, ,
And the., beautiful harvest 'of grain.
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A Walk to Dundee.;
By Gladys Ttrown, ' A ged H'Teara 811 N.
th St., Omaha. Red Side.
On Supday .a slrl came over to spend
the aternoon and have dinner With ua.
We thought we would -take a walk to
lundee..,Jt la three blocks west of us.
Aa we ; ere'. walking .we would pick out
the ' hoXiaos . we - liked best ; and pretend
tliatfce owhed them, '
They have tha-moet beautiful park In
the West end 4j the town. . After we bad
walked around awhile we thought wa
would come home. We were on Fifty
third street. As we had not been to Dun
dee atone . we did not know which way
to go at first At last we thought wa
would walk east Afterward we .found
l hat we were very noar home; we were
only a ' block from Forty-eighth street,
which la three block a from our home. .
When we came home mother had dinner
on the table and we sat down to eat
(Honorable Mention.)
Origin of Thanksgiving.
By Lydla Bender. Aged 13, Larnor, Nab.
Blue bide.
Nearly 800 years ago a little girl cama
to thla country from the other side ,of
tlie ocean. ' Her name was Mary Aller
ton and her father was one of tha pil
grims: The pilgrims were people who
had' left their home In England to seek
a place where they might worship Ood
aa they pleased.
Mary's father learned that In Holland,
a country rot far away, he could wor
ship as he pleased, so he left London
with hia family and crossed In a ship to
Holland.
In Holland Mary saw many strange
tilings. She aaw the canals and great
walls called dykes.
Mary often heard her father and his
friends talk about Virginia, a land
across toe sea. They said they could
live there under the rule of the king of
England ' and yet be free to worship
God aa they pleased.
At last they made up their mlnda to go
to Virginia, so they bought a little ehlp
called the Mayflower and . sailed away
acroaa the ocean. . At first Mary and
the other children liked to watch the
waves and to see the fish playing about
in the water, but as the days pasaed by
they grew very tired of being shut up
in , the ship. ' Then, too, they had several
storms on the way, which frightened
tho children very much.
At last, after many weeka, Mary heard
a sailor cry, "Land!"' There, Indeed, was
land, but It was not Virginia. The ship
had sailed too far north and had reached
the coast of what we call New England.
The shore looked cold and bleak, but the
people had boen on the ae ss long that
they were glad to leave the ship.
How bare everything looked. There
were no houses, no people; only great
forests and the gray sky stretching far,
far awsr.
Tha pllgrlraa had to live in the ship
until they could build houses. On Christ
mas day the work began; there was no
merry Christmas for them. Mary bad
no gifts, for her father and mother did
not believe in keeping Christmas.
That was a long, sad winter for the
pilgrims. They did not have enough to
eat, and many of them were 111. Before
the spring came half of the little band
died of cold and hunger. In the spring
ume friendly Indians helped them and
showed thera how to plant corn. The
next year the pilgrims had a great har
vest. - They had given thanks at- every
meal, but now they had a great Thanks
giving feast and invited their Indian
friends to share It.
The pilgrim mothers made bread, cake
and plea The pilgrim fathers went fish
ing and hunting and brought bacV fish,
turkeys and deer. Then the Indians
came, dressed In their best beads and
feathers. That was a strange sight for
the children. They enjoyed It. although
tbey war a little afraid of tho painted
chiefs. Whan the feaat waa over Mary
had to help her mother wash dishes.
Thca she watched the shooting matches
between the Indians, with their bows and
arrows, and tha pilgrims with their guns.
Tha pilgrims prayed and sang aa well
This week s
public school roll
of honor, omitted
today, will be in
The Bee fomor
row and there'
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giving.. Now
every year.
we keep Thanksgiving day
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. , The Earthquake.
By Gertrude Nielsen, Aged If Tears,
General Delivery, Fremont, Nt-b.
Red Side.
When I waa in San Francisoo, Cal.,
there waa an earthquake. It started
very early, fifteen minutes to five, on
April IS, 19W.
We were living in a house with an
other lady. She know what it was, but
we did not That lady ran out In tha
street In her night clothes.
The bed shook so badly that we could
not get out of bed for a while, but when
It did not shake so much wa got out.
We had breakfast Mamma put the
bread !n tha oven and tha stovepipe fell
down.
We could get all tha food we wanted.
It was terrible. At night wa could not
have light In the house or fire In the
atove, for fear that the earth would
shake and Would make a fire. There
was a man that had fire in his stove.
'this la the first time I have written.
I hope my story gets In print. I wish to
join tha Red Side. I will writs again
about California.
Bed Cross Work.
By Ethel Brinkman. Aged 12 Tears. 218
South Thirty-fifth Avenue, Omaha.
Red Side.
The Red Cross workers are doing much
to help In tha present European war.
It waa founded In Geneva, Swltaerland.
They train doga to help In the ambu
lance work. The dogs hunt under debris
ana m trenches. St Bernard and oollle
doga are the best for this training. They
nave straps across their backs, coming
iu uio iurw pan, ana ai imeir docks is a
flask holding a reviving drink for the
wounded soldier. On thedr backs are
bags holding antiseptic articles and
bandages. It tha wounded soldier Is able
to use his arms, he can take the neces
sary articles from the bag and help him
self as best ha can until the ambulance
cornea. . The ambulance is sent for ' in
thla way: The dog. If In hearing dis
tance, will bark; if not he will take
soma part of tha man's clothing and take
It to tha nurse or ambulanoe man, who
will get him. By these means tha dog
is very useful.
Many of tha noted women ' of Europe
are helping in thla work. They nurse
the wounded soldiers back to health. It
their injuries are alight they are able to
go back to tha front
Busy Bee letter.
By Howard F. Matters. 824 Bouth For
tieth Street. South Omaha. Aged S
Years. . Blue Klde.
I am S years old and In tha third grade.
I attend the Conigan sohool. My teach
er's name Is Mlsa Fraw. I like animal
tales very much.
My playmate's name la Harry, and he
plays marbles. Harry and I run races to
keep warm. Wa run around tha school.
The playgrounds are very , large, . Tho
achool la very high. We have many games
to play. I would Ilka to be on the Blue
side.
John's Eeward.
By Lorna Hlcka, 1113 South Eleventh
Street. Blue Side.
John was a poor boy. His mother died
when he waa a baby. Hia father, who
waa shipwrecked, never returned, and ha,
alept In boxes at night. He had only one'
partner, and this waa his dog. One day
when he waa selling' papers he sold one
to a man and tha man told him to take
a dollar and change It and bring the
change in the morning to Mr. Brown, 723
St Mary's avenue. So In the morning
John brought the change and tha man
asked him his name. John said, "John
Brown." He asked for his mother. John
said, "She is dead." The man aaid that
he was hia father. So that was John's
reward.
Alone on Dark Road.
By Helen T. Burres. Aged Year. Glen
wood, la.. Box t. Blue Bide.
Mary was dels ye 1 on her way home i
from school one night and it was dark
before ahe reached home. She waa going
up a very long, steep hill. There were
brushes and much shrubbery along this 1
road on both sides. There waa a quick
turn about half way up the hill and the 1
hill extended for about half a mile be
yond. Mary waa easl'y frightened after dark
and aha most dreaded thla long hill and I
rustling in the bushes. ' She Jumped with
fright, but it was only a rabbit that had
darted across the roal In front of her.
She quickened her walk Into a run and
then she heard wheels coming and found
that it was -her father, who had become
worried and e'tarted out to meet her.
I hope my letter escapes Mr. Waste
Basket ' .
The Good Little Sister. 1
By Kermlt Sonnnland, Aped 9 Tears,
1404 Fifth Avenue. Blue Side.
Once there Was a poor family who lived
on the farm. , The crops were a failure.
The mother was ' sick and they had no
money to byy-.the Christmas, gifts. '
IJUte .Jenny crept slyly and hung her
stocking on' Christmas Eva.
She had a sister whom she loved very
much. When little- Jenny ' want to bed
her good sister baked cakes and cookie
soldiers and lots of nice things and put
them In hfsr stockings.' The next morn
ing she was' the happiest girl in tha
world. ,
Attended Fair.
By Cynthia Hendrlx, Aaed Tears. Kear
ney, ..tD ued Side.
I have written you once before and
my letter was npt In print. I am 8 years
old and In the fifth grade. I go to the
Whlttler sohool. My- teacher Is Mlsa
Helen Cotton. Are your schools named
after poets? Our schools are: Emerson,
Whlttler, Alcott, Kenwood, Hawthorne
and Longfellow.
I went to the fair last autumn and saw
many pretty thlnga. I will tell you ahoi
what tha Alcott school had at tho fair.
They had 'beds, clocks, tables, chairs
and many othvr pretty things the boys
made at manual training.
The girls made dreaaes, coats, jackets
and dressed dolls; Must of thnm had blue
tags so I know they got the prises.
The, Stat. Club.
By Edith Kenyan, 3229 Cuming St., Omaha.
Blue Side.
Madeline, my sister, has started a club.
It Is called the Star club. I think It is
quite different from any other club. , Wa
paint and draw and tho one .who gets
the beat paintings and is excellent in de
portment gets a prlie. We have twelve
members. Their names are: Mildred
Rawaon, Irene Larson, Edna Anderson,
Mildred Nlasen, Helen Bradford, I,or
ralne Bancroft, Arleue Bancroft Merlam
Weaner, Juliette Weaen . and . Josephine
Drapler and I. With the money that wa
get we are going to buy flowera and
give them to some of the children that
are In the hospital, and then we will
give some to the poor. Wa arc going to
have a Christmas play December 21.
Story of Birds.
By Marguerite Nelson, Age 10 Years. 1513
Spruce Street, Omaha. Blue Hide.
Ono night mamma went upstairs for
something and a little bird waa up them.
It was sitting on a box very frightened.
Tapa camo up and caught it and put It
up on the eaves. , One other nlttht two of
them got in and papa put them out also.
the turn, but ahe started bra vol v i .
' aa feasted. Thus they kept the Thanks-Ut walk. When aba waa startled by aj .
Lucilo was won by .Dorothy. Zust, 708 N.40th St.,
who .brought us 1400 pictures. Dorothy attends Saunders
Sohool in 6th A grade. She collected her pictures from
the offices down town. Now she is a very happy little girl.
Bertha jBaer, 1320 Park Ave., was second with 528
pictures, and Helen Linali an, 614 S. 17th Ave., was third
with 93 pictures. '
3 Dolls for This Week
We have decided to give two more dolls for second
and third prizes, so that if you fail to get the first one,
you still have a chance to get one of the smaller dolls.
They are very sweet and pretty, too, and will please you.
but, of course, you would not expect them to be as big
and beautiful as Pricilla, who is for the little girl that
brings in the most pictures.
.- Pricilla is just top beautiful for words to describe.
You must come and sec her.
rrloUla will be given rree
to tho little girl, under lfl
years of are, that brings or
analla as the larrest number
of doll's pictures eat oat of
tha Sally and Sunday Bee
before p. m. Saturday,
Seoemaer 0.
Her picture will be in
The Hee every day this
wtH'k. Cut them all out
and ask your friends to
save the pictures in their
paper for you, too. See
how many pictures of Pri
cilla you can get, and lie
sure to tutu them in to
The Pee office before 4 p.
m., Saturday, December .".
If you don't win thl Dollia,
perhaps you can get on next
week. Only one doll will ba
Klvai to any one person.
You can see
PRICILLA
at the Dee Office
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Sixth annual
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OF THE CHURCHES
December
7th to 19th
npIIE handiwork of hundreds of Omaha s prominent church
" workers will be displayed. These will be offered for salo
over the counters, temporarily. constructed around the fountain
und in the court of The Bee building, during the week days,
from morning until night. Tho beautiful linen pieces, useful
vjid ornamental embroidery work, serviceable wearing apparel,
art goods and bric-a-brac, as well as delieioua pies, cakes,
doughnuts, enndies and other eatables, have not oxiiy heen made
by these faithful women but they will see that every stitch, and
piece is sold by themselves.
These church fairs are conducted solely for the purpose of
raising money to defray the expenses Of the different churches;
no one individual derives any recompense for their labor, except
the satisfaction that what they d-y is freely given to further pro
mote the glorious and noble work of the most Holy institution,
, tho Church. The use of the building for the fairs is donated by
the management of the The Pee and all publicity through tho
the columns of this paper is given free. The churches arrange
the decorations w as to make the bazaar as attractive and com
fortable as possible for the public to lend their patronage.
You are all invited to come. More beautiful and useful
Christmas gifts cannot be bought elsewhere and the prices
r.sked are most reasonable.
Church.
Oak Street M. K
Church of the Covenant...
Westminster Presbyterian.
Pearl Memortul M. K
Chairman and Ranldenre. Phone. Data.
. Mrs. T. C. Wubster. 701 Georgia Ave... liar. ISO Deo. 7-4
. .Mrs. E. O. Carson. Z706 Pratt Web. 4M4 Dec, 7-1
..Mrs. J. r. Stout, 117 8. th Har. 1067 Dec. 1-4
.Mrs. K. K. Wonder. HI FI. Blvd Dec. 7-1
United Brethren
Lowe Ava. Presbyterian...
St. Matthias Kplaeopal
6L Matthews Lutheran
Mrs. If. W. Allwlne. MM N. 24th Web. 7031 Dee. a-ll
. Mrs. W. W. Carmlchael, M Cal.. .liar. 1467 Deo. -19
..Mra. K. P. Rogers. 130 B. th ZD. 48(3 Deo. K10
. Mrs. I B. Bnyder, 1706 Deer Pk. Blvd. T- J374-W Deo. HO
North Presbyterian Airs. T. U Travis, IbWl Fowler Ave.. Web. 1719 Deo. 11-13
Parkvale Presbyterian Mrs. Oeo. Tlehnor, 1M Frederick.. Har. 18M Deo. 11-11
Good Hhapherd Episcopal Mra W. C. Ross, 1031 Lothrop Web. KM Dec 11-11
Grace Lutheran Mrs. J. F. Hmith, m H. th TyU ni Deo. 1143
(Open Date)
Social Settlement Club Mlas Alice V. Buchanan, 13: H. MthHar. M0 Deo. 14-16
Plymouth Congregational Mrs. II. L. I'ndrrwood. Snag N. aothWeb. Deo. 14-16
Benson Presbyterian Mrs. E. A. Mason. HOT N. Wth Ben. 488 Dec. 14-16
Temple Israel Mra. M. N. Miller, 1328 H. Slat liar. Dec. 16-17
Ceutral Park Congregational. .Mra. Nellie Thompson, 3.111 Ames Ave. Web. 3131 Dec. 16-17
McCaba M. E Mra C. C. Shimer, 11 H. 42d Wal. 3t7 Dec. 14-17
Reorganised Ch. Jeaus Christ. Mra. Oer. Kllpatrlck, 2216 Burdette..Web. 1S84 Iec 16-17
Omaha Theosophlcal Society Mra. K. P. Eklund, 4:1! 9 Parker Web. 6771 Dee. 1 VIS
Diets Memorial M. K Mrs. Jennie Dion, 177 8. KHh I). i4'l Dec. IK-IB
(Open Date.)
I lire t Memorial M. E KUIth M. Mikes, 04 Saltier Web. ttGI iKuU-U
VARIETY OF ARTICLES FOR SALE
Home Made Candy
Mim e Meat
Fruit take
Jelly
(stuffed Date
fake
DouKhnnts
Plea
Preserves
llretthed Dolls
l''mbroldered Towels
Aprons, fancy and plain
Corset Cover a
Doll Clothes
Ijeuther Goods
l'aury I big a
Handkerchief
Children's Muff a
Home Cooking, all kinds Comforts
IMn Cushions
rnderklrt
Dust CM
Stocking aTaga
Washable Ituga
Doily lt. lis
Napkin Cases
Table Mats
Infants' Wear
Hand Painted China
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