The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 27, 1919, Image 2
MOTHER OF THANKSGIVING DAY
How Sarah Josepha Hale Succeeded in Establishing the
National Holiday at a Uniform Time
BETTER THAn
WHISKEY FOR'
COLDS AND FLU
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fills of water in a glass. With your
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at one swallow and call for your money
back in two minutes if you cannot
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MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE, ‘THE MOTHER OF THANKSGIVING”
I T WAS a patriotic and philan
thropic widow who gave us our
national Thanksgiving day and
Philadelphia, Liberty’s old cradle,
was naturally the home of the enter
prise.) This heroine, who in the Hall
of Fame deserves a place amongst the
country’s mothers, was Sarah Josepha
Hale, an editor whose Ladies’ Maga
zine and Godey’s Lady’s Book gave
unto our grandmammas the latest
styles In^oops and pantalettes. .
When Mrs. Hale got down to work
on the Thanksgiving problem that Item
on Uncle Sam’s calendar was badly
muddled, bnt finally, with the aid of
President Lincoln, she brought order
out of chaos. Let us first see how the
complications came about:
Hot, Turkeylese Thanksgiving.
Turkeyless and hot was our first na
tional Thanksgiving day, appointed by
■Cingressr.amioagh' held midsummer anotherr a week later.
tioing it.
V\ hen your cold or cough is re
lieved, take the remainder of the bottle
home to Vour wife and babies, for
Aspironai is by far the safest and most
effective, the easiest to take and the
most agreeable cold and cough-remedy
for infants and children.—Adv.)
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J. B. FRONTIS
JEWELER
CLINTON, S. C.
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ing but sure relief from stubborn old
colds and onrushing new ones, grippe,
throat-tearing coughs, and croup could
have made Dr. King’s New Discovery
the nationally popular and standard
remedy it is today.
Fifty years old and always reliable.
~ ' fo
Good for the whole family. A bottle In
the medicine cabinet means a short
lived cold or cough. 60c. and $1.20.
All druggists. Give It a trial.
Regular Bowels Is Health
Bowels that move spasmodically—
free one day and stubborn the next—
should be healthfully regulated by Dr.
King’s New Life Pills. In this way
you keep the impurities of waste mat
ter from circulating through the sys
tem by cleansing the bowels thorough
ly and promoting the proper flow of
bile.
Mild, comfortable, yet always relia
ble. Dr. King’s New Life Pills work
with precision without the constipation
results of violent purgatives.
usual at all
olent pi
druggis
ts.
—July 20, 1775—It set the Thursday
precedent, rellgionsly followed during
the past two generations, although not
Immediately respected, for the sec
ond national Thanksgiving day oc
curred Friday, May 17, 1776. Two
years later Wednesday was the day,
hot after Washington took control of
affairs Thursday was preferred.
The nation’s first official thanks pro
moters were committees, usually of
three, appointed by the continental
congress In the days before we h«d a
proclamation recommending to the
governors of the stat.es that a desig
nated date be observed as a day of
national thanksgiving and prayer.
These committees appear to have been
members of congress, except In 1778,
when the two chaplains of congress
were directed to prepare the draft,
Washington helped to promote the
nation’s thanks on two notable occa
sions before he became president—the
first being during his desolate winter
at Valley Forge, when he directed that
his army on December 18, 1777, the
date appointed by congress, “remain
In its present quarters and that the
chaplains perform divine service^jelth
their several corps and brigades,”
Picturesque Maytime Feast.
A more festive program was ar
ranged by the general the following
spring, when he ordered his troops to
observe May 7, 1878, as a day of
thanksgiving for the aid given by
France to the patriotic cause. Hap
pily, his “orderly book” outlining in
great detail the ceremony to be ob
served has been preserved.
“Upon a signal given the whole army
will huzza ‘Long live the king of
France,’ ” he directs. This huzza was
then to be followed by the booming of
cannon, a general discharge of mus
ketry. another hUzza, “Long live the
European powers!” then more cannon,
more musketry fire and a final huzza,
“The American States!”
Two years of onr history saw two
Thanksgiving days eacli, and both were
wartime years. In 1776, May 17 and
December 11 were both designated,
while in 1863 Lincoln designated
Thursday, August 6, as a special
Thanksgiving day In advance of the
autumnal feast of the last Thursday in
November. The summer holiday was
a special thanksgiving for victory, as
had been, in fact, the only national
Thanksgiving day In 1862.
> From Madison’s time to Lincoln’s
there were no national thanksgivings
proclaimed by presidents, although the
festival was observed annually In New
England and In New York, as also in
tlie scattered Episcopal congregations,
whose Book of Common Prayer since
1789 has designated the first Thursday
in each November for giving thanks
In the churches unless civil authority
should designate another date for this
purpose.
Greatest of Festivals.
la New England, where It had been
an- .Institution since 1621, Thanksgiv
ing flay ontinued all the w ille to out
rank even Christmas as a festival of
joy, feasting and family reunion.
On becoming governor of New York
John Jay endeavored to establish It
In that state as an annual Institution,
but his political enemies branded his
proclamation as an attempt to stir up
religious prejudice in his favor and he
made no further attempts.
Governor Clinton, however, renewed
the effort and was successful, but New
York’s Thanksgiving did not coincide
with New England’s, which, until the
middle of the last century, occurred
a week later than the Empire state’s.
Searching old newspaper files we learn
how Thanksgiving was celebrated In
these times. I found the other day a
statement that in 1858 10,000 people
after eating one Thanksgiving dinner
In New York city, had gone to their
early homes in New England to enjoy
Thanksgiving soon
ttoal, though tocat, institution tn most
of-the western states, which had been
oon became an an-
I, liiatliulH
Grace for
Thanksgiving
UOR laughter and the love of
* friends.
We thank Thee,
For sorrows that Thy wisdom sends,
We thank Thee,
For Thy most kindly graciousness,
For peace, dear peace, for plente
ousness.
For all these blessings we possess,
We thank Thee, Lord.
settled largely by New Yorkers and
New Englanders, but the South was
tardy In adopting the Idea.
Although Governor Johnson of Vii>
glnia designated Thanksgiving day In
1853, hls successor, Governor Wise,
when requested to do so, publicly de
clined oh the' ground that he had he
authority fo Interfere In the religious
matters of the people.
Meanwhile, In Philadelphia, Mrs.
Hale was wielding her facile pen In a
zealous crusade to have Thanksgiving
day established as a national festival
and observed upon a uniform date
throughout the country. For 20 years
she persisted In this agitation, not only
through the columns of the two maga
zines which she edited, but In letters
which she wrote to all the presidents
and governors.
By agreeing to establish the prece
dent of proclaiming the holiday on the
last Thursday of each November, Lin
coln at last crowned her tireless effort!
with success, and no president has
failed to emulate hls example —
So Sarah Josepha Hale may be tlghb
fully termed the mother of our annual
nation-wide festival of Thanksgiving
—John Elfreth Watkins In Utica Sat
urday Globe.
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