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An Animated Thanksgiving Dinner 
A Playlet for Six Little Girls 
CAST OF CITARACTERS 
1. “Giaiulniother.” 
2. “Turkey.” 
“Crauberry.” 
4. "Pickle.” 
5. “Celery.” 
(1. “Pumpkiu.” 
The (Iresse.s are made of crepe paper in 
aj)propriate colors. Before making up, 
the cr^pe paper may be stretched to about 
double its length. It should be gradually 
unrolled, two persons taking hold of it at 
distances of about one yard, grasping the 
paper at each outer edge, and pulling 
gently ; there is no ri.sk of tearing unless 
it is jerked suddenly. A waist lining 
should be made of thin cotton material 
for each costume. This avoids risk of 
tearing. The dresses are pa.sted together 
at the seams with flour paste, but basted 
to lining at the belt, a girdle being pa.sted 
over. Once one has the knack, it is very 
easy to make such dresses, and the effect 
-s beautiful, with very little expense. At 
the hem the skirt is pulled out to forin a 
frill, which can be done very prettily. 
“Cranberry” has a dress of bright red 
paper, with a collar of green leaves, and 
a little round cap. “Celery” is dressed 
in white, with trimming of green laid 
over, as shown in the picture. At the 
bottom both the white underskirt and the 
trimming are pulled out into frills. A 
wreath of real celery tops is worn. 
“Grandma” wears a black dress with 
white apron, kerchief and cap, and large 
spectacles. “Turkey” is dressed in brown 
paper, with a collar of red. hanging in a 
point in front, and cap with drooping 
point of red “Pumpkin” may be yellow, 
or pale green, trimmed with cut-out yel¬ 
low pumpkins, and a round yellow cap. 
One can buy cr#pe paper printed with 
l)uiupkins, winch could be used if desired. 
If the dress is yellow, the cut-out pump¬ 
kins should be touched up with India ink 
to make them show up. “Pickle” may be 
pale green, trimmed with cut-out pickles 
in darker green, or white with the green 
trimming. Pickles for the necklace may 
be made of little cylinders of green paper, 
drawn in at the ends. 
Turkey, strutting in and looking from 
side to side; “My name is Turkey, the 
very best part of the Thanksgiving dinner. 
My forefathers were wild and lived in 
the forest, but I was born and brought 
up in Maine in a large field next to a 
farmer's barn. Oh, I had a fine time all 
Summer, eating grasshoppers, and lived 
a happy life, with nothing to bother me.” 
Enter Ci-anberry. 
Turkey continues; “Hello, Cranberry! 
“Where did you come from?” 
Cranberry; “I came from a marshy 
place in Massachusetts, and 1 have had 
quite a .ride on the train. There were 
so many of us, I was afraid I’d be 
crushed. What kind of a Thanksgiving 
dinner would people have without me?” 
Pickle (coming in with a jump) ; “Oh, 
we’d get along all right. Pin hei-e.” 
Turkey; “Don’t be so sharp. Miss 
I’ickle, please. I thought you were in a 
bottle. IIow did you manage to reach 
here in time?” 
Pickle; “Well, I’ll tell you. Grand¬ 
mother opened the jar where I had been 
imprisoned since last August, and I es¬ 
caped. I came here as quickly as my 
feet would, carry me. I would not miss 
this dinner for anything in the world. A 
fine dinner it would be, indeed, without 
good, spicy pickles!” 
Enter Celery. Turkey. Cranberry and 
Pickle look wonderingly and say; 
“Why. who can this be?” 
Celery ; “Is it po.s.sible you don’t rec¬ 
ognize me? I am Celery, and I have | 
come from Long Island to be present at 
this dinner.” 
Cranberry; “M’'hat makes you so 
p.ale?'’ 
Turkey; “Have you been frightened?” 
Celery ; "The farmer put me in a cel¬ 
lar and I was several weeks in the dark, 
or I would be as green as our friend. 
Pickle.” 
Pickle, interrupting; "'Green, am I ? 
Huh!” 
Celery, continuing; “But to-day he 
sent me to market, because people simply 
mu.st have celery for this day's grand 
feast.” 
Turkey; “They can do without you 
better than without me. I am the prin¬ 
cipal attraction.” 
Enter Pumpkin. 
Pumpkiu; “Don’t leave me out. if you 
are talking of dinner, becau.se Thanks¬ 
giving without pumpkin pie would be 
too funny.” 
Celery; “Tell us something about 
yourself, Pumpkiu.” 
Pumpkin; “Mine is a wonderful story. 
It was once a flat seed, not an inch long. 
I was planted last Spring, with many 
others like me, and soon sent out my root 
and stem. The vine grew and grew, 
bearing great rough leaves. Beautiful 
yellow flowers ai)peared and finally one 
of them turned into a great golden ball. 
called a pumpkin—and that was myself.” 
All, except Pumpkin; “How very in¬ 
teresting.” 
Cranberry; “I am to be made into 
sauce—i.sn’t that delightful? It would 
not .seem like Thanksgiving without cran- 
b(h-ry sauce.” 
I’umpkin; “Oh, I have more to tell, 
for I will soon be a lovely i)umpkiu pie 
and will be the most delicious thing for 
the end of the dinner.” 
Turkey ; “I claim that honor.” 
Cranberry ; “No, I’m the most tasty.” 
Pickle; “I am.” 
Pumpkin ; 
best.” 
Celery ; “They can’t do without me.” 
All, talking noisily together: “No, no. 
I’m the best, I’m the best.” 
Grandmother comes bustling in ; “Dear 
me, what is all this noise about? You 
have all forgotten the best—and that is 
good, plain, wholesome bread and but¬ 
ter. What would dinner be without that, 
I’d like to know?” , 
All make their best bow and go out. 
ALRERTA WURZBACII. 
Farm Women’s Experience 
(Continued from page I.’llS) 
IIousEiiOED Accou.nts. —Another way 
that women can help save is by keeping 
accounts. Pretty soon some investigator 
of prices will be asking to look over the 
farmer’s balance sheets, and where will 
he find them? In fairness to ourselves, 
we ought to keep this in mind, and hel,) 
out all that we can. If no better way 
presents itself, it is not a bad plan to 
deposit in a bank all money received and 
pay out by check, balancing accounts 
often enough so as to keep it all straight. 
Of course, every check should be num¬ 
bered, its stub filled out and the amount 
subtracted from the balance on hand. It 
seems to me that keeping accounts is par¬ 
ticularly women’s work, and that it is 
her right and duty to know whether the 
farm is paying a living wage or whether 
it is not. If some methodical person who 
under.stands farming would evolve some 
simple printed forms for keeping farm 
accounts, it would be appreciated by the 
farm people who have not time nor skill 
to systematize all the numerous details 
of farm bookkeeping. Meanwhile, we 
women must help work out these farm 
problems. MRS'. A. G. DOREN. 
3 , 600 , 000,000 
.03 
$ 108 , 000 , 000.00 
More Pounds 
of Milk 
Per Pound 
More Profit 
That is what dairymen of the principal 
dairy states can add this winter 
S URELY this is not the time to overlook any opportunity for increased 
dairy production and profit. It is no time for waste or neglect. The 
bending of every effort toward bigger dairy results, for both patriotic and 
personal reasons, is the duty of every man of you. Think of a group of dairy 
states practically throwing away more than 3j4 billion pounds of whole milk in 
a season by simply failing to get it; failing, too, when it would be easy to pro¬ 
duce that increase for a world market that demands every possible ounce of food! 
These are not wild figures. They repre¬ 
sent bed-rock facts, and they mean that if 
all the cows in the principal dairy states 
were properly watered with James Drink¬ 
ing Cups they would add 3}4 billion more 
pounds of milk to this winter’s yield—milk 
that would be worth to the nation as a 
whole, and to you in part as a producer, at 
only $3 per hundred, more than a hundred 
million dollars. 
A tidy sum for the dairymen of this country 
to think about, isn’t it? A sum well worth 
saving in any year, but especially so in 
this period of advancing food prices, in¬ 
creased milk demand and costly feed. 
Then there’s your own question of labor, 
and the protection of your herd from dis¬ 
ease, to be thought about in this great crisis. 
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safe water th^t no other cow has had her 
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job of herding the cows out to the tank, 
herding them in again—chopping open the 
frozen tank. 
There are two shortages for you to think 
about: The world-wide food shortage, 
and your own pocketbook shortage caused 
by your cows not getting all the water 
they want, when they want it, at the right 
temperature, day or night. 
They will give more. Al? they need is the 
opportunity. James Drinking Cups spell 
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days. At the end of that time the account 
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ent barn or when re-installed in a new one. 
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How the Costumes are made'for the Thanksgiving Play 
