Thanksgiving Dinner

It is not necessary that the Thankagiving f east should be sumptuous. There need not be turkey on the table, nor minee pie, nor plum pudding, nor ice cream. Tlie plates and dishes need not be of fine poroelain, nor the spoons and forks of solid silver. No colored man need stand behind any of the' chairs, to depri ve people of the pleasure of waiting upon one another. All may be very plain, oheap and simple. Last Thanksgiving a father who was in jecuniary straits took home for his boys' dessert two quarts of hot peanuts, and they were received with shouts of laughter and applause. He says they were the pleasantest Thanksgiving hit he ever made ia his life. But there are some things whieh are essential to tlie suocess of a Thanksgiving festival. Every one must be present who ought to be there - the whole family circle within reasonable reach; the unpopular members of it, as well as the popular; the ill favored and the handsome; the unfortunate and the fortúnate; those whom nobody particularly wants to see, as well as those whom everybody delights to see; welcome all on this glad day! There is a strange pleasure in the occasional meeting of the most incongruous people, provided the spirit of innocent gayety gets into the ascendant, and remains there. Every one says, "Who could have thought that old Cousin Dick and cranky Aunl Abigail could have been so agreeablo!' Each person must, of course, leave his troubles at home with his old clothes, or button them up close and tight in his innermost pocket. We all have troubles, and there are times when it is proper to teil them; but on occasions of family festivity it is good to forget, for a few brief hours, that there ia such a thiug as trouble in the world. Family affection is a source of so inuch happiness and help to us that no fair opportunity of strengthening and increasins it should be allowed to pass proved. - Youths' Conipanion. "Ilere, Jack," said the butcher to his boy, "take thig leg of inutton aiound to oíd Jones'; and lie sure to carry it in a covered basket, so that the neighbors won't know tíiat thev haven't a turkey