Presto

Presto Buyers' Guide
Analyzes and Classifies
All American Pianos
and in Detail Tells of
Their Makers.
PRESTO
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THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
Presto Trade Lists
Three Uniform Book-
lets, the Only Complete
Directories of the Music
Industries.
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CHICAGO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1922
THE
THANKSGIVING
SHADOW
(And About the Only One This Year)
Of the religious festivals of the year, Thanksgiving Day is the
only one that is for all the people. Christmas, Easter and the whole
series of church festivals are for Christians only.
The Jews have their Rosh Hashana and their Passover, the Mo-
hammedans among us have their Romadan, and the Chinese have
their feast days also.
But there is one Thanksgiving Day for all, when all, of whatever
faith, can in their own way call on God and praise Jesus, Moses,
Mohammed or the Buddha after their own several rites.
Let us be thankful for all the right choices we make when we
have to choose ; for all the unseen influence* that help us to choose
right; for whatever withholds us or diverts us from a course that is
not our true course; for any denial of apparent advantage or present
ease which constrains us towards the fulfillment of a nobler destiny.
A great deal that troubles us turns out in the end to be for our
good. We should be thankful for our sleep; for our reason; for the
power of motion and action and speech; for our hearing, without
which we would never know the divine beauties of music. And don't
forget to give thanks because you are in the business that encourages
music and that the business is, as Coue puts it, "day by day, and
every day, getting better and better." Let us look at our mercies
with both eyes; our troubles with only one eye. And let both our
ears be open to the sounds of music and song. For of all things,
music is the natural expression of thanksgiving. Let us be thank-
ful for being useful. If we light somebody's torch, our own will burn
brighter. We need a sense of fullness and strength as a starting
point for every new advance.
Our first Thanksgiving Day in this country was that appointed
by Governor Bradford in Massachusetts in 1623. Newspapers were
introduced by Roger L'Estrange in -1663. Pianos came in 1717 in
far-off Padua to find perfection in the newer land of the U. S A.
More thanks !
In carving the turkey, give to the one disposed to be sentimental,
the heart; give to the one disposed to music, the drum-stick; give to
the one disposed to theological discussion, the "parson's nose."
This comment on Thanksgiving, can not be closed with a better
couplet than the following two lines by Frank L. Stanton :
"Over the. old world's wailin' the sweeter music swells ;
In the stormiest night I listen an' hear the bells—the bells."
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