THE SIMPLE HOME FESTIVALS
DON'T you just love the simple old festivals, like Thanksgiving Day and Christmas?
That's one thing that Papa and Mamma and I agree about. And this year we had a very simple sort of a Thanksgiving Day.
Of course, it's rather a bore if you have to invite a lot of relations.
But one must always sacrifice something to gain the worth-while things, mustn't one?
And what is more worth while than simplicity?
Simplicity! Simplicity! Isn't it truly wonderful!
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself: "Have I been simple and genuine today? Or have I failed?"
Papa always has two maiden aunts to Thanks-giving dinner. Dear old souls, I suppose, but frumps, you know.
And Fothergil Finch was there, too. I asked poor dear Fothy, because otherwise he would have had to eat in some restaurant.
He tried to be agreeable to Papa's aunts—of
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