MARK TWAIN but nothing can persuade the fool post-office to send Mr. Garth's letters to his new address any oftener than four days in the week—the other three they come here. Thanksgiving. We did not celebrate it. Seven years ago Susy gave her play for the first time; that was the last Thanksgiving jollification we ever had in our house. Mother [his wife's mother] died the day before Thanks- giving the following year. Ma died in 1890, the same year and month as Mother died. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer some- body else up. Temperate temperance is best. Intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance, while temperate temper- ance helps it in its fight against intemperate intemperance. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. Wrinkles should merely show where the smiles have been.