August 8, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Mothers, Is Nashville House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
World, Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good
to the last drop. So once in every year we
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frong upon a day apart to praise the Lord with
feast and song in thankfulness of heart. In November of
the year sixteen twenty one, our pilgrim fathers sat down
to a table piled high with the fruits of a
bountiful harvest. They offered their thanks in humble reverence, and
thereby established a precedent that we, the most fortunate people
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on earth, have followed with joy and gratitude for some
three hundred and thirty years. Thanksgiving Day is an American holiday,
typically and exclusively hours. So let's spend the next half
hour in the dining room of an average American home
the Andersons and see how they an average American family,
are celebrating the most American day of the year, Thanksgiving like.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This everybody close their eyes.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, here comes the bird the turkey.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Boy, am I have hungry?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There you are, Mother, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Put it right down here, honey, it sure smells good.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Mom.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Dear Hi, get a drugstick, mother, Bud, keep your fingers
out of there.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Are just wanted a piece of celery.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Father hasn't said grace?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Oh, excuse me, don't forget.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I get a drumstick, all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Dear, you know I found something very interesting the other day.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Holy call, father, can't you tell us after Betty?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
This pertains to the grace I'm about to say.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
And then I get a drumstick.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I was looking through some old books at the library
and I ran across a prayer of thanks written by
Benjamin Franklin in the year seventeen twenty eight. It was
very unusual.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Dear, it is getting awfully late.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
This will only take a few seconds, honey, and I
think it'll do us all a lot of good. Benjamin
Franklin divided everything in life into four categories, and it's
amazing how thorough a job he did. He must have
been a remarkable man. Jim, for example, in the first
section of his Thanksgiving prayer. He gave thanks for the
material things of life, such as food and drink and Raymond.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
What's Raymond clothing?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Dear? Oh, and giving thanks for clothing is a very
appropriate part of a Thanksgiving prayer. When I think if
some of the things that have gone on with clothes.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
In this house, Jim, I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm getting just a
little fed up with dressing in Bud's room.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
It isn't that bad.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
No, he had all of my neckties, all of my socks,
all of my sweaters, and half of my pants. Are
you sure, yes, dear, I'm sure. In this house the
first one up isn't the best dressed. He's the only
one who can get dressed.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But Bud certainly has enough clothes of his own.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Of course he has. He just likes mine better, that's all, Dear.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Don't you think if we told them.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I'm tired of telling them. Wait till they go up
there and see a bunch of empty closets. That'll teach them, naturally.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I think we're right in taking our own things back,
but to take all of their.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They'll do them good. Maybe they'll learn to respect other
people's property. Mother, we're all Kathy, I'm here, Kaddy good,
all three of you go upstairs, get ready for lunch.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And Bettie?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yes, Mother see that Kathy washes in back of her ears.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay, where do they see those closets?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Jim? I think you're being very mean.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm just trying to teach them a lesson.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
How would you like to open your closet and find
all your clothes missing?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Honey? I do it every day, but every young boy,
Betty isn't any better. She had three of your pocketbooks,
two unmentionables, five pairs of stockings for dag here comes Hey, Dad,
Remember Margaret, you're to let me handle.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
It, all right, But I still think there's an easier way.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, it's awful, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What is it? Son? What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
My clothes they're gone?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, so down, let's see if we can't figure out
what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
My best gray slags They even took those?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Which best gray slacks? Would those be?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
You know, the ones that came with your gray suit.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I see your best gray slacks and.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
All of my ties, my whole collect.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Which you collected from my closet.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And my sweaters and everything.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Mother, Jim, I don't think I can go through with it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I'm practically naked, bather.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Honey, what is it, Betty?
Speaker 8 (05:14):
We've been robbed.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Somebody got in and we've been robbed.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Everything's gone, Jim. If you don't tell them, I will.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
All right, Margaret, I'll tell them, Betty. But your mother
and I arrange this whole thing to teach you a lesson.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
You what, angel, Let's not give me too much credit.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, you were in on it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
You mean you got somebody to swipe our clothes.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Nothing's been stolen, Dear.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You'll find all of your things in our room.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Father.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We just wanted to show you how we feel every
morning of our lives. Dad, it's gotten so that, well,
nothing in our wardrobe is sacred. Dad, my best neck ties,
your mother's cashmere sweaters. You wear them more than we do. Oh, Father,
This was the only way I could figure to impress
upon you that from now on, you're to leave our
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things alone. The next time you feel like borrowing a
pair of socks, or a belt, or a pair of
your mother's gloves, you'll think twice about it, won't you.
I'll get it, Dad, just a minute. But I want
to find out who's at the door.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I know who's at the door.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
You what we told Kathy to call the cops.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (06:29):
No, Father, Oh, oh, the grace?
Speaker 8 (06:42):
And then I get a jumpstick.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well. In the second part of his Thanksgiving prayer, Benjamin
Franklin concentrated on the natural phenomenon of life, things like
air and light and fire and water.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Fire is pretty important, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Mom, Yes, dear, it's very important for.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Stuff like heating up turkeys when they get cold. Dad.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'll get to the turkey in a minute. I just
want to make sure that you all.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Understand, Father, after what happened at Blue Paradise last winter,
you don't have to worry about us.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
We remember about fire and water all night.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That was quite a day, wasn't it.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
I don't think i'll ever get the drums here.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, there it is Blue Paradise.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
You mean that?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Holy cow? Dad?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You said it was a great big hunting lodge.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, it looked larger the last time I was here.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Jim, are you sure we ought to buy a hunting lodge?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Honey? A bargain like this doesn't come along every day.
I know it doesn't look like much from here, but well,
let's go inside.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Will it fall down?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Of course not. Just don't touch any of those breas,
that's all boy, What a dumb It's not supposed to
be the ritz Carlton. We just wanted for weekends and things.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Why do they call it blue paradise?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Look at those cracks in the wall. You probably turn
blue in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Betty, you can't expect too much for fifteen hundred dollars.
Fifteen hundred, honey, the view of the lake alone is
worth that.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
What view?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What the lake? The very beautiful lake. All you have
to do is walk about half a mile down the
road and well it's very easy to see it from there.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
On a clear day.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
But if I hear one more word, honey, lookout that
the porch is little weakened spots. But go ahead, but
open the door.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
There isn't any doorknob.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You don't need a doorknob just to push.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Okay, Jim, do you really think rabbit?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Oh dear, But.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You didn't have to push that hard, did you.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I just gave it a little push.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, a couple of new hinges is all it needs.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
I've got an idea.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Why don't we knock all the doors down and use
them for a porch?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Very funny, are you going in, Margaret?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Well, you only live once.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I suppose everything may seem a little rough at first,
but you'll get used to it. Well, how do you
like it?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
It's got a nice foyer. Where's the living room?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
This is the living room? Nice and compact, isn't it, honey? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yes, yes, if it's anything, it's compact.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
It's dirty too.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Hey, look at this. The closet's got a window in it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's the bedroom.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Bother it isn't, of course it is?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
How large do you want a bedroom to be?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Large enough?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
For a bit?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I've got an idea, why don't we buy it and
rent it out to some midgets?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But that isn't funny, dear.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
It is a little small.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You're not supposed to give dances up here. It's a
place to relax, get back to nature.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
What's it here, daddy?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's the kitchen. But I thought we could do our
cooking in the fireplace. That way, we can turn the
kitchen into another bedroom.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Cook in the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Why not? The pioneers did it all the time. I
see this will do us all a lot of good.
It might even teach us to appreciate the comforts we
take so much for granted at home.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yes, I can believe that if it'll do anything, it'll
teach us to appreciate comfort.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Isn't there any bathroom?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Of course? You just can't see it from here, that's.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
All Daniel, who mister boone?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh yes, if there's any cooking to be done in
a fireplace, guess who's going to do it me?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I just wanted to get that straightened out.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Honey. You don't seem to understand living the simple life
this way can be a great adventure for all of us.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
There is nothing in the world that's more complicated than
the simple life.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
I've got an idea.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Of course, everybody's got ideas.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We can eat on paper plates, and then we won't
have to wash any dishes.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's the spirit kitten.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Speaking of washing, I don't see any water.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
There's a whole top of it in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You mean we have to carry it in from a well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, you have to bring it up from the lake.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Oh, oh, Jim, it isn't far.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Why, But I'll get used to doing it no time
at all me.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
But you said it's a half a mile, Dear.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
This is another thing we've got to straighten out. I'm
not going to let a young boy like Bud carry
heavy pails of water up here from any lake but.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The pioneers, Honey, it won't hurt him to carry a
few buckets of water. And besides, if I'm going to cook,
I won't have the time.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I've got an idea you too. You can do it
every morning, right after you chop the wood.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
What wood for cooking?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Remember, deer like the pioneers, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If you're trying to discourage me, right.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Jim, I think living the simple life will do you
a lot of good.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You do, of course, you'll.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Get up early every morning and get your lungs full
of good, clean air.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
While we're breathing that old, stale stuff in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Please, Then you'll run briskly down to the lake for water.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
After you chop some wood and build.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
A fire like the Pioneers.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Then you'll clean and fill the kerosene lamp.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Wait a minute, why do I have to do it all?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You're the one who wants a hunting lodge. I know,
but I think you're going to enjoy it, cooking our
breakfast and lunch and dinner.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And chopping some more wood and.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Carrying some more water.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Like the pioneers.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Say, I've got a great idea, let's go home.
Speaker 11 (13:31):
Well, it didn't take much to convince Father that there's
no place like home. And that's especially true today as
families the country over get together to celebrate Thanksgiving Day
and the many things we have to be thankful for.
We Maxwell House people, for instance, we're happy that our
coffee is America's favorite brand, happy that in so many homes,
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Thanksgiving dinner means a pot of Maxwell House coffee brewing
on the stove, as well as the turkey in the
oven and the pumpkin pie is cooling on the shelf.
We take a lot of pride in our coffee, and
we want you to know you can count on Maxwell
House every cup you pour. We'll keep it always good
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to the last drop on Thanksgiving Day and every day
of the year.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Let's see, now, where was I You were going to
say grace? Not yet, But I haven't finished telling you
about Benjamin Franklin's prayer. There are two more sections?
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Isn't that nice? Only two more dear.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Maybe I'd better put the turkey.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Back in the oven, but it won't take more than
another minute.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
And then do I get the drumstick?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You can have both drumsticks?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Oh bye, Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Your father's only joking, dear, aren't you Jim.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
You know, if it weren't for all this talk, I
could have been through telling you about it two minutes ago. Yes, dear,
the trouble with this family is everybody wants to talk
and nobody wants to listen.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
You're so right, dear, anytime I.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
What did you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I was agreeing with you?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh well, anyway, In the third section of his Thanksgiving prayer,
Franklin went into the intangible things of life, such as
literature and the arts. You know, there aren't many people
today who realize how grateful we should be for the
pleasures we get from books and things like that.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You mean, Benjamin Franklin had comic books, Kathy, This will
probably amaze you, But there are other kinds.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Oh, that's ry.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Want a nodthead?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
There'll be enough of that, Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
What about the board section, father, I haven't finished with
a third That's what I was afraid of.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
When Franklin referred to the arts, he was expressing gratitude
for the pleasures we receive and also for the help.
Wait a minute, haven't we gone through all this before?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yes, father, you bet, Dad.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I don't remember anything like the Oh I.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Don't something about Ivanhole. Your mother was getting ready to
do her canning, and yeah, it was about ivan Hole.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Schools.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
A lot of good schools.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Are you set up?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I wouldn't care if they taught you something.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Important you set up?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
But all that junk they make your study?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
You set up?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Why don't you keep still.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
On your side?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Well, get over on her side?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Okay, But just because you got to see in English
doesn't mean that it isn't important you set up.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I thought I told you to keep still.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
You told me to get on.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Her side, Bud, You Kathy, wait until I say something.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay, It doesn't make any difference what you intend to be.
A knowledge of literature is one of the finest things
a person can have. Now, all right, you said it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Just because you think you're an actress.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That has nothing to do with it. Literature is the
principal difference between animal and man.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
And girls too.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Kathy, why don't you keep out of this?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Can I be on anybody's side?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Oh? What's going on in here? Hi?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Father?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Will you do something about Bud?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know. He seems like a nice enough fellow.
Maybe we'll let him hang around a little while longer.
What do you think, hidden?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
You said it?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But he thinks they ought to change the whole school
system just because he got to.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
See it English.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I do not.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Yes, he does, Daddy, that's what he says.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I didn't either.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You did too.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Just a minute, both of you, Betty, what's this all about?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Bud thinks English is a waste of time?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No, I don't. But why should I get a CE
just because I don't like Ivanhall?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Which part of your course, isn't it? Well? Sure?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
But what good is Ivanhoe? If you want to be
an engineer or something.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You'll find some that a knowledge of the classics will
always come in handy.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's exactly what I told him. And Ivanhoe is wonderful.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
He's a jerk, but he is Dad the gems the
guy gets into for no reason at all.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You know. But it's been a long time since I
studied Ivanhoe, but I still remember it on his bold visage.
Middle age had slightly pressed its signet sage, it had
not quenched the open truth and fiery vehemence of youth. Right, Betty, father, that's.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
From the Lady of the Lake.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, I uh, they're both so Waller Scott, aren't they.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Well, yes, but but you'll find.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
As you grow older that there's no substitute for a
sound literary background. For example, mister Gribble came up with
a quotation at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon the other
day I stood in Venice on the bridge of Size.
He was very pleased that I recognized the line from Shakespeare. Father, Betty,
I'm trying to explain to Bud.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
But that isn't Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's Lord Byron, that is Shakespeare. It's from the Merchant
of Venice.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'm sorry, father, but it's from child Harold's pilgrimage. Don't
you remember I stood in Venice on the bridge of Size,
a palace and a prison on each hand.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
H that's right now that you mention it.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Instead. If I don't like this stuff, why do I
have to learn it?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Because it's very important. And if you don't believe me,
here's a quotation that proves it. The arts are known
as the stepping stones to success, right, Betty, right? Bett? Now,
if you'll excuse me, I'm sorry, but I promised to
help your mother with her canning.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
You mean I have to keep on reading ivan Hole.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
You'll read it and like it?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Holy?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
How how am I supposed to remember things like that?
I haven't looked at a copy of Ivanhoe in twenty
five years.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Twenty five years, Jim, you won't ever learn, will you?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
About what? Honey?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You can't get mixed up in those school things with
the children.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I got out of it, didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I just because you were lucky enough to remember a quotation? Well,
whose quotation was it? But dear who said it?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Originally?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh? I did?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
What was that? Father?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I we'd better not go into it right now.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, you'd better
stick to the turkey.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You're so right? Well. In the last section of the
Thanksgiving prayer, Hey.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
We're in the stretch.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
But I'm sorry, man, Why don't mind? I can sit
here all night.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Father, Please, we won't say a word, will we, Kathy? Oh?
I can think I was the drumstick all right.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
In the fourth and final section of his prayer, Benjamin
Franklin covers the balance of our earthly benefits, not the
least of which is health. And while we've all been
blessed with remarkably good health through most of our lives,
there have been times when well, we've got our anxious moments.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Jim, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
We've done everything we can, honey.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
But she looks so small and pitiful.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
She'sn't gonna die. Is she dead? Of course not, because
if anything happens to her, but I'll get it dead.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's probably the doctor, Honey. Now put yourself together like
a good girl. Cool little Kathy, Margaret. That isn't going
to help her at all. We've got to be strong,
both of us.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Oh, g Dad, it's doctor Simmons.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
There you are. The doctor's here and he'll take care.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Of everything, Doctor Simmons.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Hello, Margaret, do you want to go right upstairs? Doc?
It's Kathy. In a minute, Jim, it seems to be
the trouble. We don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Why don't you go upstairs? Doctor?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
She's awful sick. We'll take care of her, bud, Margaret.
When did it start?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
She was okay this morning God please.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
She came home before, I think, and she looked very white, and.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Jim as she complained of any pains in her back
or her legs.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
We haven't been able to get her to say anything.
She just lies there.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Any temperature, she's hot and cold.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
My baby alone, Jim, No, Betty's up there with her. Well,
I'll go up and take a look. You better come
to Margaret doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Anything happens to mine.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
You've got to stop thinking that way. Nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Gosh, it makes you feel kind of weak inside, doesn't
it dead.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yes, inside and outside and all over makes you feel
weak and small. So many things you want to do
and you can't do any of them.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
He never think of anybody like Kathy getting sick. She's
always been so healthy and strong. I know, heg she
can lick any kid on the block.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
She licked this too. Button she's got too. Dad.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
If she gets I mean, when she gets well, I'll
never pick on her again as long as I live.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's fine, Sad.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I'll never call her a notthead or squirt or noodle nose?
Or have you got a handkerchief?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I think? So? There you are? Thanks, here you are, Dad,
and you may keep it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Thank you, father.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
We're right here, Betty.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Do they want us?
Speaker 7 (24:08):
No? They made me go out.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh I didn't want to, but oh, father, she's so sick.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I know.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Wanna borrow my handkerchief?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I have one. She just lies there and I've been
so mean to her.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No, dear, you've been a wonderful sister.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Last week I smacked her because she spilled my perfume. Well,
I don't care about the old perfume. I just want
Kathy to get well.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
She will, sweetheart. We've all said our little prayers. We've
all got her very close to our hearts. She'll be
all right.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
She's such a sweet child.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
She's a good ball player too. Your mother and I
have gone through this a great many times, with both
of you as well as Kathy. When you're married and
have children of your own, you'll do the same thing.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
What a thing to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It balances, Bud, a few short moments of worry and anxiety,
and then long happy hours for all of us. That's
the way it goes, doesn't it. Betty?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I wish I hadn't smacked her. You'll smack her again, Father,
How can you say?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
That if she smacks Kathy, I'll smack her.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I wouldn't dream of touching her.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, we'll see, Jim, doctor. Is she all right?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Is she going to live?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Or she's going to live. She'll be up and around
no time at all.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Oh, my poor little sister.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Boy wasn't anything to get excited about in the first place.
It wasn't anything serious, of course, not.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Well, technically, I suppose you'd call it a multi caldari kanini.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
That's about as close as I.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Can get to the Latin canini right, Translated roughly, that
means too many hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Hot dogs?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
You mean that's all that was wrong with her?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Just eight hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Why the little not heead?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You can go up if you like.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, I get my hands on her, scaring me like that.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I asked her to lend me a quarter, and she wouldn't,
but she had enough for eight hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Wow, it's a.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Great life, isn't it, Jim?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You said it, Doug, it's a great life. Yes, we
worried and fretted, but we've always come through, all right,
haven't we, Daddy? Yes? I mean, I'm sorry, Kathy, what
is it?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I changed my mind?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
May I have a wing, Kathy, what.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
A beetle brain.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
But but I looked at it so long as that
time of drum steps.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Now, yes, dear, we'll have Benja and Franklin's Thanksgiving prayer
right now. For peace and liberty, for food and raiment,
for corn and wine, and every kind of healthful nourishment.
Good God. I thank THEE for the common benefits of
air and light, for useful fire and delicious water. Good God.
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I thank THEE for knowledge and literature and every useful art,
for my friends and their prosperity, and for the fewness
of my enemies. Good God. I thank THEE for all
thy innumerable benefits for life and reason, and the use
of speech, for health and every pleasant hour. My good God,
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I thank THEE. I could this be you? After Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh honey, I don't want to eat again for a week.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
But tomorrow it'll be a different story. This is the
most delicious coconut cream pie.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I e a rate? Can I have another piece? Huh?
Speaker 10 (28:24):
And delectable coconut cream pie is a breeze to make
with new jello, coconut cream pudding and pie filling. There's
nothing to add but milk, and it's jello, coconut cream,
pudding and pie filling for Red letter desserts. Thanksgiving comes
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only once a year, but some good things we can
enjoy every day. For example, when it comes to truly
good coffee with a flavor you enjoy cup after cup,
you can count on Maxwell House every time. It's the
one coffee that's always good to the last drop. Join
us again next week when we'll be back with Father
Knows Best, starring Robert Young Is Jim Anderson, with Roy
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Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast, where
Norma Jean Nilson is Cathy Geen Vanderpyle, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson,
and yours truly Bill Forman.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
So until next Thursday.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed
Speaker 10 (29:28):
Jane Mister Keene Tracer of Lost Persons brings you Mystery
tonight on NBC
Mothers, Is Nashville House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
World, Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good
to the last drop. So once in every year we
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frong upon a day apart to praise the Lord with
feast and song in thankfulness of heart. In November of
the year sixteen twenty one, our pilgrim fathers sat down
to a table piled high with the fruits of a
bountiful harvest. They offered their thanks in humble reverence, and
thereby established a precedent that we, the most fortunate people
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on earth, have followed with joy and gratitude for some
three hundred and thirty years. Thanksgiving Day is an American holiday,
typically and exclusively hours. So let's spend the next half
hour in the dining room of an average American home
the Andersons and see how they an average American family,
are celebrating the most American day of the year, Thanksgiving like.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This everybody close their eyes.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, here comes the bird the turkey.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Boy, am I have hungry?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There you are, Mother, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Put it right down here, honey, it sure smells good.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Mom.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Dear Hi, get a drugstick, mother, Bud, keep your fingers
out of there.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Are just wanted a piece of celery.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Father hasn't said grace?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Oh, excuse me, don't forget.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I get a drumstick, all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Dear, you know I found something very interesting the other day.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Holy call, father, can't you tell us after Betty?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
This pertains to the grace I'm about to say.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
And then I get a drumstick.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I was looking through some old books at the library
and I ran across a prayer of thanks written by
Benjamin Franklin in the year seventeen twenty eight. It was
very unusual.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Dear, it is getting awfully late.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
This will only take a few seconds, honey, and I
think it'll do us all a lot of good. Benjamin
Franklin divided everything in life into four categories, and it's
amazing how thorough a job he did. He must have
been a remarkable man. Jim, for example, in the first
section of his Thanksgiving prayer. He gave thanks for the
material things of life, such as food and drink and Raymond.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
What's Raymond clothing?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Dear? Oh, and giving thanks for clothing is a very
appropriate part of a Thanksgiving prayer. When I think if
some of the things that have gone on with clothes.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
In this house, Jim, I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm getting just a
little fed up with dressing in Bud's room.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
It isn't that bad.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
No, he had all of my neckties, all of my socks,
all of my sweaters, and half of my pants. Are
you sure, yes, dear, I'm sure. In this house the
first one up isn't the best dressed. He's the only
one who can get dressed.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But Bud certainly has enough clothes of his own.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Of course he has. He just likes mine better, that's all, Dear.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Don't you think if we told them.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I'm tired of telling them. Wait till they go up
there and see a bunch of empty closets. That'll teach them, naturally.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I think we're right in taking our own things back,
but to take all of their.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They'll do them good. Maybe they'll learn to respect other
people's property. Mother, we're all Kathy, I'm here, Kaddy good,
all three of you go upstairs, get ready for lunch.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And Bettie?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yes, Mother see that Kathy washes in back of her ears.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay, where do they see those closets?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Jim? I think you're being very mean.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm just trying to teach them a lesson.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
How would you like to open your closet and find
all your clothes missing?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Honey? I do it every day, but every young boy,
Betty isn't any better. She had three of your pocketbooks,
two unmentionables, five pairs of stockings for dag here comes Hey, Dad,
Remember Margaret, you're to let me handle.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
It, all right, But I still think there's an easier way.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, it's awful, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What is it? Son? What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
My clothes they're gone?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, so down, let's see if we can't figure out
what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
My best gray slags They even took those?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Which best gray slacks? Would those be?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
You know, the ones that came with your gray suit.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I see your best gray slacks and.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
All of my ties, my whole collect.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Which you collected from my closet.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And my sweaters and everything.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Mother, Jim, I don't think I can go through with it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I'm practically naked, bather.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Honey, what is it, Betty?
Speaker 8 (05:14):
We've been robbed.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Somebody got in and we've been robbed.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Everything's gone, Jim. If you don't tell them, I will.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
All right, Margaret, I'll tell them, Betty. But your mother
and I arrange this whole thing to teach you a lesson.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
You what, angel, Let's not give me too much credit.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, you were in on it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
You mean you got somebody to swipe our clothes.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Nothing's been stolen, Dear.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You'll find all of your things in our room.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Father.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We just wanted to show you how we feel every
morning of our lives. Dad, it's gotten so that, well,
nothing in our wardrobe is sacred. Dad, my best neck ties,
your mother's cashmere sweaters. You wear them more than we do. Oh, Father,
This was the only way I could figure to impress
upon you that from now on, you're to leave our
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things alone. The next time you feel like borrowing a
pair of socks, or a belt, or a pair of
your mother's gloves, you'll think twice about it, won't you.
I'll get it, Dad, just a minute. But I want
to find out who's at the door.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I know who's at the door.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
You what we told Kathy to call the cops.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (06:29):
No, Father, Oh, oh, the grace?
Speaker 8 (06:42):
And then I get a jumpstick.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well. In the second part of his Thanksgiving prayer, Benjamin
Franklin concentrated on the natural phenomenon of life, things like
air and light and fire and water.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Fire is pretty important, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Mom, Yes, dear, it's very important for.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Stuff like heating up turkeys when they get cold. Dad.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'll get to the turkey in a minute. I just
want to make sure that you all.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Understand, Father, after what happened at Blue Paradise last winter,
you don't have to worry about us.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
We remember about fire and water all night.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That was quite a day, wasn't it.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
I don't think i'll ever get the drums here.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, there it is Blue Paradise.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
You mean that?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Holy cow? Dad?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You said it was a great big hunting lodge.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, it looked larger the last time I was here.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Jim, are you sure we ought to buy a hunting lodge?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Honey? A bargain like this doesn't come along every day.
I know it doesn't look like much from here, but well,
let's go inside.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Will it fall down?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Of course not. Just don't touch any of those breas,
that's all boy, What a dumb It's not supposed to
be the ritz Carlton. We just wanted for weekends and things.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Why do they call it blue paradise?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Look at those cracks in the wall. You probably turn
blue in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Betty, you can't expect too much for fifteen hundred dollars.
Fifteen hundred, honey, the view of the lake alone is
worth that.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
What view?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What the lake? The very beautiful lake. All you have
to do is walk about half a mile down the
road and well it's very easy to see it from there.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
On a clear day.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
But if I hear one more word, honey, lookout that
the porch is little weakened spots. But go ahead, but
open the door.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
There isn't any doorknob.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You don't need a doorknob just to push.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Okay, Jim, do you really think rabbit?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Oh dear, But.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You didn't have to push that hard, did you.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I just gave it a little push.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, a couple of new hinges is all it needs.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
I've got an idea.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Why don't we knock all the doors down and use
them for a porch?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Very funny, are you going in, Margaret?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Well, you only live once.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I suppose everything may seem a little rough at first,
but you'll get used to it. Well, how do you
like it?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
It's got a nice foyer. Where's the living room?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
This is the living room? Nice and compact, isn't it, honey? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yes, yes, if it's anything, it's compact.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
It's dirty too.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Hey, look at this. The closet's got a window in it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's the bedroom.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Bother it isn't, of course it is?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
How large do you want a bedroom to be?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Large enough?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
For a bit?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I've got an idea, why don't we buy it and
rent it out to some midgets?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But that isn't funny, dear.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
It is a little small.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You're not supposed to give dances up here. It's a
place to relax, get back to nature.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
What's it here, daddy?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's the kitchen. But I thought we could do our
cooking in the fireplace. That way, we can turn the
kitchen into another bedroom.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Cook in the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Why not? The pioneers did it all the time. I
see this will do us all a lot of good.
It might even teach us to appreciate the comforts we
take so much for granted at home.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yes, I can believe that if it'll do anything, it'll
teach us to appreciate comfort.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Isn't there any bathroom?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Of course? You just can't see it from here, that's.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
All Daniel, who mister boone?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh yes, if there's any cooking to be done in
a fireplace, guess who's going to do it me?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I just wanted to get that straightened out.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Honey. You don't seem to understand living the simple life
this way can be a great adventure for all of us.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
There is nothing in the world that's more complicated than
the simple life.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
I've got an idea.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Of course, everybody's got ideas.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We can eat on paper plates, and then we won't
have to wash any dishes.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's the spirit kitten.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Speaking of washing, I don't see any water.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
There's a whole top of it in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You mean we have to carry it in from a well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, you have to bring it up from the lake.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Oh, oh, Jim, it isn't far.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Why, But I'll get used to doing it no time
at all me.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
But you said it's a half a mile, Dear.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
This is another thing we've got to straighten out. I'm
not going to let a young boy like Bud carry
heavy pails of water up here from any lake but.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The pioneers, Honey, it won't hurt him to carry a
few buckets of water. And besides, if I'm going to cook,
I won't have the time.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I've got an idea you too. You can do it
every morning, right after you chop the wood.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
What wood for cooking?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Remember, deer like the pioneers, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If you're trying to discourage me, right.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Jim, I think living the simple life will do you
a lot of good.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You do, of course, you'll.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Get up early every morning and get your lungs full
of good, clean air.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
While we're breathing that old, stale stuff in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Please, Then you'll run briskly down to the lake for water.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
After you chop some wood and build.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
A fire like the Pioneers.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Then you'll clean and fill the kerosene lamp.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Wait a minute, why do I have to do it all?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You're the one who wants a hunting lodge. I know,
but I think you're going to enjoy it, cooking our
breakfast and lunch and dinner.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And chopping some more wood and.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Carrying some more water.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Like the pioneers.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Say, I've got a great idea, let's go home.
Speaker 11 (13:31):
Well, it didn't take much to convince Father that there's
no place like home. And that's especially true today as
families the country over get together to celebrate Thanksgiving Day
and the many things we have to be thankful for.
We Maxwell House people, for instance, we're happy that our
coffee is America's favorite brand, happy that in so many homes,
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Thanksgiving dinner means a pot of Maxwell House coffee brewing
on the stove, as well as the turkey in the
oven and the pumpkin pie is cooling on the shelf.
We take a lot of pride in our coffee, and
we want you to know you can count on Maxwell
House every cup you pour. We'll keep it always good
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to the last drop on Thanksgiving Day and every day
of the year.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Let's see, now, where was I You were going to
say grace? Not yet, But I haven't finished telling you
about Benjamin Franklin's prayer. There are two more sections?
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Isn't that nice? Only two more dear.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Maybe I'd better put the turkey.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Back in the oven, but it won't take more than
another minute.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
And then do I get the drumstick?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You can have both drumsticks?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Oh bye, Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Your father's only joking, dear, aren't you Jim.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
You know, if it weren't for all this talk, I
could have been through telling you about it two minutes ago. Yes, dear,
the trouble with this family is everybody wants to talk
and nobody wants to listen.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
You're so right, dear, anytime I.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
What did you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I was agreeing with you?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh well, anyway, In the third section of his Thanksgiving prayer,
Franklin went into the intangible things of life, such as
literature and the arts. You know, there aren't many people
today who realize how grateful we should be for the
pleasures we get from books and things like that.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You mean, Benjamin Franklin had comic books, Kathy, This will
probably amaze you, But there are other kinds.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Oh, that's ry.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Want a nodthead?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
There'll be enough of that, Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
What about the board section, father, I haven't finished with
a third That's what I was afraid of.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
When Franklin referred to the arts, he was expressing gratitude
for the pleasures we receive and also for the help.
Wait a minute, haven't we gone through all this before?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yes, father, you bet, Dad.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I don't remember anything like the Oh I.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Don't something about Ivanhole. Your mother was getting ready to
do her canning, and yeah, it was about ivan Hole.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Schools.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
A lot of good schools.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Are you set up?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I wouldn't care if they taught you something.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Important you set up?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
But all that junk they make your study?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
You set up?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Why don't you keep still.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
On your side?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Well, get over on her side?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Okay, But just because you got to see in English
doesn't mean that it isn't important you set up.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I thought I told you to keep still.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
You told me to get on.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Her side, Bud, You Kathy, wait until I say something.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay, It doesn't make any difference what you intend to be.
A knowledge of literature is one of the finest things
a person can have. Now, all right, you said it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Just because you think you're an actress.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That has nothing to do with it. Literature is the
principal difference between animal and man.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
And girls too.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Kathy, why don't you keep out of this?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Can I be on anybody's side?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Oh? What's going on in here? Hi?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Father?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Will you do something about Bud?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know. He seems like a nice enough fellow.
Maybe we'll let him hang around a little while longer.
What do you think, hidden?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
You said it?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But he thinks they ought to change the whole school
system just because he got to.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
See it English.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I do not.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Yes, he does, Daddy, that's what he says.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I didn't either.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You did too.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Just a minute, both of you, Betty, what's this all about?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Bud thinks English is a waste of time?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No, I don't. But why should I get a CE
just because I don't like Ivanhall?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Which part of your course, isn't it? Well? Sure?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
But what good is Ivanhoe? If you want to be
an engineer or something.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You'll find some that a knowledge of the classics will
always come in handy.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's exactly what I told him. And Ivanhoe is wonderful.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
He's a jerk, but he is Dad the gems the
guy gets into for no reason at all.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You know. But it's been a long time since I
studied Ivanhoe, but I still remember it on his bold visage.
Middle age had slightly pressed its signet sage, it had
not quenched the open truth and fiery vehemence of youth. Right, Betty, father, that's.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
From the Lady of the Lake.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, I uh, they're both so Waller Scott, aren't they.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Well, yes, but but you'll find.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
As you grow older that there's no substitute for a
sound literary background. For example, mister Gribble came up with
a quotation at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon the other
day I stood in Venice on the bridge of Size.
He was very pleased that I recognized the line from Shakespeare. Father, Betty,
I'm trying to explain to Bud.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
But that isn't Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's Lord Byron, that is Shakespeare. It's from the Merchant
of Venice.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'm sorry, father, but it's from child Harold's pilgrimage. Don't
you remember I stood in Venice on the bridge of Size,
a palace and a prison on each hand.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
H that's right now that you mention it.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Instead. If I don't like this stuff, why do I
have to learn it?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Because it's very important. And if you don't believe me,
here's a quotation that proves it. The arts are known
as the stepping stones to success, right, Betty, right? Bett? Now,
if you'll excuse me, I'm sorry, but I promised to
help your mother with her canning.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
You mean I have to keep on reading ivan Hole.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
You'll read it and like it?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Holy?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
How how am I supposed to remember things like that?
I haven't looked at a copy of Ivanhoe in twenty
five years.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Twenty five years, Jim, you won't ever learn, will you?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
About what? Honey?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You can't get mixed up in those school things with
the children.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I got out of it, didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I just because you were lucky enough to remember a quotation? Well,
whose quotation was it? But dear who said it?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Originally?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh? I did?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
What was that? Father?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I we'd better not go into it right now.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, you'd better
stick to the turkey.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You're so right? Well. In the last section of the
Thanksgiving prayer, Hey.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
We're in the stretch.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
But I'm sorry, man, Why don't mind? I can sit
here all night.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Father, Please, we won't say a word, will we, Kathy? Oh?
I can think I was the drumstick all right.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
In the fourth and final section of his prayer, Benjamin
Franklin covers the balance of our earthly benefits, not the
least of which is health. And while we've all been
blessed with remarkably good health through most of our lives,
there have been times when well, we've got our anxious moments.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Jim, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
We've done everything we can, honey.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
But she looks so small and pitiful.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
She'sn't gonna die. Is she dead? Of course not, because
if anything happens to her, but I'll get it dead.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's probably the doctor, Honey. Now put yourself together like
a good girl. Cool little Kathy, Margaret. That isn't going
to help her at all. We've got to be strong,
both of us.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Oh, g Dad, it's doctor Simmons.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
There you are. The doctor's here and he'll take care.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Of everything, Doctor Simmons.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Hello, Margaret, do you want to go right upstairs? Doc?
It's Kathy. In a minute, Jim, it seems to be
the trouble. We don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Why don't you go upstairs? Doctor?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
She's awful sick. We'll take care of her, bud, Margaret.
When did it start?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
She was okay this morning God please.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
She came home before, I think, and she looked very white, and.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Jim as she complained of any pains in her back
or her legs.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
We haven't been able to get her to say anything.
She just lies there.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Any temperature, she's hot and cold.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
My baby alone, Jim, No, Betty's up there with her. Well,
I'll go up and take a look. You better come
to Margaret doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Anything happens to mine.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
You've got to stop thinking that way. Nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Gosh, it makes you feel kind of weak inside, doesn't
it dead.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yes, inside and outside and all over makes you feel
weak and small. So many things you want to do
and you can't do any of them.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
He never think of anybody like Kathy getting sick. She's
always been so healthy and strong. I know, heg she
can lick any kid on the block.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
She licked this too. Button she's got too. Dad.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
If she gets I mean, when she gets well, I'll
never pick on her again as long as I live.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's fine, Sad.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I'll never call her a notthead or squirt or noodle nose?
Or have you got a handkerchief?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I think? So? There you are? Thanks, here you are, Dad,
and you may keep it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Thank you, father.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
We're right here, Betty.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Do they want us?
Speaker 7 (24:08):
No? They made me go out.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh I didn't want to, but oh, father, she's so sick.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I know.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Wanna borrow my handkerchief?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I have one. She just lies there and I've been
so mean to her.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No, dear, you've been a wonderful sister.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Last week I smacked her because she spilled my perfume. Well,
I don't care about the old perfume. I just want
Kathy to get well.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
She will, sweetheart. We've all said our little prayers. We've
all got her very close to our hearts. She'll be
all right.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
She's such a sweet child.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
She's a good ball player too. Your mother and I
have gone through this a great many times, with both
of you as well as Kathy. When you're married and
have children of your own, you'll do the same thing.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
What a thing to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It balances, Bud, a few short moments of worry and anxiety,
and then long happy hours for all of us. That's
the way it goes, doesn't it. Betty?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I wish I hadn't smacked her. You'll smack her again, Father,
How can you say?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
That if she smacks Kathy, I'll smack her.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I wouldn't dream of touching her.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, we'll see, Jim, doctor. Is she all right?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Is she going to live?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Or she's going to live. She'll be up and around
no time at all.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Oh, my poor little sister.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Boy wasn't anything to get excited about in the first place.
It wasn't anything serious, of course, not.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Well, technically, I suppose you'd call it a multi caldari kanini.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
That's about as close as I.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Can get to the Latin canini right, Translated roughly, that
means too many hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Hot dogs?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
You mean that's all that was wrong with her?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Just eight hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Why the little not heead?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You can go up if you like.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, I get my hands on her, scaring me like that.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I asked her to lend me a quarter, and she wouldn't,
but she had enough for eight hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Wow, it's a.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Great life, isn't it, Jim?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You said it, Doug, it's a great life. Yes, we
worried and fretted, but we've always come through, all right,
haven't we, Daddy? Yes? I mean, I'm sorry, Kathy, what
is it?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I changed my mind?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
May I have a wing, Kathy, what.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
A beetle brain.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
But but I looked at it so long as that
time of drum steps.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Now, yes, dear, we'll have Benja and Franklin's Thanksgiving prayer
right now. For peace and liberty, for food and raiment,
for corn and wine, and every kind of healthful nourishment.
Good God. I thank THEE for the common benefits of
air and light, for useful fire and delicious water. Good God.
(27:20):
I thank THEE for knowledge and literature and every useful art,
for my friends and their prosperity, and for the fewness
of my enemies. Good God. I thank THEE for all
thy innumerable benefits for life and reason, and the use
of speech, for health and every pleasant hour. My good God,
(27:48):
I thank THEE. I could this be you? After Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh honey, I don't want to eat again for a week.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
But tomorrow it'll be a different story. This is the
most delicious coconut cream pie.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I e a rate? Can I have another piece? Huh?
Speaker 10 (28:24):
And delectable coconut cream pie is a breeze to make
with new jello, coconut cream pudding and pie filling. There's
nothing to add but milk, and it's jello, coconut cream,
pudding and pie filling for Red letter desserts. Thanksgiving comes
(28:47):
only once a year, but some good things we can
enjoy every day. For example, when it comes to truly
good coffee with a flavor you enjoy cup after cup,
you can count on Maxwell House every time. It's the
one coffee that's always good to the last drop. Join
us again next week when we'll be back with Father
Knows Best, starring Robert Young Is Jim Anderson, with Roy
(29:10):
Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast, where
Norma Jean Nilson is Cathy Geen Vanderpyle, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson,
and yours truly Bill Forman.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
So until next Thursday.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed
Speaker 10 (29:28):
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