Thanksgivings past, and "The Suet Pudding Story" My father, Orson Pratt Miles, (no relation to Orson Pratt of early Church history.) had problems with eating, after World War I, and couldn't eat spicy or rich food, often eating food like baby food. After the War his nerves and stomach.were very bad. He said he had been poisoned by German sauerkraut while in the War. But we did have good food, with the trimmings on Thanksgiving. Often he would invite some lonely person to Thanksgiving Dinner. That has become a family tradition that we have tried to follow, (but not as well as he did!) Often we had our mother Ruth's sister and her husband, Adelia and Earnest Tobler, plus Ruth's mother Levinah, to dinner, and we children would usually go to an afternoon "matinee". Movies in those days were all "G" and usually on Thanksgiving, and often on Christmas, that was the afternoon entertainment for the children. I still don't feel the tr...
