'Michaelmas Day'

'Michaelmas Day'
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It seems that when Frank went to America in 1894 he reused his image of Michaelmas Day, as Christmas Eve, in the advertisement for the Franco American Food Co., which is illustrated on the previous page.

Michaelmas, (also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a Christian festival observed in many Western Christian liturgical calendars on 29 September, and on 8 November in the Eastern Christian traditions.

Michaelmas has been one of the four quarter days of the English and Irish financial, judicial, and academic year.

A traditional meal for the day includes goose known as a stubble-goose (one prepared around harvest time, fattened on the stubble fields, also known as an embling or rucklety goose.There was a saying that "if you eat goose on Michaelmas Day you will never lack money all year".

Tenant farmers sometimes presented the geese to their landlords, as could be stipulated in their tenancy agreements. The custom dates to at least the 15th century, and was easily continued as geese are in their prime at Michaelmas time.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelmas