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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

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A SUMMER FANCY

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"Joker, axplaimed Rebecca.
She quickl y seized her letters and

, ..• . .
"Nothing,"
she
replied
succinctly.
walked out of the library indig-
•
hantly. As she stopped on the stairs
go and meet father"
"I'll
Her-m6ther sightd deeply as she to open her sunshade, her gaze wan-
watched Rebecca walk down the dered to a shingle hanging on the
opposite direction from that which window of a building on the corner,

her father always took in coming which read, "Oscar Sampson, At-
torney-at-Law." Why, of course, it
home. •
w a joke, the whole affair. She
"I never yet saw a person act so was
a w f u 1 f u n n y about nothing," gave a sigh of relief. As if there
thought Mrs. Fishman. "I'll speak every could be anyone but Oscar.
"I stopped to get your mail at the
to Rebecca
father," she
resolved.
spent a sleepless night. postoffice, father," she said, walk-

She heard the rain fall softly. The tug into her father's drug store.
With a sudden rush of tenderness,
crickets were singing in their own she kissed him.
peculiar manner. She could not col-
"Please invite Oscar to supper
: She had
lect
her
scattered
thoughts
been home for a week, Tit had re- this evening," she said, in a coaxing
ceived no letter from him as yet. voice. , Her father laughed: 'I Wttit -
to tell him a—joke," she said with a
Strange Oscar was not content to
smile.—Chicago Sentinel.
be just friends—if it hadn't been for
the other man everything might
Services will be held every Sab-
lve,been different. Almost unbc- bath morning throughout the sum-
' n liNtble that Oscar should have mer, beginning at 10 o'clock.
i ltich practical ideas. Poor Lydy,
Rabbi Franklin's summer ad-
she did envy anyone who could read dress will be care Freeland's Fruit
and write. Why didn't he write? Farm, Omena, Mich.
That idea about a coffee and read-
ing room was clever. Of course he
Provide For War Orphans.
would write. That was the one
The Agudas Yisroel, the organi-
tangible thing in all these vague zation or orthodox Jews, with head-
t houghts. .
quarters in Frankfurt, issued an
She rose very early the next urgent appeal for funds in behalf of
morning and after a hasty break- the thousands of orphans made
fast rushed off to town. "To the through the present war. The piti-
library, to get a book, and perhaps ful state of these innocent children,
the postoffice," she told her mother. whose parents died or were killed
"Any mail for me?" she asked or otherwise mutilated through the
the postal clerk anxiously. He ,war, is . horrible to consider. _Many
N. vhich
pulled out a bunch of letters from a of them are in small '-wv
. .;
low, tim'troops
bin and looked them over slowly. have been laid wast,
"Nice after the rain, isn't it ?" he crossing
them, so
that there and
is no recrr1ssing
more any communal
said leisurely, organization there and the few in-
. "Yes, rather," said Rebecca. dividuals left are old and sick and
"Can't that fellow hurry," she unable to take care of these little
thought, impatiently. He finally children who were left alone. In
handed her two letters. One was one Austrian camp alone, by actual
for her. She rushed out of the count, there were found to be 921
postoffice, fearing that the man. such orphans. T he Agudas Yisroel,
therefore, plans to take care of
would hear the, loud beating of her these little children and provide in-
heart. "He did write," she thought stitutions for them so that they
. .
exultantly. She hesitated in front may grow up as Jews.
The provincial government of
of the postoffice. Should she read
it now ? She decided to go to the Galicia sent a donation of 20,000
library and read it there. She rush- Austrian crowns to the Jewish corn-
ed down the street and ran up the munity of Lemberg, to be used in
steps of the library. She sat down for different creeds than we could
at one of the tables in the reading behalf of the many orphans that
room and impatiently brushed a few the Lemberg community has in
magazines aside. Tearing open the charge.
envelope, she hastily scanned the
The Jewish Educational Associa-
letter. She raised her head and tion has been formed in San Fran-
1 o o k e d around vacantly, as if cisco, Cal., for the purpose of
through a mist. He wrote that he standardizing Jewish education and
was president of a large association securing attendance at religious
doing settlement work. They were schools, etc.
anxious to establish branches in
The Rochester Jewish Farmers'
small towns. Wouldn't she help Association is the latest organiza-
establish one in her town ? He was tion to join the Federation of Jew-
certain she could do so much, with ish Farmers of America. It is corn - .
her enthusiasm. He also added that Posed of Jewish farmers living in
he had spoken to his wife about her the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y.
and she was anxious to meet her.
Young lady wishes board and room
Therefore, both he and his wife
refined private Jewish family. Ad-
would be pleased to have her visit with
dress The Jewish Chronicle, Box G 45.
them. She laughed hysterically after
ELDERLY JEWISH LADY desires to
reading the letter over again to share her apartments with refined couple.
References required. Address The Jewish
make sure she was reading cor- Chronicle, Pox R•3.

rectly.

"What's the joke?" asked the li-
brarian, looking up at her.

WANTED — Room and possibly
board with refined family. Address
Box L-15, care Chronicle.

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The question of cost is completely forgotten in this sale. We
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looking for high quality garments in the smartest of styles, finest

of materials and the very best of workmanship.
Over 500 of these suits, consisting of every suit in our entire
stocks, and in all sizes and colors, but not every size in every

color.
Quite a number of these suits are in the very newest Fall

styles, having just been recently received.
Not a single suit has sold for less than $25, and ranged up-

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