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Vol. II. No. 26

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DETROIT, MICH., AUG. 24, 1917

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IN THE SOUP

By S. Freuder

"And where is baby ?" asked \1r. upon. I ler rich dress and proud titude. At first she endeavored to and as the hope of overcoming her
Teitlebaum, as he took his seat at carriage were softened by laughing convince her mother - that there mother's objections faded from her
eyes, in which one could see mir- were other people besides, Litvaks view, the roses on her cheeks faded
the dinner table.
w ho prefer their soup at the end and withered away.- Mrs. Teitle-
"She is dressing to go out with rored the Garden of Eden with its of the dinner. But she failed to Baum proposed to Lina a trip to
beauty and innocence.
Mr. Halpern. W e tvon't wait," said
No sootier did she start with her produce any unbiased evidence to Berlin, Germany, where her aged
Mrs. Teitlebaum, with a frown.
dinner than the door bell rang and support her contention. No sooner mother and sister lived, hoping
The soup was eaten in a depress- her fiance entered the dining room. (lid she find a witness in her favor that such a journey would benefit
ing silence, broken only by occa- I le was a prosperous looking man than her , mother's scrutinizing the her health and make her forget Mr.
sional sighs escaping from a
of about thirty, thickset, smooth witness found him or her to have Halpern. Lina willingly accepted.
anxious mother's breast. When shaven, with a luxuriant head of been either born a Litvak or Imagine her surprise when, on the
the roast teas served—a real hair. After shaking hands with brought up in a Litvak atmosphere. very day of her arrival, noticing at
German pot roast, with a de - the parents, he nodded to his sweet- One day, though, she seemed to be the dinner table that the grand-
licious brown gravy—Mrs. Tei- heart, and taking out his watch, he near the goal of ,triuMph. She had mother was not served with soup,
tlebaum laid down her knife exclaimed: "Come, finish your soup found in an old magazine article she was told that the good old dame
and fork and looking at her
On Dr. Robert Koch, the famous liked to take her soup last.
and let us be going."
husband straight in the face, said:
Only by a supreme effort she
"What," interrupted the mother, discoverer of tuberculin, that he
"Let me tell you again, I don't like "won't you let her finish her din- usually. took his soup after the curbed her impatience to inquire at
ner ? The theatre will not run meat, declaring that that was the once into the preference. As soon
this l r. Halpern."
proper way from a hygienic point as dinner was over she managed to
"You are a goose, my dear," re-
away. "
of view. But even this failed. to steal away from the company in-
plied the husband in a most affec-
"Oh,
pardon
me,
.Mrs.
Teitle-
impress the stubborn mother ; she vited in her honor, to the grand-
tionate tone. "This young man is
a most desirable match, and all our Nun," exclaimed Mr. Halpern, simply- waived aside the testimony mother's bedroom, and the infor-
Lina's girl friends look upon her laughingly. "I thought Lina was by the remark ; "Well, probably mation gained • there made her the
happiest person in the capital of
with jealous envy and rage. His through dining. I always take Prof. Koch was a Litvak, too."
the German Empire. Her grand-
rating is Al, he is a fine talker, has soup the last course of my dinner."
After
several
months
of
fruitless
mother,
she found out, was born in
N
I
rs.
Teitlebaum
uttered
At this -
lots of education and is besides one
of the cleverest pinochle players I a piercing cry and fell back in her efforts to shake her mother's con- a Lithuanian - village near Wilna,
chair in a dead faint. Restoratives viction that Mr. Halpern was a Lit- where she lived until the age of
have ever met."
"That's all you men folks care were applied and the hurriedly vak, Lina decided, as the lawyers thirteen, when her parents emigrat-
for," rejoined Mrs. Teitlebaum, summoned family physician diag- would say, to admit the fact, but to ed to Berlin. She had, of course,
"If a man is clever in making nosed the case as one of acute in- deny the conclusions drawn from become thoroughly Germanized,
money he is all right, no matter digestion and prescribed accord- it — She delved - into the history of and Ireraildren always • supposed
the Jews of Lithuania and showed her to be a native of Germany. As
what family he comes from. My ingly.
But the real cause of her. .sudden her mother a:, long list of noble; 'she grew older some of the man-
whole life will be blighted if my
Lina marries a `Litvak.' I never collapse was not of a physical. na- hearted Litvaks, such as Elijah Ben Hers and habits of her 'childhood
-
liked that kind of Jews and never ture. While living downtown in .Solomon, also called der Vilner life came back tolier with renewed
humbler circumstances, she had Gaon ; M. A. Gunzberg, .the ',father force. and attractiveness, among
shall."
"Nonsense, my dear," rejoined made the observation that her Lit- of modern Hebrew "prose; Abra- -which was the habit of eatingSoup
Mr. Teitlebaum. "A Litvak is just vak neighbors were in the habit of ham Bar Lebetison,- the father -of as the last course of the dinner.;
After a sleepless night Lina-got
as good as any German Jew, and taking soup last. Now when Mr. modern Hebrew poetry; Abraham
often a great deal better." Notic- Halpern declared this to be his Mapu, Moses Loeb Lilienblum, and up in the morning, and without
ing Mrs. Teitlebaum's expression, habit, her worst fears concerning a host of others. Then she went to waiting for her coffee apd rolls—
he continued soothingly : "So the his pedigree were confirmed, and it work and made tip a list of Litvaks • the usual Germanbreakfast4-she
' Litvaks think. But that is neither was this' sudden revelation which ; who hate become distinguished in .. inquired her way,:to the nearesi .:ca-
here nor there. Mr. Halpern came had such an overwhelming effect on the commercial and communal- life ble telegraph station andt' senti 'out
' of New York City -1)Y: their . great . this dispatch :
1,
!•
here from the city of Posen, where her mind.
„
and
.their
w
.money
hile
Una.
talent
of
making
Early next morning,
Grandma takes her . . soup last.
his parents live, and I can't see
unlimited
generosity
in
spending
it
Will
return by ;same stean'ter."k!
what makes you think that he is a was sleeping, Mrs. Teitlebaum en-
tered her daughter's bedroom', and for the support of Jewish charity . 0, n receipt o this cablegrani her
Litvak."
"I recognize a German Jew on exercising the benevolent despotism and education.
- father telegraphed to Mr,.fflalpern:
7 llut Mrs. Teitlebaum
'
would not
•
Nit-.
Hal-
of
a
loving
mother,
took
the
en--
"You. win. Mrs. Teitiebauin is
the
first
I know - Ger- gagement ring lying on the table budge. She was "as:little -amenable .
peril
is look,
not a and
thoroughbred
'
!
'in the sou
p.'
"..•;
crowd
Was
oth-
Man. I hope to God that his par- and sent it back to Mr. Halpern, ac- to facts as is the dyed-in-the7wool
little
erry
A M
er.4s immigrated to Germany from companied by a curt note that she anti-Semite• whose last . resort is ex- , ered at the Hoboken pier, t;rlien
Poland, Austria, Roumania or any would never consent to her (laugh- pressed in the words of the well- M r. Teitlebaum, being delayed .;
- - ,
known lines :
•
Butt if ter being married to him.
"I
• on,
. rived. `.`Well," said he, corne
country in the world. Bu
other country
The engagement was declared
.
do
not
like
youy..Brother
Fell.
simon
I
you
Litvaks.
I
am.
-
the
only
.
,
they were Litvaks, as 1 fear they
The reason why I canot tell.
w
were, God help our poor Lina. I'll off, but love laughs at a mothers
pure German in t to cro.11."
But this I know very well:
race of our whims, and Lina managed to meet
"Yes," retorted,',Mrs. TOtlebaum,
I do not like you, Brother Fell.
never survive the disg
ralpern
clandestinely
and
to
Mr.
:The strain of the p rolonged cop- "an d you will be able to liold on to
, ,
family."
encourage him in the hope that her
The 'dessert was already being mother would in time be convinced - flict between love and filial duty be- the claim, because bothf.of your
Ledger.
.d s."—
dea.474
passed when Lina made her belated
!Tan to tell on Line's state . of health , parents are
7 . k‘.• .' "
• .:•:r.A
as
.,,,
••
,
,.,-.
of
the
unreasonableness
of
her
at-
•
. •
appearance. She wa s g ood to look.

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