THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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A Happy New Year, Gerty
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Dave was hurrying, puffing, panting
down the street. He fairly blazed in his
very new and very brown suit. A collar
gleamed and glistened beneath a freshly
shaven chin. A new felt hat with much
style and more color sat rakishly on the
back of his head. He was happy, he was
jubliant. In one hand he carried his
Seder and the other, extended, helra
little flat box. It was open and some-
thing within it twinkled and sparkled in
the fading sunlight.
"A happy New Year, Gerty," he called
out. There was no answer. Hurt to the
quick but with an ardor nothing could
dampen, he rushed forward, hands out-
stretched, eyes shining.
"Happy New Year, Callohle meine," he
repeated and gently touched her shoul-
der. Gerty did not stir. He leaned for-
ward—his cry of anguish mingled and
was drowned in the conglomeration of
holiday greetings.
Gerty's head had fallen a little to one
side against the red brick of the butcher
shop. Her eyes were tightly closed as if
to shut out some dread horror ; one cal-
loused, nicotine-stained little hand
pressed against a heart that had ceased
to ache, and the other clutched a news-
paper with stiffening fingers that had
clawed a rent through "Private Harry
Kroner."
"A happy New Year Callohle ;wine,"
Dave sobbed brokenly, "a happy New
Year !"
TURKS ARE FEEDING EXPA-
TRIATED JEWS.
Amsterdam.—Djemal Pasha, com-
mander of the Turkish forces in Syria,
has given German newspaper men his
version of the removal of the inhabi-
tants of the Jaffa district. He says
that 40,000 of these people have been
sent temporarily inland, mainly to
Haifa and Nazareth. Among them
are 5,000 Jews who in the last few
years emigrated to Jaffa.
"This small Jewish settlement,
about which so much fuss is made,"
says Djemal, "is administered by a
self-elected commission and main-
tained by the Ottoman government,
which spends 7,000 pounds Turkish
(about $30,800) on it monthly. Those
who hacv taken up agriculture re-
ceive additional advantages."
Djemal is unable to say how long
the expatriation will last; it depends,
he says, on military developments.
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flat-footed, disqualified and now doubly
precious Louie. She waved the season's
greetings. Gerty waved a thin little hand
in response, then pressed it to her side.
She smiled a mirthless little smile. A
wanton dimple ventured and hurriedly
retreated. "Harry," she murmured, "Why
don't someone take away the hand that
is squeezing my heart so?"
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uninimitiminumnimmintimmin nininitim in
front of the butcher-shop, a still, pa-
tient figure with wondering eyes that
looked into the growing darkness for a
ray of light.
Dave came often these days, and en-
couraged by her unbroken silence, would
sometimes take the limp, unresisting lit-
tle hand in his and press his suit anew.
"Gerty," he said one night. "It's
enough for a girl she should work one
year, two years ; but there's got to be
an end to it l sometimes, don't it? What
more will you want if you marry me?
A good husband you'll have, a tine home
in the high-tone neighborhood you'll get.
Work you won't have to. A piece of
gedempfte brust and a plate of soup is
enough for me. Gerty," he pleaded
huskily, "you pa, 0/oz/ /it/silo/mu, said it
should be a shidach, your Fetter, your
Tante want it, and I-1 want it too."
But Gerty was not listening. "I am
`somewhere on the Eastern Front,'" his
last letter had said, "fighting side by side
with my newly freed brothers. Life here
is tense and strenuous, hardships great ;
but the consciousness of the noble cause
I am serving gives me courage and spirit,
and the thought of my own brave little
girl at home gives me strength I never
knew I possessed."
Dave was gaining courage. "Next
week," he went on, "is Rosh Ilashonah
and I'm going to bring you a nice
7'avo, a good one," with a sly
wink and a breathless chuckle, "a half-
caret one." Gerty looked at him as if
conscious of his presence for the first
tune, disengaged her hand, and smiling
wanly answered, "Sure, Dave, only wait
a little while." If puzzled a hit at the
inadequacy of the remark, Dave attrib-
uted it to peculiar feminisms of which
he boasted no knowledge, and went home
satisfied.
Erez' lonitoz , was a very busy time for
Gerty. There were the New Year's cards
to he addressed and mailed, the floors
and children to be scrubbed, the curtains
taken down, stretched on Mrs. Stein's
stretcher and hung again, Jennie's dress
to be made over for Bessie and Bessie's
for Minnie. And at last, when every-
thing was done, the candles lit and the
table set for Kiddish, Gerty, very weary
and warm, seated herself on the bench,
covered for the occasion with clean white
newspapers.
For some indefinable reason Gerty felt
calmer and happier than she had for
weeks. The quiet, ceaseless process of
holiday-garbed countrymen, armed with
their prayer books and Taiasim, Syna-
gogue-bound, imbued her soul with the
spirit of Rosh Hashmlah and seemed to
ease her heart of the dull pain that of
late had so often annoyed her. The dawn
of the New Year. A New Year with
new hopes and new dreams. There was
to be a special prayer in all the Syna-
gogues, a prayer for a warless world,
a world at peace, where "they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning-hooks ; where na-
tion shall not lift up sword against na-
tion ;" a prayer "that the world may for-
ever be redeemed from the rule of un-
scrupulous might."
Gerty leaned back against the wall the
better to observe the holiday crowd, a
sad but hopeful people. Then, suddenly,
her eye alighted on a headline of the
page spread out at her side. Surely there
was something strangely familiar about
it. She bent her head a trifle to read it.
"AMERICAN VICTORY ON EAST-
ERN FRONT," she spelled out slowly.
"American Troops, In Brilliant Advance,
Capture Miles of Trenches. Inflict Heavy
Losses on Enemy. Sustain But Few Cas-
ualties." Drawn as if by an invisible
force, she read on. "The following fatal-
ities reported:
Gerty looked about her dully. Lena was
passing across the street, radiant in her
yellow fox and leaning heavily on her
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