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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

The Following Firms Extend To Their
Friends and Patrons Their Hearty

Rich For a Day

By P. M. Raskin

Wishes For a Happy New Year

CRONIN COAL CO.

GOOD COAL

AUTO CITY SHEET
METAL CO.

Sheet Metal Work

Bellevue & Berlin Ridge 4969

Rear 103 Stanley Ave.

Warren & Loraine Wal. 4693

21st & Jefferson West 3090

Woodland & G. T. Hem. 2595

Cherry 6755

F. F. INGRAM & CO.

N. BASSAU
Tailor

1418

Perfumes & Toilet
Preparations

Forest E.

Ridge 3905-M

409 Lafayette Blvd.

Greetings From

TODD PROTECTO-
GRAPH CO., Inc.
Check Protection

603 Congress Bldg.

Cadillac 5758

THE LION COMPANY

A. Greenbaum, Prest.

H. Greenbaum, Secy-Treas.

J. Greenbaum, Mgr.

GEAR GRINDING
MACHINE CO.

HARRY BAKER

Tailor

183 Bagg St.

"Have you ever experienced the saint—silent as a dove and good as
sensation of going to bed one night, an angel. I, man, when in trouble,
poverty-stricken, worried to death sometimes grow angry, shout, and
about rent, the oncoming holidays pour out my full heart on whoever
—and waking up next morning rich is handy-often upon her—she,
—to the extent of three hundred mild and good, and always smiling,
thousand or even half a million dol- never complains, or utters a harsh
lars? You never have ; I—yes." word ; on the contrary, she even
Thus commenced Reb. Yoel of comforts me.
Amitsislav, over a glass of tea ; a
"God will help us—better times

Jew in whose company I delighted, are coming, our children will grow
since he was no fool, had gone up, this—that.
through much in his life, and could
"In short, I sat that evening with
tell a tale well and interestingly, my wife, both of us pondering.
with a quotation from the Bible as How would we really make Pesach
is proper. I knew that Reb. Yoel this year ? Unless God would in
sometimes, when occasion demand- some way help us from above.
ed, exaggerated a little, stretched And thinking thus, we began reck-
a point or two, that is, but I never oning—Abrom-ke goes in tatters,
thought him a liar, and his words
Chaske must have a pew dress,
interested me greatly.
"Is it possible, Reb. Yoel ?" I Yudke is without shoes—and we
enumerated all the children, and
asked him. "What do you mean,
found that every child had to have
going to bed poor and getting up
something for the holidays. About
rich? Perhaps you mean that you
oneself, there was no talk. And
won the first prize in a lottery ?"
"No, not exactly that," answered there was simply not a cent to bless
ourselves with. And debts—in-
Reb. Yoel, "I never took chances in
numerable. Perhaps—a little loan
the lotteries. That is, I used to
—but where?
stake sometimes, but that was soon
" 'Anyhow, what's the use of
after my wedding, as a young man,
boarding
at
my
father-in-
worrying?'
said my wife. 'I sup-
while
law's, and when all hopes and fool- pose Heaven will be good. God
forsake the righteous.
ishness fill one's head. I tried my d s oe
luck for some years, and never won Perhaps he will give up the ghost,
a cent. Later, leaving my father- and things will right themselves.'
in-law's house, with two children "Eh," say I, "such luck does not
already, there were other worries— happen often. lie will live to see
those things were displaced in favor us die.
of others. Rich I never was—I al-
"You are curious to know who
ways struggled on with worries and he is ? Quite simple—he is my un-
troubles. But, at the time when cle, my father's brother, who, years
what I am now telling you took ago, when still a child, sailed to
place, times were extremely hard. Australia and became rich there.
I was simply at the end of my But very rich. And however great
tether. All winter I went without a rich man, he was a still greater
the bare necessities of life, I was swine. i know not how such a one
over head and heels in debt, and came into our family. Tie had no
here it was before Pesach, for which wife, no child, no kith or kin, and
all one has is not enough. There's never gave a cent to charity or to
no, choice, one cannot help it. Pe- his relatives. Relatives? A figure
sach is not one of those things that of speech ! Imagine, he had otie
can be postponed ; matzo must be brother, my father (peace be upon
had, wine must be bought, and shoes him), and my father had one son
and dresses, too. We are a large —myself ; so you can guess how
family (without "eyin horo"), nine many relatives he had to support,
at table; in short, things could not and I am, thank God, a Jew of
have been very much worse. whom none can be ashamed,
"I was sitting one evening with neither of myself, nor of my wife,
my old woman ; she, I tell you, is a nor of my children.

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Grand 3066-R

Boulevard and Chene

Ridge 2958

METALWOOD
Manufacturing Co.

Golden Rod Creamed

Buttermilk

Refreshing & Healthful

SERVICE WHEN YOU NEED IT

Employees' Time Recorders—Cost Systems—Watchman's Clocks

HYDRAULIC
MACHINERY

0. G. Burlage, Prop.

THE CINCINNATI TIME RECORDER COMPANY

J. H. McCLELLAND, Dist. Mgr.

85 Shelby Street

DETROIT, MICH.

Leib and Wight

Cadillac 4671

East 1550

Trussed Concrete Bldg.

144 Wayne St.

Cad. 1159-J