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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
A BIG MITZVAH
BENJ. SHIFFMAN
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In the first place, Mrs. Melvin
Her
Isaacs was a Lady Bountiful.
husband was a prosperous dealer in
cigars with a large enough hank ac-
count to finance her charities, varying
from Homes for Working Girls to
the Fund for Italian War Ophans;
there were no children and life plan-
ned along the lines of an apartment
hotel gave her plenty of leisure for
Gag days, committee meetings and
what she liked to call "personal serv-
ice." And, as the well-meaning lady
had more personality than brains,
more emotional fervour than re-
straint, her visitations among the
poor and lowly were not always with -
out direful results. Take, for exam-
ple, the case of Nlyer's first Christ-
mas.
Myer Tobin was the youngest of a
family of five children squeezed with-
in the narrow confines of three rooms
over his father's tailor shop. Myer
attended a gym class in the big non-
sectarian settlement house on the
Wilikli#440,440046)§445403§44~0401E corner. Once a week he went to his
club, where other twelve-year-olds
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debated and gave programs and
(when the club treasury permitted)
"made" a party. Mrs. Isaacs, a pa-
troness of the settlement, dropped in
at one of their meetings one after-
noon and beamed graciously all
through the program. Myer was
president -that term and the impul-
sive lady decided that he was "too
cute for anything," as he wielded his
gavel and called the club to order.
The very next day, she sent him sev-
eral books and a box of candy; a
week later she called upon the family
and gave the embarrassed Mrs. Tobin
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New Year
Frederick C. Martindale
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bathroom all looking glasses and
white Marble. Ile felt very tired as
he tumbled into bed and wished his
mother would not call him for hreak-
'Ehrlich.
fast. With a strange, new feeling of
revulsion he thought of the crumpled
weary of his endless complaining, he table cloth and the coarse dishes. Ile
swerved politely. "The little boy at knew his parents could afford to have
the settlement? Oh, yes, the little things nice—just like the dining-room
at that hotel. But they were so—
Jewish kid with nice eyes. Well?"
"The schools have their Christmas what had' she called them—so old-
vacation next week," observed Rosa, fashioned. Ile repeated the word
thoughtfully. "So I'm going to take with drowsy disgust as he decided
that it couldn't be w rung to eat
him to the matinee again."
"That'll be nice if your card club "trefa" when smart Jews like Mr.
can spare you," agreed the docile hus- Isaacs put butter on their steaks and
band. He tasted the soup and drop- never thought of saying a "brocha",
ped his spoon with a mournful splash. before supper.
"Rosa," asked Mr. Isaacs one even-
"Green turtle soup—well, maybe once
a turtle winked at it." he groaned ing across the dinner table, "what-
wearily.
ever became of that nice little chap
"And I thought if you didn't mind you had here Christmas eve? I said
I'd bring hint back for dinner. I'd 'Thousand Island dressing,'" the last
like the poor child to see for once in to the waiter hovering behind his
his life how nice people live. Shall I?" chair.
'
Mrs. Isaacs wrinded '
Mr. Isaacs pushed back his soup
a very awkward half hour as that per-
son knew scarcely- any English and
Mrs. Isaacs not a word of Yiddish;
the following week' Myer's patroness
took him to a matinee. She also
promised a trip to .the Art Museum,
the Zoo and the Aquarium. No won-
der . that Myer indulged so freely in
day dreams that he fell from the
third to the tenth in his class, while
his good mother pictured a future for
her son as rosy as any of the ro-
mances in her favorite Yiddish paper!
"Melvin," said Mrs. Isaacs to her
husband one evening as she nibbled
all olive and wondered why the wait-
er was to slow in bringing the soup.
"Melvin, I want to do something nice
for that dear little boy at the settle-
ment I told you about:'
"Melvin," who had started out in
life as plain "Moses," was a thin, sal-
low individual, inclined to dyspepsia
and never quite able to forgive Mrs.
Isaacs for ,breaking up housekeeping.
Now he glanced over the bill of fare
with a mournful expression and shook
his head despairingly before he
turned to his wife. "Roast duck," he
mocked, "roast duck—roast shoe
leather. User a real piece of meat
I've had in this place, Rosa, since we
broke up." Then, as his lady shrug-
ged her silken shoulders as though
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plate. "Do as you like," he made his thoughtfully. "‘Vhat lit
usual answer. "Never mind the fish," yes, little Myer. I haven
this to the waiter, "but, for God's his way for an age since
sake,' try to bring me It' piece of duck 'Food for Armenia'
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I can chew without breaking • my know Pm down there
jaw." .fhus-rfeciding Myer's fate be- twice a week and I car
tween the sump and the roast courses, places at once. Thom
never dreaming how very much de- liked to keep in touch wi
pended upon his half unconscious poor little fellow was so starved for
consent.
real refinement," she ended, pensively.
The day before Christmas, Myer
But Mr. Isaacs did not heed her
in all the glory of the new suit and
"I can't at this salad, anyhow•," he
overcoat his Lady Bountiful had sent
wailed. "Yes, it's a big Mitzvah to
Jo his father's store the previous
help those kids dowd there. What
evening, sat besidnrs. Isaacs in her
Your activities Are Being
do you say to just French pastry and
smart little car as they whirled home
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after the matinee. The boy's eyes coffee for dessert ?"—Jewish Criterion.
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were sparkling with excitement: his
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In the world.
Isaacs, glancing at him critically, felt
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the store, mending and cooking and
The Young People's Society of
cleaning for her noisy family. Sup-
Temple Beth El announces that on
pose that little Myer with his delicate
Wednesday evening, January 8, Ur.
PRICK
features and strange air of high-bred
Chas. E. Chadsey, Superintendent of
distinction really belonged to her!
Schools. will speak on the topic.
Then she laughed Softly at her own
"Educational Problems Confronting
wistfulness—how could she, with her
Mortar Stain
the City of 1)etroit."
charities, her cultural clubs, her card
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games and her shopping have ever
in having Dr. Ch_adsey as a speaker.
found time to mother a child of her
Ile ranks among the foremost educa-
own.
tors in the country and his message
But that little throb of tender
will hold a vital significanee for the
yearning made her unusually gentle
people of 1)etroit.
to the child when they reached the
Following I/r. Chadsey, on \Vol-
Isaacs' suite and the boy stood awed
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nesday, January 15. the society will
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and uncomfortable before the unac-
present to the public Mayor James
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customed magnificence of the velvet
Couzens who takes office January 14
carpets, the dark, rich hangings, the
Mayor Couzens' subject will be:
graceful furniture. And pictures!
"NVhat Citizens Can 1)o to Aid the
His eyes shone with pleasure as he
followed Mrs. Isaacs about the room City Government."
Mayor Couzens is sure to make an
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and she spoke of them by name, "The
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enviable record as Mayor of Detroit•
Age of Innocence," "The Soul's
Marode Underwear
and it will be a decided privilege to
Awakening," "The Madonna of the
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hear him outline the attitude citizens
Chair." The last reproduction in its
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must take to better the city adminis-
magnificent oval frame left him
strangely troubled, although he hard- tration.
Both meetings are open to the pub-
ly knew why.
"What is it:" asked Mrs. Isaacs, lic and very large audiences will no
who had been watching his expres- doubt hear Dr. Chadsey and Mayor
„The meetings will be held
sive face with greedy eyes. Like post Couzens.
in the Temple proper. Keep these
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people of her type she greatly en-
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joyed prying into the "motional holy dates open. The meetings will he
called promptly at 8:1o.
of holies of her neighbors.
J. LOEWENBROWN, Prop.
"That iiicture." faltered the child.
Detroit, Mich.
120 Broadway,
"They're some like it in the picture
store on the Avenue. Max says
they're holy pictures for Catholics."
Nathalie Glazer,
She laughed, highly amused. "Peo-
The sympathy of the community
ple who understand art enjoy such goes out to Mrs. R. Glazer, 151 Garfield
pictures, whether they're Catholics or avenue, in the loss of her beloved
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DETROIT, MICH.
Christ child."
morning, Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg,
The boy stared to hear her use so of Tempel Beth El, officiating.
lightly the word which had never
crossed his own mother's lips. "But - Samuel Mickel Fineberg.
I thought you were a Jewish like us,"
The ,Iwkiit body of the L'iMersity
he stammered.
of Michigan mourns the loss of one
"When you're a little older," ex- of its most popular students. Mr.
plained his hostess, you'll understand Samuel M. Fineherg, who died last
that nowadays Jews aren't so old- Saturday. The funeral was conducted
fashioned like—er—like your father Monday morning at Ann Arbor by
and mother. Though you must al- Rabbi Mayerberg, of Detroit.
Mr. Fineberg left Bulgaria, his na-
ways respect your parents," she added
as a conscientious after thought. tive land, some years ago and, coming
"Now go into the bathroom and wash to America, determined to study medi-
your hands and brush your hair. We cine. He spent two years at Loyola
want to be ready for dinner as soon University in Chicago and two years
lie
at the University of Michigan.
as Mr. Isaacs gets home."
Myer was never to forget that din- was a brilliant student and the future
ner, the lamps casting a rosy glow seemed to be full oi , promise for him.
across every white square of table He was specializing in bacteriology
cloth, the baskets of flowers, the and had studied under Prof. Brufen-
ropes of evergreen and the holly brenner, of Harvard.
Mr. Fineberg is survived by his
wreaths with their bows of flaunting
scarlet. Even in his obscure "Ghetto widow, Dr. C. R. Fineherg, who is a
home," as Mrs. Isaacs called it, he had practicing physician at Toledo, Ohio
of
heard enough of the Christmas of the She is a graduate of the University
"goyim" to know what his parents Berne and has done poct-graduatc
would think of these strangely beau- work at Petrograd.
tiful symbols. Above all sparkled the
great Christmas pine with its many
bulbs of colored lights and tinsel
trimmings. An individual in red
cloak and white beard who he knew
from his miscellaneous reading must
be Santa Claus strolled between the
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little tables and left lovely trifles of
paper and bags of sweets at each
plate. And then—surely this was the
climax of the evening—Mrs. Isaacs, as
beautiful as a picture in her low-
necked dress and diamonds, leaned
toward hint and dropped a beribboned
white box into his lap. When he
tried to thank her for the gold watch
it contained his lips trembled and he
could not speak, but she was well sat-
isfied.
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It was past midnight when the
weary boy stumbled up the dark
stairs and felt his cautious way into
the bedroom where his two older
brothers lay asleep. He sniffed a lit-
tle contemptuously as he pulled off
his clothes. Rich people, he knew
now, never slept three in a bed. Why,
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