THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
A Vacation Story
BY E. C. EHRLICH
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Mayor Galvin, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
The well-known Lemberg attorney.
has appointed Saul Zielonka, the pres- Simeon Ashkenazy, was appointed
rot city solicitor, to succeed himself, professor of Law at the University of
at an increase in salary of $1,200 a Warsaw. Professor Ashkenazy is
year, which will make the salary known for his assimilatory views re-
$7,000. gaoling the Jewish question.
Mrs. Ithsenbaum lived in Harlem.
Every afternoon front the first of June
until the first of September when the
dinner dishes were washed and stow-
ed away In the pantry, she shut the
kitchen door and stepped into the
parlor. First she would always glance
anxiously about the floor for bits of
stray thread or lint, for she was it
conscientious housekeeper; this job
(deposed of, sliecarefully pulled up
the three blinds to exactly two feet
from the Hill, and If the weather were
tine, opened the middle •;;Indow. A
sofa cushion under her arms and
breast, she leaned half way out of
the window, looking down the street
and swarming sidewalk until the
clock, ornamented with a fat gilt Cu-
pid, struck five anti she lagged list-
lessly back to the kitchen to begin her
languid preparations for supper. Mrs.
Rosenbaum hail been married for 20
years; for 20 years her afternoons at
the window had been her only vaca-
tion.
The Rosenbaums mere far from
wealthy; but they were not poverty-
atricken. Mr. Rosenbaum was the
owner of a gents' furnishing store a
few blocks away; the eldest son, Joe,
helped him behind the owner, Mar-
gie, the pretty seventeen-yearold
daughter was it stenographer, able
to pay for her own twelve-dollar boots
and lingerirs WORLS—with an occa-
sional present from her indulgent fa-
ther; while Sadie and Ben were In
high school, object of awe to the
foreign-horn parents and the secret
envy of their brother and sister,
whose education had been cut off at
the grammar grades. Rosenbaum be-
longed to a neighborhood synagogue
and sveral lodges; Margie and Joe at.
tended theaters and dances; Sadie and
lien frolicked with their "set" at high
school. And mother? She dill the
cooking and the marketing and the
sweeping and the dusting— and look-
ed out of tihe parlor windows. She
said that when the day's work was
over she felt ton tired for visiting or
the "movies" and the family gave up
trying to persuade her.
There had been no vacations In her
busy, overwroked life. She had been
a struggling factory girl when Rosen-
baum had done her the honor of mar-
rying her and taking her to live in
the three dingy rooms above his store,
Household cares and babies crowded
every hour; at twenty-five she was
an old woman and very tired,
"Ma," Joe said one smuttier day
when he was about ten, "ma, 1 avant
to go to the country on a vacation."
Ills mother had held up her hands
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asked her when she Intended to wear she actually put It away without brush-
ing it, promising herself to clean It In
that dress again, she would have an.
sweretl that she thought It would be the morning. As she hung it up, her
hand brushed the sheet which envel-
nice to be buried tn.
Then came the legacy. Not a big oped her black silk dress. She leaned
one—only a bit of money which the her wrinkled face against ithaking
n
will of a childless old aunt ordered to with sudden sobs. She had never felt
be divided among a dozen nieces and so lonely before in all her lonely life.
nephews.. Mre. Rosenbaum's faded There at the seashore among the well-
oyes grew large when Margie read dressed, prosperous folks accustomed
to vacations, she had yearned for her
her the lawyer's letter.
"Two hundred dollars," commented own; back home once more, she was
Joe. "What are you going to do with stili among strangers who could nev-
er understand that her vacation had
It, ma!"
"1 shall take a vacation," answered come too late,
Drying her eyes, she tied her krch.
his mother calmly.
Which elle did. Margie picked out en apron about her waist and went
out to wash the supper dishes.
a little resort for her just a few miles
"It would have been like a vacation
from New York and offered to help
9. trunk with silk dresses in
her select some clothes; but Mrs.
She went back
senbaum shook her Iead:',Why valsen I -It," she told herself, as
to
her
family.
goad money for clothes when yo n ei
going to a place where nobody will
know you? Her last year's alpaca
To bring down the price of flour,
would (lo well enough and she would the Vaad Hair of Jerusalem has suc-
not take her black silk along; it would ceeded in purchasing through the
get all creased in her trunw.
authorities a quantity of flour from
"But, ma, you said you'd only stay Egypt, free of duty.
two weeks," protested Margie, "and
I don't see what you'd need a trunk
Hebrew has been added to the lan-
for. Especially with your clothes."
Iler mother was ashamed to tell guages used on telegrams and cable-
her that the greatest Joy of all would grams which may now be sent to
be fit parking and unpacking her l'alestine in English, Hebrew or
dream trunk. She was used to having Arabic.
all things arranged for her, so she
meekly consented to the sultcage
kilts Weizmann, sister to Dr.
which Joe offered and afterwards car-
Chaim Weizman'', has joined the
ried down to the train.
staff of the Rothchild Hospital. She
"Don't worry about us," Ito told her
will organize a prenatal care and
cheerfully. "We'll manage not to
starve on Margle's cooking, and babies' clinic.
there's a delicatessen on the corner,
anyhow. And be sure to stay your
With the return of its many exiles
two weeks."
and refugees, Moza has greatly in-
Two days later Mrs. Rosenbaum creased its dairy farming, and vine-
surprised her family at supper. She growing. This small colony is find-
After that she decided that vacations dragged herself into the stuffy lit'Ie ing these occupations very successful.
were only for young people and re- dining-room, her alpaca (lusty and
fused to go on several outings with wrinkled, the borrowed suitcase trail-
Negotiations are under way to per-
'he younger children, although they in- ing from her hand.
"I guess I was homesick," ithe ex- mit the youths of the colony—those
sisted that their Sabbath school teach-
below twenty-five—to participate in
er wanted them to bring their moth- plained. "And it etas a shame to spend
the communal and agricultural man-
er. But it hurt her a little to think good money on such meals. Two dol.
agement of Rishon le Zion.
that all the rest of the world seemed lars a day and not even a fresh egg
to go vacationing (luring the long for breakfast; and that fat Mrs. Gold-
The Boston (Mass.) Chamber of
hot afternoons when she sat In the stein oser kept things kosher when
close little parlor and watched .the she went in swimming all the time and Commerce has elected Felix Voren-
trunks go by. Trunks passed down never put. her nose 111 the kitchen." berg vice-president of the Retail
the street from early morning till late She lagged over to the sideboard and Trade Board, an organization com-
at night—whale wagons of them—• ran an accusing finger along the sur- posed of 350 retail merchants.
shining wanirobe trunks and tiny face, "I don't need to go to the kit.
At a banquet given to its service
steamer trunks and square leather then to see how things went," she re-
trunks that she imagined in her dull proached. "And Sadie, 'elem, you men on Armistice Day by the Haver-
hill (Mass.) Y. Isl. Ii. A. the new
way must hold quantities of silk promised to dust every dayP
Five minutes later she was back In Community Building received $20,600
dresses for rich ladies who went to
the seashore for the summer. She her own room changing the black al- in subscriptions.
had made herself a black silk dress paca for her usual blue calico wrap-
Rabbi Joseph Engel, Chief Rabbi of
for Joe's Bar mitzvah—but as she nev- per. She could hear Ben declaring
er had any occasion to wear it. now, loudly that ho knew Ma wouldn't care Cracow, died at Vienna at the age of
it represented unattainable luxury now for a vacation and smiled grimly as sixty-one. Rabbi Engel was one of
and always went into the dream trunks she went into the closet to put her the most learned Rabbis of Galicia
she packed for herself every summer. traveling dress away. Nothin gels° and lie was also a conscientious com-
She was not morbid; but, if you had could have shown how tired she was; munal worker,
In horror at such an extravagant de.
sire. Did be think his father was
Rothschild, she demanded fiercely.
But, though sho rebuked the boy, she
turned the word over in her pleasure-
starved mind with not a little longing,
"A vac 'lots." She had heard ger-
oral women of the neighborhood brag.
ging over their market baskets of va-
cations at the seashore—had listened
with envy. Why shouldn't her child-
ren SR lin and dig in the sand, too?
She said nothing to her husband—
they seldom talked together any more
—but the next summer when Joe told
her his school teacher wanted him to
go to • boys' camp, "and all free, ma,"
she promised to ask his father. Joe
went off for two weeks 0: Paradise
and the next year Margie also enjoy-
ed a children's owing. Thus, vaca-
tions grew to be a port of the tunny
existence—glorious memories to turn
over and anticipate front one July to
another- -for everyone in the family
but Mrs. Rosenbaum. For even Ro-
senbaum was p•rsuaded to leave his
store In Joe's hands one summer and
run over to Philadelphia and visit his
brother a few days. Ile had come
home as unsociable and taciturn as
over, but with something of a "travel•
ed ale' And the next summer he had
gone up the Hudson on a lodge evenr
sion. lie suggested, though not warm.
ly, that Mrs. Rosenbaum might ac•
company him; but she declined. She
said she didn't have anything fit to
wear and that It wouldn't pay to get
a new dress to be mussed up on a
dirty steamer. Mr. Rosenbaum agreed
with her and the matter was dropped;
but if she had only gone with him 011
that sweltering Sunday, things might
have been It little different for her
through the rest of her drab, tired
THE HOME OWNER'S INTEREST
in the
STREET RAILWAY ISSUE
The Home-Owners of Detroit Have, for the Most Part, Established Themselves as the Re-
sult of Hard Work and Rigid Economy.
The Money Which They Have Invested in their Homes, Had it Been Left in the Bank,
Would Have Earned Three Per Cent a Year.
Invested in the Home, it is Taxed Over Two Per Cent a Year.
This Tax Rate is Mounting, Until Some Day—Far Off it is to be Hoped—the Taxes Will
Amount to the Entire Income Which the Home-Owner Could Have Gotten from His Money if
He Left it in the Bank.
This Means that Every Addition to His Taxes Comes Nearer and Nearer to Eating Up the
Whole Income of His Savings.
Every New Enterprise in Which the City Engages Means an Increase of Taxes.
Street Railway Ownership by the City Has Meant an Increase of Taxes in Every City in
Which It Has Been Tried—in Toronto, Winnipeg, San Francisco, Seattle and Cleveland.
While the Best Wisdom is that Which is Paid For, it is Sometimes Worth While to Take
Other People's Experience, if it Costs No Money.
The Home-Owning Citizen Would Hesitate About Investing His Money Voluntarily in Oil
Wells, or Gold Mines, or any Other Form of Business of Which He Knows Nothing.
Why Should He be Forced to Invest His Money in the Street Railway Business about Which
He Knows Nothing; Also, because the City's Investment is the Investment of All the Home-
Owners, Made Jointly instead of Separately.
The Home-Owner Faces a Real Danger When He Invests His Money in Street Railways.
He Faces a Greater One When He Votes to Allow His Mayor and Council to Mortgage His
Home to Invest the Borrowed Money in Street Railways.
VOTE "NO" ON THE MUNICIPAL STREET CAR PLAN
(Published By Citizens' Committee on Street Railway Service)
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