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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
THE "MILCHIGE"
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A little W Nile ago, as time is reck-
oned in the town of Klemenke,
Hasche belonged to its genteel peo-
ple. She was not accounted rich, ex-
actly, just comfortably well to do.
Her husband, Chaim Beres, was a
grain dealer, who would take a flyer,
once in a while, speculating in fod-
der, dried berries or a few barrels of
mushrooms. Most of the time he
didn't know whether he had won or
It in his deals, but the town con-
sidered him an enterprising merchant.
Whenever he was asked: "How are
you getting along?" he used to make
answer: "Thank God, I am just plod-
ding along!" And the town took this
for a modest way of saying, "Thank
God, I ant on the high-road to
wealth!"
"What an ado about a pound of
poor meat!" lamented Hasche "I
guess I'll make a milchige shabbos,
this time!"
"Very well!" sighed Reb Chains
who didn't like the idea at all. "lint
I don't like the idea at all. "But
don't like the looks of it—people will
talk!"
"l'eople don't look into our pots '
retorted Hasche.
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Hermann Hoexter Will
Address Women's City
Club, Saturday, May 22
iE
"Meet Friedberg
Wear Diamonds"
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Nfr. lierniann iltiexter is lot will
give his impressions of "Ilehipti the
Scenes at the Metropolitan Opera,"
Saturday. May 22. in the auditorium
of the Women's City Club, was for
s.
four years associated with the press
department of the Century Opera
Company. of New York. In his ca-
pacity as lecturer he visited the vari-
ous Nets York high schools, giving
illustrated lecture-recitals on the
operas which were presented by IN/
a
organization at the beautiful Century
theater. Since the war, Mr. Hoexter
has been lecturing in various New
•
York schools, conducting bands, and
writing special articles for the Chi-
cago Opera fees: department..
At present Mr. Hoexter is Kenai-- ifq,
ing for a series of "Community Cott- kr
certs," which will be given in the 2:
Arena Gardens next season. at which
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many of the world's greatest artists
The first milchige sholet was dis-
tinctly a success. The potato,: with
butter were fine and mellow, and
their odor at the shabbos-board,
where they were served in styli'. Wan
very appetizing. Itch Chaim con-
soled his wife by praising her cook-
ing
" \\*ell (lone!" he lauded. "It's the
virtue of skald)°, that went into the
victuals," declared Hasche piously.
Rut s.cretly she mourned the reek
of het erstwhile sholet, the sholet of
the gout oil days, whose flavor filled
(1, 11
wee,
esIe
was well
fliew)
As long as he was their pard. Resets
along," his wife, Hasche, was looked I epicure. and yet—she felt the conte-
nt, to as a "beautiful householder.' down. In her "good years," she made
At the butcher shop, the best cuts sholet of fat, spicy Kugel and of the will be presented to the public at • •
meat were reserver] for her, in recog choicest cut , of meat—not because popular prices. He has also been en- I:
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union of her genteel eminence. \\lieu she cared fur fine eating—very few gaged to continue his lectures on the
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Detroit Symphony programs, and will
but in honor
ever it hammed on a Thursday that Lithuanian women do--
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appear
as
interpreter
with
the
orches-
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It
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she couldn't spare the tone for inar of the day. N.\ hat (wet
keting. the hol l'er ' sWile would Pa. her to or milchige sl.olet. was this: tra in a series of special concerts for ' -$:
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young people.
her signal honor by delivering th• she need not go to du butcher shop,
meat at her house in person--a ear . that odious shop where formerly she
distinction, as the butcher's wife to.,
vas held i n great honor, but slighted
Henri' Mosier, artist,• most pope- if
low whenever she came to glee her
care to assure her,
there to. poor one-pound order. w( lady known for his paintings of
"Believe me, Hasch Potatoes
only two persons in town for whim cheap, they tasted well, and to buy American historical subjects, (lied last
1%1 fetch the meat—Feigel-Leas an,. them, Hasche need not "darken her week at his home in this city. Mr.
Mosier was born in this city in 1841.
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you- -as for (Amite Nkelvels, stuck ut ( Nt S.
•• the milchige He won many medals, among them
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as she is—I'd die rather than fetcl In Hasche's hou ,
gold medal in the S:11011 of 1883
and carry for her, 1 would!" And shabbos established itself in perms- the
Ila•i he was deeply impressed with nency—she stuck to her starchy foods and the silver medal in the Paris ex-
this proof of her own superior stand- for six months on end—until disaster hibition of 1889. The French Gov-
mg in the community—she and Fel- happened and "her blood was shed" ernment decorated hint with the red
ribbon of the Legion of Honor, the
gel - Leas were the only householder, before all the town. is •'. •.
}fara d die's grand gold medal and diploma of
It happen, in th
in town to whom meat was brought
lib—there was eminence for you! stove got out of repair—it needed a honor at the Atlanta Exposition of
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, ' worth of 1895; the Thomas B. Clark prize, Na-
As a "beautiful householder," little mending—live florin
Hasche had to live up to her reputa- repair work at the most. Five forms tional Academy of Design, 1896, and
have been o f "na il account in gold medals awarded at exhibitions in
would
tom
in gossip
the matter
of that
giving
alms.
!meal
had it,
she
never "the good years," while Reb Chaim Philadelphia (1897). Ile was the
l' s, call in the first American hunter to will the
. have been a distinction of having a sample of his
gave less than an entire kopek—as was
"Plodding would
along."
tove-setter
then
s
i Ctg oasi:
p i tireflo nt r se t d heby Ltu lix ee,1,,ir b (0 .11 7 ,1g
fur giving half a kopek, like so matter of little weight—it would have ( w r u t rn k wit
many other housewives---perish the
V, bell
thought! She wmildn't demean her- been done at mice. But now ,
!cries, and for fifty years he was
self, like that miserly lot, beige!- cash
was
scarce and it the
stove
not recognized in Europe an America d
badly
needeil---for
was
summer
as
one of the great genre painters of
Leas.
time--a spirit burner will do for light
And thus Hasche lived for years, cooking and the sholet might as well the world. His painting, "Washing-
ton
Crossing the Delaware," has been
secure in her cotnfortable prominence, be baked at a neighbor's.
more favorably received by natty
until her husband's "plodding" came
Her next door neighbor, Ethel Leis-
to an abrupt halt. Itch Chaim went er., though not a woman of means, critics than the familiar Lent ze paint-
into unexpected bankrutcy. Now in owns a treasure of a stove. The ing of the same subject in the Metro-
a big town a bankruptcy :nay be an whole gass is full of its praises. It politan Museum of Art. His paint•
easy stroke of genius; a man "salts is as big as an acre-lot and it "holds ing of Bet sy Rots and her com-
panions at the making of the first
away" a couple of hundred thousand, the heat" beautifullyl The oven is in
American flag, and that entitled
declares his insolvency, goes away to great request among the neighbors.
"Ring, Ring for Liberty," depicting
foreign parts, and conies back in a Its great virtues are exempe
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year or two as if nothing had hap- , this tale, which is a tradition of Kle- the old bellringer in Independence
Hall. are perhaps the most familiar.
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p used. Not so Klemenke—had
w
Reb Chaim Beres gone away, the
Al the Beth-llan tidrash there as
town would have remembered his un- menke:
once trouble a-brewing and there en- ,
paid balance against hint to a penny sued an "Inhibition-of-the-Reading.
ten years hence • • • so he de- The congregation kept on rioting and
cided, like a prudent man, to stay. fighting until sundown. When the
On the morrow after his declaration men came home, they found their
of insolvency, the community was in sholets' "in ashes." that is, as cold
an uproar. As usual in such eases, as the ashes of a dead hearthfire, and
Reb Chaim's reputation as a "great their housewives heaped maledictions
merchant" went against him.
upon the gabbai and wished him as
"Well, what say you?"—"Reb dead as the ashes of their hearth-
Chaim Beres insolvent! Such a mag- tires. Only the shabbos meals stored
nate. a trader in a thousand, and up in Ettel's oven were "as hot as
bankrupt!"—"Don't tell me—I knew fire," and so far as Eitel was con-
these six months what was coming!" cerned. her husband nugnt have
—"Well, can you lend any money on fought at the Beth-lfamidrash until
percentage in these evil days? Can't the next sunrise and yet found his
trust anybody—better keep it in your dinner piping hot on coining homel
own pockets!" There were no other
It was through Ethel and her neigh-
exciting news just then to keep the borly good offices, that misfortune
town in matter for talk, and the came to Hasche and brought her a
"beautiful householder," Ilasche. came black shabbos. You see, Hasche, by
in for a plentiful share of uncharita- marvelous good luck, hail managed
ble censure.
to keep her sinister secret—the secret
Fortunately, a heated controversy of her meatless Sabbaths—front
arose a few days later about bring- eyes of the town for six months. She
ing a third shochet from a far-otr guarded her secret jealously, behind
and barred windows and locked doors-
out enke;
e third
governmental
town forgot
to
th Chaim not a south must know, that she, the
in its excitement
a bout Reb
Klemenke
householder,"
"beautiful
shochet
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Beres' insolvency; forgot, that is to erstwhile
per-
say, to talk about it, for in matters had
to meatless
sabhaths
I
Reh stooped
Chaim had
to swelter
and per-
said, the
had spire on hot days. bohind drawn win-
of tenacious
credit the memory.
town, as Not
afore
a
even
butcher's wife would trust a pound dove blinds, eating potatoes at his
sabbath table and making no demur.
Now• it so chanced, that a newly-
of meat to fallen greatness.
"The first will be the last," but Reb married neighbor—another one of
Chaim wasn't made to feel the edge Ettel's stove-users, and new to both
of his change of fortune very keenly, the stove and the gass, got hold by
To be sure, he wasn't paid the same mistake of Ilasehe's pot, and Hasche
deference at the Beth-llamidrash as of hers. Hers was a fleshpot of Miz-
before, but his pew remained the rain, full to the brim with savory
same—the pew of a notability and, Kugel and juicy meat, while flasche's
as such, facing East. \'hen it came contained nothing but the potatoes-
to the recitals on Saturdays, the "es- and-hutter of her shame-faced poser-
DETROIT'S EXCLUSIVE HATTER pedal honors" were not anymore his, ty. Within half an hour the news
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but on the other hand, the gabbat was all over the gass: at Reb Chaim
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had not the nerve to call hint tip to Beres' they eat milchige sholet-
the reading of the least considered theirs was a milchiger shabbos! It
t.
portions, and so he managed to keep was a proclamation, as if by the
town-crier. of Hasche's loss of caste!
up his prestige middling well.
Hasche had the best of the ex-
It was different with flasche, who
Its i change, meat ana gravy and Kugel
felt her degradation keenly.
aplenty—but
that (IT(In't console her.
,
smartest edge was her changed
standing with the butcher's wife. On She wept red-hot tears of shame and
Reb
all errands of collections for the poor, humiliation over her plate.
the town philanthropists knocked at Chaim, instead of speaking comfort
her door first, to get a ready wel- to his wife, gave her a sound talking-
come and five-kopek-pieces without to, inspired, perhaps, by the toCmory
cod. And now, whenever she espied I of six months of meatless sabbaths.
them from her window, she had to I "Woman, 1 tell thee, thou hast
bar the door and sham absence from I nought but thy deserts. Thou were
home! Whenever she thought of the! hiding thy poverty, as if it were a
olden times, she wept quiet tears. I disgrace! The more thou seekest to
be-
Finally, the collectors for the poor hide it, the more Manifest will it
stayed away from her threshold alto- come to the people whose eyes thou,
gether—and that made her cry worse avoidest. Hadst thou gone in all de-
cency to the butcher shop, like an
than ever.
Worst of all, "her blood was shed honest poor woman, and bought a
like water," as she put it, in the hut- pound of meat. thou wouldst not
cher shop. Needless to say, she had have now a shabbos of heart-burning
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Wed.. Sept. 24 to buy for ready cash. That didn't and tingling of the ears!"
hew Year'. Eve
S•t. (let. 4
But Hasche gave no heed to her
lions Kippur
trouble her—it was the reception she
Thurs. Oct.
Succoth (First 1111
met with—the butcher's wife didn't husband's homily. in her mind's eye
Succoth Must Day—Shetnisi
Thurs. Oct. 16 otter her any more those fat tidbits she saw a gossipy, newly-married
A
sinichelk Torah Fri.. Oct. It
and succulent marrow- bones that woman go from door to boor, pot in
Ilosch-4 hode•ch C ...... . Fri., Oct. 24
went so well with the sholet for shah- hand—her poll—and spread the news
Itoseh-Chodencb Kislev Sue. Nor. 23
bos—not that she cared particularly of her milchige sabbaths, of the final,
I • (Feast of Dedientios)..
\lea.. Dee. 1! for those dainties—she had never irrefutable proof of her poverty and
Dee. 22
Chodeseb
Tebett...Mo...,
Rasch -
been a glutton in her "good years"— her husband's, with a voice whose
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Th ■ rs., Jut. 1 it was merely her come-down that compassionate pitch masked rejoicing
Fast of Tebeth
lio•ch-Chodesek Shebat Vied. .P ■ s. 21 distressed her to the point of tears! • • • "It is well," she brooded
lloseh-Chode•ch Adnr • .Thor,. Feb. IV If she stayed away now from the with red-rimmed eyes, "that I bought
lyrlm (Feast of Esther) Thurs.. Dar. 4
ltoseh-Chode•elt Nisses...Pitt.. Mar. 20 shop for half a dozen Thursdays in a fine prayer book in the good years."
Sot, April 3 succession, the erstwhile sycophantic With her, as with a good many other
P•ssol el. Pennell)
rnasover (Eighth Day).. S.C. April 10
butcher's wife would never think of women, a prayer book was a bundle
Itoseb-CbOdeseb lien. • ..•••-. Atoll II'
Thar.. Ifs) 4 lifting a finger to bring the meat to of ,incantations, to be wept over
l et h 'Omer
. May 10
• O. • she took it from the shelf
flosch-Cliodesch Sless..
her house!
Shsbuotb (Coafinustio• .Tuea. ....
One Thursday Hasche had a fit of and her tears were running in nvu-
Su. Day 23
stubbornness: she would not go to lets down her cheeky. Her husband
onset-tbodeselt Tammuz
Wed. June 14 the shop, where "her blood was shed —what did he know? He saw only
soli, July
meat and Kugel but on her plate she
Fast of Totnnois
FYI., J July le like water!'
Chnde•eb AU
Rosh-
"And how will you prepare the saw, not gravy, but her blood that
July 21
l'n•f of AA. .
was shed throughout the gass
Sul.. Ass. 14 shabbos?" asked Reb Chaim .
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