"TIE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Young Jewish Matron
Passes Away Thursday
After Brief Illness
for whom she had no pity In this this malicious, hatred-permeated skel-
abhorrence there was something eton would roam about in the city
devilish which more than justified park in springtime and threatened
the name lug." It frequently hap- enamored couples. .
The odor of lilac and bird-cherry
pens that people conferring a nick-
was in the air; the nightingales, just
Her sombre figure will for a long, name on someone predict thereby an
In the death of Mrs. Dora Smilan-
come
from the South chirped. 'The
arper
long time lie remembered. 'Fall, act of destiny.
enchanted silvery moon in the bite sky Thursday, June 10, at H
The
tall,
wizened,
harsh
woman
yellowish
complexion
wizened, with a
firmament reigned in silence. A quiet Hospital, after a four days' illness,
;old large fixed eyes, the old woman could not imperturbably look at the night hovered above the little town. the Jewish community of Detroit has
arrested everyone's attention. She least manifestation of love. When
In the shade of the blooming trees been bereft of one of its beloved
avoided people, spoke practically to young nian and young woman an ancient, yet ever new rustling, of zun • matrons. A devoted wife and
no one and manifested an aversion strolled along the street arm in arm, enamored young was heard. God mother, essentially a home woman,
for cats, dogs and births. If people smiling to each other, happy in being knows how many times the mother she yet gave unsparingly of her ener-
on the street, not knowing her, together the "hag" would suddenly earth was resurrected in love, To gies and resources • to the needy,
hanced to ask her a question, she loom in front of them like a dark the great secret of love there went ever ready to sacrifice self if through
c
Occasionally. spectre. In their innocent smile, in out, obedient to the occult law, all that sacrifice some fellow-creature
answer.
not
wou ld
when she was asked to be directed their glittering eyes, she could in- he flowers, birds, insects and human might lie made happier. Quiet, un-
to a certain place, she would in- tn t,fiat e ly recognize her accursed beings. Only the strange, shying assuming, kindly, sympathetic, her
rUbly point in a direction opposite enemy. Hatred seethed in her heart. voices of the famished old woman presence was wont to leave behind
‘Vherefore your laughter ?"—she was carried in the moonlight coin- the memory of a cheerful word, a
to her questioner's destination and
would stop and gaze in the wake of would snap—"wherefore this mirth?" plaiting: tender smile not easily forgotten. Her
you," the ''hag" would con-
-
"Mind
thin,
ma
her deceived party. A
'Wherefore are you rejoicing? You death, at the age of 29, leaves an
liciou's smile curved her withered tinue, relishing the idea that she will yet cry in agony. I will yet have irreparable void in the hearts of a
spoiled their pleasure, "you will yet the laugh on you. . . I will laughs!" host of mourning friends.
lips.
She was titled the "Hag" and no- suffer! You will yet cryl"
Like an exile from the nether The deceased is survived by her
When she noticed a company of world she, the toothier whose laugh- husband, Louis Smilattsky, Detroit
body questioned the propriety of the
Mrs. Dora Smilansky.
appellation. A strange malice, an tin- young girls, buoyant with life, chat- ter perished in love, would walk her attorney and builder; a (laughter,
natural rancor, overcame her heart. tering and laughing, she would ap- old path. And instead of shedding Reva, age 7. and a son, Martin, 4.
brother , .., Nathan Levey of Balti-
Her brain was clouded with unintel- proach them, and her withered mouth hot tears, motherly tears, on the gen- Her father, Jacob Levey, two sisters, more, Md., and Barney Levey of
ligable cruelty and little by little she would utter malicious scolding. The oral spring festival she let fall heavy Mrs.• Sarah Hillellson and Mrs. Hat- Pittsburgh, l'a., also survive her.
tie Grossman, of this city, and two
lost the sanity of judgment. Even children would run assay terror-
flIrSeS.
years ago, when she Mill had her stricken and the "hag" would raise
two beautiful blue-eyed and golden- her clenched fists at them and shower
rses. wh e n th e l augh.
haired daughters, resembling Greek them w ith cu
THE HAG
By Ossip Dymow
The funeral was conducted from
the residence, 56 Rowena street, Fri-
day afternoon, June II, with inter-
ment at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
Rabbi Judah L. Levitt and Rabbi A.
M. Hershman officiated.
Mrs. Smilansky was a member of
the Jewish Woman's Club, the Wo-
man's Auxiliary of Shaarey Zcdek,
the Hadassah and numerous other
mien apriuzga e Jo stioputme2zo
NEW JEWISH ORGANI-
ZATION IN GERMANY
IIERLIN — A new organization 1129
been founded in this city to encourage
farming among German Jews. Since
it is very difficult for the families long
established in industrial centers to
leave their homes and become pio-
neers in a new environment, this or-
ganization has decided to begin its
program with the following measures:
1. l'oor children and orphans should
be brought up in farm schools in
country districts with a view to their
becoming farmers in adult life.
2. Jewish war invalids should be es-
tablished on farms.
goddesses, Hannah Epstein was con- ter was specially loud she would
throw stones at them.
sidered abnormal.
"When your day will come you
Ycars had passed; her slaughters
grew up; and • • .• disappeared. will all shrivel in convulsion!" the
Whither had they gone? Various 'hag' would shout like a spirit from
dark rumors attempted to clear the the net her world. You •i/I curse
mystery. To Hannah Epstein the the (lay that you came to this world!
mother, no one dared mention their Wait! I will yet laughs, I will yet
names. Fathers, on hearing the tales have a laugh on your
Mothers walking with their infants
of the two girls, shook their heads;
young girls communicated it in vsitis- shunned her and hid when they saw
pers; young men let fall venomous her front afar. Red-headed Tzippe,
jokes on their account. Hannah wife of the tailor, took sick of fever
alone was silent. Her countenance after her meeting with the terrible
gre w coarser and her thin bloodless "hag." The old woman watched
shrunk more and more. Tzippe at the gate when the latter
lips
Later on, a rumor was circulated was rocking the cradle of her five-
that a drunken army officer had in- month-old baby girl. She crawled
advertently killed one of the girls, over to the mother, st cannily, and
the younger one, in an immoral intimidating her with her long fist,
house. When asked about the au- shouted:
"You foolish cow, what are you
t hen ticity of the report, the "hag"
happy about' Your girl will grow
answered disinterestingly:
"What nonsense! Both my (laugh- up to be a slattern. She will spend
tors are in America with their uncle, the nights with young men. Better
choke her now!"
a very wealthy man. . . ."
Red-headed Tzippe ran away in
From that time on Hannah changed.
That irreconcilable, obdurate, spite- consternation and the "hag" throw-
ful malice which withered her brain lug stones after her kept on shouting
now overcame her compleetly. The without paw.
She'll be
- Bet er kill your girl.
"hag" did justice to her name.
Hannah Epstein abhorred love— the happier for it."
The ''hag" died of hunger—not be-
that cursed, sweet all pova-rful love
w hich ruined her daughters of the cause she had nothing to eat, but be-
golden hair She abhorred with all cause she could not digest her food;
her heart that great feeling which she had a cancer of the stomachs, but
leads indifferently to bliss or woe, people said that her maliciousness
so long as it fulfills its order Love did not allow her to swallow food.
was her accused
mortal enemy who She thinned down more and store
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on her slaughters and and now resembled a skeleton. And
had no pity
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