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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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By F. C. Ehrlich.
T
HE Town Was full of overflowing
when I entered, for Mrs. Cohen
was holding court. She bad been hack
from the hospital just three days, but
knowing her imperious temper and
my own duties as a rabbi's wife, lily
conscience troubled me somewhat
that I had not called at once. But
for once NI rs, Cohen failed to remind
me of my • - she had something
more important to talk about.
"Sit down," she cried in a voice
rather energetic tor an invalid. "Move
over on the couch. NIrs. Kaiser and
It the rabbi's wife have a little room.
sort of crowded, but that's the
way it's been ever since 1 got home.
People in morning, noon and night.
It tires italicnt," sitrvev ing the
group like a he:tieing martyr, "but I
to turn anybody
ain't got the
away. Anil it w• like that at the
Eterybotly in town
hospital, too.
came at least once to see how the
operation turned out, and my flowers
make the room look just like a wed-
ding reception. I had to give 'em
away. I got so many of 'ent. II hurt
tile, too. with flowers su highs. Hon-
estly. NI, Kaufman, you didn't need
to sold any. I knoW what a good
heart you got and. as 1 told my Jake.
it's hard einitigh for you to get on as
it i•. without sending plant, to sick
!wool, e,11 if they are old friends
and hate , 1 cooling to them. A howl
of your ke..tar,1 or a piece of home-
made cake wouldn ' t have cost you so
much and would have done mu 11101,
good.
"Alitl von didn't need
so to get married. It makes too much
excitement. That's what
I always
used to tell my Jake, 'Jake,' I said,
'Put a ga u d mother and it ain't mtt-
nral I should want you to go off
and get married, but as long as she's
a R 00,1 Jewish girl and economical
and not always ready to pick a light
with ow 'cause rill her mother-in-law,
I ain't got a word to say. It's too
hard nun the girls to have a nice-look-
ing boy with a good salary and no
had habits running around loose. It
makes them nervous "”
"And were the nurses at the hos-
pital 'ilervolls' about Dr. Nlorris?" I
asked, quite unashamed of provoldng
gossip. Sometimes it is a real pleas-
ure for the rabbi and the members of
his family to know that somebody else
in the congregation is being talked
about.
-The y was -every one of ' CM. They
Was always hanging around Illy ',on!,
asking if I needed allythiug, with one
rye on the door to see if he Iva,
coming in. And wh e t, h e did, th e ,
used to foss around and pretend to
dust flr ' water nisi floWer• or
thing. It wasn't nice; girl, used to
11111 after a man in nisi day, lint they
wasn't so liold - a b ou t it."
-Then
nt-CII a private
nurse with all that attention," I slug-
gestetl.
"That was the worst !Fart of it,"
she mourned. "When I woo to the
hospital my Jake just insisted I get
a private mow So I paid her fur
standing around. It was that Miss
Cortuan up there, the one who Away-
:fees around with her nose held 11.
.Nnil mean and closeynotolted! \\Then
1 iried In totem her about some of
the other le we'll patients she altvay.iii
turned around and asked ow whit I
wanted for supper. .ks though it
Wasn't all right for two Yelmilim to
solo,. a little together once
in
a
while "
"I heard she .and 1)r. Morris used
to gin together a hit,"
ventured !Sirs.
Brown.
"Then you heard wrong!" snapped
hack Cohen, "for she wouldn't
have a thing to do with hill]. \Viten-
ever he came in ins- room, she got
the cotton or the bandages or what-
ever he wanted, but node a face a
mile long. Like mine Ella on vv.-1,h-
day. Nlore than once she hints I
ought to send the big pieces to the
latiodre, but I make off I don't hear
her. I'llutzpalt • with only two of us
in the fatoilt and all the meals I'm
invited out, i n n."
to bother,
either." With a swift turn of her ban-
daged bead in my direction.
told you before if you give to our in
the congregation, you have to give to
everybody and on your husbands sal-
ary it can't he done. People don't
expect it of a rabbi."
"And how are yoo feeling 110%0"
asked. as she concluded thanking nit
in her Own RraCefill way,
"She looks fine, iniliresslier," this
from NIrs. Rubel, a thin faced old lady
in a fur cape. "Now when I was op-
erated on, I Was like a ghost for
months afterwards and when I met
my best friends on the street -
"But me operation," began Mrs.
Cohen with her usual steam roller
manner. only to be interrupted by in-
trepid ND, Katifinan's reminiscence.
"%Viten I was operated on," she told
all' who would listen, for about half
the good ladies in the room were col-
t, ctiil in little knots, buzzing over
their own past experiences, chiefly
"There's 1)r Morris no' getting
medical, "when I Wag operated on I nut of los rdr.“ observed
\Ir., ICuliel
got so thin I couldn't wear a stitch from her post of vantage at the win-
and had to get all new clothes'
dow. "I gill••• 1 ?IMO' lie going."
"Yes, I rem•mber," Mrs. Colfen's
Them was a gi eneral rustle after
tone was acid. "I never heard the wraps, a iiiiirtimr of good byes. Ito
wi ❑
last of it from mine Ella. She and in the hall Dr. Morris caught my hand
some other shicksa• has went up to and pelted ow into the dining room
.
1001: over What you had to sell and He is nice young man and I would
she picked out a broadcloth coat you like hint en ell
if he weren't so shame-
said was as good as new. But it never fully good-looking, because he alw
- ays
gave her no satisfaction and every treats tee just like an ordinary ten-
to
lime she Wore it, she threw it up
man. not the rabbi's wife,
she
bought
it
off
a
friend
'cause
"I've just been to see your husband
of mine. I got so sick of it. I said. ;and It, says you re
going to let us
'For Coel's sake. Ella, here's my last
vu. it in the !king r00111 tolllOtrOly
winter's coat which I ain't worn hand , i•ning," he whi , i , erefl. ‘Ve've
de-
get
and
Is any. Take it for half toilet
rided to have it Collie off right away
your sister to buy NI, Ka u fman 's that wl• tau combine our wedding trip
coat from you. Your sister Byes in i and is visit to the Ocetilists' Confer-
ilui country and won't know hilt Mt- enCe down al New Orleans at the
ferrite,- if it ain't tip to date.' I know sani• time. And you are an angel
I could have got at least live dollars for keeping our secret. Lou just
more if I'd have sold it to the old wouldn't let the whole town in on it:
clothes fellow, btu I was willing to, she hates the usual tool engagement
give mine Ella the benefit. I m al- and Wanted to keep on working till
WaN• too good-hearted for my own the laic minute."
good"
"Yon and Louise Corman think
"NVIniti my S.olie was born." put in you're awfully chit et'," 1 jeered hack
NI,. 'limner, sensing that the time at hits, "11111 if poor :Qrs. Cohen had
WA, appropriate for such recitals, "I had her two good eyes going, you
had an awful time. I had old H r. wouldn't have been able to get away
Cowan-hr's dead now-;old he with it."
said-"
He agreed with a boyish laugh and
"So your eye is better:" I inter- darted tip the stairs. I left the house
Talifril. knowing NIrs. Cohen would walking sedately enough, lint with a
never forgive me should I go away very merry singing at my heart. I
with other account, in my ears but alvvays get like that at the thought
the talc of her own operation left of a really nice wedding. Sometime,
misting.
I wish my husband's only nib arms-
I just marrying foolish-happy young
God
"Yes," grimly, "hut it's
should thank not that young snip of people like L o uise Corman and her
a Dr. Nlorris up at the NItimorial Hos-
pital. And the tunes-'
"It Was that way when I was oper-
ated," piped lip Mrs, Levine.
"I didn't want to go in tie • it
place," went on our hostess. 1 ' 011 Ills
Jake made me. I said to hint. 'Jiiki•,
thank God, e got one good iv,
I lie It lush i 4 , 1111111111 . 0y of Shanghai
left and supine, there is a cataract
on the other. Mt good eye is going nisi utiu deeded to appoint a Rabbi,
to last me as ',It; as I need it so and eminnunieated with the British
what's the use Ili throwing an- ay good Chief Rabbi, Dr. Hertz, in order that
money on an et-ii that I wouldn't use he might recommend a likely candi-
if I had it?' But Jake wouldn't hear date; The correspondence on the sub-
of it, no I Went to the Nlemorial and je ct is exceedingly interesting. The
Ws a mercy I got back'at all, eyes or Shanghai community offered a salary
of !MO dollars monthly to a suitable
no eyes.
'You had such a serious operation?. Marv, I hey expect then spiritual
I asked, cocking one ear for her leader to be a fully qualified Rabbi.
answer, while with the other I list- They described themselves in these
ened to Mrs. Smithies murmured ac- terms: "Our congregation is com-
count of her sister's operation for posed mostly of Sephardim who fol-
cancer in the year 1400. '
low the Sephardic ritual, and has two
"Serion , NI y enemies. shotdd have Syttagtigues, each of which has a
such operations and such doctors and Hazam who would be under the
Idlest, 'What is it, 'Ella?" to the supenision of the Rabbi-elect. The
wooden-faced maid of •all work who most important functions of the lat-
stood stolidly at her rIllow. "Huh? ter will be to make Judaism here a
Morris on the telephone? Ye , ,
living force, and to revive an inter-
he can come up and see il'he ought
tiO . in all Jewish affairs." Another in-
to take off the bandage , if hr Wants
teresting point in the letter is the
to. The quicker I'm through with hint
caution: "No anti-Zionist heed ap-
the better I'll like it."
ply." It must be confessed that the
"But everybody Says he is such
unsatisfactory conditions of the min-
wonderful occttlist." I defended.
liter in this country were reflected in
"I'm not saying he isn't," she con-
- Dr. Hertz's reply to the Shanghai
ceded sourly. "Only if I didn't have
congregat
a good constitution, imbressher, I'd
Dr. Hertz w rote: "There is a ter-
never have got oeer it. NVith such
rible dearth of Ministers in England.
nursing!"
and More especially of Cniversity-
"The nurses at the Memorial used
trained Rabbis." The best he could
to be awfully attentive." put in Mrs.
undertake to do for the Shanghai
Rubel. "I know when I hail my oper-
community was to train a man for
ation-"
them if they paid the candidate a sal-
"Stutentivel That was the trouble,
ary during the period of training. One
they was all too attentive," almost
gentleman was recommended to the
groaned the sufferer. "Not a minute
Shanghai community and they 'ac-
to myself did I get from morning till
cepted hint. but ultimately it was
night. It's all 'cause that Dr. Morris
is: unmarried. I say it's a critne for found that he could not go out. and
such a good-looking Jewish boy to the Rev. \V. Hirsch, of Middlebor-
wail till he's nearly thirty-five or ough, was recommended in the end.
SHANGHAI SEEKS
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Robinson-Coheds Great Annual
AUGUST FURNITURE SALE
C7HIS great •August Sale., now in full swing, is the greatest
event of its kind that we have ever held!
Practicall y every article in the store has been reduced,
including the products of suck well-known mak-
ers as Berkey E.4 Gay, Karpen Bros., Luce, Sligh,
etc.
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Original price-tags remain on all furniture.
Sale purchases may he made on the Standard Plan,
oyes y ou 30 weeks to pay, with no interest charges
or investigation fees.
Where desired, a deposit will hold any article.
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THE
STANDARD-
TRADE-ACCEPTAPIQE
PLAN
30weeks toll No bitereo
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$44i Karpen Bros. 3-piece Cane-Mahog. Suite . 1;0. $300.00
Kars pen Bros. 3-piece Tapestry Suite $333.75
$550 Queen Anne 2-piece Bronze Velour Set- $412.50
$570 la ► per. Eros. 2-piece Silk Velour Suite . . . . $427.50
$750 Fr. Chippendale 2-piece Living Room Set . .$562.50
$1,050.50
$1,400 F' .;e 2-piece Living Room Suite
;pm Eros. 2-pc. Fr. Chippendale Set $1,218.75
$1,762.50
$2,350 Italian Polychrome 3-piece Suite
Si 85 Queen Anne 2-piece Walnut Bedroom Set . . $136.25
$189.09
$252 Ivory 4-piece Bedroom Suite
$355 Queen Anne 4-pc. Walnut or Mahog. Set . 5266.2F
$562.50
$750 Louis XVI. 10-piece Mahogany Suite
$A,C47 Ierlcey & Gay 4-pc. Mahogany Suite . $78E.% 5
$1,101.25
$1,465 Hepplewhite 7-piece Walnut Suite
$1,640 French Chippendale 7-pc. Mahog. Suite $1,230.09
$2,100 Louis XVI. 10-pc. Mahogany Suite. . . $1,575.00
els
P92.50
$399 Adams Bros. 9-pc. Walnut Dining Suite
$605 Georgian 9-piece Walnut Dining Suite . $453.25
7605 Louis XVI. 9-piece Walnut Dining Suite.... $521.25
$770 Chippendale 9-pc. Mahog. Dining Suite . $577,50
$1,C65 Louis XVI. 10-pc. Walnut Dining Suite.. $798.75
51,490 Italian Walnut 10-piece Dining Suite... .$1,117.50
$1,780 Chidpcudae 9-pc. Walnut or Mahog. Dining Suite S1,335.00
$2,069 Fr. Chippendale Mahn. Dining Suite, $1,545.00
$41.15
!;',55 t.I.Augany Gate Leg Table
.
$67.50
t 9i1 Pli3hoga ny Living Room Table
$78.75
Mahogany Spinet Des'{
$120 Consul Table and IVI;rror
$93.75
$ 3 0 . 0 75
S125 Karpen Bros. 3-piece Duofold Suite.
$279.75
$373 Reed 6-piece Sun Parlor Suite
$400 Walnut Polychrome Hall Cabinet
4.0 00
$ $3 4 0 1 00
$552 Orange and Black 8-pc. Sun Parlor Set
-Cohen Co.
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FIVI BLOCKS NORTH of NATIO?
inn BLOCKS BAST ty WOODWARD
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