vimericair lavish Periodical Coder curroN AVENUI - CINCINNATI 10, OHIO PAGE THREE THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE loric Operations lc* I ( 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 QUALIFIED RABBI I. t,.` ' ' ■ siyy, TATI, 5hetch.c1 dst all ti 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. t 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. w in THE STANDARD- TRADE-ACCEPTAPIQE PLAN 30weeks toll No bitereo Prey11, C13111 Oro $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. COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS CORNER ef HIGH and HASTINGS FIVI BLOCKS NORTH of NATIO? inn BLOCKS BAST ty WOODWARD NORTH-BOUND rOURTEENTH CARS PM; THE DOOR.