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Minna Burnstein's Husband
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'gt" "t rirMErfri
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the
very g arrival oi " the immigrant.
wel l:mile at the
Ile should be
threshold of hi, new hone. :S synipa•
thetic interest should be taken in him
from the ern' moment the •Iiip docks.
A STORY
It should he continued alter lie ha , !..
Rose
Shuls:nger.
landed, for some rears to come, unul We
By
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lie has become a citizen. The fact N
thousands ki- t;
i„ It bite-faced young woman gently tha there are Innitheds n(
from Samuel B or „,,t e
immigrant,.
some
of
whom
have
••
of
touched his coat sleeve and he mount-
1 , tood the casket. And. tinflow- efl the stairs to his room and closed been- here from tit.. 10 thirty year , ,
t h e
have not become citizens, 3 . 1
e red in o lay Minna. Outside,
and
who
(woe
Et!
rain, in Iliad abandon, bower, the trees
By Ill o'clock the next morning the show s how little interest lye hair
in the park, heal a relentless requiem I
their welfare and at the sank
Bornstein home - on the hill" was taken
on the window panes and sodded the
time in our own Welfare.
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with "'m ks .
w i t h
earth—the earth to which they would I with critics,
friendly and unfriendly.
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I believe that Americanization work
return Nlinna on the morrow.
Alone upstairs sat the little old to be done properly and effectively,
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And there, on the table, lay her man, the crumpled note crushed be- to
and to bring the desired results.
last request to her husband.
tween Iris lingers, Ins white collar should be undertaken by the govern-
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In the semi-gloom of the vast room hanging over the oak dresser, its Men!. Foch immigrant should be the
with its cosily statuary and Is stiff white tie ends quivering in the breeze object of sympathetic interest to some hE
orniture, it -boor like some living bit through the With' French window,.
Ivermilental agency,dealing spec i i i .-
In the below stairs parlor Rabbi
of personality of the withered old
That iinini-
ally with this problem.
lady who forever now slept serene— Pearlson was making ready; ill the grant should be guided, directed and LT4'
alley way stood a van of flowers ready practically led to learn America and Rid
if Samuel so willed it.
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For, written across the paper, in to start for a distant hospital. Little American way,. Ile should be taught
Manufacturers
recess' of the
the language, assisted in finding a
the scrawly code of other days were children, in their "little
Retailers —Wholesalers
lines that seemed to shout their mes- early morning, played on the lawn of suitable occupation, and his heart
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sage to the most remote corners of the neighborhood school; flowers in should gradually be filled with a love
the earth; that pierced the brain of the park nodded their giddily colored for America. I am sure he will re-
Samuel Bornstein like a million pois- heads and somewhere, far across the spond to the right treatment and that
oned-dipped dart , , that seemed to cast city, sat Bud and knew that his the effort will be worth it. I realize
how difficult the job is, and how slow
spring from the core of the casket mother no longer saw the sun,
Tremblingly, Samuel Bornstein the process [mist necessarily be. It
and with unflinching hand to draw
crossed
the
room
:old
drew
from
the
is, nevertheless. the only way, if we
aside the curtain that veiled the years
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before the coming of the brown stone pocket of his every day coat a Want to do the work and do it well.
General Real Estate, Insurance,
match. Tremblingly he scratched it The trouble and expense will be am-
front and the monogrammed limou-
Choke Homes, Two-Flats, In-
sine; that revealed Minna, the young- from force of habit on the immaculate ply repaid by the love, loyalty and
vestments and Store Property
er, as she appeared before the slender broadcloth of his funeral trousers, devotion of the Munigrant to the
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ill him.
shaft near which they would stand on donned for now; one of his own. Flick- country, which is
the morrow mounted it, silent guard eringly it burned and tremblingly h
Instead of the present irresponsible.
threw it from him, jammed down his haphazard chaotic system of assimi-
th,
halcyon
recalled
over her; that
AT YOUR SERVICE!
hat upon his head and shambled, lik e lating the foreigner, which lets him
days before Isaac became Bud and
the distant universities threw their a guilty spirit, down his back stairs. drift away from governmental and
Mrs. Isaac "Bud" Bornstein was American institutional influence when
laurel , and their mannerisms over
line
the two children of Samuel and Nilo- hanging out the clothes On a
the immigrant is most susceptible to
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na Bornstein. stretched far across the attractive such influence, and which tries to r
back yard of her Brooklyn home when gain his confidence anti interest per-
Of death, Samuel had thought often
r haps years after he has been here. wi
and
not
bitterly.
I
If
life,
he
had
known
her
father-in-law
whom
she
had
neve
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joy and sorrow.. t) the morrow, h e before seen joined her. The sun fell would have a scientific process of
on her blond head and blue eyes; American assimilation, which would
Was certain.
lighted the gold cross that hung sus- turn out thousands of good. loyal for-
His prayer book in his hand, each pended from her firm, white throat.
eign-born citizens, hiehly conscious of
Friday night and each Saturday morn-
Frankly startled she gazed at the their civic ditties.
ing, he had repaired to the Schul his young-old snail before her, his straw
generosity had made possible; each hat contrasting vividly with the win
Sunday morning in the Sunday ter of his Sunday broadcloth and his
OPTOMETRISTS
School rooms he had stood his hands
Eye. Examined and
buried in the curls of some neighbor's
husband .1 - quick?" lie in-
Glawea Fitted
child, his eyes on the window erected quired, and wonderingly she pointed
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t o the memory of his own young !din- the tray to the kitchen, attractive in
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no; his thought in across-the-city its spotless simplicity.
Brooklyn.
Twenty minutes later the trio dry-
Serene a, the surface of Samuel eyed mounted the back stairs of the
Bornstein
mansion and twenty-five
Bornstein, past president of all of the
Jewish societies, contributor to all minutes later they rode together to
the charities, friend to rich and poor, the quiet cemetery where with the
appeared, despair, as black, in his in- chant of the familiar Yiddish "ashes
to ashes, dust to dust" the earth re-
ner being reigned supreme.
of recent years, it is true, the hurt ceived again all that was mortal of
inna Bornstein,
was less poignant than in the crushing
Slowly, the procession wended its
first days when the blow, with dy-
namic force. shattered. Yet it was way through the near-dried streets: 1
the
sun, gloriou s, after the day before
ever gnawingly present.
shower, rose higher in the heavens;
On just such a day as this it had
children
released from the school
descended, painting blacker the thett
romp scampered over the pavements;
glaringly new interior of the big here and there a timid crocus broke
house, tying into midnight cords the from its verdant bondage to give tear-
forehead of Samuel; driving the
ful salute to the newer slay.
affrighted Minna, the younger, and
Still, Samuel Bornsteins fingers did
Minna, the older, behind the locked not relax their hold on the stained
.Announcing to My Friends
door , of the young girl's pink and piece of paper in his outer pocket.
white bedroom, from which, scarcely
that I ant opening
Arrived home he mounted the stairs
a week later, they had borne her for- and once again closed behind hint his
ever.
door. Below stairs his son and the
How the elements sympathized with daughter of an alien race bowed their
the core of man. It would seem heads. as one, in Sorrow.
everything did save man's very own.
From the wall safe of his bed room
For there, stared at him the soul Samuel Bornstein removed a yellowed
Under the Supervision of
roll of paper and taking from his
of Minna.
Rabbi J. I.Prin
Not of death, as it mounted near— closet pen and ink lie wrote steadily
and tirmly for several seconds on fhe
serene over the wife of his heart did
Samuel Bornstein give attention now, sheets opened before him. Ringing
in his mind. Not of the little old lady for his old man servant he talked to
gone fdrever from his side did he him for a moment, replaced the yel-
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think —not of the days when her lowed roll within the wall safe and
cheeks had been roseate, instead of laid the crumpled note against his
withered, her head golden, instead of heart.
Higher rose the sun in the heavens
silver, her smile piquant instead of
plaintive. He pondered not now of and crept into the old man's room.
the money at his command, the power The spotless dimity curtains rustled
his name represented, not even did lie in their places and caressed the por-
a
think of the line of motors that on traits of a handsome young man,
the morrow would characteristically silver haired old lady and a flower
wend their way to the quiet ceme- faced girl, on the dresser.
Below stairs a young woman quiet•
tery's huge gates—nor yet of the last
shovel of soil that would enclose for- ly removed the gold cross from her
firm,
white throat and placed it in
ever the sod that had been his wife.
her husband's hands.
Only his thoughts encircled her
But• upstairs the tender May
note.
breezes met no response from the se-
Ile could not comply with her last rene faced sleeper in his wife's old
request to him. He would not com- chair.
ply. It was more than the soul of a
Jewish father, a Jewish husband, no-
torious for his generosity—could
grant. It would be more than his
physical, spiritual and mental strength
would allow. He would never live, if
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he did it; Minna, she had written
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he succeeds he feels that he ow, it
could never net if he did not do it.
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if he fails he
Over and over and over again the to his own efforts.
Where, however,
freshly crystallized thought—he could curses his luck.
never live if he did it—Minna could does the government play a part in
never rest if he did not do it—per- his life? What has the government
of the country done for the immi-
sisted.
grant? How can the government ex-
This, then. was the result of his
pect anything from the immigrant
day's reflection—of the hours he had when it has done practically nothing
spent alone, at his request, not with
for him. In fact, it is surprising that
the body of his wife but with the
notwithstanding governmental neglect
spirit that had sent her last note to of the immigrants, most of them
him.
should have turned out to be good
What she asked was impossible. and loyal Americans, as they indeed
The matter must be dismissed at once
are.
and for all time to come from his
From the immigrants' standpoint,
mind.
the problem of Americanization does
lie refused to think of the hours, not exist. He becomes Americanized
gone forever, when he knelt at the more or less in due course of time—
old invalid chair in which Minna had it all depending upon the conditions
lain paralyzed for ten years—the ten and circumstances of the life into
years since the coming of the blow. which chance or necessity have
lie refused to let his mind dwell on thrown him . In fact his first encoun-
the going away forever of the little ter with officialdom makes him do his
old
lady which had made "her hour" utmost to keep out of its way and
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for years he remains foreign to any
Wed.. M4 54 the most glorious in the twenty-four;
New Tear*. Eva
Set, OW. 4 of the levee she held every Friday
official influence.
lees Hipper
There. Gel.
Baena', Meet Day)
The American standpoint is very
night and Saturday morning when
tlevvoth (Lest D•y--SbewIel
There. Oct. I4 lifetime friends after Schul came to simple—every immigrant ought to be-
At
pet, Oct. IT see "old lady Sirs. Bornstein." when come an American, and do his utmost
elmoket• Torah
Roerh4Aedvech (lbeeven Yrt, Oet. 54 the children, from her palsied hands, to become one in the shortest possi-
/se. Nev. ti
Reeeb-(11e4eeeb Klelev
took the cookies she never forgot to ble time. There can be no quarrel
IFtest et Dedlentlee1..
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order made from her iniMitable with this attitude except that it can-
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not be realized by a mere wish. Some
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real, earnest and well planned work
Thieve, Asa. 1
Minna had gone. He was nearly
Feet et TvIrelb
II gone. Life had given him joys and is necessary to realize this wish, and
eerk-C beeeeek
There.,
Feb.
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so far we have not done it. 'Ac have
Reeelt-Cbe4wei Adisr•
sorrows. He had met them bravely.
Perim (FeerI et Esther) . Thays.. Mae. 4
not even understood the problem in
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Ile was content—until this afterblow.
Pleseb-rbedeeelt
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HA . ApelI 11 Why had Minna reserved it for him? its true aspects. It is true that
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81 1 , AprII In Had she harbored long feeling against have many voluntary and other
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AprII
Reeee-Chelvenela
agencies who have tried to do Ameri-
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canization work. Sometimes they
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have had sonic degree of success.
a ► eeeeth ICeellnentles Vey)
Ile would not grant her request.
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more often, however, their work has
Darkness pulled down her veil and
Hweb-Clenleeell T ■ meni•
woli.Jurop IS night descended. Still he sat alone been a complete failure.
Rye..
July
4
A Governmental Problem.
het of Tfeinw•s
and unmoved. The matter was closed;
PTI. .h•ty
Rneell-Cledeee ■ AS
Americanization work should be
Jots It The issue decided forever. He would
rare ef
welt., _NI. Aug. 14 burn her note with the morrow. A done by the government and govern-
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