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get the e.,-t -plc
Si,?"
"Fors, t at' and Rebecca: Forget
her old bane?"
"Of C0111,, she will. In London or
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Mon. tram a Oramatic
Paris, with tine clothes and plenty of
Sketch by Michael lionheriler,
society, she'll s0011 forget her old life
here. Any young girl would."
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"Maybe so," agreed Jacob:, deject-
edly, "maybe so."
"1 suppose you've looked forward
T T was late Friday afternoon, and that and night to put file through
to an hour like this," went on
A Ruth, just home from the last High School, Mercy . " with a quit:
O'Bryan
slowly, 'and you've calcu-
fitting of her graduation dress, glance for the clock. "It's after four
lated on it. I know you people are
glanced uneasily at the clock as she And I haven't bought the fish."
great calculators. The Jews—and the
donned an apron and began to peel
go to Isaacs on Grand street
Irish—have the longest heads in the
potatoes for the evening meal. "Table S i' it won't take long," observe,
to set, fish to buy, fish to fry," she Jacobs as Ruth jammed her black lain world; don't we own little old New
York?
Well, y , u'll not find me hard
half chanted under her breath as she on her blond head and took up her
to settle with, though when I pay you
worked, and father home any unin. market basket.
all
you've
done for iny girl. I don't
toe. have to hurry!"
Not any more, daddy. He sold
Suddenly she threw down her par- 11rs. I inke`:Irin what he said was intend to let myself in for blackmail.
either.
Here
I've made you out a
ing knife, her blue eyes dancing with trout, but the rabbi said it was cat-
church for enough to set you up in a
excitement. "Won't he loe surprised?" fish, and she had to throw it all away
little
business
of your oven; $2,500
she murmured, running to the window Now I go to the new shop across the
ought to pay you for all your trou-
to look down upon the little court be- street."
ble." Ile held out the check to the
neath. "Yes: there lie is! I thought
"That is right to be on the safe
I had heard hint putting his push car side." approved the father. "And, man who stared stonily before him
away." She hurriedly placed the po- Ruth," he called down the tenement without raising a hand to take it.
"What's the matter? Not enough?"
tatoes upon the stove, then tripped stairs, "be sure to watch the scales.
"Enough?" Jacob,' voice trembled
;oily out into the hall to welcome Ni,'' as she looked up inquiringly. "I
as he tore the hit of paper across and
Elias Jacob.
don't mean the 11,11 5, al, •—I mean
She drew him into the little room, the scales he weighs it on. I don't flung the pieces upon the labile. "An
her face glowing with happiness as trust no new fish man even if the the money you've got—all the money
she kissed him. Neither old nor rabbit says he is more kosher than Mr. Vanderbilt has—that wouldn't
',ay me for the memory of her child-
young, the face of an exiled prophet Isaacs."
hood and girlhood days in my home,
beneath his battered derby, his
Back in the little room, Jacobs went
She paid me double for all I did for
shoulders stooping in his shabby frock to the clothes press, took down hi,
her. But now you're going to take
coat there was a simple dignity about high hat, not exactly new, lint still
her away and nothing can make up
hint as he stopped to kiss the mezu- impressive, and changed into his
for the loss of her. But I cannot
zah, which would have reminded Shabbos frock coat. "Nly Ruth with
stand in her way-1 cannot rob her of
Ruth, had she known Heine better, medals," he chuckled again and again
her rights." His face whitened as he
how the German sang of the down- as he snapped a small !dock tie under
heard Ruth's footsteps in the hall. She
trodden Jew who on Sabbath eve as- his clean collar, "and valley—valley-
was humming a song he had heard
sumes the stature of a king.
nu, valley—whatever it is—they made
her sing several times lately—the
"Father, my graduation (Ire,- is just her and hang gold medals from Nlr.
class song for thegraduation exer-
lovely," she began. "But afraid N'anderbilt upon her." Some one
cises. "You tell her," he pleaded.
you can't afford—"
knocked on the door; he went to open
suddenly grown an old man and very
He interrupted her, shrugging: "Nu, it, still chuckling, a look of content-
helpless, "1 cannot."
Ruth, you'll never graduate from the ment in his kindly eyes.
"Yes, father?" She stood in the
High School again, so I make it once
A tall, fleshy man stood on the
doorway, her basket on her arm, You
I should afford it."
threshold, a Mall fn a flashy-checked
have company?"
"You'll think I'm worth it when you suit, a diamond flashing from his fin-
''It is Mr. O'Bryan, Ruthie. Our
know my secret," she teased, perch- ger, another in his tie. Even in the
old neighbor who used to live here
ing on the arm of his chair, "Just dim passageway there was something
when you were a little girl." Jacobs
read this lettet' dropping an enve- strangely familiar in his carriage; as
sank limply into his chair, Ids hands
soon as he stepped Into the r00111.
lope into his lay.
fumbling with the torn check.
"A letter for ire?" Ile picked it up Jacobs knew him at once. for O'Bryan,
"Father!" Ruth was hovering over
gingerly. "But it's in writing English, one-time ward heeler and proprietor
him. "What did he tell you? You
and you know I read only printing of the prosperous saloon on the cor-
are not in trouble?"
ner.
English. You read it."
"Not at all," O'Bryan spoke easily.
"Mr. O'Bryatil" Jacobs raised in-
"Of course." She cleared her throat
"I'll not waste any words—it's not my
importantly. "It's from my principal: quiring eyebrows, for the neighbor-
style. Ile tells me you know already
'Dear Sir: Allow me to be the first hood boss, whom he had not seen for
how you came to hint as a baby. I
to congratulate you upon the High years, had never stopped to visit him could have told you the same thing
School record of your daughter Ruth. before. Are you looking for some-
because 1 put you in that basket my-
She has been appointed valedictorian body in the building("
self and brought you to his door."
The big man shook his head. "It's
of her class and at our closing exer-
"You!" faltered Ruth.
cises next week the Vanderbilt gold you I want to see," he said briefly,
"Yes—and I am your father." He
medal, awarded to the most deserving "you and especially the girl. How is held out his hands. "I've come back
graduate will he awarded her. I hope she?"
for you, Ruth."
"My Ruth:" They were seated now
to have the pleasure of meeting you
But she drew back. "I can't believe
at that time. Again extending lo you on either side of the kitchen table. it—after so long. And my mother?"
my moat sincere congratulations, 1 "Fine, Mr. O'Bryan, title!"
"She is dead. And I would have
"I came to ask about her."
remain, Yours respectfully, John II.
come to claim you before but I was
"So you have heard of her gold
Andrews.'"
in Australia, where I made my for-
Jacobs sprang up as lightly as a medals already. Belie% nue, Mr. tune," he ended craftily.
boy and hugged the girl roughly. O'Bryan, when my daughter—"
"So my mother is really dead,"
O'Bryan bent toward hint across Ruth repeated softly.
"Didn't I always told you you'd be a
smart young lady if you went through the red cloth. "Does she know that
"That is why I want you so very
the High School?" he reproached her. she isn't yottr daughter at all:"
much," he urged. "I was very good
Jacobs stared at his visitor with be-
"Didn't I told you were too smart to
to her and I will be good to you. I
go to work and stand on your feet in wildered eyes. 'Yes—her mother—I haven't another soul on earth but you
Cohen's Emporium all day and sing, mean my Rebecca told her just be- to care for and is-hen I die you will
'Gash curl.' gash curl,' instead of fore she died. \\'e didn't want she be very rich. I tell you I'll make it
learning to be a respectable teacher should hear from outsiders. But how up to you," he promised eagerly.
and growing up and marrying a rabbi do you know?"
"But, daddy?" Ruth's hand rested
"Because I am her father." He
some day. Mark my word, Ruth,
upon Jacobs' shoulder. "I couldn't
some day you will marry a rabbi and leaned back in his chair, surveying leave him, you know."
I will be proud of you." His eyes Jacobs beneath half-closed eyelids.
"What do you Mean?" The man's
"Ifer father?" Jacobs' voice was in-
suddenly dimmed and the hand that
wheedling tone had grown harsh.
caressed her bright curls trembled a credulous.
"I'll pay 11O11 for his kindness to you
"Yes. It's not necessary to tell you
little. "If only my Rebecca was here
—if he'll take it. But I'm your father
11111C11 about her mother; she was a
now to be prowl of yon, too."
—not he—and I can prove it. So if
dancer
in
vaudeville,
had
made
quite
The girl nodded. "Yes, father—
you won't come with me friendly-
but maybe she know,,, anyhow." They a success of it. Naturally she didn't why—well, I've got the law behind
were silent for a moment, both think- want to he bothered with the child; me and you'll come anyhow."
ing of the silent, bewigged little wo- and I didn't blame her. Well, I knew
Ruth faced him serenely. "I am 18
man who had left theni but a few you had been married four or five years old," she answered steadily,
years before. Then: "I know you'd year, and didn't have any children; "and the law makes me my own mis-
be proud of me, daddy; that's why I you had a good reputation in the tress. So I will not obey you. And
worked so hard. Just as you worked neighborhood, so—" he laughed a lit- as for learning to love and respect
tle uneasily beneath Jacobus' accusing
you—" her smobth voice broke with
gaze, "so I didn't feel I was doing
indignation, "do you think all these
so bad for the baby when I left is
years of wilful neglect entitle you to
at your door.
any consideration from me? Not that
"Maybe you are not telling me the
I ever suffered in the least and I shall
truth—how do I know?"
always thank the good God that He
"Wait a minute. I can tell you just
guided your footsteps to this door,
what happened. I put the child in
where you abandoned me. While he,"
At Marks'
her little basket and left it at your
pressing her blooming young face
door. Then I knocked loudly, reached
you will find
against Jacobs' wrinkled cheek, "while
for the bannister leading downstairs,
daddy—father—has been everything
the most
and slid to the next floor, where I to tile.
All that I am, all that I ever
crouched in a dark corner. 'sou open-
pomplete and
will be, I owe to his kind heart and
ed the door a little way and asked.
loving care." She pointed to the door
finest selec-
'What is it?' And, seeing no one, you
and spoke quietly again. "You may
called again, 'Who's there?' You see
tion of furs
and please don't come
COe back any
I still remember. That's right. Isn't
more. For my place is here."
and fur coats
it?"
"Ruth," murmured Jacobs, the tears
"Yes, that is right," agreed Jacobs
in Detroit—
coursing down his cheeks, as he drew
wearily.
her head to his breast.
you will find
"And then you called to your wife,
"Yes, father, and let me he like
'Rebecca, come quick. See what the
it pays to -
Ruth in the old story you used to tell
good God has sent us' Then I heard
me. 'For whither thou goest I will
buy of the
‘).
you take the child in and shut the
go. Thy people shall he my people.'
Makers.
door, and I crept out into the street.
She was weeping, too, as she kissed
Why, to prove I'm not lying—do you
him, "and thy God tny God." She
-till have the locket that was around
drew his trembling hands together
the baby's neck?"
and "please give me my Sabbath
"A locket with an 'R'"
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bless-head. "Dear daddy," she whis-
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was Rosamond. I suppose the 'R' blessing."
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The door closed as O'Bryan passed
Ruth."
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Yes.
But where have you been not hear him as their hearts received
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went along. We had hardly reached
there when she took' sick; a heavy
The first Auxiliary Service to be
fever, and died. I came home, but I held on the High Holy days under
seemed to have a regular streak of the auspices of Temple Beth El will
hard luck. First Flanagan beat me for he given at Orchestra Hall, Sunday
alderman. Then came the Lexow In- evening, September 12. The remain-
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I sold out my little place and went Yom Kippur eve, Tuesday, Septem-
hack to Australia. It was spending ber 21, and Yom Kippur morning.
10 or 15 years there or 10 or 15 years Wednesday. September 22, will be
somewhere else, not quite so pleas- given, as in previous years, at the
ant. A year or so ago my friends ad- Unitarian Church, corner of Edmund
vised me it was safe to come hack. In place and Woodward.
the meantime I had grown rich. It
A splendid choir, under the direc-
seemed like home to come back to tion of Mrs. Mary H. Christie, or-
the old ward again, but I'm lonely, ganist, will render the musical service
Jacobs, and lately I've thought more at the Auxiliary services. The other
and more of the child. I catch my- choristers are Mrs. Horace Bigelow,
self watching for her as she passes soprano; Mrs. Lee Terrill, alto; Mrs.
on her way to school. Maybe I William Prothers, tenor, and Mr.
didn't do the right thing by her. I John Culler; base.
have no other relative on earth, so I
want her. I hear she's very clever
Saplings of various forest and fruit
and sings well, too. She must get trees are being grown in Jaffa at the
that from her mother; she certainly order of the Agriculutral and Coloni-
looks like her. So I'd like to take her zation Department of the Zionist
to Europe, get her good teachers, Commission by a co-operative
group
educate her right and make her for- of seven workmen.

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PAGE SEVF

Detroit Violinist In
Recital at Golf Club

Ida Divinoff, Detroit violinist, who
has been a member of the first violin
section of the Detroit Symphony Or-
chestra for the past two seasons, ap-
peared in recital at the Detroit Golf
Club on August 15th. Her sister, Sara
Divinolf, accompanied her,

Miss Divinoff has resigned from
the orchestra and will devote all her
time next season to teaching and con-
cert work. She is on the faculty of
the Detroit Institute of Musical Art.
Miss Divinoff, who is a native Amer-
ican of Russian parentage, studied
first at the Chicago :Musical College
and later spent four years at Prague
and Vienna with Sevcik, teacher of
Kulfelik and others. She was finally
graduated from the Imperial Master
School at Vienna. where only a lim-
ited number of pupils were accepted,
and gave recitals in Munich, Vienna,
Dresden, Leipzig. Hamburg and else-
where. Returning to America, she
toured with John McCormack in the
west, and appeared at the New York
Ilippodrome with Frances Aida of the
!Metropolitan Opera and Orville Ilar-
old, and with Chas. Wakefield Cad-
man and Paulo Gruppe at the Mozart
Society. She also played in the east
with Dan Beddoe and \Vm. Hinshaw.
?Miss Divinoff has played twice as
soloist with the 1)etroit Symphony
Orchestra. She is the first woman
violinist ever associated with an
American orchestra of the first grade.

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