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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MINNIE REFORMS HERSELF.
American Paint &
Glass Co.
129.131 Fort Street W., Detroit
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Brushes, Glass and
Painters' Materials
Michigan Distributors for
MASURY'S PAINTS AND VARNISHES
Cedar 38
Hardwood Lumber,
Flooring, Maple and Oak
Cedar 38
Thomas Forman
Company
W. Fort Street and River Rouge
at the
Broadway Market
Simon and Leeman
FANCY FRUITS
the same ground so many times be-
Then he faced it defiantly.
fore.
”Stinnie." he commanded. "sit down
want to talk with you. I've got
something to tell you "
She s • hivered. Although she hated
By Elma Ehrlich Levinger.
I him for his treachery, still she dread-
between them. She
INN I E ROSENKRANZ E drop. panful exactness before she had eti to have truth
folded it and put it back into Ben's wanted at least one more Rosh ha
iVl pcd into a rocker and looked pocket,
her face flushed, her eyes Shana for herself and the children.
about the parlor of her little Harlem smarting with unshed tears. New Atter that--"you'd better get washed
flat with red-trimmed, discouraged she knew why he had praised this and dressed," she told hint. trying
eyes. Everything was ready for Vont• Rose Morris after meeting her on to speak naturally. "You don't want
toe; the paint and the windows shone
lie had called her to he late to Shill, do you?"
as brightly as her cherished silver can- the excursion.
Ilis boyish face grew sullen. "First,
dle sticks; on the fresh white table smart and American and pretty.
It's
Pretty! Minnie laughed hysterically, I want to tell you something.
cloth the silver and glass twinkled
Once people had thought her pretty Rosh ha Shana and I'm not going to
merrily; there was a chicken in the
begin a new year like the old one "
pot. Even the babies, two-year-old and now—
Minnie bowed her head. After all
Now she left her rocker and went
Melvin and his sister Bessie, who had
"Is it my fault?" she cried It still had some shreds of decent')
just reached the crawling age, were
to the mirror over the mantlepieee. hr would not go to hear the Shofar
a joy to toehold front their still damp
She tried to look at herself with the flown with tins sin upon his soul
.torts to their blackened shoes. But
cruel eyes of a stranger and shrank "'no then she would have to 11 `ten
Minnie Rosenkranze, looking about
"\\ant a minute" slit' said and scun-
her spotless parlor on that late Sep- at her own picture; her tousled hair, dead that her voice was so calm and
tember afternoon, was not satisfied. dull from want of brushing, her tired
"I want to shut the door--
For eyes.ber Sagging, sullen Mouthl She e' en. -
Perhaps she was overtired.
the last week she had been working looked down at her corsetless figure thF, children don't need to hear.
They won't undeistand," he half
1 1 I its faded bungalow apron realizing
smiled, but site shut the door just
from morning till night to finish her
for the first time how flabby she had
In a fter years, she told
the Sallie.
fall housecleaning in time for Rosh
grown from zmaternity and lack of herself, she would at least he ,itared
ha Shana. "lhere had been curtains
outdoor exercise. She lifted her hands,
the recollection that the poor inno•
to launder and DM clothes for the
011fe SO soft and white and tapering. cents had listened to their father de-
1
children and a shirt for Ben to wear
and forced herself to examine the
stroying their home.
to Shill. Ben had protested that she
work-enlarged knuckles and broken,
" \Veil." she asked, sitting on the
was too busy to sew for him; be stained fingernails. .4nd suddenly she
little
rocker, her hands clasped tight-
h
e
could pick up a good shirt at t
put her head down upon the mantle
ly in her faded lap.
Gent's Furnishing across front his
:Aid cried, but very soft y, for she did
He
faced her from the sofa, his
shop. But Minnie shrilly insisted
not want to disturb the babies who
that she wouldn't allow it. "When I once more seemed to be playing face boyishly resolute. "I know you're
going
to make a fuss, Minnie," he
get such a loafer that I can't make
peacefully in the kitchen.
told her, "but I'm going to have my
my poor husband's shirts, I'll be
"It's just like the stories I read in way. I can't go 011 like this."
ashamed before the neighbors." she V Wish paper," she told herself
"You said it once before and
had snapped at him between stiches.
lie's . tired of me. [hey get that way heard you," she answered !Inn bit-
"And for God's sake, go in the bed-
it stories and go off with young girls
terly.
room and give Bessie her pacifier or
who ain't tired and old looking." Sloe
"I'm glad to work for you and the
something to suck. Her yelling drives
thought, too, of all the gossip Mrs. children, but this isn't any life. Com-
me crazy."
Malone on the top floor used to re• ing home tired and finding the chil-
AV
But it wasn't the teething baby's late to her 011 the stairs. Mrs. Ma-
dren all dirty and the house—"
protests or even the extra scrubbing lone was a fluent reader and even
"I do my best," she flared. "They
and sewing that strained Minnie's more fluent orator; and loved to tell,
get it dirty as soon as I get it clean.
nerves almost to the breaking point clrcumscribed Minnie of the hair-
This afternoon Melvin got the milk
as she sat rocking in her little parlor raking tales she read in her morning
and—"
an Erev Rosh ha Shana. Too tired paper. Divorces were her pet theme;
"I'm not blaming you," he inter-
to dress herelf, her uncombed hair to hear her talk one would think that
At it's hardest of all
..,
• rupted her.
straggling across her face, she rocked
it was the chief occupation of Amen- 1 to see you looking so tired and ev-
madly to and fro, torturing herself caot lousiness men to run away with
and never feeling like going
with her fears.
their stenographers.
out with nor to a lodge meeting or
1 lout
She had made the discovery only
"It's in the air in America," sant 1 anything. Remember what a good
that morning, although now she told Mrs. Malone. "Sometimes I thank dancer you used to be when you
herself if she hadn't been so busy God that my man is safe in Purga- were a girl, Minnie?" She nodded,
w ith the babies and the house she tory. I know where he is."
hating herself for her weakness as
might have suspected something long
"He wouldn't have treated me like her eyes dimmed with tears. "Do you
ago). Why, way back in June when that home," sobbed Minnie, remem- know we haven't been to a single
'they load the coatmakers' excursion bering Mrs. Malone and her vivid dance since we got married?"
up to Bear Mountain and he had sketches of domestic life in America. trying to do my duty by you and the
started to talk about that Rose Mor-
Now Ile sees how ugly I ant and children."
ris. Trying to be just to her hus- he's going with her. He's planning
"I'm lonely," he said, as a little
band. Minnie reminded herself that something—that's why lie never men- boy might say it, "and I want SOIlle•
Ben had begged her to come along. tions her any more. 0 God, if it body to play with."
: She hadn't enjoyed a single excursion wasn't for the children, I'd want to
"So you take up with this Rose,"
since the first few months of their die."
unable to restrain herself any longer.
I married life. It seemed that from the
She heard Ben's hand on the door "Why don't you come right out with
time they were married she had either knob and hastily wiped her eyes. if it and be done with it?
I been expecting or nursing a baby. So she could only run into the bedroom,l 'I don't know what you mean by
Ben had fallen into the habit of go- wash her face, put on a little powder that," he answered her simply. "But
1 ing out by himself. He was young— —Inn he stood there in the doorway maybe you remember I told you
I just twenty-five—and enjoyed an oc- and she could only look back at him, about Rosie Morris—I met her last
easional holiday. Minnie, who was realizing with a pang how very young' spring."
two years younger, looked over thirty. and cleaS and altogether alive he
"Yes—and you don't need to tell
A wail from the kitchen interrupted looked. For a moment she hated me any more.
"You've got to listen. Every time
her painful musings. She rose heavily him for helloing to make her so old
I want to suggest fixing things up,
and went out to find the two freshly- and tired.
. dressed children sitting upon the floor
"Hello, old one," he said using the you've gone on like this. I won't
1 in the middle of a pool of milk and Yiddish they always found easier be- have it!" He stood towering above
her and delivered his ultimatum. "I
broken bottles. It was her fault, she tween them.
wrote Rosie and she wrote back she
considered ally, for not remember-
Minnie quivered as though from a
ing that Melvin could open the ice blow. "Don't call me that," she was coming next week and she is."
Minnie was dumfounded at his
box himself—and frequently did it. cried harshly. "It isn't my fault I'm
daring. "I won't have her here," she
She cuffed both offenders indiscrimi- looking twice as old as I ant, is it?"
nately, comforted both with the same
He came toward her, the spring gasped.
"I say she's coming." His voice
_ weary absence of discrimination. and gone suddenly out of his figure, his
began to wipe up the floor. Then lace also sagging into lines of tired grew pleading. "Just give her a trial,
Minnie.
she's such a bright little
giving each of the children a piece of discontent. "Is it myfault that you
ifteen.
f
She',
jelly bread, she went hack to her overwork," he barked back at her kid even if she's only
terrifying "Don't I keep telling you to take it Aloe Morris's sister, you know, and
own
rocker and her
easy?" the poor fellow just can't put her
,thotights.
She laughed as a woman always through school, supporting his moth-
Just that morning when she had
been pressing Ben's best suit for laughs when confronting masculine er and all those younger kids. And
I put it up to him that if she helped
1 Shut she had found a letter in the ignorance. My God! he expects me
you with the children and with the
I pocket. Unfortunately it was written to take it easy with the house and
in English and Minnie knew only the cooking and the washing and the house after school hours and stayed
with them at night that we could go
Yiddish. She had been married in sewing and the kids. I wish you'd
out together sometimes, we'd treat
Galicia and had come to New York try staying home just one day and try
her like one of the family and buy
with plans of night school dancing doing my work."
her clothes and books till she was
about her pretty head. But she had
Ben Rosenkranze gave a hopeless
through high school. Come on and
twin caught in a slough of housework gesture. "Don't I keep telling you I
give her a chance, Minnie. You know
and babies and only Ben had gone can make things easier for you," he
(Continued On Page 8)
ahead. Now lie not only read but pleaded. "It ain't like when we first
wrote English and no one dared to got married and every cent counted.
call hint a Greener; Minnie, when she I ni tnaking good at the shop now •
MUSICIAN IS KILLED
I had a spare moment after the babies and—"
1 were tucked up for the night, was
"With the rent going up even if
NEW YORK.—Samuel Lehman,
usually too tired to do more than that gonoph of a landlord don't give
glance over one of the endless ro- me any repairs, and milk costing so musical conductor and a composer of
mances in her Yiddish newspapers much I feel like telling the children many popular songs, including "Ev-
not to drink it," she broke in. "You'd erybody Works But Father," was yes-
1 before she went to bed.
But she knew enough English to see us on the charities with your ex- terday struck by a touring car while
crossing Fifth avenue and killed in-
spell out the name at the end of the travagance."
He hesitated, for they had covered staneously.
letter. R-o-s-e. she had read with
A ROSH HASHONAH STORY.
With Best Wishes For
A HAPPY AND PROSPEOUS NEW YEAR
Hudson Taxi Co.
SAM LEVISON, Manager.
Cadillac 10
Phone Walnut 5194-5195-5196
JOHN SCHLAFF
Creamery
Co.
PURE
MILK
and
CREAM
BUTTER
and
COTTAGE CHEESE
BRANCHES:
Troy Milk Co.-79-81 Baltimore E.
Goldbrook Creamery-277-28I Tillman Ave.
Chesterfield Creamery—Mt. Clemens
Fairchild Farms—Mt. Clemens
Frank P. Miller
Builder
Real Estate
Insurance
Branches in All Parts of the City and Suburbs
Phone Cadillac 2100
708-712 Free Press Bldg.
President and Sole Agent for
Frank P. Miller Land Co.
Mulberry Hill Land Co.
Miller-Martz Improvement
Co.
Humber Park, Palmer
Homes
Terminal Land Co.
Benda Park Land Co.
Frank P. Miller Investment
& Homes Co.
and Owner of Amber Park.
littbn's Candies
for those who discriminate
C
216 Woodward Ave.
Phone Main 1566
aw.attett,
John A. Bailey
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e
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