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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
THE PAINTER
By ETHEL TAUROG.
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there in me a great painter lost?
Would I have this great longing if I
did not have the talent? Would
have been a great painter?"
The old snail looked up at me with
such a piteous, beseeching and grop-
ing look in his eyes, a look full of
despair and hope, that I couldn't re.
ply. My lips seemed as if glued to-
gether, and my heart felt heavy and
oppressed.
That was the first time I had seen
the sufferings of a soul. Yet, I sup-
pose, his family thought him happy.
I was walking through the park , ply. Then they would go in scare
musing over the strange expressio n of me, and sure enough they woo
Twenty-six years ago the Invest-
on the face 01 one of my friends wit o find me some place drawing with Id
a
ment Banking House, which is now
apparently has every reason fur be • piece of charcoal.
ing happy. It was in an unguarde
",As I grew older I became more
I I. NV. Noble & Company, was or-
moment that the mask fell (ruin stY so-Raise, so that I was not so easily
ganized and has been continuously
friend's face, and 1 fathomed a grop - discovered.
ing, searching, woeful look, the ex
"When I was about sixteen years
serving its customers since that time.
Hesston of a suffering soul. that rev - old I became tired with the ambition
er fails to stir Ise. All, those an - to go to America.
guislies and despairs of the soul this t
"Es crybody in town thought that
We have statistical information
BRODY SHOPS ROBBED
are skillfully hidden away under at 1 wools' he a good thing for me, for I
which has been carefully compiled in
aspect of content! As I strolls d was considered to Ise a sort of shift
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through the park I recalled an cot - less youth. They said that Americ a quotes a report from the "Kurier
these twenty-five years, and a train-
suite that I have never forgotten , would make a man of me. My rca \A'arszawaski" which states that the
ed force of experts who examine into
that stirred me intensely; an uncov - motive in going to America no on Red forces plundered and destroyed
crisis; of the tragedy of a soul t ha I dreamed of. II was this: I though all Jewish shops in Brody. The same
the fundamentals of- every organiza-
was disclosed to me, to my youthfu I that there, in that land of opportu • report quotes a statement by Joseph
tion whose securities we recome:
unsophistication.
pity, I would find a way of studyin g Maier, a Jewish worker of Brody who
I was deeply engrossed in the stud: . how to become a painter. .1:or I ha. is said to hare declared that the Bol-
mend.
of birds at that time. During the ins- : , (ready learned that 'hers.. is an art si shevist soldiers violated a number of
gration period I rose at daybreak and painting, ;Insd that one had to learn is • women, some of them of a very ten-
went to the park. There I strolled ■ Ite same as any other trade or pro der age and in one instance a soldier
about leisurely, snaking the acquaint- Session.
lolled a Jewish child by thrtisting a
antie of the gaily plumaged scarlet . "But when I came to America I sword into the child's skull.
tanager, the timid little house-wren, ' sound that my gulden dreams had
the stocking cat-bird, the shrill- ' been nothing but dreams. Friendless,
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voiced grackle. and other tribes of ip [lidless, I was thrown into the
the feathered songsters
ssniggle of earning a living for my -
All alone I wandered through tile sad, and sending back the money I
Jerzie Myer, a 1Varsaw Jew. con-
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park during those eaely morning !ad borrowed for expenses.
tributed a million marks to the Polish
hours, softly treading through buil- I "I was advised to learn the trade of Defense Fund. In yesterday's War-
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ding bushes glistening with pearly latioe. I at I ved as an a:Taint s', to a sa• press, the Polish Premier publicly
dewdrops, inhaling the balm y. spicy tailor fur almost notiong, and I thanks Myer for his generous and
odors. Following my impulses f t...d nt tell you the troubles I had. loyal act. The same dispatch says
would sometimes go dashinLthrough ...any times I slid not have anything that direct railway communication be-
bushes in pursuit of smite rare bird i s eat for a whole day.
tween Warsaw and Danzig has been
who eluded me, sometimes sitting
".At last I began to receive pay for resumed.
down on a bench, gazing up through nip work. What pay! I had scarcely
the foliage at a pair of robins build- t., night to pay for my board and
ing a nest. No one ever intrusted pion', and to furnish me with old
upon ine solitude. Of this I was glad. shoes.
One morning I saw what I thought
aly hopes and dreams for study-
was a cardinal, a bird I had not as ing painting I had to give up. You
yet seen there. IVIienever I trieo td may believe me that 1 suffered more
gf•t,.. - i good view of it, it Hew away In from this than from the fact that I
ansffiter tree. I had spent several had to go without food often.
mosses, perhaps a quarter of an hour. i "Gradually I began to get wages
in pursuit of it, when suddenly
' that enabled me to live somewhat
stopped resentfully,
Issater. About that time I net the
There sat an intruder, a man daub- girl that later became no wife. I
'ng away at something on an easel. Was lonely and I longed for a com-
From where I stood nothing but the pawn to whom I could impart all
easel and the head of the man were my hearteaches and longings. We
visible. I regarded him for a mo- were married. Then the struggle be-
ment indifferently. Then I looked up came greater, for now there was
to get a view of the cirdinal, but the someone else to provide for. It may
bird was nowhere to be seen. I sup- seem strange to you, but I never told
pressed a peevish exclamation. Ott my wife about my ambition to study
No one interested in the market either as an investor or speculator should
account of that man, whoever Ise was, painting. There really was no time.
I had lost sight of that cardinal I For w,th a few dollars that she had
fail
to
place his name on our mailing list to receive a copy of this full-of-value
longed to observe. I walked on past saved up with a few dollars of my
the man, who I now observed was a own, I opened a small cleaning and
publication. Comparison will prove the unusual merit and reliability of the
spare, gaunt old man, with a lot of repairing shop. '('here I worked night
grey unkempt hair tossing about in and day. Then the children came,
the wind. I scarcely could suppress and again the possibility of studying
a derisive smile as I caught a mo- painting became a greater responsibil-
mentary glance of what lie was doing. ity. But always, you stay believe me,
He was daubing colors from a palette that longing was there.
on to the canvas on the easel. I
"So the years passed, with me
caught a glance of stiff-looking trees. struggling to make a living for my
a methodical path, a conventional family and with that longing to study
bush, the kind of drawing children painting hidden away in spy heart,
its the primary grades smudge paper but always there. I could never go to
up with.
a park without becoming filled with a
The man looked up startled, and it (lull pain that I could not draw on
Copy on Request
seemed to me embarrassed, as I saun- paper the beautiful things that caught
tered by, nodding carelessly in re- my eye. You may laugh, but some-
sponse to his stumbled "good-morn- times I would find that my eyes filled
ing."
with tears when I looked at a tree
I saw him there every morning af- in the sunlight, with the refreshing
ter that, daubing away at his absurd cool shadows. It would wring my
painting. Gradually he began to in- heart until sometimes as I felt as if I
terest me. Presently we became would have to cry aloud to relieve
friends. Then one morning I learned myself. But no one knew, no one.
his story.
"My children were growing up and
"It must scent queer to you," Ile they could help mein the store. My
said, "to see an old gray-haired mail oldest suggested that we begin to ca-
like the spending my time in this kind ter to custom trade. He began to
of work. And yet, will you believe take charge of the business more, and
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me, in all my life, and I ant close to this gave me a few hours to my-
sixty, these brief half hours that II self sotnetimes. These few hours I
spend here are the only happy too-I would snatch to go to places where I
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mans I have known.
could see paintings.. I would stand
"Imagine to yourself that I have for hours and look at these wonder-
had the longing to draw, to paint, ful reproductions of beautiful scenes,
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ever since I can remember myself. that filled me with joy mixed with a
Perhaps I was born with it. Who little pain of envy of those lucky peo-
knows? In the little town Where I ple who could do those things that I
was born one didn't spend much time longed for most of all.
Private leased wire system connectin all our offices in the following cities:
speculating on such things. I was
"lf only one of my children had
horn in a very small towo in southern shown a love for painting! You may
Russia. My father was a hard-work- believe me I would work day and
ing peddler who spent his time in nigh for that child to make an art-
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traveling amongst the peasants, sell- ist of him. But no. They are chil-
ing them various things in exchange dren who like business, the business'
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her money, sometimes for food for his of snaking money.
large family. He came home once a
"Well, as I just told you, with the
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week, sometimes once in two weeks. assistance of my oldest son we open-
to spend the Sabbath with his wife ed a larger shop, and I don't know
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and children. He did not have much how, but suddenly we found ourselves
time. as you see, to devote to the rich. Rich, can you imagine. so that
education of his children.
I, I own an automobile which my
"I was a strange child. Whenever son drives. My wife has bought her-
I had a chance I would find piece self diamonds and furs, and my
of board, the side wall of a halm, the daughters have furnished our house
fence, whatever I could find, and with like the house of a Icing. Everybody
a piece of charcoal I would 'make in my family is happy. They have
pictures.' Whenever I was found out, got their wishes. But II I sin not
and that was almost always, I was happy, except these few minutes that
punished.
I spend here. These few minutes I
"\Vhat shall I do with such a boy?" have to steal. I get up early, I steal
myself
out of the house, and I come
.
toy toothier wept. "A child should al-
ways smear up everything he sees. here before going to the shop.'
"You
tnay
believe
nie,
I
would
still
Whoever heard that a Jewish boy
should sit and make pictures all the be anxious to study painting, but at
my age I ant ashamed. Then, I am
day long?
BY THE
"A real Terach making idols." one sure my wife and children would
think I bad suddenly gone crazy. So
of my older brothers teased,
"Terach! That's a good name for I pay the man in the boat house to
him." the other children laughed. And keep these things, my paints and my
from then on I was called nothing canvas, in the boat house for me, and
every morning I come here for a lit
but Terach.
M. E. O'BRIEN, President.
"Where is Terach?' one of my the happiness.
brothers would ask.
"One thing that troubles me most
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"Terach, where should lie be if not is f all, and that will trouble me un i
$15,012,000
making pictures," another would re- I close m y eyes forever, is this: W, as
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