American Amish Periodical Center CLIFTON AnNUI - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE THE PAINTER By ETHEL TAUROG. HARM S, SMALL & LAIN - SON INVESTMENT SECURITIES 44 CONGRESS DETROIT UNDERWRITERS AND DISTRIBUTORS PAGE ELEVEN 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 LO\DU N.—Tlte "Daily Telegraph" 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, The Oldest House in Michigan GIVES MILLION TO POLES 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- 314.318 Dime Bank Building. 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- Teliephone Main 6026-7-8-9 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 Established 1903 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 9th Floor Real Estate Ex.B1dg., Cadillac Square 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, Cadillas 6150 - 1 - 2 - 3 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- NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA 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' BOSTON TORONTO 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 MILWAUKEE HARTFORD 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 • CHICAGO "NO PROMOTIONS" 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. 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