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THE GOOD BLACK DRESS
ORCHESTRA HALL
DETROIT SYMPTHONY
—ORCHESTRA-
OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH
CONDUCTOR
THIRD PAIR
SYMPHONY CONCERTS
Friday and Saturday Even-
ings, Nov. 18 and 19
At 8:30
sotoist-
A Mrs. Cohen Story by Elma Ehrlich Levinger.
(copyright, ELIO, Mina Ehrlich Levinger. All rights reserved.)
"Nu, It wouldn't hurt If you danced to abuse her.
Once there wan a
a little," Sirs. Cohen told me as we sat rabbi's wife who gossiped—but her
together watching the members of our story Is too sad for repetition.
Lakeview Club fox-trot after one of our
"Isn't that a new dress you're •ear-
monthly club dinners. "Even a rabbi's Ing yourself?"
I asked, turning to a
wife needs a little enjoyment once In safer topic for conversation.
a while."
'I was wondering whether you no-
"But I never learned." I explained. Heed It. Yen, It is. My Minnie sent
wondering with an inward impatience it to ore
front New York. Feel n-
utty I had to make the Identical expla- milk likv that should cost $5 a yard
kill that Ella of yours fclr letting you
go out looking like a circus!'"
"That's what my Minnie said to me,
but children ain't got respect for their
parents nowadays. Not that I blamed
her after I looked in the mirror, I
hadn't taken time to do It at home
and I trusted to that Ella. You bet
when I canoe home I gave It to her. I
said, 'Ella, are you meshugga, that
you let me go to a wedding looking
like I did?' And she said. 'I thought
you loo I sort of funny, Mrs. Cohen,
but yo
touchy I didn't dare say
a word
al have told me to shut
my moot . Well," thoughtfully, "I
may have a quick temper and call
names kinda quick • • • but she
knows I never mean anything by it.
Well, as soon as my Minnie g. is back
to New York she senile me the dress
I have on. She said she was worried
about my clothes, and I'd just have
to wear it to keep neople from talking
how I looked at Laura's wedding."
Good evening, Mrs. Cohen," beamed
Mrs. Finkelstein as she waddled past.
I do hate to talk about may congrega-
tion, but that woman is getting dis-
gracefully fat. "A lovely dance, Isn't
it?"
"And somebody's looking lovely in
her new dress," smiled back my hypo-
critical friend. "You look like your
youngest daughter tonight, Mrs. Fin-
kelatein,"
"But what' was wrong with your
black dress?" I asked as the good
nation every month. nowolays. And she didn't pick op that
"You should learn. And teach the Jet on no bargain counter, either"
rabbi. There he is now over in a cor•
"It's really lovely," I murmured,
Pianist
ner talking religion with Dr. Mendel' "and so becoming!"
sohn.
(I learned later he and the
„ . ,
Program—Mozart "Marriage of
Am•t it? Minnie got her, taste
amiable doctor were talking baseball!)
Figaro;" Mendelssohn Third
It isn't natural for a young man like from me, if I do nay it myself. You
Symphony (Scotch); Tschaikows-
hint to take things so serious—it ain't could wear something in this style
ky Second Concerto; Strauss
yourself—it would be a little old for
healthy."
most women, but a rabbi's wife can't
"Don Juan."
"I believe Mrs. Finkelstein has a new dress loud. And it pays to get silk
Seats—$2.00, $1.50, $1.00
dress on, hasn't she?" I observed, like this—it wears a lifetime."
Box Seats $3.00
anxious to change the subject. I have
I agreed, smiling 'slimly. It would
NOW ON BALE IN GRINNELL'S
a reasonably nice husband; but. as
p ay, for didn't the flis
m y thin g I
every member insists upon making
bought at a sale last ye ar for thirty.
Five Subscription Concerts him and the internal affairs of the two fifty begin to rip after the third
Sisterhood their chief topic of censer-
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
earing. But one doesn't buy five.
Direction of Victor Kolar
gallon while entertaining me, I often dollar-a-yard
w
silk with a husband In the
try to change the subject.
Saturday Mornings At 10:30
rabbinate and the baby needing a win-
"The dress she had made for the ter coat!
Dec. 18, Jan. 22, Feb. 19, Mar. 19,
hfanheimer's engagement reception
"It was certainly sweet of Minnie lady toddled on.
April 16
two years ago," answered Mrs. Cohen
"Nothing was wrong with It But
Season Tickets-62.00, $1.50, $1.00,
without a moment's hesitation. "She to send it," I said. "Was It a birth- I was In such a hurry with that taxi
day
or something'?"
75c, 50c.
thinks, though, nobody recognizes it
tooting at me that I forgot how I put
'No, It was a mistake" She smiled It on the first time I wore it—and
'cause she's cut out half the neck and
Boxes—$24.00, $18.00
made the skirt a foot shorter. Ain't at my look of inquiry. "It was on ac- put it on with the front in the back
Reservations by mall only ac.
It a Atone the fashions they wear count of my good black dress."
It felt tight and funny, but I thought
"Your good black dress?"
companied by check or money
it maybe Was because I was getting
nowadays. Now, you," looking one
"Yea, the one I expected to get stouter. Nu, take my word for it—
over with a sharp but approving eye,
order to Detroit Symphony So.
"now you don't loak stylish, of course, buried In," she answered cheerfully. when one dresses up once in a life-
clety, Orchestra Hall.
but you do look
and modest, and "It wain a real grossartig thing—so time it pays not to be In hurry. But
Robert DeBruce, Acting Mgr.
stiff It stood alone—and real lace I ain't worrying. If my Minnie hadn't
that's the main thing."
I agreed meekly, Inwardly longing down the front," she corrected herself got so excited maybe she'd never
Third Sunday Concert
to garb myself as outrageously as any with something of a twinkle in her have had to wear my good one one
eye.
November 28 at 3:30
have sent me this new dress and I'd
woman there. Why should Mrs.
"Have I ever seen you wear It?"
OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH
time whether I'd wanted to or not."
Kramer, whose shoulders can't com-
"No. The only time I've worn It
Conductor
pare with mine, dress like Solomon In
since
my
Minnie
got
married
was
last
all
his
glory
just
because
her
husband
Soloist
July when all my kinder came up here
Is in the ready-to-wear and mine Is in
ALFRED MIROVITCH
the rabbinate? Why must I appear for their cousin Laura's wedding. It
Pianist
to have the biggest feet of any woman was just before your baby came and
••••■•••■■•■••••■•■•■••••••••••••■••
SEATS-25C, 50e, 75c, $1.00
of the congregation because cheap you wasn't going out much," she
added delicately.
BOX SEATS $1.25
shoes always lose their shape, while
"But
why
didn't
you
wear
It
more
ON SALE IN GRINNELL'S
Mrs. Pawnbroker Leffler brags that
Rabbi Carl Herman was In Saginaw
If it was such a lovely dress?"
NOVEMBER 25, 26, 27.
she pays $15 a pair? And why—but
over the week-end. Services were
"Nu, that's why I saved It. I don't
Mrs. Cohens' voice pierced my (Bacon-
conducted Friday night, his sermon
Patrons are urged to purchase
tented musings • • • a good thing, believe In spending much on clothes— being "Bible Myths and Tin Soldiers"
tickets In advance to avoid
for a rabbi's wife must never be dis- if I have to buy 'em myself. Not that
Saturday morning the Sabbath School
crowd and delay at door.
contented with her lot—it isn't nice! I can't afford it." hastily. "My poor
began its rehearsal for the Chanukah
"Now just look at Mamie Eisen- husband, selig, left non well off—I'll
services.
say
that
for
him.
But
I'm
going
to
born," raged the dear old lady. "If a
young girl goes around half undressed live on my interest money if my chil-
The adult Hebrew and Bible class
like that, wilts next to no stockings dren like It or not. If they don't liko
and Just a few fish scales Instead of the way I dress, they can send me a met Sunday morning. Rabbi Her-
5680.1920.
Reent-Chodnch Ab
Fri., July 16 a waist, you think, poor thing, she check once in a while. It oser hurts man discussed the development of the
Fast al Ab
Sun., July 25 wants to look nice and get a husband. them. But I ain't going to aend my- Prophets of lerael.
Raeole-Chodoech ENO ......
Sun., Aug. 1.3 But a
woman with two daughters in self to the poorhouse buying clothes.
I
It don't pay."
3681-1920.
Iles Yule. En
The Junior Auxiliary was enter-
Sun., Sm. 12 high school—It's not respectable."
"But the good black dress—"
I
hate
Mrs. Eisenborn for telling my
Wed., Sao. 22
Y... Kippur
"Didn't I tell you I bought It when tained at the home of Wtn. Kellar
Succoth (Flnt Day)
Mon., Sep. 27 dear friends of the Sewing Circle I
Sunday afternoon.
Smooth (Lan Day—ShImIn1-
am a poor manager because we still Minnie got married. She got grosser-
Atzenth)
Mon., Oct. 4
fig all of a sudden and wouldn't let
8Imcnath Torah •
Tun., Oct. 2 lack curtains for our living room and me fix up a little china 'silk which was
The regular month) ymeeting of the
'RentsChorlsech Charon
Wed., Oct. 15 our hall carpets are a diagram°. Inci-
fiondt-Ohodeach Kielty
F I Nor, 12 dentally, her husband, a successful just as good as new. Jug cause she Jewish Ladles' Aid Society was held
Chanukah (Fool of DedhatIon) Mon., Deo. 6
was
going
to
marry
a
New
York
cigar
Tuesday at the home of Mrs. I, Bich.
traveling man, has had three raises
noech-Chodesch Tebeth
Sun., Deo. 12
men she acts like we must all look
fast of Tenth
Tun., Dm. 21 during the last fiveyears to the rabbi's
one. But i didn't dare to allow my- like millionaires. Such chutzpah that
3681.1921.
The Bloat Israel Auxiliary met with
girl always load. She just went down-
. Roach-Chodanch Shebat
Mon., Jen. 10 self the luxury of helping litre. Cohen
town when she was buying her own Mrs. Sarah Marks. Plans are being
e•mmelmo
wedding things and sent home the made for a dance to be held in the
silk and lace—and charged it to me. early part of December,
So what could I do after it was cut?
a Minnie has got good taste—she gets Mrs. Harry Lemick has returned
it from me—and she designed It her- from Detroit,
self. When I put it on and had my
•
hair dressed for the wedding, I didn't
Mr. Sam Goldfarb of Detroit has
■ need to he ashamed before all Minnie's moved to Saginaw.
• new relations from New York. But,
of course, I didn't take the dress out
Mr. Sol Germansky spent the week.
of the closet hag after that."
The Shoppe of Flowers
end In Detroit.
"Why?"
"Nu,"
with
a
withering
glance,
"be-
is a place of undeniable
▪ cause I'm not like women nowadays
Mrs. Phillip Sobel Is visiting rel-
beauty.
• who never want to keep anything for atives In Chicago,
C 1
• 1 ▪ a rainy day. As I said to mine Fila,
when I brushed It and put it away,
Miss Minnie Weinberg hag returned
• 'Ella, It's good to have a really gross-
Behind this pleasing ap-
following It week's visit in Flint,
artig dress around—you don't know
pearance lies the capable
when you'll need it.' But I didn't
Mr. and. Mrs. Sigmund Seitner and
organization which you
have anything special to wear it for
after that. My other children was Miss Ella Stillman were the guests
will naturally expect.
married except mine Carrie---and if of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Seitner over the
she should get a nun I'd die of heart week-end.
troublo---and for our club dinners and
Early orders for Thanksgiving
carol parties why should I put on a
will be found mutually most
Mies Peel Heavenrich entertained
grand dress like that when everybody
satisfactory.
at bridge Wednesday afternoon.
knows me and I don't have to show
YOLANDA MERO
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Predict Million Immigrants. I
icism of Professor Askenazy on ac- minister many excerpts from
1,,,..
____ count of an interview he had with a Semitic speeches which
(1-:(ctly calk(
DENVER, COL—Preparations for !ePresentative , of the London Jew- for pogroms. The mini,,:.., was 4
aiding Jewish immigrants to settle on ish Guardian, particularly against a apprised of the case ot i:sbbi l21,
modernly equipped farms in the statement .he made in the course of Beerwald, who attended sn anti-Ss.
n-ihitoicwtenreeetw
inigthahnhde
United States are being made ar the the interview that be was a good a
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ninth triennial convention of the Na- Vole and at the same time a good defend the Jewish religis: , but the
(tonal Council of Jewish Women in J ew. "Gazeta Warszawska" calls the assembly insulted him, a is; the J, i
session here. Speakers at yesterday's statement impudent, insists that no
Rabbi
:his one could be both, and •ays that the beaten and some were w "'laded. '
sessions predicted that more than
1,000,000 Jews would come to
country from Europe during the next
year.
ear. A program of "meeting and di-
reeling this tide of immigration to
make the newcomers a national asset"
seas given as the chief task before the
convention.
professor will have to choose between
to tile &plow,
isnsgued an enter to
being a good Pole or a good Jew.
JEWISH KEHILLAH ASKS
AID AGAINST POGROMS
MUNICH—The Jewish Kehillah of
Munich sent a special deputation to
the Bavarian minister, Dr. Schweyer,
requesting 11111 to protect the Jewish
population of the city against anti-
Warsaw.—"C,azeta Warszawska." a Semites as there is a threatening men-
Polish newspaper, published an ar- ace of their agitation in Ilavaria.
ticle today containing a sharp crit-
The deputation presented to the
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hplo; e A
licilti;ICt'oislitsnetireaniiiita i n a strict ,
r control
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speakers.
The foreign commIsslos
r °Esti
Seim has adopted a rer ---.
formulating its demand that
the capital of Lithuania, mild by
been occupied by Polish Luray, under
General Seligowsky, should be as.
vexed to Poland.
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"But when you're visiting your chil-
dren In New York—"
"I'll oser get the skirt all wrinkled
squeezing in their taxis. I don't even
bother to take it along. Why should I
dress up for when nobody knows me?
I care lots for their friends--they'd
over give me anything it I ildn't
have It."
"But why did you wear the good
black dress for your niece's wedding?"
I asked curiously.
"I thought I'd never put it o
again," she anwered, "except when
was laid out. Mine Ella knows a
about my funeral, you know, but Go d
help me if she goes first and I hay e
to depend on somebody else. II at
I got all dressed for Laurass weddin 6
in my black silk with the white sail
vest which was good enough for an
body, even if my Jake's wife did tar
her nose up at it more'n once, If
didn't catch It on a nail going dow a-
stairs and rip the skirt something to
rible. I never could mend It proper,
she told me in a mournful parenth e-
sis, "and I had to sell It to mine Ell a
for a dollar. I think ehe made a
underskirt out of It. That chicks
gets her money so easy working b y
me that she can be extravagant."
"So you had to put on your good
black dress?" I surmised, trying to
escape a tirade against the faithful
Mr. Si. Art of Detroit Is visiting
many of his friends In Saginaw,
S. MANDELL, POPULAR
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Sam Mandell, ex-vaudevillian and
popular singer well-known
In the
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Ella.
did, and I was almost meshugga
too, with my Jake waiting downetair
In a hired taxi to take me to th
wedding. He was making the ma n
work the horn nil the time, and Go d
knows how much It coot to him,
dressed in my good black dress 0
quick it made me dizzy, and put o
my silk coat, and when I was done
almost
fell
down the stairs,
was in such a hurry 'cause I dldn'
want to come late. I'll say that for
your husband when he preaches at a
wedding or a funeral It begins on
time. When old IMetor Schlessinger
was here, now, you could drop In a
friend's and have a game of cards on
the way and still be on time."
" So you got to the wedding on
time.
"I did—but how did I get there? I
noticed several people looking at me
awful queer during the ceremony and
afterwards, before I bad time to wipe
my eyes—your husband is awfully at.
feeling at weddings, he's so sincere,
and I'm too good hearted anyway-
' well, before I was through crying, my
Minnie dragged me out to the dressing
room and said, 'For God's sake.
mamma, what have you got on? And
I said. 'That dress you had the chutz-
pah to buy for me with my own
money. Ain't it good enough for
you?' And she said, 'It might be good
enough If you put It on right.
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at wry dance, ball and moonlight
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