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FROM SIBERIA
Fyfe's Third Floor
By ETHEL TAUROG.
Low Shoes for
Street Wear
I I err arc two line -urprises fur %vonten who have
planned to pay moderately for this season's street
T o tes.
Walking Oxford
$10
Black or Gray
Ooze
Black or White
Kid
A smart shoe that is
equally adapt ed for
semi-dress or street
wear.
1 ti-inch Cuban heel
and welt sole.
Walking Pump
'10
Gra y Buckskin
Black or
Brown Kid
An effective strap
type, just a step front
the ordinary.
-
inch leather
heels and welt soles.
Third
Floor
Woodward and Adams.
FREE F U R FREE
STORAGE
No charge made for storage on your
furs when repairs amount to $50 or over.
Phone or write and we will call for
your furs, which will receive our very care-
ful and expert attention, at very reason-
able rates.
Baum Marten
Stone Marten
Hudson Seal
Hudson Sable
Russian Sable
Mink
Broadtail
EASY
TERMS
on all Furs
selected here.
TRY
Squirrel
Mole
Mink
Fisher
Blue Fox
Silver Fox, Etc..
Chokers, Scarfs
US
Mole
Alaska
Seal, Etc.,
in gorgeous
combinations,
in latest
Wraps and Coats
and Capes
In the vestibule, Mr. Ziranoff bile go by, or achilil crying, or people
stopped me with a jovial greeting.
talking loud, without jumping up
'I was just going by you, to see with fright. In those terrible days,
if you ain't home already. Yester- when we were hidden in the cellar,
day my mother and my two nieces, if someone should drop a pin it
young girls, came from Europe. Five would frighten me. You may be-
' years I didn't hear no word from lieve me, there was enough to be
them, until I got the telegram I afraid of. You see, our town was
should send them money to come near the border line, and by us the
here."
war started right away. When the
"I'm so glad," I said.
Cassacks knew they would have to
"I want to ask from you a favor," retreat, they began to show what
he requested. "You should, please, they could do. I wouldn't even think
after while come in by me, and try of telling you the terrible things I
jolly them up it little. You know by herad and saw. For what? Isn't
me there ain't no young folks," Mr. it enough that we who had to go
Ziranoff sighed, for he is childless.
through it will never forget? After
I promised I would come in and the" took my youngest son to the
attempt to "jolly" the new arrivals war, I didn't care about anything,
to the best of my ability.
about the old silverware that had
In the evening I sauntered over to been in our family for generations
the Ziranoff home. I was introduced and generations, from which they
to a very old looking woman. Mr. didn't leave us even a little spoon
Ziranoff's mother, and two sad-eyed, for a remembrance, for the whole
unsmiling women, who were possibly house which was robbed and torn up,
young, although that I couldn't de- for the bedding, and the towels
, termine. As I spoke to them, I mar- which my (laughter, the children's
, veled that so old a woman—I judged mother, made when she was a young
her to be close to 90—should have girl, and which I kept for the chil-
so strong and vigorous a voice.
dren's troussea. My oldest child, my
"Isn't it remarkable that such an daughter, died when Fanickath was
old woman could make such a long born, and I took the two children to
voyage," I managed to say in an un- raise.
dertone to Mrs. Ziranoff.
"Well, the way I was saying, I
"Old!" she exclaimed. "Not very
didn't care what they took, as long
' old. You wouldn't call 58 years
as they didn't harm my two treas-
I old."
ures, the children. Then terrible
"Why, she looks like 90."
things began to happen, and it wasn't
"Sure, only you shouldn't forget safe for a young woman to be seen.
that they come from Siberia. And I hid the two children in the cellar.
they've been traveling six months, For myself I wasn't afraid. In the
before they could get here."
few months of the war and from the
I felt strangley oppressed as I time they took my son, I got older
thought of what misery these immi- with 20 years. I had seven children,
grants must have endured to cause a four died when they were small; the
woman of 58 to look like a woman daughter left me two children, a son
of 90.
in America, and now the youngest
"Then the girls must be young, child, a tine young man, in the war.
also," I said.
You can imagine.
"Sonitchka, how old are you?" she
"I went to the Ispraynik of our
inquired of the older girl, a tall, slen-
town; we had (lone him a lot of fa-
der woman with ash colored hair,
vors, loaned him money, my son
large grey eyes, and a pale, thin face.
should earn every month half of what
"Eighteen," was the toneless
he owes us. 'Your honor," I said
reply.
to him, 'couldn't you to something
And you, Fanitchka?"
to help me? For myself I don't want
"I'll be 17 soon, won't I, Babe?"
anything, but for the two children,
The old woman pondered a mo-
my Sonitchka and my F'anitchka.
ment. "In two months you will be You know, your honor, what is going
17, my treasure," she replied.
on in the town, and what should I
No matter how hard I tried to to with my two girls—my two treas-
draw them out in conversation, I ures? I've got them hidden away in
didn't succeed in getting them to
the cellar, but how long can I keep
Ita"c They listened to me with in- them there?'
! terest, but they had nothing to say.
"The Ispravnik didn't listen to me
Nothing that I said, in my sincere at first, and you couldn't blame him,
l effort to entertain them, succeeded either, because he was afraid for his
in bringing a smile to the lips of the own skin, but I talked no long that
girls.
he began to listen.
It was only when Mr. Ziranoff said
"'I will help you,' he said, in the
that he wanted them to go to school only way I can think of, only the
that they showed some animation.
medicine won't be very pleasant to
They inquired anxiously about take. This is my plan. I will say that
what we studied in our Gymnasia. It
I have discovered that the Ziranoffs
was then that I learned that both are plotting against the government,
girls had attended the Gymnasia in and as political prisoners I will have
Europe, and that the older one was you sent to Siberia. And the convoy
well versed in the best continental I will give to understand that they
literature, English, which she had
must see that you come in Siberia
read in translation, included.
without a hair on your head hurt.'
"Please come often," Sonia plead-
"'Is there no other way?' I asked.
! ed when I was about to leave. "It
"Ile shook his head. 'Well, are
has been a joy to me to be able to
you willing?' he asked. What could
speak to someone about books and
I do, I ask you. It was like asking
learning again. We have talked only
someone to jump from fire into wa-
about dreadful and horrible things
ter. You might drown in the water,
for so long that I was beginning to
but when you are already burning in
forget that there still are good and
fire, you don't think of that.
noble things In the world."
"Well, the next day some officials
I came often, because these peo-
came with documents to my house,
ple interested me, and because I
put me and the children in chains,
knew that they enjoyed my com-
and sent an with a convoy to Siberia.
pany. I never asked them about their And, well, we didn't drown, because
adventures. I instinctively knew you see,
we were imperial prisoners,
that those were things too dreadful
and for such criminals like us they
to recall.
had great respect.
One evening I called later than
"How we came to Siberia would
usual, and found the old woman was take too long to tell you and I see
alone --in spite of the fact that I you have tears in your eyes already,
knew she wasn't very old, I couldn't no I will only tell you that we came
think of her as anything but a very, to Siberia alive and without a hair
very old woman. Mr. and Mrs. Zi- on our heads harmed. So soon as
i ranoff and the girls had gone to the we came in Siberia the head official
opera. They had wanted to take her, received a telegram to free the Zi-
too, but she (lid not want to go.
ranoff family because a mistake was
"Fur the young people' it's all made, and documents were found
right, but for me, I am glad if I can showing that it was someone else
sit home in the warmth, quiet, and and not the Ziranoff family who were
without fright. I'm just beginnnig guilty. Such things happen, or they
to get used to hearing an automo- used to happen often in Russia, so
the officials were not surprised. They
le t u s go free.
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"In Siberia you may be sure we
did not lick honey, the way the say.
ing goes, but compared to the con-
stant terror in which we lived in
Russia, we lived like the nobility.
There are worse things than cold and
hunger. If I should begin to tell
you of how we got out of Siberia,
and of our journey from town to
town before we could get to a ship
to go to America, the places in which
we slept and what we ate, I would
have to talk to you all night, and '
don't know if 1 could tell you all in
one night. Only 'when I think of
how Siberia—the name alone used to
frighten us when we heard it men-
tioned—should be a refuge, I laugh.
From her 14 there issued mirth-
less laughter. lebrew Standard.
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Friedenberg is today sell-
ing Furniture and Rugs at
Reductions to conform with
today's wholesale price.
OBJECTS TO CLASSING
AUTOMOBILE AS LUXURY
"There is a very definite threat
not only to the prosperity of the au-
tomobile industry but to the pocket-,
book of individual automobile own-
ers in the agitation which is now be-
ing carried on among members of
Congress for heavy special taxes
upon automobiles. If these taxes
should pass, they are certain to cause
a decided curtailment in the use of
automobiles and all the advantages
that the American people have gained
from them," according to Mr. 11. W.
Peters, general manager of the Pack-
ard Motor Car Company, Detroit
Branch, local distributors of Pack-
ard cars.
"News from. Washington," says
Mr. Peters, "indicates that there is
a very real danger that Congress will
place a burden of something like half
a billion on automobile owners. It
has surprised me to learn that many,
if nut most, of the national legis-
lators still think the automobile is
a luxury and that they are planning
to tax it as a luxury, along with
chewing gum, lip rouge, perfume and
tin horns.
"It has been conclusively proved
over and over again that today the
passenger car is paying for itself
many times over, that it increases.
the average earning capacity of its,
owner more than 56 per cent, and
that as a transportation agency for
human beings it has .taken rank
ahead of the railroad.
"Almost every activity is taken
into account. The farmer increases
his productivity 68 per cent, a prime
consideration in these days.
"The doctor is called many times
in an emergency, and always because
of pain or suffering. Any agency
that saves his time and brings him
to his task fresher, more vigorous
and more capable is as indispensable
as the physician himself. And so on
down the list.
"A tax on the automobile will be
a burden on all this activity and will
be a definite interference with the
progress and prosperity of America.
In addition, of course, it will be a
heavy expense to many people who
find in their little cars one of their
greatest comforts and who will be
unable to pay the $50 to $100 a year
extra that will be demanded of
them."
You will find my Furniture back
to Old Established Prices.
IEDENBERg
FURNITURE HOUSE ‘1 S
4723.25 HASTINGS STREET
THE STORE WITH A REPUTATION.
VIMAWata
Ilickey's
Spring Fashions in
Suits, W raps, Coats
Simplicity, elegance and a youthful spirit
dominate the fashions sponsored by this shop.
The selections include types from the strictly
tailored to the dainty styles man); girl. desire
in the newest seasonable fabrics. The prices:
Suits .
$25 and up
Wraps ..
$25 and up
Wash Dresses
NUMBER ADDED TO
CAFE FRONTENAC SHOW
Graceful styles developed in Organdies,
Voiles, Dotted Swiss, Gingham. and Linens
introduce striking combinations never shown
The Cafe Frontenac continues to
please fastidious diners and frolic
lovers, as attested by its constantly
increasing patronage.
The splendid program of amuse-
ment offered during the dining hour
or after the theater compares favor-
ably with first-class theaters in at-
tractiveness and originality.
The special fan number that has
been added to the program is said
to excel in point of excellence any
other act shown in a restaurant show,
in Detroit. The gowns, of unique,
oriental and occidental charactre, are
reported marvelous results of the
costumer's art.
The number is led by Miss Adele
Ardsby, who is rapidly becoming a
favorite with Cafe Frontenac pat-
rons both on account of the delight-
ful quality of her voice and her vi-
vacious and captivating personality.
before! The prices start at $3.50.
Middies
Paul Jones Middies and
new French Flannel Mid-
dies
com-
in
price at $2.
Waists
For girls to wear with
their spring suits. Come
in many styles and
are
very moderately priced.
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Saturdays
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"The Synagogue," recently exhibited at the Jewish Institute, High and Hustings, at
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at the Boston public library, which misrepresented the Hebrew place of worship as
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