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stead; it will not be hard for me,
for I am his mother."
"Yes, you are his mother," an-
swered Ruth, a strange wistfulness
in her gentle face.
A Story of Shabuoth.
The old chronicles tell us how Boaz
met the elders at the gate and de-
Designed to reduce
By ELMA EHRLICH LEVINGER.
vised
with them and the nearest of
the figure and give
(Copyright, 1921, by Elma Ehrlich Levinger. All rights reserved.)
kin to Mahlon, the deud husband of
stout women slender,
the
girl
Ruth, how he might purchase
graceful lines.
The warm sunlight flowed into the told many tales of the kindness of for himself her inheritance and wed
Corsets
the
reapers
who
gave
her
the
best
to the laws of Israel.
according
her
window of the little house of Naomi
In white or pink
of the gleanings; and she spoke often They tell also of the wedding day
of Bethlehem, the house where she
Boaz,
the
muster
of
them
all,
who
youth! or broche,
of
and
the
blessings
of the people of
had borne the two sons who died in
sizes 26 to 45
Moab across the Jordan. A widow had asked her to sit and break bread Bethlehem uttered as they took their
with
him
during
the
noonday
meal
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vows,
blessings
that
spoke of the fu-
without children, she had returned to
the home of her childhood with Ruth, and given her to drink from his own lure when the house of Ruth and
5.95 to 18.00
cup.
And
Naomi
had
listened
with
famous
in Bethlehem.
Boaz would be
her daughtr-in-law, at her side. Ruth,
the widow of Mahlon, a woman of a heart strangely torn between joy And they speak a little of the day
Brassieres
when
Ruth,
her
first-born
son in her
Moab, had deserted home and kin for and anger, joy that the thing she had
lo .1,0e or pink
dream might come to arms, but they do not tell the whole
the sake of Naomi, her mothr-in-law, hardly dare to
38 to 56 hue
refusin* to desert her in her old age. pass, anger that Ruth, who had story.
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For when Naomi stood beside the
And now Naomi, in trembling doubt known her son's love, had so soon
and impatience, waited for her to re- learned to forget his devotion and bed of Ruth and took the new-born
from
the
threshing-floor
of
Boaz.
the
few
months
of
happiness
they
child
from her arms, she wept for
turn
had known together. But she kept the first time since the day that the
soLoou rluor, Washiorton Anna.
Sitting by the window, the morn- her thoughts unspoken and encour-
aged
Ruth
to
speak
of
Boaz,
her
earth
had
covered the bodies of her
1537 Wood..4 Ave.
f tti ng upon her grey
ing sunshine ra
hair and sorrowful face, Naomi re- kinsman and a rich landowner in husband and her two sons. For nowt
she knew that the name of her son
membered all that had come to pass Bethlehem.
Mahlon would never perish in Israel.'
since her return to Bethlehem. Na-
From the next room she could hear'
Now the end of the barley and of
omi , who had gone forth a wealthy the wheat harvest had come and Na- the women of Bethlehem, friends of I
and
woman, rejoicing in her husband
feared that th e d ail y communion her youth, rejoicing in her new-found
her two strong young sons, had re- omi
between Boaz, master of the reapers, joy. She heard their voices rising
' turned a sorrowing widow with no
in life but the frail girl who and Ituth might come to an end and and falling in their festal song:
stay
that her dreams would thus end in
drooped at her side. She who had
•
known abundance might have suf. emptiness. And so, the night bfore, "There is a son born to Naomi;
I
fered want had not Ruth gone forth when she knew that Boaz, according A son born to her in her old age!
into the harvest fields of Boaz, the to the custom of the day, slept upon
had called She nurse
him; v'ithout children will)
who was
rich kinsman of Naomi, there to gath- the threshing-floor, Naomi
the gleanings of the reapers, con- Ruth before her and had placed upon And she shall be as a mother unto '.
er
him."
secrated by the law of Moses to the her certain strange commands. With
her own hands, Naomi decked the girl
fatherless and the poor.
Naomi stole a glance toward the
Naomi recalled her fears for Ruth, in her own bridal garments, delicate
the morning the girl had set out for robes of silver and white, the sole bed and saw tears coursing down the
the harvest fields of Boaz; even in remainder of her former wealth; she young mother's white cheeks. A sud- :
the coarse garments she had worn, braided the girl's dark hair with den tenderness stole over her as she
since her widowhood, Ruth's young' pearls and placed bracelets and placed the child on Ruth's breast. I
"You do not mind what they sing?"
shone forth so radiantly that anklets upon her, wrapping her in a
beauty
d mantle and veil that those who she asked. "They are old friends, old
Naomi had bade her a little harshly ark
to veil her face should she meet with passed upon the road might not spy women like myself, whose days are
rudeness from the young men who' upon her beauty. And then she had nearly over. So they rejoice with
Later commanded the young woman to go me that I am not left like a withered
worked among the reapers.
for to Boaz as he kept watch upon the tree, doomed to perish. They are
she repented of her sharp voice,
r
n
Ruth, who was docile in all things, threshing-floor, remindindg him that glad that I and my so s a e renewed
Manufautarers
had never been guilty of boldness or none of his house had remembered in this child—who will be as a son
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immodesty. Yet a pain stirred in Na- th law when a man dies without chit- to both of us."
"Nay, I do not envy you, though
omi's jealous mother heart as she real- dren, his next of kin must marry the
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his line die forever in it is your name they sing, not mine,"
' ized that her dead son Mahlon was widow lest
answered
Ruth as she gazed upon the
deprived of his wife's sweetness and Israel.
Ruth had flushed and paled but little one. A foolish young mother
I. beauty even in the days of his youth.
with
her
first
son, she dreamed like
The summer days passed until the had said no word, for she spoke little
barley harvest was over and every when deeply moved. At last she had all other fond mothers that some day
her
child
might
dee to a fair place
night Ruth, weary from her toil said slowly: "And you would have
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before all Israel. But with her, the
among the gleaners, returned with me wed again?"
M ARQU ETTE OLD .
dreams
were
not
to wonderful as
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her arms filled with gleanings. As
"If he weds you," answered Na-
DESIGNING
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they sat in the dusk together she omi, evading her question, and hat- that which came to pass. How could
the
simple
girl
from
Moab
foresee that
ing herself for her evasion, "if Boaz
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weds you, the line of my son, Mahlon, this child's grandson would be the
fair-haired
shepherd
boy,
David, who
need not die out in Israel, and I may
still hold a grandchild upon my would bring glory to all Israel as he
sat upon his golden throne in high
0 fien Evenings
knee."
Jerusalem? Who was there to whis-
And Ruth had answered nothing. per that in the days to come when all'
Drawing her veil closely about her Israel would be scattered and broken,
Sunday Matinee end Evening, June 12, 1921.
face, she had left Naomi in the door- that many mothers, weak, yet radiant
EDWIN A. RELKIN
way, walking down the road white upon their child-beds, would dream
with moonlight as proudly as a young that their sons, descendants of the
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queen who goes to her coronation. seed of David, might be the long
ROSE
GOLDBERG
NATIIAN GOLDBERG
And the older woman had watched prayed-for Messiah of their people?"
BETTY JACOBS
her with increasing bitterness in her
J. JACOBS
"At last I can praise God for His
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heart, for the girl seemed glad to goodness, for lie bath not deserted
Jacob Goldstein
Sarah Filer
Rosa Greenfield
seek out a new lover, while she, Na- me in my old age," chanted Naomi.
(Continued from page I)
omi, knew she would never cease to "For it was not for my husband that
Sam Auerbach and Mr. Zeidman
mourn the husband of her youth.
I mourned alone, nor for my sons, its usefulness at once and others were
In W. Seigel's Greatest and Most Artistic Play
Naomi thought of all these things, but I grieved that our name should soon established. Sixteen years lat.
brooding over Ruth's hardness of perish in Israel." er a bronze tablet commemorating
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"Mother," said Ruth, and a look the work was placed in the Rivington
heart as she sat waiting for her to
offers you the best of work-
return. "A heathen woman at heart!" of pain swept her white face, "moth Street bath.
Prices: 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00.
Dr.
Baruch
is
also
regarded
as
the
she muttered. "A true doughter of er, speak not of this to anyone, but
manship and an unlimited
For sale at Gordon's Book Store, 3009 Hastings, and at box office
I would this had been Mahlon's son pioneer of scientific hydrotherapy in
Moab!
Well
do
I
remember
her
tears
on day of performance.
selection of covering materi-
over Mahlon's funeral bed. And that When Boaz took me for his wife, his America. He became professor of
ama
in
Detroit
will
have
a
real
opportunity
als to choose from; not small
The lovers to of Jewish Dr
but a year ago. And now because kindness and his love softened my hydrotherapy at the College of Physi-
real dramatic work of
se
samples, but large cuts,
Boaz is young and good to look upon grief for Mahlon, my husband, and I cians and Surgeons. Dr. Baruch
and rich, she gives herself to him thought my joy in the child would lived to see wonderful things accom-
among which are imported
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gladly and looks eagerly for the day ease my heart. But now I grieve pshed through hydrotherapy, the
and domestic Tapestries,
of her espousals. No daughter of Is- afresh that it is not Mahlon who re. cure of disease through the use of
Cretonnes, Velours, Velvets,
rael could prove herself to faithless joices in our first-born and calls him water. He became a world-wide au-
thority on this subject, and his book,
Damasks, Mohairs, etc.
to a husband she pretended to love.' son."
"The
Principles
and
Practices
of
Hy-
Thus thought Naomi, her mother love
"Forgive me, forgive me," cried
has
for her dead son helping her to for - Naomi, "for I thought that you had drotherapy," in three editions,
Custom made upholstered
get how Ruth had left native land long ago forgotten Mahlon. And you been translated and published in
France and Germany. He is also
furniture made to order.
and kinsfolk for her sake, caring fo r seemed so willing to marry Boaz!"
author
of
"The
Uses
of
Water
in
her as tenderly as though she had
Ruth smiled forgivingly into the
Davenports, easy chairs, etc.
been of her own blood.
withered face that bent above her. Modern Medicine."
During the War Dr. Baruch did
She looked up to see Ruth stand-
I knew Mahlon would forgive me
"
Service, utmost care always, and the use of the best ma•
ing before her. "Well?" she asked, if I wed again," she answered, "for much valuable work for the United
and anxiety made her voice harsh d a i s d on not wish to die until I had borne States Public Health Service. He
terials has made The Lindow Company the largest estab-
visited Camp Devens several times in
and shrill. "What of Boaz?"
connection with the hydortherapeutic
lishment of its kind in Detroit.
Ruth opened her mantle before she
plant installed there and Camp Up-
spoke. "These six measures of bar-
MACCABEES
OF
JUDAEA
The mixer given on May 29 by the ton to demonstrate the water treat-
ley did Boaz give me," she answered,
Look around your home NOW. You are sure to find
displaying the gift she brought with Maccabees of Judaea in honor of meat for pneumonia, and spoke to
some articles that we can improve, and possibly restore
and nurses at many other
her, and he has promised that he their leader, Mr. David Racoosin, was physicians
we-
to their original perfection.
will act the kinsman's part to me." a huge success. Mr. Racoosin weal camps on the vital importance of bat-
She sighed a little, her sad eyes look- presented with a ring by Sam Silver- ter, rest, air, food and exercise in
ing through the open window toward stein, president, on behalf of the dub tling lisease. Many of his lectures
the hills of Moab, her home, which members, in appreciation of the work were given in Washington, in Army
and Naval Hospitals and before the
0
lay beyond the Jordan.
done by him for the club.
army and navy Medical schools.
"lie said," continued Ruth, "that
Three prominent University of
During the war Dr. Baruch, in a
Upholstering and Cabinetmaking
there was one nearer of kin to my
Michigan
men
were
in
attendance
at
newspaper
article, drew a comparison
ONE OF THE LARGEST AND FINEST IN
husband's house than he. But if he the mixer, Mr. Harold Herman, of the between the military and sanitary
Phone West 1254
1935 Marentette Street
could buy the land of your husband Sociology Department of the Univer-
THE STATE
for himself, then would he have the sity of Michigan, Mr. Klein, member history of the country to show there
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right to wed me. Today he goes to of the University of Michigan base were "pacifist" in medical affairs as I
meet the elders at the gate that they ball squad and 11. Levenson. The well as in military affairs.
Medical Pacifists Condemned.
may talk of this thing among them- Michigan men spoke to the boys on
"We find in medicine," he wrote,
selves."
good sportmanship and sociability
Naomi rose heavily from her seat, among Jewish boys. Mr. Klein told " the some maudlin opposition to war
against
disease as you find today
the old anger for Ruth's heartlessness told the boys that the three essentials
stirring within her, mingled with joy of a good athlete were honesty, obedi- among pacifists. The former are
moved
to
tears by the alleged cruel-
that Boaz would redeem her son's ence and courtesy. Mr. Levenson
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inheritance and perhaps raise chil- delivered a humorous talk to the boys. ties to guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs and
other
negligible
animals which are
dren in his stead.
Singing and refreshments closed the used for the purpose of studying an-
"I know Boaz," she said at last,
evening's program.
Alf
tidotes to infectous diseases, but they
"and that he will not rest until he
are oblivious to the suffering of those
has finished this thing,. You will be
B,
NOS
ZION
SOCIETY
afflicted by those diseases and the
happy with Boaz, for he is a good
The Ezras Noshim La Mizrochi sorrows of those whom death has de-
and honorable man."
"I was happy with Mahlon," an- Society announces the change of its prived of relatives and friends
t l t of those
troug
moraiy
name to 13 nos Zion.
h te
h arge
l
h
The society was organized for the , diseases and also of the economic lose
again toward Moab, where Mahlon
Purpose
of
purchasing
land
in
Pales-.
see
resulting
from
the
latter.
and led her from her father's house
"The non-medical opponents pro-
tine for stricken brethren and their
to his own.
test
against
war
on
smallpox,
saying
families.
"Think no longer of Mahlon," com-
Any one who is interested in the that we introduce disease into the hu-
sandal Naomi, again speaking harsh-
organization
and
its
work
is
asked
to
man
body,
just
as
the
civilian
peel-
ly, , "for you are young and cannot
y today that universal militar y
live with the dead. No doubt Orpah, call Northway 284-W or Northway fists
e
I
training
would
stimulate
a
warlik
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for
further
information.
the wife of Chilion, his brother, is
The next regular meeting of the spirit among our peaceful citizens
already wed, and has forgotten even
society
will
be
held
Tuesday,
June
You
know
that
smallpox
has
almos
his name. You need not mourn for
home, for you go to a new home and 14, at 7:30 p. m., at the Mogen Abra- been abolished by vaccination, an
yet these maudlin reformers contiun
a new joy. Let me mourn in your ham Synagogue on Farnsworth.
their tirades upon vaccination. Vivi
section, which horrifies them, has en
t r
lightened the medical profession up
O
.a.1 ■ Ie.O••••••*0
on the cause and treatment of man
O
fatal diseases, and thus prepared th
way for abolishing them."
When the prohibition question wa
before the country Dr. Baruch as
sorted that he favored a law again,
the importation, manufacture an
sae of distilled liquors, but that h
, believed in the production of beer o
low alcoholic percentage.
Dr. Baruch married in 1867 Mi
Isabel Wolfe, of Winnsboro, S.
In 1917 they celebrated their golds
' wedding at Sherry's, with more the
1,000 guests attending. Receivin
with Dr. and Mrs. Baruch were thei
four sons, Bernard M. Baruch, Chai
man during the war of the Counc
of National Defense; Dr. and M
Herman B. Baruch, Mr. and M
Hartwig N. Baruch and Mr. and M
Sailing W. Baruch.

A Mother of Bethlehem

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MRS. REBECCA VINE
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