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I directed at them. I felt inclined to
CRUSADE AGAINST
ask him whether Major Brunel Cohen,
JEWS CHAMPIONED
the member for the Fairfield Division
Liverpoo, who has to be wheeled
BY BRITISH DUKE of
into his seat in the House because
His Son Cannot Marry
By S. M. MELAMED.
—
both of his legs were removed by a
An elderly, long-bearded Jew, is liable to do anything, even to beat
(Continued from nage 1.)
German shell while he was fighting with spectacles pushed high on his his father. What can you expect of
of the ways and means which the for England, would feel particularly, forehead, entered the editorial offices a Jewish son who does not even speak
anti-Semite uses for his purpose. And Impressed by the campaign of Nor-
of a Jewish newspaper, made him- Yiddish and says that he hate, Yid-
incidentally, the comedy has reached thumberland, who is perfectly honest
self comfortable in a chair, cleaned dish? I already spoke to the rabbi
• fresh scene just now with the ap- and sincere, by the way, and his fol-
of the synagogue on this subject and
pearance of the Duke of Northumbcr- lowers. But I thought the matter his spectacles, returning them to to the elders of the synagogue, but
their former position on his forehead,
land as the champion of a new cru- might perhaps be left where it was.
coughed a bit, looked around, and they say they cannot do anything.
Sad, The Duke is a sincere and pat-
Englishmen'. Attitude.
after finding the situation satisfac- Of course, what can they do? Col-
riotic young man who owns large
For, as a very shrewd Jewish law-
lect dues—that is all they do. But'
tory, asked for the editor.
chunks of England, which have been
when it comes to really important
his since the time of the Great Earl rer
said who
to me
yesterday,
Eng-
"Must you speak to the editor per-
ishman
says
he disikes the
Jews
al-
things they can do nothing. Ameri-
l'ercy, who ruled the north and the ways makes an exception of those he sonally?"
can rabbis and American synagogue
border an ff he were no less great has met. If you discuss the matters
"Of course," the elderly Jew re- elders—SOME rabbis and SOME
than the king himself. The present , wineieht l y with him, you will find plied. "It is an important editorial
elders!
Percy, naturally apprehensive in that the Jews he dislikes are the ones business. I must speak to him per-
First,.
"At home it all different.
these democratic days for the future he does not know, and even these are sonally."
such a thing wouldn't happen at all
of the feudal system, is convinced disliked not for their faults, but for
"If this is the case, I will call the and if it were to happen, the rabbi
that the present industrial crisis is their being different. I myself make
editor," a member of the staff said, would have called in the boy and
but a ramification of the great plot no bones about saying what I think
and within a few minutes the visitor would have told him, 'Either you
which the followers of Anti-Christ of Jews who are vulgar, showy,
marry as your father tells you to do
faced the editor.
have set on foot for the destruction tricky, quarrelsome, mischievous and
"Are you the editor of the paper? or we will not count you in the min-
of the world. unstable, as so many are. But my It is yourself?" insisted the Jew.
yan and, of course, you will never
Add Peers. •
lawyer friend would have none of it.
"Yes, to be sure, there is no imi- be called upon to read in the Torah
Accordingly, he summoned a meet- "Why should I pick out the faults in tation, and what can I do for you?" and you will be disgraced.' But here,
ing of peers and commoners recently, my own people?" he asked me, "for
"It is a very important affair," the the son wouldn't even go to the rabbi
and let them have the lecture against the benefit of others whose faults, ederly Jew said, "and if you will be and the rabbi wouldn't have the cour-
Bolshevism which he has been deliv- though different, are Just as bad? If kind enough to give me a few min- age to talk to him like a man and
ering amid roars of applause to the our men do wear corpulent gold utes of your time, I will tell you all like a rabbi. Therefore, I decided to
suburbs and villages and to all those chains, and their wives go shopping about it."
come to you to get your advice. 1
who dearly love a duke. A lecture in diamond earrings and silk dressed,
The editor thereupon invited his am sure you can persuade my boy to
against Bolshevism is a legitimate ob. what of it? Are these such mortal guest into his private office, bid him do the right thing, for, you know, he
ject, particularly for a duke to un- sins, for a man to be pleased with take a seat and to tell him his story. is my only son and if he should do
dertake. But when even a duke seeks his own prosperity and to be anxious
Th elderly Jew again cleaned his the wrong thing and marry a gentile
to make out that Bolshevism and the that his wife and daughters shall spectacles, again coughed a little and girl, I would return to my ancestors
destruction of Things-As-They-Are is carry evidenc• of it on their backs? began the following monologue.
without even leaving a Kaddish and
solely the work of mysteriously pow-, If a Jew gambles, he gambles with
"I want you, Mr. Editor, to help that is a terrible thing."
erful Hebrews, and when he calls his own money. If he spends lavish-
me out, for I am in trouble and this For a while, both editor and visitor
upon the prime minister to investi- ly, I have never yet met the Gentile trouble makes my life bitter and un- remained silent, the first thinking of
gate the sources of this conspiracy who was unwilling to share in the bearable and I want to make an end a possible means of helping the old
with a view of seeing whether the spending. If he talks noisily, at least
of it. It is true, it does not concern man and his son, and the other sigh-
British Jews cannot be made to take he does not drink noisily. Ile pays me personally. It concerns someone ing and impatiently awaiting either
the responsibility for it, so 88 to leave his taxes, he keeps the law, he fights very near to me—my oldest and only a word of consolation or a satisfac-
the rest of Britain free from the or works for his country, he seeks
son. You know, he is a very good tory reply. The elderly Jew gazed at
taint, he is perhaps straining the no man's favor, he stands on his own
son but not much of a pious Jew. As the editor, displaying an indescrib-
ducal functions beyond their proper feet, he pursues his own path of in-
able tension and, to kill time, he
dustry. What need has he of my de- a matter of fact, he never attends the again began to clean his spectacles.
limit.
tense or yours? If he wished, he synagogue, not even on holidays. Ile
Soothed by Lloyd George.
Finally, the editor, after taking
does
not
speak
Yiddish
and
in
fact
As a matter of fact, Mr. Lloyd , could live in the present, and to build
everything into consideration, said to
George did meet the parliamentary , a future fur himself and those he says that he hates Yiddish and since, his guest: "I am very sorry, I can-
as
you
know,
I
do
not
know
any
Eng-
deliberators, and soothed them as one loves, using such energies and abill-
lish, we cannot talk much to one an- not help you. I can do nothing in
would soothe a fractious infant, with ties as God has given him, is not go-
other, yet, being his father, I want the matter. You know, Jewish boys
promises that he woufd do whatever ing to call my reproaches upon his
him to be happy and be settled in in America approaching the age of
was necessary t; bring the villains head for the faults of eagerness and
his life. I have urged him time and maturity do not accept any guid-
to light and confound them. I hap- independence which may be urged again to get married, but he will not ance. They want to be their own
paned to be having tea a day or two's against him by those to whom a
guides. I am sorry. I can do noth-
later with one of the members whoiman's worth is nothing if i they choose take my advice and, to the present
day, remains unmarried, though he ing."
had been summoned to attend, a very , to hate him."
The elderly Jew did not say a word
is 22 years old. You know, Mr.
famous and distinguished architect,
Lloyd George and the Jews.
Editor, I have been the father of more. Ile placed his spectacles on
who did not know that I was a Jew. Ilere again the discussion was left , three chidren and was even happy, his nose, rose from his chair, and
We touched upon the subject and I almost where it began. There is so too. It is true that I had to forego with bent head and tears coursing
told him I was a Jew and asked him much of interest to be spoken about many luxuries on that account such down his cheeks, he sighed deeply
what he thought most be the feelings the Jew between fair-minded men
Its eating meat more than twice a and walked slowly out of the room
of a man like myself, one of five that it is not worth wkile to discuss week or eating more than one meal a murmuring loudly: "I'll die without
brothers who had served in the army the subject with those who are preju- day, but I was happy nevertheless leaving one to say Kaddish after me,"
throughout the war, when we found diced against him, whether because and my wife was happy, too. She and upon reaching the door leading
our religion, or our race, if he pre- they hate him or because they must
raised the children with the same care to the street, he turned around and
ferred to call it so, attacked under find some one to blame for their own that a rich mother could bestow on with an expression of contempt said
a cloak of lies the very nature of misfortunes. Certainly we shall hear
them and perhaps more, and they to the editor: "It is all a swindle—
which he did not comprehend. more from the Bathursts as time grew up to be strong and healthy and editors, rabbis, synagogue elders, it
I asked him if he thought that it goes on, and the only trouble is for we were both happy to have children, is all the same," and left, with a
enhanced our opinion of the English them to find anything new to urge
to care for them, and to be settled curse on his lips and tears in his
spirit when such things like this could against us. The Morning Post, which
in life; but my son, you know, is an eyes.—The Sentinel.
occur in the British Parliament, as - is furious with the ('rime Minister
American boy. He is spoiled and he
suming that we were not prepared for putting the impudent braggart will not do what is right and what is
to treat the whole thing with the con- Korfanty in his place when he thinks
good for him, yet I think you could
tempt that it deserved. Ile answered fit to tie German hands and then cut bring him back to the right path and
that he had not thought of that, but their throats, has lately been endeav-
make a man and a Jew out of him
any way the whole affair was exag- oring to prove that Lloyd George
gerated, although there did seem to was moved to action not because he and I want you to do it for me be-
cause I buy your paper every day and
be something in the nature of a for-. would not allow Great Britain's word,
eign intrigue against the British em- even to Germany, to be broken by a my wife reads it, too."
"How do you figure that?" the Many Lecturers of Note Announced
Aire, with which the Bolshevists were , filibustering tramp, but because some
for Opening of New Theological
intimately concerned. Ile said it had mysterious It u ass - German - Jewish editor asked his guest.
School in New York.
"Well, that is plain enough," the
not occurred to him that Jewish ex- power has got his ear and is using
service men should feel themselves him to reduce our country into the elderly Jew replied. "You can in-
NEW YORK.—On Tuesday morn-
In
insulted by an attack which was not vassalage of Moscow and Berlin and duce my son to settled down and
ing, July 5, the second annual session
the right way.
Jerusalem, or possibly Frankfort,
"What do you mean, to settle down of the Summer School for Rabbis and
where all three are supposed to meet. in the right way? "
Rabbinical Students began. Intro-
The further implication is that Sir
"You see, that is very simple. My ductory addresses were made by Dr.
l'hilip Sassoon controls the Prime son should marry. You can make Sidney E. Goldstein, director; Charles
Minister's actions, a proposition pe- him do it, I think."
E. Bloch, vice-president of the syna-
culiarly and delightfully amusing to
gogue, and Israel N. Thurman, chair-
"Does he want to marry?"
anyone who has met that fortunate
man of the summer school committee.
"Yes and no, but he can't."
and pleasant-mannered but scarcely
Thus far 19 men have enrolled, in-
"What do you mean, he can't?"
over-brilliant young man. If any three
cluding men in the ministry who are
"Just what I say. Ile can't."
young men have influenced the Pre-
graduates of the Hebrew Union Col-
"Is he sick?"
mier, one would say they were Philip "Oh! no. He is healthy and as lege, the Jewish Theological Seminary
complete
Kerr, J. M. Keynes and the boisterous strong as a tree."
and other institutions, and under-
Sir Robert Horne. These are the men
"Is he por and for that reason graduates of the Hebrew Union Col-
who have the Premier's ear, and not cannot marry?"
lege and other theological institu-
one of them is a Jew. And as for
"whet , my
son poor? Ile makes tions.
comparing Sir l'hilip Sassoon with big money—$23 every week cash,
The lecturers of the first week will
any of them, one might as soon corn- and he is a wealthy man, too. He be Professor William II. Worrell of
pare the office boy with the manag- has a bank book and has hundreds the Hartford Seminary Foundation
mg director. But no. The Morning of dollars to his name, perhaps $300." and former director of the American
he
Post is ready enough to drag British ..//__
School of Archaeology in Palestine,
as
got a girl?"
honor in the dirt, if to do so will
,, should say he has—a wonderful whose theme is "Bible Backgrounds,
bolster up an anti-Jewish lie.
So girl. "
Bible (.ands and Bible Peoples." Dr.
Korfanty is right, and M. Henri Ba-
Stephen S. Wise was to have given
"Then why doesn't he marry?"
tault, who tells us al about "The nar-
"Just as I told you. Because he a series of addresses during the first
row solidarity which binds Mr. Lloyd can't."
week on "Practical Problems of the
George to Jewish high finance," is in
"Is the girl poor and he won't Ministry," but owing to illness his ad-
no danger of wearying a willing au- , marry a poor girl?"
dresses will be given later in the
Manufacturers
thence by his dismal repetition of his
"Oh! no, the girl is anything but month. Dr. Goldstein will give the
Ratallare—Wholesalers
monotonous slanders in the Mercure
poor. She makes big money, too. first of his courses on "The Syna-
de France.
gogue and Industrial Problems" July
Ise Michigan A
Meanwhile, the sun is shining and She goes to the office every day and 11 to 15.
the silvery Thames is beckoning to is quite
,.
a business lady."
The Synagogue makes announce.
the ever-ready week-ender, whether
„ 'Is she perhaps sick?"
ment that it has been able to secure
N t a t al I. "
he be Jew or Christian. From Rich-
":s•
P h a ps i t is she that does not for the Jewish Institute of Religion, I
mend up to Cookham the pleasant
which is to begin its work in Septem-
want to marry. ? "
stream is crowded on Saturdays and
„ oh , no.
she is anxious to marry. ber, 1922, the library of the late Pro-
Sundays with craft of all kinds, skiffs
fessor M. Brann of the Jewish Theo-
and wherries, punts and canoes, and That is a well known fact."
"Perhaps her parents will not per- logical Seminary of Breslau, a rich
amongst the flanneled crowd there'
and full collection of Judaica and Ile-
mit
her
to
marry?"
are possibly more than enough young
„
braica. This library is to serve as a
She is an orphan."
people of that troublesome kind
nucleus of the library which is to be
which impelled the angry navigator „ "And you say she is well-to-do?"
developed in connection with the
O f course she is."
largest, fastest steamers in the
in Boulter's Lock (as reported by
,
Jewish Institute.
'e
Th
n
why
doesn't
your
son
world. Excellent treatment of pas-
Punch) to the classic protest that this
marry. "
sengers. There is a local agent in
w
the Thames and not the Jordan.
„
Ile can't."
your town or nearby.
Sly lawyer friend would say that no
ASK BRITISH DOMINIONS
"What do you mean, he can't? If
virtue can be greater than that which
To Poland, Luthuania, Uk- praises God's gifts of sunlight and he
h is not sick or poor and the girl ADMIT JEWISH REFUGEES
rainia and all Baltic States fresh air by the active enjoyment of whom he loves so much is not sick
r p oor either
LONDON. — The Joint Foreign
d they a re both anx-
via Hamburg and Danzig:
thier bounty. English girls, especial- ! '
i o
Committee of British Jews has ap-
why can't he ?"
ly the one we call the River Girl, are , us to marry,an
SAXONIA
July 23 pretty enough in all conscience, and
proached
the premiers of the British
"That is just the trouble," the eld-
PANNONIA
Aug. 18 I ha ve ne ver seen any signs that they erly Jew replied. "He can't mar.
ry Empire now attending the imperial
conference
here regarding the ad-
or their i mmediat e escorts grudge an y That is to say, he can marry, but he
11 CI.
III Cl.
can't marry that particular girl be- mission of a limited number of Jew-
Hamburg $145.00 $125.00 portion of the fairway to the young
ish
emigrants
from Poland and Uk-
Jews and Jewesses who share it so cause she wants to marry someone
Danzig
$200.00 $135.00 eagerly with them.
else. My son loves the girl, but she rainia.
does not love him. Therefore he can't
Tax $5.00.
marry her and the girl that loves him, SHKOLIM SOLD IN EUROP E
Via Cherbourg, Southamp- ARABS PUBLISH VOLUME
he doesn't love, and he won't marry
ton, Liverpool and Glasgow:
ON DISORDERS IN JAFFA her, and therefore he can't marry,
just as I told you before and that is lainloNnpaOnN
AQUITANIA
no.—
unT
cehse tZ
haiotn6i00,0o0T csehkoil n
July 26
JERUSALEM.—The Arab Com-
CAMERONIA
July 30 mittee of Jaffa is to publish a volume the whole trouble. To tell you the im have been sold in Europe, and de
truth, Mr. Editor, I wouldn't mind scribes unusual activity preparato ry
CARONIA
July 30 on the recent disturbances in Jaffa if my son would not marry, but I am to elections of delegates for the forth
MAURETANIA
Aug. 11 and the surrounding colonies. The afraid of one thing. If he will not coming Zionist Congress.
is being made by Sheik marry, he will marry a Gentile girl
CARMANIA
Aug. 13 , compilation
Suliman Alfruki. The book is to bi• and I don't want that his father-in-
translated in French and English and law should be an Irishman or an CONGRESS OF ZIONIST
sent broadcast.
I
Italian. I didn't raise my son to
STUDENTS AT CARLSBAD
marry a gentile girl. All these boys
in
America
who
do
not
marry
as
we
LONDON.—It is announced here
MILLION
MARKS
FOR
REFUGEES
Dr. S. Bernstein announces the
married, are always liable to marry that all college and university Zionist
opening of a suite of offices at 107
gentile girls—that's s America. And societies, in different parts of the
VIENNA.—The
local
relief
com-
La Belle avenue, over Kerians
mittee has assigned one million marks I want to tell you something else, world, are preparing to send repre-
Pharmacy. Special attention given
Mr. from
Editor.
I did
not town
make in the
long sentatives to a world Zionist students
for the relief of Ukrainian refugees trip
my
native
Poland
to maternity and diseases of chil-
in Galicia and Vohlinia.
dren.
to
Maxwell
street,
Chicago,
that
my bad
conference
which
meet
in Carls-
[
grandchildren be goyim. Now, tell
during the
first will
week
of Septem-
FREE SYNAGOGUE
RABBIS' SUMMER
SCHOOL OPENED
Furs!
At Marks'
you will find
the most
and
finest selec-
tion of furs
and fur coats
in Ntrolt-
you will find
It pays to
buy of the
Makers.
H. & B. MARKS
ANNONCEMENT
f. MAIN . k
SPRUNIC
ENGRAVING CO.
Commercial Artists
and Engravers
fOO MARQUETTE BLDG. DETROIT
CHICAGO UNIVERSITY
EXCAVATES ARMAGEDON
me, Mr. Editor, how you mean to her next.
•
help me out of my embarrassing po-
AGITATION GROWS
anion. My heart begins to ache when
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CHICAGO.—(J. C. B.) Armag-, I only think of the possibility of my
DANZIG. — It is reported from
edon, the place of the first battle,' son marrying a
gentile girl and when- Lemberg that anti-Semitic agitation
the details of which are known to his- ever I try to talk to my son on the calling for pogroms upon Jews has in-
tory, is to be activated by the Univer- i
subject, he smiles and says, 'What creased considerably in the last few
sity of Chicago through a gift of $60,, •f it? Are not gentile girls as good weeks. Numerous proclamations are
000 donated by John D. Rockefeller,, ,..;
Jewish girls? Sometimes they are I being distributed urging the Gentile
Jr.
perhaps better,' and if I try to ex-
population to attack Jews. The Jew-
, plain to him how wrong it is for a ish population is in a very perturbed
OFFICIALS RECEIVE AID Jew to marry a gentile girl, he calls condition.
WARSAW.—It was announced re , , me a greenhorn and tells me to mind
s i nhei s sfacSeo, mbeutti miens AI mfee r
cently that the officials of the local irni kye own p phi nu g
el POLISH CONSUL TO JERUSALEM
Kehillah now on strike received $2 -
. 000 from America to aid them in their Ica, the police won't permit it, and
WARSAW.— is rumored here
struggle. The exact source of the : besides I am afraid of him because that a Polish
1
. money was not disclosed.
I he does not even speak Yiddish and will soon be appo ted.
nsul to Jerusalem
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Linen
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Stamped
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Pure Linen Napkins in sev-
seal attractive designs and be-
cause they are a bit mussed in
the handling during July Linen
Sale, we hove grouped the
$10.50 to $12.50 per dozen
Napkins—for Monday—
.
I itetil ld irlerensses for in-
fame find
months of age. Daintu y ppato ter sn ix s
on fine quality Swiss, stamped
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Corsets
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Bull Kid Leather Belts to
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$1 to
Suede Leather Belts in plain
leather, finished with beautiful-
ly hammered buckles. All col-
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$ •
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On Monday in the July Sav-
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types, in white and pink and
finished in Coutil and Brocades
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others pe- $
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8. 50
Collar, Cuffs and Vests of
real Filet lace with Net com-
bination, smart to wear with
the new Summer Sweaters.
Some are $9, others $
at
.
6 50
Plain Sweater Collars of crisp
Imported Organdy with tucks
and cleverly made buttons to
trim them. Very spe-
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$
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Beautiful Frilled Guimps.
Guimps take the place of the
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T ailor
The Musician
By ETHEL TAUROG.
Village after village, each with its were married. I was planning to re-
single block of stores and unpreten- turn to America then. When I heard
tious habitations, passed before my that you had broken your vow, that
view as I glanced out of the window you had forgotten me, I couldn't re-
of the train. Wearily I looked away turn."
and again my attention was focused
"I forgot you! Did you believe
on the interesting looking man with that Ephraim?"
the furrowed brow and the melan-
Down the aisle I saw her husband
choly dark eyes. His hands wan- approaching. Ile walked arrogantly,
dered caressingly over the violin case glancing boldly at the passengers on
on his lar.
either side of him with the smug,
Above the noise and the rumbling well-satisfied expression of a man who
the voice of the prosperous looking considers himself a success.
man at the extreme end of the car
"What's the matter, Fritz? Ain't
was audible. He spoke in the un- you feeling well?" he asked, stepping
mistakable southern dialect. Flour- in front of the other man uncere-
ishing a flashing diamond ring, he moniously.
waved his hand as he gave vent to
"I felt a little faint and this gen-
his ideas about speculations. The tleman was kind enough to let me
fashionably gowned woman who sat sit down," she explained. "We got
near him, his wife probably, rose and into a conversation. Ile just came
walked down the aisle haughtily. I from Poland. Ile is very interesting."
watched her approach. She was an
"You sure do find all sorts of
undeniably handsome woman of queer people interesting," replied her
about 40, handsome in spite of the husband in humoring tones.
high color daubed on her cheeks and
"That is my husband," she said in
the too finely arched eyebrows.
Yiddish. "Ile is a little coarse, but he
As she neared the musician, the is good to me. When I tell you why
train swung around a bend. The I married him, you will not look so
woman swayed and the man held out strangely."
"I am looking at you and I am try-
his hand to assist her. She smiled
ing to convince myself that you are
graciously as she thanked him.
the
Florence of my youth—that
Ile gripped her arm and stared at
her. 'Florence," he stammered, "Flor- sweet, simple, quiet girl who was my
inspiration,
my ideal."
ence!"
"What's he jibbering about, Fritz?"
The smile froze on her lips. "You,"
queried
her
husband.
she said, "you, Ephraim?" She
"Ile says that the Jews in Poland
pressed her hands to her breast. He
suffered greatly during the war, and
rose and motioned her to sit down.
"I should not have recognized you that it was almost impossible to ob-
except for your smile," he said in tain bread or any ordinary food."
"Well, we did all we could for
Yiddish, employing the familiar thou.
them. Didn't I give a fat contribu-
"Your smile has not changed."
tion
for the war sufferers. Say, we're
"How strange—to meet you here,"
she replied in faltering tones, as one doing all we can for them. Tell him
that,
Fritz."
who is speaking in a language un-
"Ile thinks you cannot understand
used for years. "I should not have
him,
Ephraim.
Let him think so. My
recognized you but for your voice.
father was sick and the doctors said
You—."
that
his
only
hope
was to go to an-
"I have changed—an old man,"
"You, an old man! Why, Ephraim, other climate. We were poor, Eph-
you are only one year older than I," raim, very poor. I went to work af-
she lowered her voice. "You are 42." ter you left, Ephraim, in a horrid,
"Forty-two, is that all?" he mused. dirty, smelly shop, and I wasn't earn-
ing much. Most of the money I
"1 have lived through centuries."
"You were in Poland all this time?" earned went for medicine and better
food for my father. Then he came,
she questioned. .
and he was wealthy."
"Yes, in Poland," he nodded.
"Ain't you coming back with me,
After this remark I threw my con-
scientious scruples about listening to Fritz? What's you teling him now?"
the winds.
"I am telling him what I read in
"You came to America recently?" the papers about the Polish situation
she questioned.
and I am asking him whether it is
"Yes, recently. A few months true. I am anxious to her what he'll
tell me."
ago."
"S'Iong as you're enjoying your-
"And your music? You play?"
She glanced at the violin case which self, it's all right with me. Sure you
feeL better?"
he had placed at her feet.
She nodded.
"In an orchestra," he replied.
"Then I'll go back. That man over
"'There, before the war, I played at
concerts. I was preparing to come there is telling me about a big deal
back here for a concert tour when he pulled through. I was kinda wor-
ried about you."
the war broke out."
"Thank you," she smiled faintly.
"You are an American citizen.
He strutted off. t•
You didn't have to—."
"Ephraim, he promised to sena my
"I could have escaped, but I didn't.
A Jew does not desert his kin in suf- father away, to give my mother
fering.
money so that she could buy a small
"Are you — are you — married?" store, to see that the children go
through school. lie has done all that
she gazed at him anxiously.
he said he would, and I have tried to
"No," he replied steadily.
She lowered her head. "And you make him a good wife. I sacrificed
know," she commenced in hesitant myself, Ephraim."
"Sacrified yourself," he laughed
fashion.
"Yea, my father wrote me that you mirthlessly. "You do not seem to suf-
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ter much from your scarifice. Look
at your finery!"
She looked at him earnestly. "This
finery, Ephraim, this display is to
fool others. They think it represents
happiness. It doesn't. Please believe
me, Ephraim. It means so much to
me if you do. But we are talking
about myself all the time. I am anx-
ious to hear about you. Tell me,
Ephraim, tell me about yourself."
"There isn't much to tell. I was in
the army; I was taken prisoner. I—."
Ile covered his face with his hands.
"Why bring it all back?"
"No, don't," she pleaded. "If we
are to recall the past, let us live again
through those wonderful days of our
youth."
"Yes, let us bring back youth, those
dreamy, lovely tender days of
ideals," he said tersely.
The shrill voice of the porter an-
nouncing the next stopping place
drowned the musician's voice.
Mechanically the musician took his
hat and a suit case from the rack. Ile
gunned at her mutely.
"You get off here?" she said dully.
She attempted to rise, but sank
back into the seat limply.
He grasped her hand silently. Then
he walked down the aisle hastily. A
few minutes later th strain sped on.
—Hebrew Standard.
"TEN LOST TRIBES"
HOLD LONDON MEET
LONDON.—The so-called congress
of British Israelites, composed entire-
ly of Christians who regard them-
selves descendents of the Lost Ten
Tribes of Israel, opened here under
the presidency of Lord Gainsgorough.
The congress sent a greeting to King
George in which the belief is expres-
sed that his Majesty sits upon the
Throne of David. Lord Gainsborough
addressing the congress said that the
British Empire and the United States
of America were ipso facto members
of the British Israel Federation of
the Lost Ten Tribes, traces of which
according to him, had been found in
American and Angle-Saxon races.
CRITICISES DELEGATION
JERUSALEM.—The "Carmel,' an
Arab daly publshed n Ilaifta, contin-
ues to oppose the personnel of the Ar-
ab Delegation in Europe and America
despite the fact that the delegation
was formed over-hastily, and then
changed without due consideration
in the same number, the "Carmel"
proposes the formation of a new Ar-
ab party whose program shall be the
furtherance of the economic develop-
ment of the country, and the protect-
ion of peasants, laborers and follow-
ers of the free professions.
J. FISHMAN SAILS FOR EUROPE
NEW YORK.—(J. C. B.)—Mr.
Jacob Fishman, editor of the Jewish
Morning Journal and a member of
the National Executive Committee
of the Zionist Organization of Am-
erica, is sailing for Europe. Mr.
Fishman is a staunch supporter of
the World Zionist Organization and
has done great service for the Keren
Ilayesod. A farewell dinner has been
tendered him by his many friends.