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How Piety Came Back to Kravno

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The incident I am about to relate tion was heard. Rafters shook, walla
concerning Kravno and the cinema swayed. But the howl was nothing
there and the Strange Thing that be- to he compared with the pandemonie
fell that cinema. I should not myself yells which rent the roof of the cinema
believe had taken place outside the two weeks later. For on this occasion
limits of the province of Kiev; had it Reb Yankel, in the costume of an En-
taken place, in fact, anywhere but in glMh laborer, his corduroy trousers
Kravno itself. I should probably not tied with string below the knee and
of
have shaken off my drowsiness to lis- crammed with a monstrous pair
a
ten to Reb Laibel at all had not the clayey book, was seen to be feeding

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sainted syllables of Kravno fallen large pig in her sty and fondling one
from his lips. It wns the dusk of Sab- after another of her little sucklings.
bath when the gray-beards gather in Walking-sticks hurtled through the
the side room of the synagogue and air. In vain did Reb Yenkel plead an
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tell stories of The Home," as they alibi. In vain did he urge that he ha
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call it, punctuating their memories never net foot an inch beyond Ki
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with subtle quotation or complex an- as the whole town could testify, i it

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. And as Iteb Laibel wound like only came to its senses. It was the
alum,
stream from meadow to meadow of hand of God, said Kravno fervidly,
a
his story you would not have gathered the hand of God!
But the climax came a week later.
that the Russia he had left three or
four months ago was racked by the The scene may have well have been
greatest sorrows any land had known; , Hampstead Heath in London, or Con-
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that it was not somehow immortally ey Island, perhaps. Three pairs of
enwalled from our modern age. Until, figures, male and female, appeared on
with a pronunciation I dare not tran- the horizon. ('loser and closer they
scribe, he spoke of a cinema, spoke of came. There was no escaping the
it, moreover, with no less heat than hideous truth. Reb Shtrom first, then
his Hebrew compatriots must have Reb Yankel. Behind came Itch Ruven.
spoken of Torquemada. And then it Closer came the Gentile hussies on
that I heard the name of Kravno, their arms. (The crowd was roaring
ng :
Was
d
Kravno and its sanctities, and I shook louder
and louder like an incomian d
tide. ) How they ogled each other
myself and listened.
For my father used frequently to winked and smacked their lips!
speak of Kravno. It was to him a sort (Think of the three insulted wives
of Hesperides, and its golden apples there, blanching! But I do not think
were the Scrolls of the Law. The ear- of the three domestic dooms which fol-
locke of the old men in Kravno hung lowed these events!) Then the three
It
down to their jaw-bones. The wigs couples sat under the shade of an over
of the married women were prompt hanging tree. Then their lips " •
and lustrous. Little boys could repeat But there was a sudden shrill cry,
hissing and whirring, and at the
by heart the whole Pentateuch. Babes a
had insisted upon fasting throughout moment that the cinematograph was
the Day of Atonement. It was stated flung to the ground, with a great rip
—and my father for one would not the screen was torn from the beams.,
controvert the report—that one year For the Above One, said Reb Laibel,
when the festivities of Simchas Torah who shall understand his ways?
were completed and Rabbi Avrom with And the "Godly Brethren" returned
his flock of revellers trooped from the to their temple, after a solemn purl-
Synagogue of the "Godly Brethren," fication, and piety came back to Krav-
he had ordered the moon to perform no, and as for Reb Shtrom, Reb Ruven
a circle four times around a certain and Reb Yankel, may the Black Wind,
star, once for each wall of Paradise— said Reb Laibel, uproot their hairs
and 'the moon had obeyed him. So the singly!
whole company swore, and who dared
doubt it? Had not the very sun been
stayed from its setting? And such was
the holiness of Kravno that even the
By ETHEL TAUROG
gentiles of that town had been touch-
ed with the surf of her holy tides. And
it was not unknown that certain of
It had been by no means an easy
them had been seen on the Feast of matter for Mr. Seymour Zinder to
the Tabernacles to shake the palm and bring his brother and wife and three
reverse the citron as he old Jews pass- children over from Russia. The diffi-
ed with them on their way to the culties he encountered did not involve
"Godly Brethren."
a lack of funds, for even among many
This, then, was Kravno? And had a , of the mushroom crop of pseudo-mil-
cinema come this way? 0 dolorous, lionaires he was counted a wealthy
event, and this was how it came to mon. Frequently the objections of a
pass, as I learned it from the lips of wife and four children are more per-
Reh Laibel. Reb Avrom—peace be plexing than a mere lack of funds. At
unto him!—had gone to his rest, and, least so Mr. Zinder contends.
though his successor at the "Godly
"That's all we need is a pack of
Brethhen", Rd) Zcharyah, had as greenhorns on our hands, aint it?"
much erudition—if that were human- Mrs. Zinder voiced her disapproval
ly possible—as he, he had not the same emphatically.
strength of character, the same fac-
"I don't see why the whole family
ulty for prophetic invective against has to sponge on us," asserted Myrtle
the least transgression of the Law. the eldest daughter.
This it was which had given their
"Pa is such an easy mark, anyhow.
chance to the three principal mer- That's all we need is a bunch of them
chants of the town, Rob Yankel, Iteb kykeo around here," Mae, the next to
Shtrom and Reh Ruven. There was the oldest added.
no doubt that they had long been
"Ssenil them some money, dad," of-
"It's none of your business."
working subterraneously to get the fered Wilton, the only son. Send them
"The neighbors will come running
it'll
h
synagogue into their own hands but
.
in a minute."
up,
they had never dared to emerge into ten cen s,
$ the
awful light of Reb Avrom's eyes. amount to a million rubles, and they'll
' Shut up."
he regular millionaires," he added fa-
"Shut up yourself."
red
epee
and
One flicker of that inspired
Mr. Zinder made his exit 'midst the
• or- cetiously
•
eIr
M. D. HARRIS
you saw them scuttle into
"Do we have to take care of all the ensuing hubbub. Late that night he
rows with a shaking of timid abdo-
wrote
a letter to his brother in Russia
men and a flash of white tail. But nom petiole in the world?" asked
that he would send him steamship
the combination of the weak amiabil- Frances, the youngest.
"It's all right, Seymour, if you send tickets and money to come to Amer-
ity of Itch Zcharyah with a certain
roubles them some money and let them stay ica.
of
deal in the exchange-value
which was little to their credit and there. Everybody from Russia ain't
t as
much to their profit, gave them their coming over here, and they go here,
opportunity. A bribed and hectored much chance to make a living
t
Not very long after their arrival
plemented Mrs. Zinder
1 IM N a majority elected them to the three as here," sup finalit y.
M r. Raphael Zinder and family were
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positions of office, and Reb Shtrom be- with
air time
of Mr. Zinder, a very , established in a small stove-heated
But an
this
came the president, Reb Yankel and
man at home, asserted himse
Reb Ruven the trustees of the sync- mild
yourself I and Sifra, found employment in a il
in
before very long rumors were the way you talk about your own re-1 livery shop, and Simeon, a boy of 13,
abroad in Kravno that the new officers lotions? At least if you children talk entered school. Mr. Seymour Zinder
were convinced that the "Godly Breth- like that, I don't blame you so much, bought a newspaper route for his
ren" was far too big and expensive a only Myrtle, I think maybe could re- brother in a Jewish neighborhood.
the time I ' A t first the cousins ttempt ed in
building for its purpose. It was slat- member. You remember a
ly to th e
pair- their own way to be friend
ed that the upkeep of the establish- had the cleaning, dyeingand
re
a fire after the new arrivals. But when their attempts
robbing
the
children
and
ing
store and
we had
was
ment
too
near
the
cent
of
insurance
policy
expired
and
we
for-
at
"Americanizing"
the
girls
in their
FA
cor- got to renew it, and we were left with- ultra-stylish cast-off clothing failed
widows. It was
to suffer a gentile er
the
town
not
ruption. It could not be doubted that out a cent, without even a rope to I they gave them up in despair.
the barn-like building near the river hang ourselves with. Remember how , In faltering Yiddish Myrtle attemp-
on the outskirts of the town was more I wrote to my brother Raphael and he' ted to convey her disgust and disap-
couple of hundred dollars so proval of them to her cousins, parti-
satisfactory from every point of view. sent us a
do cularly Malice, the oldest.
There is no time to enter into the we could start something to
historic battle that raged in Kravno. again?" Mr. Zinder paused for breath. I "My dear cousin," replied the new-
a! corner, "I appreciate all that you are
With a sinking of the heart I narrate "Who knows what could happen in
0 only that the "Godly Brethren" re- lifetime? Raphael was a rich man be trying to do for us. You say that is
moved to the riverside and the old fore the war, and now he ain't got American, to make yourself up to look
g
a comedienne on the stae.
Mabe
l
building itself was sold to an anony- nothing.
Who things
knows don't happen in it is. I have not been here lon g enough
"Say, such
mous syndicate which converted it(if
M idea of America was
a," interrupted his wife anx- to judge. My
I am interpreting Reb Laibel's curious America!"
gnerf
it is I
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accent aright) into the "Grand Cine- , iously. "People don't lose fortunes so something different. But
i
want to remain a forei—a what
here."
loner.
ma de Paris." The"Godly Brethren" quick
make
me
you
call
greenhorn—a
little
long
And
"The European fortunes "There
became a shadow of itself; for whilst
if
"All right, then I'm through."
Reb Zeharyah, with pale and haunted laugh," declared Wilton.
a
eyes, entrenched himself deeper and you have ten thousand dollars—my, with tht the whole Zinder family
exception of its nominal head
' re a millionaire , a regular fruY. ' with the
deeper into the fortresses of his intri- you "And
here it you've got ten thou- washed their hands of the entire fam-
rate
unworldly
scholarship,
its
three and
officers
paid less
and less atten-
sand dollars you're a beggar? Well, ily of obstinate "greenhorns."
again Mrs. Zin- is where the danger lies. Whatever
It s true
rm to its physical organization. Some let me tell you confidentially, my son,
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dauntless, at- is half-baked is unhealhtful. Even in
'ion
ocious,
ffi that on ce sin
of the most valued and venerable old the way you spend you won't never der, ithe
tempted
to
reform
the
obstinate rata- the short time I have been here I have
have no ten thousand cents."
made
the
discovery
that
the
danger
men had not the energy to drag them-' '
"There he goes picking on me again. tions of her husband.
selves there three times a day. Some
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t lies in becoming only halt-baked."
atiati
CHIROPODIST
she said ingrours
young men set out for the "God- Every time I spend a cent it looks like Ma "Myrtle,"u
lke
"Maybe that's it," said Mr. Sey-
elf
nglfur
a
400 Liggett Building
of the,
, "yo should buy y
a
kl piece to him."
d
by
go
mour
Zinder.
"Maybe
that's
what
so
ly Brethren" but were entra ppe
Gratiot
and
Farmer
er
s
You
ll
see
nobody
go
without
'
.
n
ec
ghktfio
n
ou
a
big
choker
en
haeet hyowueeslpdenbde o
tehre'l ht "aWw
he ImaT
utet. A In ch d at bod
g them this summer. Believe me, you many of them are—just half-baked;
tahleerycinae,amsadeepnarrtom
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a little browned on top to look well
won't
get
no
thanks
from
nobody
the
to eat in Russia."
ial state of Reb Ruven, for no explicit family
f youry, baked, but half raw inside," he pon-
wamil
you slave for the hole
h nystahretscafina'httiteaalkwniteh ttwheo
d amtoerebeppraosr : • meritsahet d awe
s. dered.—The Hebrew Standard.
irttearesoana., biechaeymewemteorneetansee
way cia lly for that brother of
espe
Ocularly industrious on the money- children already," interfered Mrs. • He should go through school. Every-
changing market. Reb Yankell gave ' Zinder officiously. "If they should live and talks the way you girls dress,
nice
way you want them you wouldn't and when I tell them a ut all
up his flower mill altogether. All three the
thedon
hey
othes t he girls gav about t't
be able to walk through a street for
spent
their
drinking
shnaps
and morning
playing together
cards. Yet
their disgrace. Everybody would say: 'Look believe me. Why don't you wear that
lik dres s Me
a ave
g
you?"
stingy miser; go
t money arse
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—Max
fortunes seemed to expand under a at t h a
" Dear au ntie, I know you mean well
dirt, a nd his family lives like beggars.' .'
Warburg, brother of Paul M. War-
personal
and
private
sun.
And then God intervened. So said I Take it from me it's bad enough al- with us, and we thank you so much. burg, has disappeared mysteriously
Reb Liabel, drawing his fingers ready. I'm ashamed to go out in the The dress Mae gave me is very pretty from Hamburg under the fear that an
through the thickets of his long yel• street with my last year's mink cape. all the things are; but my Mamaahe attempt on his life might be made,
low beard. And so the others repeat- Every schlepper already wears a doesn't like the dress on me. She says says a special cable from Berlin to the
ed as the miracle was unfolded in the mink cape. I feel I get red like fire it is cut too low in the neck. And the New York Herald. Friends of the
thickening dusk. It must be under- when I go to an affair and see poorer fur chokers, my Papashe laughs at financier admit that he is out of Ger-
stood that no special provision of films ladies, and they wear sable capes. them. He says they cover up the neck many but will not say in what coun-
was made for the cinema at Kravno. What do you suppose everybody and leave the whole chest to freeze."
try he is living.
"Your Papaehe and your 21farna.she
Chaplin and Arbuckle were the heroes gays?"
Meanwhile the disappearance of
"That's just the trouble. You al- they know a whole lot," mocked Mrs.
of Kravno as they were the heroes of
Los Angeles. A month or six weeks ways worry about what everybody will Zinder. "If you should listen to them Mr. Warburg is held to be largely re-
sponsible
for the failure of the over-
fright. Well, nobody
passed in which the transports of the say. Why don't you worry a little you would look a
degenerating Jewry of Kravno knew about what your conscience will say? could say that I didn't try to do my seas week at the Hamburg fair, which
Mr.
Warburg
had organized in the
no intermission. Gallop and gallop Maybe you stuff up your ears when duty and more for you."
So Mrs. Zinder finally was obliged hope of attracting foreign capital.
from
went the horses over the prairies! your conscience talks, but I can't.
About
the
time
the fair was planned
"That's the berries pa. I got to to acknowledge defeat.
Crackle and crash went the crockery
Dr. Walter Rathenau was murdered,
In
the
evening,
when
the
alterca-
in the ineffably comic restaurants! hand it to you. I didn't know you
calamitous film was dis- could be such an orator," smirked Wil- tions at home grew intolerable, Mr. whereupon Mr. Warburg received a
And then a
. Seymour Zinder would leave his spa- letter informing him that he was to
played. The scene was a very expen- I ton.
aive hotel in New York. The viands ' "Sounds like that New Thought cious, brilliantly lighted home and be the next victim of an anti-Semitic
your conscience' seek refuge in the small, plainly fur- secret organization. Details of the
,
were of the most wealthy, but what stuff, about hearing
plan which were disclosed showed that
more formidable, of the most pro- talk. don't it, Mae?' queried Myrtle. niched ho:ne of his brother.
was
"Only take care they shouldn't the assassination was schedtled to
"Well, if you mean to insinuate any-
fane, order. But when no less pious' '
than Reb Ruven was seen by thing against me because I go to those change," he whispered to his brother take place at one of the meetings plan-
a Jew
lectures sometimes I can tell you, Miss when be saw his nieces and nephew ned at the fair.
all Kravno to be helping himself to a I
On receiving this letter, Mr. War-
liberal share of milk pudding after , Myrtle, that you'd be tickled to pieces quietly absorbed in their studies. The
several courses of meats—damnable • to go any place with Mr. Loosman." , girls went to night school and the boy burg immediately resigned as presi-
"I bet you think I'm jealous. If I'd , was being rapidly promoted from dent of the Hamburg Chamber of
and most damnable juxtaposition, want to go out with fellows like Loos- grade to grade, with prospects of en- Commerce and cancelled all public ap-
need I assure you!--conceive the
trance to high school alluringly near. pearances. His mysterious absence
state of mind of the audience In this man I could go out every evening."
"Co to it girls; I'll act as referee," I "I'm so afraid they'll become too— from all the events oft he fair which
most sainted Si sublunar cities! No . said
has just closed led to the discovery
Wilton. "You haven't had a de- he sought a word—Americanized.
there was no room at all for
"I hope they do become American- that Warburg had tied from the coun-
The familiar twisted nose of Reb Rua- cent fight for at least two days."
"What's the matter with you? No ized," smiled his brother. "What you try. Mr. Warburg is the head of the
en, with its cynical inclination to the
are afraid of, I think, is becoming Hamburg Banking House of Warburg
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left, the eriss-crosts scar below the poker game tonight?"
"Maybe they've raided the poolroom semi-Americanized—that is, half.bak- & Co., and is one of the most promi-
lower lip, came ineluctably nearer and
nent financiers in Germany.
you
know,
my
brother,
that
ed;
and
as
I
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nearer tire camera. A howl of execra- where he haogs out every night."

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