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A Name iii America
IEDETROMIEWIMI KONICL
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considerable number of co-operative
pockets of peanuts, twisted water- hall, "Father, father!" and all was
agricultural colonies which have beet
rolls or St. John's bread, which they quiet.
established there, and which are being
called Jerusalem bread. But since her
Sosheh Leah thought she was run-
supported by the Jewish people
baby was born, Sosheh Leah never ning near a big sea, carrying a
through the Keren Ilayesod.
saw her father smile of look at him. heavy burden. The sun beat down
By MARY HEVESH
By JUDGE BERNARD A. ROSENBLATT
On the subject of land tenure is
Isaac Gordon had become like a upon the sandy beach till her bare
Palestine, fur example, Col. \Vela,
"Sosheh Leah, shut that door!" those who reveled at kimona parties changed man and passed through pe- feet felt as on hot, set lava. Like the
The news that Col. Josiah C. Wedg- adopted the humus memorandum on wood writing in the Jewish Nation a l
rods
of
morose
silence.
He
thought
Zelda drew her short, organdy skirts on the resort-covered hills of the Cat-
Hindu mother, she was looking for the wood, one of the outstanding figures "War Ahns", which was later adopt-
Fund Year Beek for 1922, advocat•s
around her knees as if proximity to skills. And Zelda in the tenement he was walking around with a tomb- mustard seeds to cure her feverish in the British Parliament and leader ed by the Conference of Socialist and the moue system with which the name
the gaping tooms next door brought basement was kept vary busy. At the stone cluttering on the pavements be- child. Weary and spent, she began to of the liritish Labor Party, is en route Labour Parties of the Allied countries of Henry George is associated and
on an atmosphere of contagion. end of 10 years the Excelsior Kimono hind him.
lag and finally at down on the sand. to the United States for the purpose which took place in London in Febru- which, by the way, he finds in con,_
By the end of one year little Irving Then her babe sat up and began to of arousing American Jewry to the ary, 191e. This memorandum on "War nance with the old Mosaic laws. Cel,,
"How can I? Mrs. Tenzer will be 4; Apron Co. was occupying a large
Shell
think
I'm
hiding
building
in
the
clothing
district
and
,
had
run
the
gamut
of
several
infant
gurgle. Soon, his drooling mouth be- task of rebuilding l'alestine, recalls Aims" contained the following clause Wedgwood writes: "Behind the ''d
Insulted.
something from her," said Sosheh the founder of the firm acted as if diseases; and had come through. By came sticky with sand. lie had eaten the significant fact that one of the with regard to the Jewish people:
Mosaic laws lies the principle which
Leah. he did not know what it was to press the end of two years the little fellow some sand grains, precious mustard most powerful and steadfact su port-
"The Conference demands for the should be embodied in whatever new
a machine pedal herself not so long , had added Reverel other victories over seeds. Ile encircled his arms about ere o the movement for the Jewish
Jews in all countries the scone elemen- legislation is introduced. Modify it
"Is there no privacy here?"
the body. Sosheh Leah imagined that her neck till she nearly choked with restoration of Palestine has been the tary rights of freedom of religion, ed- to suit modern conditions, intensi.e
"What sort of privacy? When the ago.
After Zelda's departure, Sosheh her child and her father were in a love for him.
British Labor Party. It is a fact that ucation, residence and trade, and cultivation, fixity of tenure or what
while
world
is
shutting
the
door
in
scale.
W
lien
the
child
was
well,
his
Then aged hands lifted her up. It Col. Wedgwood came to the United equal citizenship that ought to be ex- not; but retain, by sound principles
our faces, should we Jews shut it to Leah felt slightly ill. Her face blanch-
ed and she felt a growing darkness lightness carried him up till his little seemed to her she had been lying on States even before the Balfour Beeler- tended to all the inhabitants of every of taxation, the fundamental right of
each other?"
bare legs were kicking against the the cold floor for a very long time; ation in order to urge on Col. Edward nation. It further expresses the all men to share in that value whi.
before
her
eyes.
It
seemed
that
the
But Zelda got up and slammed the
sky while he was playing with golden
M. House, President Wilson's most
door till its two translucent oblongs food she had eaten with such avidity stare upon his bosom; and her fa- but it had been a matter of only a influential advisor, the claims of the opinion that Palestine should be set is the right of all and the monopoly , .1
was choking in her throat. Immedi-
few minutes. The old men had heard
free from the harsh and oppressive none."
of glass were rattling.
ther's
immense,
painful
weight
hung
•
Jewish
people to l'alestine. Needless government of the Turks, in order
and had pottered in. They also lifted
At all important Zionist gather' ,
"Zelda, don't! I can't bear to hurt ately Mrs. Tanner was on hand.
down like lead as if it lodnged to be Isaac Gordon's body and carried hint to say, Col. Wedgwood did not conic that this country may for a free state or efunctions which have taken p l.
"Your
sister-in-law
saw
you
eat
and
her feelings, for she had been like a
meted in the earth And when the
in his private capacity. Ile represen-
mother to me, and she pays such re- she gave you the evil-eye. Rosie , child was laid low, Isaac Gordon reverently home. Before Sosheh Leah ted the opinion and wishes of the most under i nternationalguarantee, to in England, the Labor Party has I,
spect to my father because he is a Rosie, quick! Bring a warm glass of seenwd to take on a new lease of life; had reached the place of warship progressive factor in British life, the which such of the Jewish people as de- represented, and whenever an °•c:,
sire to do so may ret urn and note rises when Zionism needs to be
good and pious man. You ought to water, alive coal and some crumbs of his tread became lighter , his outlook Isaac Gordon had prayed for life to British Labor Party.
work out their own salvation free fended, the Labor Party can be re!
see what she bakes for him every Fri- rye bread. Here, Sosheh Leah, drink serene. And now, the tiny lad with the young and rest to the aged, and
the sure fate that unfailingly follows It is necessary to have some idea of
interference
nterference by the se o f alien upon to come forward with one of oe
a little of this mixture, a little poured
day."
parched lips, his body burnt up by the breach of hasidie custom had the standing of this {'arty in the poli- race or religion."
most elfective spokesmen. On July 12,
"Let her he. Pretty soon she'll want on the door-knob, a little rubbed on fever, was tossing about, his little
grasped its inevitable toll. The doe- tics of the British Empire to gauge
1920, an important meeting took place
Significant Resolution.
to know how much your husband's your forehead, a little on your chest. heart pounding away for dear life.
tors
later
explained
that
the
foatl
the
importance
of
its
support
of
a
the Albert hall where Lord Rotho
wages are; how much do you buy on It came, let it go; it came, let it go.
Even more significant, however, is at
- JewishPalestine.
"We have called in doctors and c e )elz sua re ndha nd igh beb en loo dd uepr te o ,,e
,hoa
u
rr
te
e
r
;
io
bustelteh
re
child
was the chairman, and speeches
Na!"
the installment plan. And then shell
a resolution which Was adopted by the
professors
and
it
doesn't
seem
to
were
delivered not only by the Jewish
are unfamiliar with British Labor Party at a conference
teach you how to chew the baby's food
Sosheh Leah sipped a bit of the
help,"
wailed
Sosheh
Leah.
hasidim
shook
their
heads,
"Reb
Isaac
British
politics
and
the
relative
subject
of
the
Northern
boundary
of
leaders,
but by leading Britieh states•
for it till its teeth appear."
nauseating mixture and the rubbing
held at Brighton in June, 1921. It
men.
Col Wedgwood was there as
"Maybe we ought to call in the is dead. Long live Isaac." , strength of the political parties in will he recalled that the dispute on the
Mrs. Tenzer, wearing a downward on her chest relieved her. But she
spokesman of the British Labor Party.
When
Sosheh
Leah
was
led
home
Great
Britain
are
prone
to
think
of
barber
to
place
some
bankes?"
asked
look, stood peeved on the other aide of did not feel quite well after that and
the door, Her nose seemed to drop several days later she was tossing Dave, putting his faith in ancient her face was like chalk in the livid, the standing of the Labor Party there Palestine between France and Great "It is not because you are the Jewish
nation that I am here to speak today,
into her mouth and her double chin about in the blistering summer heat methods, for he was already worn out young hours of day. The pale, cold as analogous to that of the various Britain had recently been settled, but
that I am here to give you all the good
covered her neck. Never, until that on a bed in the Galician hospital with from running with medicine bottles stars were nearly lost in the gray of attempts to organize American Labor settled, apparently, not to the satis-
British Labor Party
dawn
and
the
broad
sweep
of
ocean
into
a
political
factor
which
have
been
between
his
home
and
the
drug
store.
faction of the British Labor Party, wishes that the
sister-in-law came down from the a living mite beside her.
It e .s because today is the
convey.
Heights, did their two doors face each
yeY'
"Yoy, why torture the poor thing wind swirled into a thousand broken made in the United States, and which since the settlement deprived fates- can
"We shall name him Isaac," came
'lay
of
destruction
of the iniustices of
r
i
litotflepionliite
f
ii;(easi
tine of regions which were deemed
other by day, for life had been open authoritatively from a masculine any more?" said Mrs. Tenzer. "You breezes against the jagged tenement have )
t properly part of the country. The res- the past—that is what the British La
and friendly. But Mrs. Tanner did throat.
had better get candles. It will soon ops. As she climbed up the halls of ,, e on the distribution
hoc
Party
stands
for." These too
n
pregnant silence, Milks Freedom was strength in the United States. I
elution adopted by the Brighton Con- sentences summarize the attitude ef
not stand there long. A moment later,
Sosheh Leah looked up at her hus- be time."
E
already pressing to her bosom a lie- Englandon
the contrary, the British ference roads as follows:
Sosheh Leah's door opened and in band. "Why Isaac, Dave? You know
Suddenly, Sosheh Leah drew her
the
British
Labor
Party
towards the
Labor
Party
is
a
powerful
teeter
and
That this conference, taking cog- Jewish Homeland in Palestine as well
walked Rosie Tamer.
body up like a wounded tigress. ing, new burden and the hymen' jol- is by many considered to be the next
It is my father's name, too."
lifications were long since over. The
nizance of the assumption by Great
"Sosheh Leah, my mamma said you
"Isaac it shall be," re-enforced "What, candles? Hold your tongue in
as the motive behind this attitude.
in
line
for
taking
over
the
government
Britain of mandatory powers over
should please lend her a plate of Zelda.
o.io; oiou reed mouth! Not while physician met her on the landing.
•
of the Empire when the present Coali- Palestine with the object of assuring
flour."
"Oh, doctor!" she gasped quiver-
"There are so many other nice there's breath in his body and a flick-
tion Government will have finally
When Rosie was gone, Zelda burst names. Surely you do not wish to ering hope in my heart."
ingly. It seemed an hour before he passed away. Even the genius of the development of a Jewish autono-
mous
Commonwealth,
demands
that
POPULAR CONCERTS OPEN
out: "The impudent thing didn't even call the baby by a name which will
"Yoy, such things you get used to. answered.
Lloyd George will not be able to give the upbuilding of that country—the
call you Mrs.!"
"Now, be calm, be calm."
make my father feel so—so-----" Ifer Do you think you are the only mother
the present government indefinite life,
THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON
"Why should she? I eat with her voice trailed off faintly. She was who ever had a child? I have a wider
"Tell me. I cannot stand any more and it will not be surprising if at an settlement of the land question, the
institution of public works, and agri-
mother from one plate, as it were, and weak and weary in the sweltering Au. row of little headstones out on Cy- suffering."
election in the near future, a majority cultural and industrial enterprises—
The first popular concert of the
now she should be—Mrs. me?"
"The crisis is over."
gust afternoon. The open window ad- press Hills than of little heads across
of the members who return to the shall be affected, not upon the founda-
Just then the door opened again. mitted only the broiling sunlight and my bed at night. God never stops
"Yes!"
House of Commons will be Laborites, tions of capitalistic exploitation, but season by the symphony orchestra
"Sosheh Leah, my mamma said you an orange-apple smell front Attorney to ask. He takes, and in a few
"The child will live."
and then it may devolve on leaders of in the interest of Labor.
will he given in Orchestra Hall this
should lend her a spoon of pepper and street. She had delayed choosing a months Ile gives again."
"0 God!"
the Party like Col. Wedgwood to be-
"The conference regrets that the Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Mr. Ko-
Then she threw herself in her come the leaders and members of a
two crack-eggs."
Limbs trembling beneath her, blur-
name for her coming child for the
economic and administrative unity of lar will conduct, as he will conduct
"Why, the brazen thing doesn't even very reason that she loathed family eyed and dizzy from sleeplessness, So- clothes across the bed and slept the British Cabinet in the near future.
Palestine
has been sacrificed because
knock at the door when she enters!" bickerings. Her dead father-in-law's nheh Leah cried a little on Mrs. Tan- dreamless sleep of exhaustion.
all the Sunday concerts this year, and
• • • • • • • •
of the imperialistic rivalries between
Augury Highly F
ble.
' "But this is not a house with an name had been Isaac and her own zer's bosom till she eased her dis-
Britain
and
France, and that the ter- the entire orchestra will be employed.
The following winter another wom-
elevator and corridors with tin doors father bore the same name.
traught nerves. Then she threw a
In what concerns British Policy in ritory has been wantonly reduced, and
In working out his scheme of San-
like a prison. I don't live up the
This name-giving was a very deli- shawl over her shoulders and rushed an was lying on a hospital bed, yet Palestine, ouch an eventuality, con-
the opportunities of its colonization dal, concerts, Mr. Kolar has had two
Heights yet."
cate matter among hasidim. Lovers out into the darkness, while Mrs. the mahogany table and dresser were sidered by many competent observers
"And it's a disgrace that you don't, were known to bid each other a heart- Tanner prepared to keep a nodding banked heavily with flowers. It was as not only highly probable but even seriously endangered by the cutting objects in view. The first is that the
off of Haman and nearly the whole of programs will not be in any way in
you, a young woman whose husband broken farewell; possibly splendid vigil over the sick child with a fly- Zelda
Kople,
founder
of the
Excelsior
Kimono
& Apron
Co., who
found
even certain, is of the greatest importance. Upper Galilee. The conference calls
competition with the regular sym-
Is an apron cutter with • good chance family trees were uprooted; betroth- speckled palmleaf fan in her hand.
The augury is highly favorable to the upon the government to put an end
phony programs. In other words,
of becoming a designer. You ought als were broken and friends who had
As Sosheh Leah crept down hte an auspicious time of the year in Jewish restoration of the ancient
to see how the young couples live up longed to see their children united in stairs, Ilinda, the coat finisher, was which to lie comfortably in child-bed. Homeland. It is significantly true to the unnatural and harmful division symphonies and music which is gem
my way. It looks like a new genera- marriage had to give up the cherished celebrating the finish of her shop Her sister-in-law, Sosheh Leah, lately that the Jewish cause in Palestine has of the British Mandate territory and erally grouped under the term of
tion, made ready-to-wear. If I had hope because the bride or bride's days, arrayed in bride's uniform hired a resident of the Heights, with a cur- enlisted various derees of sympathy to effect the unity of Eastern with "heavy" will be avoided. At the
Western Palestine.
same time Mr. Kolar is planning to
a handwriting like a beautiful run- mother bore the mune name as the on Clinton street. Where, Oh where, ly-headed youngster at her side, had from individuals and groups among
"The conference believes that it is
ning water, if I could play the piano prospective mother-in-law; or because is the use in a frugal shop-girl's get- come to visit her.
all classes of British opinion and poli- necessary, in the interests of the set- give nothing but good music—music
which is bright, tuneful, partly fa-
"How do you like the baby, !key?" tics. Thus we find Lord Balfour, a
like a rippling brook, I'd be ashamed the groom or his father bore the some ting a new bridal gown when it can
tlement and peaceable growth of Pal- miliar and partly unfamiliar. The
to live in this hole and bring a baby name as the prospective father-in_law. be used only once, and if, God forbid, asked Zelda.
Conservative, ardently in sympathy
"Irving thinks her very dear," an- with the cause, and joining with Lloyd estine, and in furtherance of the de- second object he has in view is by
into it."
Nor were children to hear the names she should have occasion to wear it a
velopment of self-governing institu- means of his programs to reach out
Sosheh Leah's lovely dark eyes of living parents or grandparents. second time, she could never again fit swered his mother for him. "Of George, the Liberal, Col. Wedgwood,
flashed fire. "But you come here to Only the dead were to be honored with into it? Sosheh Leah pushed through course," pursued Sosheh Leah, "you the Laborite, and Ramsay MacDonald tions, that both the Jews and the Ar- to the great public in Detroit which
abs shall have full autonomy, demo- is not yet touched by the symphony
get your bargains, nevertheless. You the perpetuation of their names. the overflow of late revelers in the won't name her after a fence or a the Socialist. No doubt it is safe to
cratically organized, in their respec- concerts. The first program which
come down from the Heights to get Where these customs were disregard- hallway and reached the first landing post. You'll call her Hannah, after assume that regardless of what poli-
tive internal national affairs with the he has made can well stand as a
your silk atockings on a Houston ed, tradition had it that a miserable where Haiku Freedman, the button- your dear mother." teal administration the Fates may
right of taxation for their specific model of its kind and as a promise
"What? Hannah—Hannah? I don't have in store for Great Britain, the needs."
street pushcart of seconds. You know fate would relentlessly pursue the hole maker's wife, was piercing the
of other delightful programs which
perfectly well why I am still here. So transgressors until it claimed an un- darkness with the agony of child-birth like the name Ilannah. I've already , present policy in favor of the Home-
Motives of Laborites.
are to come.
long as my father is alive and feels timely death. so that the laughter over the wedding named her Margery." land will be more or less sympathetic-
The motives which prompted the
at home here, I am content to suffer
Sosheh Leah thought that suddenly ally followed. That policy, however.
Despite the fact that Detroit has
"We're not going to call hire after ;ester's buffoonery from above was
leaders of British radical and progres-
the conditions. A man can break once a fence or a post. Our father's name lost in the crescendo of her labor the world was rent in two and she ' there is every reason to believe, would sive opinion to such an eager advocacy had a great deal of Russian music
from his environment, but the second was Isaac and we shall name the baby pains. And with her own suffering was falling between. With brimming lie must sympathetically followed with of the Jewish cause in Palestine are during the last week, it has been de-
time It breaks him. You cannot un after him," put in Zelda decisively. , heart, Snatch Leah leaned against the eyes and choking at her throat, her the advent to power of the British La-
not far to seek. They are contained cided that Madame Bourskaya will
derstand because you are a person Sosheh marveled at her bold vigor. iron fancywork stairs. Birth, mar- heart cried out in anguish, "Father, bar Party.
in the first clause of the Brighton res- sing two Russian arias. One is are
my
dear
father!"
as
she
sidled
toward
who DOES while I am a person who
"But it is not the custom—when my rings, death! It reeled before her
A brief survey of the arts of the olution. These men and women ex- aria of the Shepherd Lel from "Snie
IS. You have done fine things, Zelda, father is alive—o" she could not go visit n in an instant, there, above that the door with the little fellow holding British Latter Party in furtherance pect Palestine to develop along lines gourotchka," the other a ballad from
while I have felt fine feelings. I am on. How could she match her weak- , 25 feet of ground where all the waves on to her.
of the Jewish Homeland makes such a of social justice, free from economic Sereoff's opera, "Rognieda."
'Besides;' hurled Zelda after the conclusion entirely reasonable.
the daughter of a hasid."
ness of body and mind against the of human emotions were lived through
In oppression and dedicated to the high-
The door opened again. "Sosheh adamantine strength of her husband! at once!
retreating Sosheh Leah, "what is a December, ler, a special conference est communal ideals. They have al-
Laeh, my mamma said you should and his sister? If she could only be I Out on the street Sosheh Leah noise in America, anyway?"—The was held of the Labor Party and the ready seen in Palestine the founda-
Laughter and levity habituate a
taste hte strudel before she sets it on her feet, she would give them a , walked as on air. The late night was American Ilebrew.
Trades Union Congress in London. It tions of such a development in the
man to lewdness.—The Talmud.
out en the fire escape to cool. Maybe piece of her mind; but now she could like a breath. The heavens were now
the smell of it makes you long for only brush away a few silent tears. inhaling a pure breath before exhal-
some," she said.
Sosheh Leah's husband and his rel- ing tawdry day, foul and naked with
Mrs. Tenzer followed and was atives won the day and the baby was grime. She grew a little faint and = 0 60
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beaming in the doorway. Sosheh named Isaac. Sosheh Leah called him leaned against a saloon window. It
Leah put the enticing slice on her own Irving, for she heartily disliked the I was empty save for a number of flies
plate and placed it on the table. Such name Isaac and its shorter form, Ikey.' lying around, upturned, dead and dry.
strudel! Mrs. Tenzer was famous
After her father laboriously plod- , She shuddered and rushed on.
for it. Whenever a joyful family led up the hospital steps, he regarded
"Sosheh Leah, Sosheh Leah, where
event took place in the tenement, Mrs. her with tragic intensity. 'sane Ger-, are you? You are right here passing
Tenzer was given the honor of mak- don wsa a man of great bulk, few Meltzer's bakery. Ah, the grateful
ing the strudel. The women would words and mighty emotions. Ile came smell of piping morning rolls! Yes,
stand behind her enraptured as she from a line of Galician hasidim and right here, on Rivington street. What
skilfully slapped the dough upon the inherited the traits of that mystic , are you doing here at this time of
•-•^: 7.• ":' • '
foi
' . o .
kneading-board. They marveled as sect, its joyful religi•rity, a.•
''""
r?
child is side, my lit.le toilet
she deftly pulled it out into sheets of ity to resist, its naivete and its
my little Ir me. If y ur child is sir!
tissue. Sosheh Leah added a glass sionate love for song.
bowl of fruit on the table.
"See, father, what a little darling ',lint n. r you tieing oere, no v?" C
fused CougOt
"Zelda, eat some strudel with me," he is!"
'veil through her
brain as she tuck a dee) breath
said Sosheh Leah.
But Isaac Gordon did not even look ,
and
ran
a
n.
'!No, thanks. Eat with health."
at the infant.
Ween Sosheh Leah entered the old
"Mrs. Tenzer, eat some fruit with
"See, father, his eyes are like deep
pools of water. He shall he a great Galician synagogue which had first
me."
, been a church and now bore a vener-
"Ycy, such fruit! I don't say we and learned man."
Isaac Gordon seemed to see only the able reading in an anteroom. By day
have such a hard time in America—
they were pushing heavy-laden carts
let me knack on wood—hut you ought far away.
to see what fruit we had in Ilungary!
"Father, why don't you answer? like dry horses; but by night, their
Plums as big as pears; pears as big Aren't you glad he is a man-child?" voices were rising in chant like a plan-
"You gave him my name and I am tire wind through a forest.
as melons," said Mrs. Tanner, whose
"Fee come to wring Death by the
ample form and very bounteous na- alive. How could you, how could
you?"
His voice seemed to come as neck," she cried as she tottered into
ture bore the breath of a rich, native
"Reb Leib,
from a hollow, earthen vessel with the dark auditorium.
soil.
"Well," said Sosheh Leah, "we Ga- tears running all over the outside of where is my father?" For it was here
I that Isaac Gordon used to wroevie
Relates are used M bibbes with klis- it.
"But you know he was named for over questions of ancient political
kalech or kliokes with bilibelech. Come,
his dead grandfather. Zelda said in destiny. A gray-bearded man we. ,
Zelda, help yourself," she urged.
"No, thanks, eat, eat. You have to her house there lives a good Jew who courageously wore earlocks that curl-
Cat for two." But she really longed gives to all the charities whose name; ed no more than in interrogation
to partake. She had been shopping is the same as his son's. Identical., point, answered, "Ile seas here a short
on Grand and Clinton streets and And nothing happens to them, for while ago; but he went out because he
after an empty dryness she now be. they are both alive and well. God Was not feeling well," and the chant
will surely let you live to very old ing continued.
gan to feel her mouth water.
When she approached the ark she
"Mrs. Kople, eat; not shame your- age and my little son will grow up,
; began to beat upon its two oaken
self Eat not: shame yourself, Mrs. too."
"But that is not done among us in • doors as if they were the gates of
Kople," said Mrs. Tanner with Yid-
dish emphasis and a twinkle in her Galicia. Are you forgetting you are I Heaven itself. She knew that the old
Let
the (laughter of hasidim? We do not Imen would not open them to reveal
eye.
"No, thanks, I have an appointment erect monuments to the living, for a the law within to a mere woman nor
at Margot ies'." Thoroughly van- man can do many foolish things be- even t i a mere man, unless in hte
quished, she grabbed her summer furs fore be rinks into the grave. Wee to. preset], ef a congregate n of 10. But
and various parcels and really re- the king that sees his own gilded she felt that there were just these
paired to Margolies' restaurant. Zelda mom:tents topple in the dust." two little thing boards between herself
Ile felt that this matter-of-fact and God.
made it plain to everybody that she
"Father," she announced herself, "it
(meld afford t• dine in a hotel every name-riving in a hospital was a sacri-
day if she chase. How soon one fer- lige; the circumcision, performed be , is only I, Sasheh Leah, an unworthy
a beg - , - ar.wornan, come to beg
a
doctor
and
a
nurse,
a
farce.
Ile
woman,
reted It was only 10 years since she
and her husband had landed from the thought of the time when his own of Thee." Her hoarse, full voice
Sheindel
had
given
birth
to
his
son.
rocked
the
empty silence. When So.
old country. The beginning had been
a desperate struggle. Sam Kople What an event it had been! Daily, ' sheh Leah prayed she became very
the
cheder
boys
and
their
teacher
came
primitive..
She prayed not as she her
claimed that while looking for work
he learned English by rending busi- tm recite the Krishma in the middle of I been taught at the Benevolent Sunday
School
en
Eldridge
street, but as her
the
room
while
Sheindel
heroically
ness signs on the streets of New
York. He finally landed a job and looked on; of the honey-cookies he had grandmother and mother had done in
g
the
gallery
of
the
Krakoviak syna-
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with part of his fleet pay he bought distributed at the end of the recitals;
6
his wife acme gaudy cretonne hand- of the Friday night party at which gogue before her. "I am a humble
woman,
but
Thou
remembrest
the
kerchiefs on a pushcart in a moment dried pear-juice, raisin wine and
stewed peppered peas were distrihut- , meanest, creeping things. 0 God.
of stupid extravagance.
"You chump!" she cried, "why did ed to the men guests in the living- i Father my tears into Thy cup of too- =
yeu buy me this useless trash? What room and the women guests in the al- ing kindness and do not forget me
do I need fancy handkerchiefs for cove around Sheindel's bed. He The blood of Sarah flows in my veins =
thought for the night of vigil on the' —save my little Isaac as Thou didst _
when I have no bread?"
But Zelda dried her practically see- seventh day when he had sat awake save hers upon the mountain top."
ing eyes on a corner of her apron and till dawn studying and singing mein- She crushed the ornamented plush
proceeded to make something of the dies by candle-light to confound Lil- hangings to her breast and buried her
colored pieces. Ingeniously, she stitch- lith and drive her away before she head in the sacred folds. But she
ed them together diagonally into a had a chance to harm the new-born, was also like the twin-wife, Hagar, in
pretty kimona. The neighbors exam- babe. And in the early hours, Shein. I the desert, calling out in this peopled
ined and admired it and one of them del stole off her bed and helped to wilderness to keep her cradle joy. Her
bought it. Several women wanted prepare the corcumcimmal banquet, shawl dropped from her shoulders,
some, too. The gay greenness, the after which she crept back that no her arms were outstretched and her
bright flowers warmed their field- one might suspect she had been work. young figure cast a tragic shadow =
against the eerie gloom. And the
starved hearts vicariously. Perhaps
Isaac Gordon's emotional inarticu- monotonous sing-song of the hasidim
that Is the reason why all hte homes
F r :
in the ghetto are painted green. Zelda lateness found expression in his great floated in like a murmur of the sea.
Then Sosheh Leah, stepping back
Rat more handkerchiefs which were fondness for little children. Ile was
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