DaRonikwisn &wine
CAKES AND CUPID
ticular cakes—he had a feeling th
in the bargain store lurked danger
his equanimity, not to mention h i
By F. W. SWEET
pocketbook.
Aaron Hirsch passed down the mid- to—to look fine, on account of hi s ' But the three long days broug h
about
strange things.
dle aisle of the World's Emporium, daughter."
His mind was a moving-pictu
turned three counters, and right-an-
"0-oh!" exclaimed the clerk, he I. , whirl of two girls and a bag of cak r
e
gled a few yards to the "Gent's Neck- eyes snapping at the thought of lov
e —such cakes! Then one of the gir l
wear Regardless of Cost." Ilere was in the wind. "Is she pretty?"
;
began
to
fade,
and
the
cakes
move
a great jumble of innumerable pat-
"Never saw her but once," Aar
terns, a foot in height, and behind confessed, "but Sneiff's worth a lo n mockingly to the fore. But the thir
the pile stood a very pretty persua- of money, and he's sort of been bin t day the cakes themselves grew di n
t- leaving only the other girl. Then h i
sive little Jewess.
ing to me lately. llirsch & Redor is lips grew more firm, and he we n
m But Aaron did not notice the girl. an
up-to-date, growing firm, yo 1.1 straight to the World's Emporiu m
His eyes swept speculatively over the know, with credit, me being Aare down the middle, turning three cow
pile and then settled into the cold, Hirsch himself, and though Sneir s tors, and right-angling to the "Gent,
disdainful stare of the experienced girl is the only one with money in Neckwear Regardless of Cest." An
trader.
bank, she's so homely it's like a lif e there happened to be no custome r
"That the stuff you're advertising Nark to marry her off."
--though the lure of that day's r c
JOHN CHIERA, Manger
for nine cents?" he asked contemptu-
The pretty girl nodded, her eyv s ductions was equally strong.
ously.
"Say, you," began Aaron, impet u
serious with sympathetic understand .
"Yes, sir. Reduced from twenty- ing.
ously, "I ain't got your name yet."
"My, if that ain't just like a man,
"And
still
money
is
the
real
thing,
"Marked up from a nickel, more
a laughed the girl, "when there it wo e
likely," snorted Aaron. But neverthe- Aaron went on, "and eats, that is a written right on my lunch box. It'
real
thing,
too.
They
its
say
Bers
less he began to paw over the pile.
Rebecca—Rebecca Ziebert."
placing, a little paper bag to one side Sneiff is the best cook in her who l
"Sure, that's a good name," he ai
.A man should look first t 0
as he did so.
„ proved. "'Well, Rebecca, I've bee s
At length he found a yellow check, his money, and then to the thing thinking a whole lot of you in thee
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beautifully marked with green vines, that will be put on his table."
three days."
"Sure," agreed the girl. "Mont
that won a grudging look of approval.
"And maybe I've been thinking
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Ile glanced about covertly, but there comes first, and then to eat. Nett Y. little of you, too, Aaron," she admit
oaks
ain't
anything
at
all."
was no glass near. Yet the occasion I
fed, frankly. "You're different fro m
was too momentous for his own judg-
"That is just where you ar re I the cheap guys below the avenue
ment. llis gaze slipped across the wrong," Aaron surprised himself by And--and, you see, I looked up you
counter.
leclaring boldly. "Pretty looks con e i name and firm, too,"
But the pretty clerk had antici- close to the first, and I'm not sur el Aaron's face beamed, then h
TURKISH AND RUSSIAN BATHS
pated him. Behind her were tiered but what it's the very first. I didn' 't blushed; and seeing that, she blushed
shelves of men's neckwear of finer use to think so, but I do now. I If too. His hand slipped under the re
quality, and she selected something t hat Bersa Sneiff was full of goo d plenished pile of nine-cent ties, an
and leaned toward him.
ooks like somebody I'm talking wit
found her hand on the oth
100.Roons Ilotel With Use of
"ghat one's too loud for you, sir," I wouldn't wait one minute. I—" .h somehow
er side. And it was done no clever!
she said, with a pretty grimace of
Then he blushed furiously, ani I that a cash girl two counters awa
disapproval. "It's more suited to the s cow-led. What would one of hi s, and 15 feet above did not see, thoug
chaps below the avenue. You're not c leeks think to hear him talking lik e she was looking suspiciously in tha
that sort. You don't need to be bol- t his. to a strange girl across a coon - direction.
1246 LIBRARY AVENUE
stered up with neck advertising. t er? And the girl was blushing, too ,
"Maybe we are friendly so I migh
Something like this is what you s urprised into it by the sudden arden t call around on your father som
e
want," and with a dexterous motion I ook that had flashed from his eyes . evening," he suggested.
Cherry 0076
she passed the cravat around his Even in his pertu ation Aaron no -; "It might be he would be glad.'
neck, fitted it in front, then, "Beau- t iced the blush, d it sent a curio u s , she answered, "though father h
,
ti-ful, sir. Always remember rich t hrill through( im.
ain't much on callers. He goes t
mauve is your best tie color. Now
"Come now," he said brusquely sleep. But I'll be there."
for something to hold it in place."
'tell me how much."
"Yes, that would be nicer," with
Reaching into a showcase, she se-
"One and fifty," replied the girl I. grin. "And now there is one thin
lected a pin, adjusted it in the tie ' 'The pin is gold-plated and cheap at. more, Rebecca, that I would be like
with an air of profound considera_ a dollar, and the tie is silk. Sue h ly to ask you some day. Where may
\ \ \
tion; gave him a small mirror, and r cal goods become a man like you , be did you buy them cakes I too
ti
then stood back with clasped hands. t sot cheap things for nine cents."
away in your lunch?"
Aaron llirsch was a good trader
Aaron grunted at the compliment t,
"Why, Aaron, I didn't buy them
and a notable success in competition, c ounted out the needful coins upon I bake such cakes myself in whol
but in matters of personal appear- t he counter, caught up a paper ba g panfuls. Father he likes them aroun
ance he was still a novice. It had a nd hurried away.
on Fridays. You come by some even
not seemed worth while. He looked
But, mingled with his annoyanc e ing soon, and if you play pinochle he
furtively and somewhat sheepishly at such undreamed of extravagance, will be asking you to come often
into the glass.
was a growing admiration for the girl But you couldn't do that, of course.'
"Seems to be all right," he con- who had caused it. What a saleslady
"Sure I could," exclaimed Aare
ceded. "I—well, I've got an invite she would make for the shirt-waists fervently. "Pinochle and cakes wit
to Sneiff's of Sneiff & Schnorr, leath- and skirts of Hirsch & Redor! Why, go fine. And I will be making a star 1
er handbags, for supper, and I want she could talk a creditor himself into this very evening."—The America
changing his bill for goods.
Hebrew.
And as a wife—Aaron blushed and
again scowled at the thought. Bah
She would make him extravagant like YIDDISHER KULTURE KLU
this every day, buying real things at
unheard of prices. It would be money
By Dr. Abram Gideon.
flowing like water—not that he
couldn't afford it, but why? And he The Yiddisher Kulture Klub origi
had heard that Sneiff's girl was so nated in New York City about si
close that she had her shoes re-soled months ago among a group of me n
t
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three times before discarding them.
women
lenen who had the definite an
What a girl that would be to help a modest aim of striving to preserv
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e
man on!
and perpetuate "Kulture" in Yiddish
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Arriving at his office he placed the and to promote the use of the Yiddis l
paper bag upon his desk and laid the anguage—which its members reeog
MORTGAGES
JAMES J. BOURKE, Mgr.
last mail beside it. His custom was nize as a medium of expression fo
to eat lunch and read letters and about nine million Jews on the fact.
Offices:
newspapers at the same time, often I of the globe. The members believe in
719 Free Press Building
occupying half an hour. It was the Jewish people and the Yiddis h
cheaper than going out to a restaur- language. They have no apologies t o
Office Cherry 1195
ant, and saved time.
I make for the one, nor are the y
But when he fixed his eyes upon a ashamed of the other.
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letter and transferred a bite from
The society starts with New York
the bag to his mouth, the half-read as a center but expects in time to be -
letter dropped and he leaned forward come nation-wide, eventually to en -
and peered hurriedly into the bag circle the sphere, at least that part
It was not his lunch at all. He most of it which claims to possess or hopes
ROSH HA-SHANAH
have taken the girl's and left his own to acquire "Kulture."
on the counter.
GREETINGS
Kulture is both a process and a
The bite had been delicious, how- product. As a process it means eliU
Office and Funeral Parlors:
ever, and he reached into the bag cation. As a product it means civili
and took out one of the little cakes I nation. In the Yiddish language ar
it contained. Then he took another. deposited vast stores of literary ar e
421 MACOMB
MAIN 2313
They were the most delicious things and learning, to which the only arena
he had ever tasted, and he shut his of approach lies thru the Yiddish Ian
eyes to better enjoy the delectable gunge. In accordance with its funda
windfall. The mail was forgotten en- mental aim, the society proposes t
Buyer of
tirely.
cultivate this language to the tulles
At length he got down to the last possible extent.
Ov -swo t >. nuate i■ vo o•
wasavo• ( )omits o
is o aus.omO
SCRAP IRON AND
cake and was about to make way
"For the sake of a jargon neglec
with it when he suddenly drew back English?" Heavens, no; but not for
METALS
his hand. Why not carry the cake sake a "jargon" at the expense of
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to Sneiff's and let Bersa taste it? soul.
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Maybe she could make ones just the
The program of the society, appear
Cadillac 3745, 4902
same. ing simultaneously in Yiddish an
But when Miss Sneiff tried the English, assumes that the problem
cake, she confessed she had never connected with the life of the Jew
baked any just that way, though she are still unsolved in this day and ag e
believed
she could by trying. She of our civilization, and thru th e
I,
I,
did try, but there was that difference growth of anti-Semitism have becom e
I,
,
which a gastronomic expert like more acute and more distressing.
1,
--
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I,
P,
Aaron detected in one bite—all the
The "Yiddisher Kulture Klub" an
difference between a genuine Corot nounces as its fundamental aims:
"a. Frank identification with th e
and one of those imitation master-
pieces that fool the multitude. There Jewish people and participation in th e
H. L. HERSCHBERG
I,
was no comparison.
advancement of its nationalistic cut
I,
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24 West Jefferson
Aaron recalled in fancy the gusta- ture
/ 4
I,
tory treat of those dainty morsels—
"b. To enrich and deepen the spirit
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6697
Alfred Lane, Mgr.
I,
I,
slowly, with eyes shut and lipslual life of its members.
Favors, Decorations for
,
"c. To elevate to the highest level
smacking, he audibly lived over those
I
first savory bites. Ile would go and the whole cultural standing of the
I
Banquets and Pa r t i e s.
ask
the
counter
girl
herself
where
1
people
Complete line of Party
she bought it. Even if a single cake I The immediate practical tasks which
Hats, Novelties, Serpen-
as much as 10 cents he would the so•ety proposes to undertake and
0 4 tine Confetti, Balloons, cost
have some once in as often for his to cooperate in the fulfillment of which
I,
it Inv ites membership are:
lunch.
etc.,
at
very
attractive
, ,
,
"1. Creation of a cultural center
,
Yet he did not go to the counter
prices.
t
I,
i girl in three whole days, for, in spite for all who seek to satisfy their spirit-
of his longing for cakes—those par- ual needs in the Yiddish language.
0 WOODWARD AT KENILWORTH
The members will assemble at stated
periods in order to enjoy in common
some of the best works that Jewish
mese ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■•■•■■■■•■■■■■■■
Joseph Frank
Norman Frank vulture has produced; to hear lectures
ol subjects pertaining to Jewish and
0■0001■04■0■ G•onsimowo.amwmmleo ■ aoims.oalmaianoaosem,c,
general culture; to consider and dis-
cuss important problems of our age,
both Jewish and general.
"2. Establishment of an agency for
distributing the better books in the
Yiddish
language, at the most reason-
We take this means of wishing our friends and customers
able prices.
3. Establishment of circulating li-
braries
•
4. • Preparation
of a systematic cat-
' slog of all the better works in Yiddish.
' "5. To encourage the publication of
the better class of Yiddish books, as
well as translation from other lan-
guages,
at reasonable prices.
127 Michigan Avenue
"0. By offering prizes, to encourage
Jewish productivity in all fields of
human culture.
The office of the society is located
at Room 288, 1 Madison avenue, New
WHOLES \ LE CLOTHING
York. Its official organ is the month-
ly magazine "Dos Naiye Leben," ed-
ited by Dr. Ch. Zhitlowski and Dr.
One of the substantial business and professional men of our Board
Niger.
142 West Jefferson
Main 4675
of Directors is Mr. Max Jacob.
Twenty-five
years
ago
Mr.
Jacob
was
a
poor
man;
today,
by dint of
wmeo• i•oceim•olminq as.° •••aci o .i ■ p•o lemo.o. einio ■ o. ■ 0
hard work and frugality, courage and thrift, he is recognized as
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being one of the leading Jews is the city.
(
I pass my days among the quiet places
This bank has the distinction of having the only Jewish Bank Director
Made sacred by your feet.
in the city.
The air is cool in the fresh woodland
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spaces,
The meadows very sweet.
The sunset fills the wide sky with its
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
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A Happy and Prosperous New Year
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splendor,
The glad birds greet the night;
I stop and listen for a voice, strong,
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tender,
I wait those dear eyes' light.
You are the heart of every gleam of
glory,
Your presence fills the air,
About you gathers all the fair year's
story;
I read you everywhere.
.may
—Alice Freeman Palmer.
Orgisaii.41 1921
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