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Simon Abram Plays Chess
A Sketch by Candlelight.
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B y GERTRUDE DIAMANT
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It was Friday night in the home of Isaac?"
Simon Abram. The candles, burning
my son has to go and see
without motion, cast light and shadow his sweetheart."
on the oil-cloth. The stove was with-
"Shouldn't a boy see his sweetheart,
drown in shadow, but the pots that Dvoira?"
hung around it showed their charred
"Yes, Simon, a boy should see his
bottoms. In the street was the mur- sweetheart. But if his name is Isaac,
min' of people making an evening holi• why must he call himself Irving?"
day Befor• their doors. fiat the kitch-
Simon Abram did not answer, and
en in Sim on's home was quiet and the Dvoira sighed massively'•
ticking of the clock made it seem very
"Nu, nu. The Lord has blessed me
far away from the street.
with a husband and a son."
• • •
Dvoira Leah, his wife, liked Friday
night. It was an excuse for not be.
The clock ticked round to ten strokes
ing busy. She could sit, as she sat and Simon Abram's pale right hand
now, in the shadow of the stove, awl moved the pawns over the chess board.
fold her hands over her apron, and The stove was withdrawn in shadow ,
breathe loudly. Besides, burning can- but the ;tots hanging near it showed
dl•s saved gas.
their charred Buttons. And near the
Simon Abram liked Friday night stove sat Dvoira Leah. Her hoed.
because he closed his cleaning and were folded over her apron, as she
pressing shop early, and left the irons breathed loudly. Someone knocked at
cold until Saturday's sundown. After the dour.
supper he always played chess, and
"A guest," Simon Abram sail, and
as soon as the dishes Were degirviI held a queen suspended.
(non the table his chess board and
"For a guest, Simon, you can lay
figure's broke into the still circle of away the game," Dvoira instructed,
light on the oil-cloth. Tonight, as al- as she rose to open. Reluctantly he
ways, he played silently. Fingering swept the pawns from the board and
his beard served him for an exclama- clapped it together.
tion, and besides there was no partner
"Nu," he sighed, "tonight I didn't
opposite hint. Simon Abram, with win. Every time the other fellow beats
move and counter move, played me. Gut Shobbos, Reb Aaron."
against himself.
Aaron Lifschitz ent•rn1 and sot
The striking of the clock caused down at the table. Ile was a slight
Dvoira to unfold her hands, and to man, and his lain,' was proportionate-
nigh with a slow rising and subsiding ly shorter. His hands were tine and
of her body.
lively, from much lingering of wool-
"Nu, Simon Abram," she said. "It's cns.
nine o'clock. By this time haven't you
"Gut
Sholiteos, Mr.
Lifschitz,"
Lenten your partner?"
Dvoira arched her head playfully. "Sit
Simon Abram fluttered his hand to- down, sit down, Mr. Lifschitz. A glass
wards her, impatiently.
of tea, may be, with cookies?"
"Nu, Shunram," Dvoira re-
"Tea, Mrs. Cohen, I can have in my
sumed, after a short pause. "Isn't it home. And my wife makes cake,—Iii,
time to put the game away?"
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Simon turned on her passionately.
"Nu, then, you came to make Simon
"What does it matter to you, Dvoi- Abram a partner in woolens?"
-
ra Leah, if I play?"
"Mrs. Cohen!"
Aaron Lifschitz
"Nothing, nothing." llvoira Leah placed a hand on each thigh and mud-
shrugged her shoulders. "Only when ded his head before speaking. "I have
a man plays chess for an hour —
a partner. And every day, Mrs. Co-
Nu, Simon Abram, isn't it time to put hen, he wishes he could open a press-
the game away?"
ing shop."
Simon Abram fingered his beard
"Then business is bad, Mr. Lifs-
and contemplated a counter move. The chitz?"
clock ticked round to half-past, and
"With a partner, Mrs. Cohen, busi-
at intervals Dvoira sucked her under- ness is always bad."
lip and nodded her head, as one who
Dvoira Leah signed, as one who
•meditates on many troubles. When knows.
the half-hour chime made the burden
"I3 at now Mr. Cohen," Aron turned
jut silence too heavy, she spoke:
briskly towards him, "let me beat you
"And Aaron Lifschitz is a good in chess."
;Ibusiness man, and has a store with
Simon curled his beard around his
,woolens, and his son studies to be a finger. Without looking at his wife,
!elentiot."
he asked her: "Nu, Dvoira?"
"Nu, what of it?" Simon asked.
But Dvoira Leah said no word, and
"Nothing, nothing. Only my hus- her hands, folded over her apron,were
band, Simon Abram, who keeps a lifted and louvered in it slow sigh.
; pressing shop after 25 years has to
"Chess he wants to play," Simon
,play chess on Friday night, and Isaac, mused Slits his beard. "A dealer in
'my son--"
woolens, and on Friday night he cores
"Now, what's the matter with to play chess. Nu, Dvoira?"
"Nu, Simon?" She thing her hand
towards him. "Have I, then, anything
to do with it? So play hint a game of
chess."
Simon Abram slipped his finger
fr , nt the curl in his beard.
"Nu, nu, Dvoira-la," he said sooth-
ingly, "there are worse things to do
thati playing chess."
The clock ticked round to eleven, and
in the shadow of the candles Simon
Abram and Aaron Lifschitz moved
their players. Aaron played with
many staccato exclamations. But Si-
mon was silent, and lingered his
beard. In the shadow fu the stove
Dvoira Leah breathed with audible in-
difference.
"So!" Aaron Lifschitz said, when
the game was over. Tonight I out the
winner. Next Friday you con he the
winne'r, Mr. Cohen."
"Ile never wins, my husband."
Dvoira Leah announced irritably.
Such a fine Mall as he is, Mr.
Lifschitz, he can't even beat himself."
"Well, Mrs. (Cohen, on Shobbos a
man can lose once. Good night, Mrs.
cohen, gots! night, Simon."
The clock ticked round to another
half hour, while Simon Abram moved
the figures over the chess board. In
the shadow Dvoira Leah sighed mas-
sively.
"Nu, Simon Abram, put the game
away at last."—IThe Lhiy.)
beings, there is nothing to he done
except to attempt to raise the Mass of
human linings to a level where they
can appreciate its contents.
But to bring down the Bible to their
level, to inject the medioe'rity of tal-
ent into the must extraordinary of ha-
man productions, so that the chamber-
maid may think she has the t cal
stuff," is to commit a double crime.
It is to desecrate the must sacred of
our moral and aesthetic feelings, and
it is to give to t he unfortunately
stupid the feeling that they have at-
tained the same rank of intellectual
and moral development as the best of
us. This is democracy gone crazy.--
The Day.
Sister and Brother
Ile who has the least understanding
By Manoello di Roma (1400)•
Divine Messiah, now We look Go
this.
With hope and longing and
cIviht;
i0Y;
For, with thy coining we shall
ings see,
Our woes and grievous stun ;
alloy.
Thou wilt revive old ' inn ' s
came,
And we, the rave whom ;CI the
world deride,
Shall, in our turn, put all our foes
shame,
Who caused us sorrow, and our
!Janie decried.
has the most questions.—The Talmud.
To what may he hr compared who But, I pray thee, come not re!
all ANS,
teaches a child? To one who writes
As thou art pictured in 0,, 1.1y
on clean paper; and to what May tu-
writ;
be compared who teaches as. old moo? If thou in royal splendor dust not pass,
Ti use Whit Write, on blotted paper.—
How could we bear the nt•rn dis.
The Talmud.
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