PAGE EIGHT N. 711c1),,T1zon: //NIS/lei RON IC LE Simon Abram Plays Chess A Sketch by Candlelight. ----- B y GERTRUDE DIAMANT — ----- 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 fold her hands over her apron, and The stove was withdrawn in shadow , breathe loudly.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?" yi yi I" • 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. grace of it? 0 C1:3 ==s0=01 101:101===14)=14)1 3oraco 0 G. M. C. TRUCKS PEARLS BEFORE SWINE By MAURICE SAMUEL Among the most desperate evils of deniocracy—and the evils of democ- racy are only exceeded by those of autocracy—is the attempt to intro- duce a false equality into mental and spirtual values. There seems to Ire it kind of belief abroad that every man is capable of and entitled to the sillily spiritual ex- periences as every other man, that the right of every man to equality of cco- mimic opportunity, to it standard minimum of a livelihood, has its pars relltd in h is "right" to equality of spiritual experience. Nothing, could be more stupid or vicious in its implications. You have a right to a living, what- ever your occupation, so lung as it is needful and so long as you attend to it faithfully. But you have no inherent "right" to spiritual experiences which are beyond your mental means. There are men who, from time to time, are inspired with the idea of re-writing the 13ible with a view of making it "accessible to the masses." The masses, they tell us, do not read the Bible. That is because the Bible is written in a way which is not in keeping with the process of mind C0111- MOO Gt the Moses. "Let us therefor(' re-write the Bible in such a way that the masses will read it." Now, if this were proposed in an- other fashion, in this one for example: "Let as write it Look borrowing the ideas of the Itible, one could ub- jeet. Illit In offer the version of the THE MESSIAH 0 The large banner hanging over our Oakland Avenue entrance has a message for every G. M. C. truck owner. Watch for it when driving past. 0 0 0 0 6 Owen & Graham Company Photo by Spellman Sophie Siegel and Samuel Rice. lovely children of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Rice (Louise Siegel) of 706 Putnam avenue. popularizer u s being essentially the iiible in impudence and into treachely. Hendrick Van Loon has engage.) precisely on this task of "re-writing the Bible SO as to make it accessible to the chambermaid and the waiter, to the postman and the engineer." lie tells us further; "I have written for all kinds of people who tight shy of the Bible because it is the Bible," but who like a good story as well as any- one else. And that is exactly the whole point. Ti get good st tries out of the Bible is one thing--there are dozens of splen. did stories to be hommed and adapt- ed. That is perfectly legitimate. But ,, to take them and represent them as ;l1, the Bible, its a substitute for the U Bible, is worse than ridiculous. Th, Bible, as it stands, is the most re- markable collection of documents known to man. It is unique in tone, unique in the exaltation of some of its contents. It cannot be reproduced, it carnal he paralleled. 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