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DICKENS AND FAGIN

made of cheap material and dainty
pictures cut from magazine., and who
have fought tooth and nail the super-
Some Interesting Letters
stition of the evil eye, the fetich of
neighborly advice and faith in magi:
By GABRIEL COSTA
cures, are known vivid facts of life
that illumine the cold summarizing
By a Jewess."
My interest in the login contro-
figures.
Dickens
replies
".
.
.
.
the
volume
The whole gamut of Jerusalem so-
1 versy is aroused by reason of the fact
that some seven years ago, by cour- assures me that there is nothing but ciety is struck in the range of visit
good
will
left
between
me
and
a
peo-
ors to the weighing room. There are
tesy of the then owners, I was per-
mitted to read a number of autograph ple for whom I have a real regard, Arab women, and though unfortunate-
letters which passed between Charles and to whom I would not wilfully have ly there are as yet no Aral) welfare
Dickens and M rs. Eliza Davis—an given an offense or done an injustice workers, one Arab mother may Ming'
Anglo-Jewish lady—on the subject of for any worldly consideration."— in 11 dozen of her friends. The wealth-
iest and the poorest, the ul:ra modern
, the author's predilections in regard to The Jewish World.
teacher, artist or secretary front Can-
'the Jewish people in general a n d
ada, Berlin or Petrograd, and the'
Engin in particular.
C. E. OTTER
WM. J. OTTER
must medieval Persian, Yemenite or
N. f HAMLITON
These letters, wh Mb cover the pe-
Nloroccan illiterate stand side by side
riod between 1863 and 1870, may be
Jessie E. Sampler in the New
undressing their babies at the little
considered in the light of an attempt By
Palestine.
coops;
but though the mothers may
by Dickens to justify his creation of
be dressed in smart tweed suits or in
Fagin. Before dealing with the let-
An American Zionist visiting Pal- forgeous exotic silks from Gukhara
, ters, of which there are five, it should
and a fterwards traveling or in rags from anywhere, the babies
' be explained that the author's pains- estine
Making correspondent was the wife of through Europe into Poland and look far more alike, their clothing sen-
James I'. Davis, to whom Tavistock Russia, writes me this: "Since leav- sible, scientific, and their little plump
Ii(iuse was transferred by Dickens ing German I have witnessed a n d bodies uniformly clean. So much has
when the novelist vacated it in 1860. listened to most distressing incidents. education done. It seems a magic
Reading the letters afresh, one can- Our people in Eretz Israel should be change to one who only a few years
not but feel an intense admiration for happy even in the face of hardships." ago used to watch the pitiful, filthy,
the "Crusading" spirit of this Jewish When I traveled through Italy into sick babies, wrapped in yards of re-
lady. She stands revealed 11 s a type Palestine, in 1919, 1 was impressed by pulsive rags, being brought to the
of English Jewess, the need for which the sickly and debilitated appearance Hadassah clinic for examination. Such
still exist. But a few visits to the
as urgent today as it must have of the young children in Italy, and by
Established 1863
I it 11 in the picturesque 'sixties. the much better appearance of the Infant Welfare Station work a nor-'
tal miracle.
The first of these communications, children here. On closer acquaint-
The infant welfare idea is growing.
dated Tavistock House, 22nd June: ance, 1 discovered that the children
In the poorest Jewish 'neighborhood of
Equipped to care for the modest funeral at the
low), opens with a reference to a gra- here were almost all undersized, lip-
Jaffa, the Women's International
: cious Montefiore lady "who, conjointly paring several years younger than
Zionist Organization has an infant
most reasonable charge as well as the large and
with her husband, exerted herself, at their age, and that though their man-
welfare center with a Plunket nurse
great personal sacrifice, to relieve her ner was bright and intelligent, they
the most exacting.
--a special system directed to retain
' oppressed people in distant lands. But were also several years retarded in
(she explains to Dickens) there are school. They were to pitiful contrast breeast feeding--and has about 360
babies on its roster.
other oppressions much heavier, other to young newcomers from England,
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Our babies are beginning to get a 08 ■ 041m-maiNamilM0)4m•mengsmalmbo
things far sharper than the fetters America or Switzerland. I suspected
and goads of Damascus, Lebanon, or this to be the result of deprivations fair deal, and we who are perhaps too
keenly conscious of the shortcomings
Russia. In this country, where the lib- of war, mental as well as physical,
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and weaknesses of the present genera-
erty of the subject is fully recognized, and experience bears me out. Nat only
tion in our land, are looking forward
where the law knows no distinction have mane of these children caught
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up with is belated growth after their hopefully to what a generation of
of creed, the pen of the novelist, the
unnatural stunting, but the new crop healthy-minded, healthy-bodied Pales-
gibe of the pamphleteer is still whet-
of Jewish babies is large and well de- tinian babies may do to save us. They
ted against the 'suns of Israel.' It has
veloped for its age. Childhood here' say we are saved in the Wilderness
been said that Charles Dickens, the
is fresh and beautiful; the land is as for the sake of the children. May not
large hearted, whose words plead so
good for babies as for flowers if man that happen again?
eloquently and so nobly for the op-
Jerusalem, July 1923.
a minimum of nurture.
pressed of his country, and who may but gives
If childhood flourishes here, baby-
justly claim credit as the fruits of
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—The Daily 1
hood is in extreme danger. This is no
his labor the many changes for the
fault of the land, but of the poverty, Express reports that King Hussein ■
amelioration ofthe condition (of the)
ignorance and carelessness of its a f the Iledjaz has directed his .epee-'
poor now at work, has encouraged a
daughters. The infant death rate is s entative in London to negotiate with
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vile prejudice against the despised He-
itifully high among the Jews; among ;rent Britain with a view to granting
brew.
FINE
'alestine a constitutional government. ,
FINE
the Arabs it is even much higher. The
Shake
"We have lived to see the day when
King was officially report ed to
urge that first sent Hadassah to Pal-
1 CONFECTIONS
CHOCOLATES
Shakespeare's Shylock receives very
treaty
to
the
draft
of
a
Theagreed
estine in 1;112 was just this call of the have
AND
different rendering to that which was
AND
helpless young women, many of them concerning the Aral) States, which
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given to it fifty years ago. The great
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CE CREAMS
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master has at last found an exponent. married in mere childhood and giving recognized the present status of the
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l'alestine government. Ile is under-
mmommommogswoommo•Noweimm
. . . Engin, I fear, admits only of one birth to weak infants often without
stood to have altered his stand, how-
interpretation; but (while) Charles even the assistance of a competent ever, because of the vigorous opposi-
One of Our Sodas.
In and
Dickens lives the author can justify midwife. Incredible tragedies were
lion of the Palestine Arabs to the
himself or atone for a great wrong on and still are incidents here of every-
whole though scattered nation." ,lay life. The problem must be solved treaty.
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girls,
Dickens replies to this letter from from all its angles—education of
Gad's hill Place on the following 10th women's rights and protective laws
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against child marriages, democratic
July:
support of motherhood and community
". . . I must take leave to say that
service before and after birth. The
if there be any general feeling on the
last of these, the most immediate and
part of the intelligent Jewish people
concrete, Hadassah took upon itself
that I hove done them what you de-
when it organized a trained midwife
scribe as a 'great wrong,' they are a
service in 1912, and has never ceased
far less sensible, a far less just, a far
to develop, despite its wider occupa-
less good-tempered people than I have
tion with general health, so that now
always supposed them to he. Fagin
two-thirds of the Jewish babies born
in Oliver Twist is a Jew because it
in. Palestine come into our land in
unfortunately was true of the time to
WM. R. MACALPINE
ED SUMNER SMITH
Hadassah's hospitals or attended by
which that story refers, that that
Is midwives.
class of criminal almost invariably
To be born is a negligible adventure
was a Jew. But surely no sensible
unless one can manage to keep alive.
man or woman of your persuasion can
Two infant welfare stations were es-
fail to observe—firstly, that all the
ahlished by Hadassah in Jerusalem
rest of the wicked dramatis personae
in the summer of 1921, and are func-
are Christians; and secondly, that he tioning and growing, in cooperation
is called "The Jew," not because of with the "Drop of Milk," contributed
his religion, but because of his race. by Mrs. Harald Solomon of England
If I were to write a story in which I
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d Palestine, and with the volunteer
pursued a Frenchman or a Spaniard
services of the Jewish Women's Or-
as 'the Roman Catholic,' I should do ganization of Jerusalem, organized by
Delivery Service
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a very indecent and unjustifiable Miss Henrietta Szold and devoted to
thing; but I make mention of Engin the two-fold task of self-education and
as the Jew, because he is one of the the protection and enrichment of
Jewish people, and because it conveys motherhood and babyhood. The in-
that kind of idea of him which I fant welfare stations are centers for
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should give my readers of a China- these many interests clustering
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man by calling him a Chinese.. . .
around better babies. About 700
have no feeling towards the Jewish babies have been registered in the two
people but a friendly one (I always stations, but only a little over half of
-
speak well of them) whether in pub- the mothers attend regularly, coming
Jl
0.=11)0•1=0 lic or in private, and bear my testi- at least weekly to have their babies
mony (as I ought to do) to their per- weighed and examined, and in many
fect good faith in such transactions as instances receiving daily the milk
I have ever had with them. And in formula of the "Drop of Milk." As
my "Child's History of England' I in all such social service, those who
have lost no opportunity of setting can pay, and according to their abil-
forth their cruel persecution in old ity. The death rate of all those regis-
Models for Men and
times."
tered is 5 per cent. And in several
Women.
But it would appear that the ex- instances the thriving baby is first
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planation far from satisfied our critic in a large family to survive earl/
of Dickens, and so we read her letter, babyhood. So much for statistics, to
penned four days afterwards:
be gleaned from a scientifically ar-
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". . . Does anyone designate Mr. ranged and orderly kept system of
Are you chained to the garbage can habit?
D'Israeli as 'the Jew?' I cannot dis- cards. To the nurses and their volun-
Cut it out. End once and for all the filth,
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pute the fact that at the time to which teer helpers who visit the women in
the expense, the danger to health, the flies,
Oliver Twist' refers there were some their homes, who have added to the
the uselessness of the garbage can—install
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Jews, receivers of stolen goods, and equipment of the stations model cribs
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REACH OF ANY HOME. Thousands in
there was one so base as to train
use in Detroit. Indorsed by health au-
young thieves in the manner described
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thorities.
in that stork. If, as you remark, 'all
must observe that the other criminals
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Mrs. S. C. Hall for their delineations
of some of our race. Yet Isaac of
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"I hope we shall not forfeit your
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perhaps WO are over-sensitive, but are
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is only when a great mind appears to
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, Is• against us that we plaintively up-
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peal. We dwell in this country very
; little known, our domestic customs en-
tirelyunknown. I have myself been
greatly astonished at the ignorance of
/
my countrymen concerning what they
appear to think an entirely foreign
people. Look at the Blood Accusation
from time to time rising up against
Even such a popular paper as
. us.
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'Chambers's' disseminates that calum-
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ny.
I
hazard
the opinion that it would
4■;
I
well repay an author of reputation to
examine more closely into the manners
and character of the British Jews, and
to represent them as they really are—
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The remainder of this absorbing
.
co rrespondence deals with the intro-
the Jew Riah, in "Our
du ction
Mutual Friend," which Dickens' cor-
respondent is "SO presumptuous as to
i
think a great compliment paid to my-
• self and to my people." In regard to
I
this character Mrs. Davis makes a
Distributors of High Gr•d•
number of useful suggestions.
As we are more concerned with Fa-
/
I gin than with Riah, the correspond-
Ience can usefully be left at this point.
But one is pleased to place on record
,
the novelist's appreciation of a He-
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brew Bible presented to him by his
correspondent. The volume bore the
Factory and Main Office:
inscription,
"6th February, 1867.
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