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always, on Sat-
finger tips of his are plucking and ter, cooing and crooning at her cons; young Jews invited to hear him ex- keep to her sick bed;
always sick and same port under the same star."
twitching away at his racial goatee— solingly: "The Lord will redeem ; pound the prepared forensic piece of urdays and holidays,
II, heard subdied weeping behind
that poor little tapering bunch of your shame, my child; Ile will make' abtruse Talmudic lore prescribed by always sad, and perhaps this would
his back. fier tears hurt him and he
beardlike, nervous, jerky strands good all you've suffered." the marriage canon. But his inner- harm the children as well; they would
said:
be
born
weak
and
sickly,
or,
perhaps,
The
sordid
end
of
the
affair
in
all
most
thoughts
and
heartstrings
were
framing the restless and bony min-
By SHOLOM ASCH
"Dora, darling, don't cry."
strel chin—as if to vent all their irate its naked, unredeemed, commercial- I fixed elsewhere. Ile understood that there would not be any children at all,
"Why shouldn't I when my lot is so
ized brutality is going on at the same something was amiss and that to and he alone would live with a sick
fury on this innocent tuft.
bitter
and God has punished are so?"
wedding
hand
of
provincial
musicians
preliminary festivities
Ile did wife. Outside the sun would shine,
match might fall through.
We are at the
But the bridegroom with the silken time in the next room where the lath- ,
David could no longer resist. Ile hid
If
his
holidays
would
come,
such
as
Easter;
orthodox Jewish wedding in are here to a man, lined up around the
erg of the bridal pair are threshing not sense it as real disaster.
veiling
cloth
is
not
yet
in
sight.
His
his
face
in her breast and wept.
of
an
lews would lie merry, rejoice and
Fe-war Russian Poland. The prelude bride with their instruments in posi-
acts like a wet blanket upon out the business details of the mar- father should step the performance
"It is my star, my destiny too, Dora
spacious parlor of tion. From time to time the tensi in absence
the festive company. All become de- singe agreement. Oiser, the groom's before the canopy service, why, of sing; the young married women would
s ta ged in the .
den
r."
the bride's beime in a typical provin- is broken by the growl of a violin pressed and gloomy. The mother of father all undersized specimen of the course, he surely knows what e is take walks in front of the synagog.,
And he did not know whether his
cial town in the midst of the warm string under the temperamental pinch the bride is sulky and restless. Her race, is sitting, with his withered,iabout, and means it for his son good. while his wife would be confined to
tears wellel up from the font of nils.
colors and dramatic setting dictated of its master's finger. The doable angry scowl suggests some grave bloodless lips tightly closed, and his !The you'll; groom did not know his her sickbed.
cry
or bliss.—The Nation.
bass
groans
in
the
painful,
low-
lithe hallowed traditions of the race.
Ile thought no more of divorce—he
trouble with the bridegroom, but no- other hand placidly stroking his:bride as yet. He had seen her a
The bridesmeals are here in force, pitched plaint, and Yankel smothers body knows just what it is all about. scrubby beard. He is as dumb and un- couple of times at the betrothal, when saw himself already tied down to a
his
impatience
in
the
silvery,
rolling
giving the final touches to the central
Celebrate Simchath Torah.
The poor bride tortured by dark fore- responsive as the rocks. The father he and she signed the marriage con- sick wife and felt sorry for himself.
tableau in which the leading charac- response of his clarinet to his tuning bodings of her maiden dreams cruelly of the bride is a tall, husky man with , tract and wished each other gaud luck. Why, just a while ago he was a free
. is sitting in state on up.
a large spreading face, framed by a Of course he felt overcome with pity young bachelor, happy. full of bright
The hundreds of children attending
ter, the brief ,
blasted,
is
sitting
and
waiting,
pale
The wedding bard is also here and
the chair of homer in all the glory of
and trembling in an agony of shame, long beard of russet strands, with the • at the idea that a daughter of Israel visions of the future, and now he was the United Ilebrew Schools of Detroit
her bridal pull. She is sitting here ready to do his part. But the inter- with her eyes and face buried in her ruddy complexion of the sturdy semi- was to suffer a disgrace; but his already so burdened with sorrow Tuesday evening celebrated Simchatk
under the admiring gaze of the guests minable wait has set his nerves a- hands to hide the rush of hot tears blond Jew typical of western Poland. , father surely knew what he was What had he done that such a lot had Torah in the traditional manner. Tht
awaiting the veiling ceremony. The tingling down to his finger tips. These and smother the sobs convulsing her He is standing before his puny pros- about, and there must be sufficient been meted out to him? What crime Ilakofoth were carried by the young.
had he committed to deserve such pun- eters and prize' were awarded for the
.............
frail, delicate frame. The girls, over- pective kin-in-law, pleading with him • ground for it.
......
He felt bored by the long day. lie ishment?
best flags. Refres h ments were dig,
come by pity for the bride, are doing appealingly to come to terms.
Oiser, don't disgrace me before the took another try at his nuptial lecture
their best to cheer her up and dispel
He now accused or blamed no one tributed in all the schools to the chil,
people.
Within
eight
days
after
the
with
now
and
then
a
wistful
and
fur-
dren
participating in the celebration.
the all-pervading gloom. They laugh
but his unlucky star. He now felt
and romp and shout in transports of wedding, as soon as I clinch my wheat live peep into the next room, where pity for his young wife. Poor thing,
sale,
you'll
get
the
hundred
rubles.
,
the
bride'was
sitting.
lie
saw
nothing
glee, callnig upon the band to play.
it was not her fault. Ile only wanted
But the musicians, on their part, are Please take the note; for mercy's sake, but a white dress. No doubt the bridal co save himself from the impending
sunk in a brown study tinged by fear accept the note," he begged, and, dress appealed to his emotions in a doom, to find some ray of hope, and
and worry at the loss of the money shoved it into Oiser's hand. som•what pleasurable way, helping so he said:
staring them in the face in case the
"Pshaw! doctors don't know every-
for every occasion.
But the weazened, scrawny bit of a him to a realization of the fact that
match is called off. They chase off Jew does not budge. Ilis hand keeps she was his heaven-decreed bride. But, thing. The Lord's mercy may restore
Keep your home beautified and
the bevy of girls with their violin stroking his beard without making the , Of course, the dress could not as yet you to perfect health."
inviting with plants and bouquets.
bows.
"The doctors said if I found a hus-
slightest move in response to the plea.' evoke anything deeper. When his
It doesn't cost near as much as it's
"Move on, girls, no dancing just Ile site there just as before, with his father called him in, he was sure the band who would be kind to me, I would
worth, when you deal with us.
•
body rigid, without raising his eyes I match was to be won or lost by his regain my normal, healthy heart."
now; bide your time."
Our delivery system covers the
Ile sat in silence. Her words cut
city.
The mother of the bride stands bent or moving his head, his mouth tightly !decision, and no his heart beats began
into his heart with the sharp sting of
over the weeping form of her dough- shut, • to quicken.
"David, do you want to marry on a love. There was so much soft, sooth-
From time to time one of the bride's
his ing sweetness in her voice that he felt
dowry?'
relatives pokes her head through the three-hundred-ruble
quite overcome with emotion, and
doorway, speaking into the rom.
father asked.
231 Gr•tiot Avenue
"Well, family, the bride and- groom, I "What do you mean? Its four hun- muttered:
Cherry 9171
"Well, what of it, the fact of the
as you know, are having a ling sum- dred; here is the note—the bride's
mer'sday fast." father shoved the note into the groom's
"Family, the guests are breaking I hand.
up; we'll be disgraced before the peo-
"hat's
in a note, a beggarly note? •
W
ple."
is sitting It's nothing; the dowry in spot cash is
"What shall I do? He
there like a brigand"—the father of only three hundred rubles. If you,
Dave, are willing, well, then I won't
the bride pointed at Oiser. "Well, I
object.
have an idea. Let's appeal to the
David's blood rushed to his face. In
groom. If he insists that I don my
long coat outright, take my cane, and the three hundred rubles he sensixl a
deep slur and affront to his worth.
go out into the street to scrape to-
gather a loan of one hundred rubles Why, any common ruck of a fellow
nowadays gets his four, five hundred
for the balance of the dowry, right
and could he, with the phe-
The lowest charge on this class of loans in Detroit.
now, before the marriage service under in cash,
nmenal brains of a talmudic erudite,
the canopy, where my child is waiting o
for the veil, well, then, I will do it, : a real intelligent prodigy assiduously
No Fees or Extras.
I'll do it," the irate father of the conning and pouring over the formid-
bride bursts out. able folios of abtruse lore, could he
pot gas alht or y htshilr e e bouent d e dr e d ? Tmi
The groom will do as I tell him," ,
the most
was Shorty Oiser's curt, unruffled re- and
brilliant matches on the sole ground
ply.
that the dowry didn't soar above the
"No, I must have it from his own
lips; I want him to tell me he won't three hundred mark. And should he
step up to veil the bride until the last now marry with this amount as his
1306 RANDOLPH STREET
one hundred rubles of the dowry are dowry, why he'd tie disgraced before
put down in cash," he insisted. his own friends, the young Jews grac-
Third Floor. Three Doors South of Gratiot.
"Well, you can have it if you must," ing the sanctified study halls of the
d Ginsburg, Vice-Pres.
B
J. E. Ryan, Mgr.
Tracy W. McGregor, Pres.
Shorty Oiser again said, in his un .isynagog. Think of it, a beggarly
ruffled
manner. Rising and coming three-hundred-ruble groom! lie was
Established 1906.
up to the door, he called out: "David, quite ready then and there to take off
his coat and quit together with his
David, just step in."
The groom sat surrounded by the father. But he hesitated to scanda-
lize the young Jews and the guests in
the next room. He kept twirling his
side leeks, raying:
"Father knows better what's good
for me; I depend upon him.
And so the bride's father, confronted
by stern necessity, had to make the
best of a bad bargain, He donned his
long coat, tank his cane, and went out
into the street to scrape up a hundred-
ruble loan for the balance of the
dowry. The bride had to keep on sit-
ting with her hair loosened, waiting
for the groom to veil her, until the
hundred rubles, scraped together in
The— highest type of construction and
silver and copper coins from the
design feature thil handsome bedroom
widely ramified kith and kin of the
suite. Note the distinctive style of each
bride's family, was safely tied up in
piece. It will be a long time before you
the handkerchief of the small-sized,
are ever again offered such a suite at
puny, freebooting, and tongue-tied
such a low price.
specimen of a Jew.
"David, go and veil the bride," said
this undersized son of Abraham, with
the silver coin in the knotted kerchief
in his tight grasp.
At night, when the bridal pair were
alone, the bride swooned in a fit of
nausea. When David had sprinkled
some water on her face and she had
come to herself, she opened her eyes
and looked at him bewildered and
.....
frightened. Her look seemed to beg
him for something. David could not
make out what was wrong with her,
and asked:
Instead of answering, she took his
hand and put it to her heart, whis-
pering in the night hush:
Civil Engineer—For
"I am sick, David."
"What ails you?' he asked in fright.
Her eyes now implored with still
greater intensity.
"My heart!"
Graduate of the University of Michigan.
"Your heart?" he shuddered, as he
moved away from her.
Captain of Engineers During World War.
"Why didn't they tell me anything
Fourteen Years Intimate Participation in
about it?" he asked angrily.
"Father was afraid you wouldn't
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like the match."
"A bride with heart disease," he
muttered to himself.
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Ile kept still for a minute; he did
not know what to do with himself.
Dawn was still afar off, yet it was too
late at night for him to dress and go
out. He sat down on the edge of the
bed.
"I've been duped," he muttered to
himslef."
"I am not to blame. Father told
me to keep quiet, Now you're my hue-
band, you've got to know it, and to I
European Method.
},
told syvoid
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a didn't nay • word. He gazed
at the window in search of a single
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light ray to herald the dawn. He
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thought he would surely go home with
his father in the morning. A bride
with heart disease, why it was out of
the question. It wasn't his fault. He
was trapped. But the rabbi would
grant a divorce at once. He felt with
a sense of pain the slow, snail-like
pace of the night; here he was with •
stranger in the some room, with one
whom from tomorrow on he would
never see again.
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"David, you're angry?" she asked
him.
It is both al Oldsmobile and a General
Ile did not answer her, but thought
This wonderful new sedan, with its hand-
Motors product. What greater value could
It was not her fault that God had
some body by Fisher, is now ready for
punished her.
you possibly hope for or expect? The ac-
your inspection. It's the lowest priced
"Does your heart still ache?" he
ceptance of the new Oldsmobile Six has
asked, without looking her in the face.
six-cylinder sedan in the world, yet it
"A little, she answered in • sub-
been positively overwhelming. You will
gives you the practical comforts of a
dued tone."
want this car for winter days ahead. Visit
"And what do your folks at home
fine closed car such as heater, dome light,
do when you have these spells?"
our showroom without delay.
velure upholstery, etc.
"A cold, wet towel helps."
"Do youf want to have one now?" he
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asked
again, without looking around.
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"Yea, over there are a bowl of
Th•0•5.4. A. C. extruded
water and a towel."
Groping in the dark, David found
Woot arard at 3pmat
Doloslowa Sh
the bowl, wet the towel, and handed it
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her. it over my heart, David."
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"Right
here where my heart it,"
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warm bread. Ile felt • wave of af-
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Woodoanl Ave.
fection for her.
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DAVID
HAIMOVITZ
ALVIN SCHREIBER
"Is there no remedy for heart dis-
ease? One could go to a great medi-
BEN
WILSON
NAT A. COHEN
cal specialist," he said aloud, as if to
himself.
HARRY
GOLDBERG
MOONEY SCHREIBER
"No, I have been to doctors, to great
doctors—they know no remedy."
GEO.
FRIEDMAN
MURRAY SCHREIBER
David at in silence. lie now vis-
ualized p future Intermniable round
of living with an Invalid wife, tied
down to a woman who would always

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