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mother, the kicker from behind, the did not for nothing abandon the
rapt use of his kicking,' and tweak-
teller of tales!
ings ! "Shmul, du this!" Feivel
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
So Shmul stole threepence! Under-
Van Id say softly, looking at him with
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stand me. I do not in any way a si gnificant eye. Shmul, trembling
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exonerate Shmul. Not even to buy woo Id rise and obey. "Shmul, give
f poetry. . Not even to help a blind me your share of kuggel or . . . "
somewhat illiterate assortinant o
Shmul is now In a bank. Ile is
there
articles. Fans, toy engines, back cripple in the street..
invi ted Pelee! peremptorily. Was it
the most respected senior cashier in
combs, cigarettes, toothpaste, texts is another consideration. What can p05 sible that Shmul was demurring?
a bank of almost painfully upright
the
ghost
of
Longfellow
have
thought
Ind
fire-screens
figured
largely.
There
eel lifted his eyebrows. Was
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standing. list that is not all. Ile is were seven kaddish candles and, In of the situation? I can't get the Pei
the honorary treasurer of no less an their season, candles of Chanukah for image of the affronted, aggrieved poet the re still a hesitation perceptible?
G ank-good!" said Feivel, disguising
Favors, Decorations for II•n-
institution than the United Syne• the especial benefit of their Jewish out of my mind. I state the blunt
the consonants of revelation from
gogue. I can give you no better clientele. It was only one dusty and feet. Shrnul stole threepence.
quet• and Parties. Complete
ste prnother, but quite effectively turn-
testimony to that exemplary upright-
line of Party Mite, Novelties,
inconspicuous corner that contained a This then was how he did it. Every ing the screw upon Shmul. Yes, it
ness which our whole neighborhood
feeble assortment of books and the Monday morning he was given three- wa s very clever of Feivel to conceal
Serpentine, Confetti and Bal-
finds in Shmul. And that is the para-
week's comic papers—hilarious pro- 'once to bank with Miss l'helps at the full implication of the word. It
dox, I would have you understand.
loons, etc., at very attractive
ductions in yellow and blue and red the Savings Banks in Lungton Ele- we uldn't do at all to let stepmother
From the story I am about to relate
prices.
paint, which always refused to coin- tuentary school. If, darkly ruminated km ay too soon. . . .
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of his earliest years you would have
tide with its allotted channels. Shmul, if only instead of banking that
tarely was this clouded threat in-
anticipated the development of Shmul
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Then there came the slay on which threepence. . . • Several Mondays eft ectual. But if ever some spirit
into some sort of a gentleman burglar,
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brazen contumacy possessed
the series of "Penny Reading from passed before he dared commit the of
with a polite leaning towards sonnets
the Poets" made their appearance. felony. Then at last the morning Sh maul, "bankbook!" pronounced Fel-
and madrigals.
And Messrs. Squilchins-the-Booksel- came. With such stammerings and vel , with painful clarity of con-
It all happened long ago—in the
tars were kind enough to expose gratis blushings Shmul re-ported to Miss so nant and prolonged atriculation of
time when you bought "Penny Read-
liable. Than it was an ooze of
ing from the Poets" for strictly one two pages each from the work of three Phelps the loss of the bankbook, sy
highly favored poets, by name : Tenny- whereon the weekly threepence was to rror gathered about Shmul's brow.
your
curious
post-
penny. None of
son, Keats and Longfellow. What recorded, that a less short-sighted Th en, like a hunted beast, he would
war alchetny of figures. Marked a
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precisely the psychological process lady would have initiated prompt in- ga ze toward the inmendent horror
Two Sets for $5.00
penny, bought for a penny, and there was in a young gentleman destined for quiries. But "Find it and bring your
of stepmother ; then, lest the hideous
you are. II Won a wistful little man,
of Feivel's utterance
Fee- two threepences next week!" was all si gnifica nee
the
sober
glories
of
the
honorary
was Shmul, who had numbered nine
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retaryship of the United Synagogue, Miss Phelps, said, and she went on sh own dawn upon her, he would fly
uncolored little years. Ile was the
I do not pretend to analyze. But the to gather her sequence of contribu- to perform his master's behest. Ah,
OF STORES, APARTMENTS
sort of child you invariably called
e! Never to Mephistopheles was
"little man." Everybody at the United fact remains that the exposed poems Lions crossly.
After school that day, with three- F oust more firmly bounden than)
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Synagogue (where, in later yearn, of Messrs. Tenystion, Keats and Long-
hmul to Feivel. Miserable Shmul!
fellow
fastened
upon
Shmul's
starved
pence
burning
a
hole
in
his
trouser-
S
high
a
dig-
80
he Wan to be exalted to
Prices Upon Application.
air,
like
Adam,
to
so
many
mister-
pocked
and
his
bankbook
burning
a
nity) patted him on the head and, in little heart and mind, and would not
nes because of thy one lapse from
their various dialects of Yiddish, Eng- be shaken free. When Miss Phelps, scar under his shirt (suspended there to
lish or Yiddish-English, called him his teacher, asked him to explain what on a string), Shmul dragged his C race!
WET WASH
Years elapsed. The actual details
"little man." That was part of his a vulgar fraction was, he got all mixed heavy feet into Squilchins-the-Book-
of the bankbook episode dimmed with
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early tragedy. And every day as he up with Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans sellers.
me.
But never slid the potency of
ti
"Please, ma'am," said Shmul, "them
ambled dully along towards the Long- Merci " and declared that the
ROUGH DRY
eivel's incarnation relax its hold.
ton Elementary school and dully squirrel's granary was full and the three poetry Looks what's in your F
Maul's
slavery became automatic.
sort
of
thing
S
window, please!"
ambled home to the protracted monot- harvest's done. The some
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less fear now than the mystic
onies of chayder, Squilchins-the-Book - happened in the Hebraic sanctities of
"Threepence, if you please!" de- t was
nherent
properties of those two
sellers arrested his steps. Booksel- chayder—an unpardonable offense! manded Miss Squilchins.
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you please!" arsh syllables which maintained the
lers as Squilchins were, they sold a And then he addressed his elder sis-
if
"Threepence,
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ter, properly named Rivkah by her echoed a voice balefully in a most m anodes about Shmul's limbs.
Then the great mornniir came.
God-fearing parents, as "Oriana" or malignant whisper into Shmul's ear.
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some sillier heathen wench out of The boy's knees shook. A sweat learken ye that have sinned, and
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wait deliverance from the Hound of
Tennyson's poetry.
stoml on his poetry-pursuant brow.
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leaven or some grim Feivel, more
However, Shmul got his own back. Stepbrother Feivel, one could have
undone but not less inexorable! It
He always took consolation from anticipated it with less experience of 'as merely a gray morning like many
Longfellow and insisted to himself Feivel than poor Shmul had had. Ile ther gray mornings. Nor was the
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that "life was but an empty dream," had the nose, had Feivel, for that equest Feivel made, at the point of
A Happy New Year
on the occasions when Feivel, his step- sort of thing. All that day, since
0
a mere "Gunk-good!" more than usu-
the
announced
loss
of
the
bankbook
brother, tweaked his ear or kicked
the &WSW!
a Ilv outrageous. Yet there was a
him suddenly from behind. And so in school, you could have seen step- sudden rush of blood to Shmul's
brother
Feivel
dogging
Shmul
from
days and weeks passed. And Tenny-
head, like the bursting of flood-
1,cit
son, Keats and Longfellow had no point to point in the traditional man-
gates. Ile lifted himself straight as
other devotee at their penny shrines ner. A knowing grin spread broad a young tree.
over
Feivel'a
large,
pale
face.
than Shmul. None needed them. In
"No!" cried Shmul, his eyes shin-
"Ain't no use hiding nothing!" said
twisted paper fire-screens and painted
ng.
texts announcing that "God is Love," Feivel.
"What?" Feb/el asked, amusedly.
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"Don't tell!" moaned Shmul.
the traffic was uproarious. Tenny-
it little mild correc-
Dealers in
"Not me, sure!" said Feivel friend- Then he added
son fatted in the sun, Longfellow and
tion. "Bankbook!" said he, conscious
Keats became woefully fly-blown. No ly, putting his arm through Shmul's. of the plenitude of power.
Canaries,
Parrots
and Gold-Fish
Out
it
all
came,
the
whole
desolate
sepher torah of mediaeval Spain,
"No, no, 110 !" exclaimed Jack, fists
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enameled, was lovelier than to Schmul ined a more transformed Feivel, all
"Oho!" followed from Feivel ac-
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his desiccating poets. And what pages smiles and winks. And it lasted. companied by a long whistle. Then
remained unrevealed, he mused, in Who would have believed it? No "Say, Shmul, he said, "who stole
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tweaks
of
the
ear,
no
sudden
kick-
the
craters
those pages unexplored as
the bankbook?" Separately, like peb-
Opposite Interurban Station.
of the moon? Ladies whose names ings from behind, a Feivel mild as a bles, the deliberate and tellihle syl-
ewe
lamb.
And
there
were
plans
of
were more sonorous even than the re-
lobes fell. "Say Shmul, who stole 1313040000000000000043000470000000000467-000 00043000000 00, ,00
vealed Oriana? Life redeemed, per- campaign whispered in dark corners. the bankbook?"
aphs, from its "empty dream" some (0, how it all appealed to Feivel! It
Then from Shmul—the grand mo-
magnificent, unconquerable validity? went straight to his heart. Ile was ment of all his days. "Who stole the
(I do but translate into adult language having a fine old time!)
bankbook? I stole the bankbook!
The point was, what was to be
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Shmul's thought.) How could he sail
Mother," said he, "I want to tell
those unchartered seas? In other done with the incriminating bank- you. . . ." Not gloating over his
book?
I
will
not
go
into
all
the
words, what Van it precisely the three
stolen poets, not receiving his trust
poets cost? Threepence! 0, but what plans and counter plans. It was as honorary treasurer for the United
We extend our sincere wishes on this momentous occasion to
an unattainable sum! Who could con- obvious it must be got out of the Synagogue, was Shmul lovelier than
our friends and patrons and to the Jewish Community of Detroit, ■
ceive the pyramidal accumulation of way. At last, late one night, the now.
such wealth? What was more, who lads tore it into eight pieces. Each
And Feivel? There was Feivel,
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
could endure it, while the knight-at- took four of them and dropped them ashen-gray, crumbled in his corner.
sewer, like dark
arms remained no haggard and no separately into a
There was Feivel, shuffling his heavy
woebegone, and all for want of a Italian conspirators. Feivel squirmed feet into the outer darkness of his
penny to redeem hint. (Into such with glee and a little of the load overthrow. Nor is all ended with
terms finally did the thought trans- that had settled upon Shmul's heart Shmul. An hour later you see him
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mute itself.) Threepence? No hope, lifted. The unmentionable thing, any- making a tire of chips and news-
alas, of anything from his stepmother! how, was out of the way. And now papers. When the sacrificial fire is
As for his father, he was twisted it was back to Tennyson's Mariana blazing at last, from the recesses
round stepmother's little finger. It . . . and to stand, with Keats, "tip- of his pocket come forth the doomed
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and beloved volumes. Like Patroclus
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But, oh, no, it was not no simple as upon his funeral pyres in the death-
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to that appalling Feivel, the unkindest
all that! Not by any means! Feivel
and
of stepbrothers, fit progeny of such
less Trojan wars beat Keats Over
'
Tennyson and Longfellow.

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their incineration, suddenly Shmul
collapses. You see his eyes stream-
ing and his shoulders shaking with
the sobs of his deliverance.
Yen. I feel, upon reflection, I can
faintly begin to understand now why
Shmul was to develop into a highly
respected cashier in the most unim-
peachable of banks and to abandon
the fair Lady of Poetry for the
honorary treasurship of our local
synagogue.

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nople to Cairo. Those in Cairo, the
last I saw or hope to see, were spe-
cially interesting. As I contem-
plated their richness of beauty and
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historical association and observed
the many worshippers passing in and
out at different hours of the day from
early morn till late at eve I remarked
to a native friend: What is the moral!
worth of this abundant worship, what'
the moral influence of these many
mosques? "I will show you," he said,
with an amused smile. Nor did he
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have far to go. Near the mosque, near
several of them, the greatest of them,
within a stone's throw, were ram-
pant conditions of flaunting immoral-
ity that cannot be described and are I
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only believable upon the representa-
tion of unquestionable authority. And
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vided for natives and not like much
of the pollution of I'aris which is vu
purveyed for the pruriency of Ameri-
cans of fat purses and lean principles. 1=t0rm0= cio=ronoz==coraoc
Nor was what I saw near the mosque
exceptional. Commonly and conspicu-
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ously the womanhood of Moham-
medan countries is more or less in
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subjection, a plaything of men. The
influence of the mosque was evident. ,„
It was predominantly a place for w
worship. Worthship seemed to be
foreign to its purview and purpose.
Religion there had no relation to
righteousness.
I lost my admiration for the mag-
nificence and beauty of those famed 0
tunes and experienced a moral nausea
at the thought of such a perversion •
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go to church or synagogue on Satur-
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the week seem to have no relation to
the inspirations and inaistencies of
their denominational faith as pro-
pounded at religious service and pro-
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fessed at other times. The religious
incongruities I beheld in the Orient I
are bad. Let Occidentals not boast, ;
however. We are still too inconsis-
tent religiously from the standpoint
of our environment and our culture.,
"We Delieer"
Like the mosque, the synagogue and
the church are often near us in pride
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and place but distant in propelling
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