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THE CHOSEN

You would have said that every-1 quantity of sweets made choice neces-
thing was against Mrs. Levine and i nary, the ugly little boys for his gifts'
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oys whom tached
rsmi do
the fortunes of her toffee-Whop in I —the little br
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e asts to the
Renshaw street, Wrigley. not send on e hoo
Wrigley, in the first place, was of tress, who are never given strawbea
a remote and uncompromisingly Gen- ries by indulgent strangers, who are
tile corner of Doomington, which fact I not chosen to "do recitations" at
deprived Mrs. Levine of the general Sunday School concerts. But the fact
patronage of her race and the espe- I remains that a whole section of Ren-
vial patronage of her relatives. show street mothers, gratified that
Moreover, at the time that Mrs. Le- ' anyone, even a tumbledown old Jew,
the should at last recoenize the virtues
vine bought the concern with
meager money her husband's demise • of their offspring, began to smile
meager
had brought in, she could not distill- the old man as he passn•l them stand-
fondant ing bare-armed and baby-laden at
guish a mint humbug from it
chip, and kali-suckers were is terror their front doors.
A Youthful Defender.
to her and a mystery.
Tommie and Reb Shmul speedily
Ti add to her embarrassment, her I
appearance in Wrigley synchronized develope
nevenopenn d i r fir each other ii warm and
gentle- equal affection. Tommie once saw
fiery throug,
with the
campaign
of a sent
man
who
was being
ryt his friend Jimmy Bloggs InahlIng taut
string
feet- above ground
the elementary schools of the couhnt'u
I iwi
a
few
reach
the
virtues
Of
"Temper-
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its other end to a lump post, the
to
ante." Ile had conceived the brit- , o
IMnt notion that indulgence in sweets , °ago
being to
an abstracted
Reb Shmul.
at trip
that up
moment
shuffling.
on the part of elementary school chi d . down Renshaw street.
wren was a sin precisely anal ogous
Tommie knocked Jimmy Binges,
with alcoholism in their elders and ! h
with cocaine in a more exalted sphere that
ead Reb
no hard
against
lampanost
Shmul
tally the
separated
the

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of society.
hurrying into :Mrs. Le-
h eayens, h e friends b y
If
If hi, lurid hells. Ile carried with vine's shop and hurrying out again

COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON

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By LOUIS GOLDING

By Don C. Seitz.

We are the Race of RaCes

Here Since the world began;
We are the Lord's own chosen
To hear His Word to man.

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We have slaved on the sands of
agypt,
Moulding the bricks without
straw
Bearing Pharaoh's burdens,
Yet gaining from God His law.

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Paterson Bros. Co.

1168 Penobscot Building

We have bowed to the night of
legions
And bent to the lash of Rome;
We have lived the longest of
pe 0 pi es,
Yet never have had a home.

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We have borne the loads of ma
lions,
Though neither a tribe nor elan;
We are the Lord's own chosen
bear His Word to man.

We Wish All Our Jewish Friends a Happy and
Prosperous New Year.

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him. signs manual of his creed, a di- with two dividing sticks of barley-
Situations Among Emigrant. Called
ar'
minikhina pile Ail money'-ho sea, shaped Su g Mrs.
Levine by now had several
Diatres•ing.
like sugar-loaves. Fright rather than'
thrift decked every mantelpiece in customers. Tommie, at least, leVaila'
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Wrigley with a sugar-loaf money-box. spent his Saturday night halfpenny at
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Lugubriously the rare pennies drop- her shop, after long speculation be-
of Mi ss
Itazission
p athetic t o !Inas
ped into those chasms, like lumps of fnge the window. It
of
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ou
consi st
was
T o n s- (Willa Comm asky of
, . Levine exhorting
clay on a coffin, whilst the children nib:nerve
with air
all the eloquence of an am- lewish Wn men, Sirs. I,illian Held and
of Wrigley assured themselves that ride,
hell-flame burned for them on raced- bassanlor pleading fur a royal house, Morris A ssefsk y, director of the Ilias,
ing horizons. Thrift in Renshaw to mention her kindly to his f fiends. ' returning! from II Ila a na.
1 .11 , The investigation made by the com-
street threatened to become a vice ana 'tan PolzzuP lintlaMg P.
' mission established the fact that the
as formidable as ever brandybals or consistently gave it overweight.
began to ye- Jewish emigrants stranded ini Cuba
Rut g o b Shmul only
jujubes. And Mrs. Levine stood pal-
finny behind her counter, becoming copy on important position in the are in a distressing situation. Many
gradually an expert theorist in the destinies of Renshaw street after the of them would gladly return to theta
satisfactroy conclusion of the entire mane lands but are unable to do se,
art of loffee-selling, but a handicap-
means.
Briggs. I personally have never been because of a In, k
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The containsaien established in
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Reb Shmul, Mrs, L e vine's grand- able to get to the bottom of t h e mat-
vana a ri flirt* for these emigrants,
must sant he left out of this ter,
father, must
account—far from it. As he shuf- Mr. and Mrs. Briggs quarreled bit- ripened an empleyment bureau, Ri-
fled in and out of the shop, his silk tarty, that is indisputable. Whether rary, synagogue and classes for in-
Spanish and English.
hat faintly touched with green, his she called him something first or he struction in
frock coat a little undecided at the her, what remark of hers it was he
button-holes, his beard like a white countered with an allegation which'
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banner, his face like an amiable did not mean that but something else
prophet's (if history has record of an all the time, and the precise position
amiable prophet)--he drew excessive occunied in the whole matter by Mrs.
attention to the fact that Mrs. Le- Jenkins' jug of bitters left accidental-
vine's toffee-shop was not as other ly on Mrs. Briggs' doorstep—all this
toffee-shops are; that it was, to put it is impossible now to disentangle.
no fine point on it, a Jewish business, Yet these are the two dominant farts,
and to be left strictly alone, if not First, Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were, and
positively persecuted. always had -been, very much in love
Conceive Mrs. Levine, still pallidly with each other. Second, Mr. Briggs
I ehind her counter there.. . Three and Mrs. Briggs (nee Alice Smith-
times a day Reb Shmul plodded away son) had all the pride and all the oh-
to the tramcar which would take him stinacy of the Wrigley Briggses and
to the nearest albeit distant sync- the Broughton Smithsons respective-
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vogue; three times a day he plodded ly. Which was it to be? Separation
back ; saving on Friday evenings, or union—police court or pints and
when he stayed with Rabbi Yonah to kisses all round?
For a long time the Separatists had
be at hand for the Sabbath services.
it all their own way. The Unionists
The Snow•Ball Attack.
Only a few days after Mrs. Ridley cast around in despair.• Then some•
Old Jew
settled in Wrigley there was a heavy one casually suggested "The
fall of snow. It was an admirable Man!" "The Old Jew Man" was
opportunity for the younger genera- echoed by two dozen despairing
Lion. As Reb Shmul passed down throats and Reb Shmul, possessed of
Renshaw street from his devotions, a slight English vocabulary but,
his silk hat, by uproarious consent, assure you, of much wisdom and
was the universal target. But little more kindliness, was called in.
one of the blithest
Tommie, whose jolly red sweater and The sequel Was
jolly red face were the nucleus of the in the annals of Renshaw street. Mr.
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attack, aimed for his face and never and Mrs. Briggs night have been cele-
missed. brating a silver wedding or a funeral,
Cadillac 4100
When Reb Shmul sat down at to judge from the profusion of Whit-
1019 - 1020 Book Building
he chanted a bread's stout and ham sandwiches. It
length before the fire, -
little hymn of praise in gratitude for disappointed the welded Briggs that
his
four
great-grandchildren,
as ten- Reb Shmul firmly refused their ham
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derly they rubbed his face dry with sandwiches and all refreshments what-
auffsgsgmamg/aPar
-- towels. Even Chemmy, the youngest, soevcr, but when Mrs. Briggs sad-
a, passed the white strands of his beard denly and loudly kissed him, Mrs. Le-
through warm puckered firigers. Mrs. vine was there and thought she would
Levine made him a tumbler of bailing f a nt, R ens h a w street burst into de-
lemon-tea. She had ample time lighted huzzas. Suddenly he became,
,
There were no interruptions from the, not a benign shadow, but warm blood
and flesh that once, lung ago, had
shop.
Two or thre days later the snow been young and loved a woman and
disappeared. As Reb Shmul came out had fathered children. . . .
They no more called him imperson-
Gymnastics, Hydro-Therapy, Massage.
that afternoon, Tommie's red face

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CHERRY 1363

ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS

WE EXTEND OUR SINCERE WISHES TO OUR JEWISH FRIENDS

AND PATRONS FOR A HAPPY AND-PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
SINCE 1913
IN THE SAME LOCATION

We thank you for yotir patronage during the past year and hope
you in the coming one.
we may more fully s

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7746 RUSSELL STREET
Phone Empire 4718

Second door South of Clay Ave.

M. Zimmerman, Prop.

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and red sweater struck his old heart ally "The Old Jew Man!" "Tap of
like a shaft of the sun. Ile dived the morning, Mr. Shmul!" they said.
into a tail pocket and brought out a "Mr. Shmul, do take care of that
handful of caramels. Tommie, sus- there cough!" they adjured. Mrs.
peeling poison, jeered. "Times," he Parkins brought fur him her infal-
lible rough mixture and spent thin
sang, "Juniaeos et tuna ferentes."
Reb Shmul emptied his hand into eventing with a fluttered and flattered
the palms of Billy Golden, who stood Mrs. Levine.
The Arbiter of Renshaw Street.
hard by, then moved away. Billy
Golden, sucking caramels and strok-
Reb Shmul became the arbiter of
ing his stomach with circular appre- Renshaw street destinies, the martin
dative smoothings, annoyed Tommie of its young. His success knew limits
acutely. in no direction, But I have time only
Next 'afternoon Tommie did not re- to recount Renshaw street's most
fuse.
brilliant achievement.
I do not know by what intuition
Mrs. Levine had tactfully demon-
Reb Shmul chose, when a limited strated the obstacle that prevented
Reb Shout's acceptance of their hos-
• nitality. Ham sandwiches they speed-
ily discovered to have been a tragic
mistake. But why could he not drink
tea with Renshaw street? Mrs. Le-
vine informed them. They used the
same crockery and cutlery for all .
meals, whether a a "meaty" or
"milky" nature—impious juxtaposi-
tion! There were other delicacies
they transgressed, too laborious to de-
scribe, but not too laborious for them
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to learn,
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You will not believe it—but before Q It
long Renshaw street, its lessons in oY
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.Judaic dietetics mastered, in all its
cupboards reposed special tea-making
paraphernalia so rigidly kosher in!
their last minutiae that even Reb
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Shmul, than whom Doomington boast-
. ea no more meticulous Jew, drank
tea from the Gentile tables. A 0
triumph you will not consider melo-
dramatic; a triumph, none the less.
whose completeness—for both Reln
Shmul and Renshaw street-1 cannot
exaggerate.
I re-member also . . . but I began
third granddaughter was married how
all masculine Renshaw street trooped D
into the synagogue after Reb Shmul 10
and how automatically each man re. .11
-moved his hat until a horrified beadle *O
t•
informed them that they had commit.
ted a solecism as desperate as the re-
tention of their hats in church. For
the remainder of the proceedings
every eye was glued on Reb Monash.
When he mumbled, Renshaw - street
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mumbled. When he buoyed, Renshaw
street bowed. It was an episode in 0
the League of Races.
I rememer also . . . but I heron
with Mrs. Levine's toffee-shop. No,
there is no toffee-shop in all Wrigley
which does business more tumultuous
than Mrs. Levine's. Particularly
Tommie. . . •

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To all, my best wishes
for a Happy New Year
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F. Tanner, a young Jew, was mayor
of Coldipullo, Ky., from 1919 to
1923. There are only two Jewish
families in the entire county and Mr.
Tanner was elected by a large ma-
jority. Ile served as mayor for four
years with credit to himself and his
constituents. He refused re-election
without opposition. Mr. Tanner's in-

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