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WITS of a little boy named Joseph,
'.with a kind father and wicked broth-
,ers, who stole his pretty coat and
threw him into a cave. Bennie stud-
, ied the pictures with satisfaction, es-
pecially the one of Joseph sitting in a
big chair with a great many people
fanning him or bowing before him.
I But soon he found that it was growing
too dark to see the pictures distinctly;
the short December day had deepened
into twilight and the room was gray
with misty lights, while the great
essing for the Chanukah lights. An I
hi
yet that evening, as his wife moved stove in the corner cast Beer flicker-
frwism
KONICIAIS
FIRST MAUSOLEUM TO BE ERECTED
IN CLOVER HILL PARK CEMETERY
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
FOR DINING, DANCING
AND THE THEATRE
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Tliithren'o Tomer
THE LIGHT THAT NEVER
FAILED
A CHANUKAH STORY
By Elma Ehrlich Levinger.
PART I
.S'arolvick's
A
TUXEDO SUIT
A
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about putting the supper dishes away ing shadows on the walls.
The boy walked to the window to
there was such a fine color in her
cheeks and her eves were so bright raise the blinds and again scratched
that Mr. Ruth felt he had been mast- a peep hole in the frosty pane. It was
lessly anxious. But II week later she snowing hard, great white flakes that
complained of pains in her chest and whirled and danced like bits of white
throat, and when Bennie wriggled be- torn paper. Bennie shivered a little
cause she dressed him so slowly, she as he hoped his father would be home
allowed him to finish buttoning his soon; he knew daddy was a Ng, strong
shoes for himself. Bennie was than- man, but it was riot good to think of
derstruck; he was so used to having him out there in the darkness. Ile
his mother pet and spoil him that now wondered what time it was, anyhow.
he just sat o nthe edge of the bed with There was a clock in the bedroom and
his mouth wide-open, too astonish,' if mother was awake she would he
1924.1925
"Father," pleaded Bennie, "please
let me light it just once."
Mr. Roth shook his head. "Not to-
day, Bennie. We have no candles
small enough for the menorah; besides
you must not light the candles until even to molest when his mother lay glad to tell him, he reasoned. Ile
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back on the pillows and said she w" stole 'Mlle to her bed. In the uncer-
the first night of Chanukah."
see that her eyes
he
could
.
too
tired
to
dress
him.
When
Mr.
Roth
taro
light
Bennie pouted a little. When one is
were dosed; she seemed to 1,,, as l eep,
a boy of five, living on a farm three value in from milking, she tried to !
laugh away her faintness, but he w a r ' but she made queer sounds like some
miles away from the nearest playmate, laugh
yI
it in hard to wait patiently for a new badly frightened. Ile dressed Bennie one crying and her breast rose and
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privilege. And until this year Ben- as well as he could and awkwardly set fell jerkily beneath the lulankets.
Bennie tiptoed back int I the kitchen
COMpare.
nie's father had not considered him the table for breakfast and heated
old enough to light the Chanukah some coffee. He would not allow Mrs. curled himself up on the sofa and
lights and say the blessing. "blow Roth to get up again, although ! wondered what to du, next. Ht. had
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MARKS LOT ACQUIRED BY SCHREIBER FAMILY
long must I, wait till Chanukah?" he pr
pr o mised not to go for the doctor f been taught not to be afraid of the
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dark, but he did want to go on look-
The family of the late Max and Blum Schreiber, consisting of Nathan,
asked with an impatient wriggle, as she felt any better the next day.
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pla y ing Jack, Alexander and Samuel Schreiber, Lottie Jacobson and Rebecca Feld-
books
The next morning Mrs. Roth tried m at his picture m .
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Mr. Roth replaced the tin Menorah he
had shown him on the top shelf of the to drag herself about the house, but with his Soldiers. Besides, he was be. man, purchased a 60 by 20 foot lot in Clover Hill Park Cemetery and erected I j
cupboard. by noon she was back in bed ago in, ginning to feel hungry and he was on it a mausoleum, the first in the cemetery. The late Max Schreiber, who
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that even sure he wouldn't enjoy the supper of was a well-known man of affairs and interested himself in numerous chari-
"Just two weeks," Mr. Roth consoled looking so white 11,1111 Weak
Ile stood bread and milk and pie father had left table organizations, was killed by bandits who attacked him May 5, 1917,
his son. ''Suppu.se we begin to learn B oha i e was frightened.
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watching his father with great round on the table, if he had to out in the as he was entering his place of business. His wife died Oct. 4, 1920, &Ally
the blessing now?"
omit' remem- Schreiber, a son, died Dec. 12, 1922. All three are buried in Beth David j"
Bennie nodded eagerly and a few eyes as Mr. Roth pulled on his heavy I dark. But ever since he
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moments later his mother, entering the !awls and sweater and moved nervous- . ber both
father liand mothler hail for. c Cemetery.
un
him
to
ght
the
amps. Il
The purchase of the lot in Clover Hill Park Cemetery by the surviving
ly about the kitchen preparing for a b' 1 I
kitchen, smile(' to hear him repeating:
trip to town ten miles away. Bennie wondered whether they would are to- members of the Schreiber family followed the acquisition by the city of a 40.
"Boruch ntton—buiruch atto—boruch
night,
when
he
was
such
a
big
boy,
old
part
of Van Dyke avenue, the approach to the Beth David Cemetery, close
went to the window and scratched a
atto Adonai—and what's the next
enough to light the Chanukah can
Scholnick clothes reflect the good taste of the wear,.
little hole in the frosted pane.
to which the remains of their parents and brother rest.
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word, papa?" She put away the jar
They have become recognized as the ultra in style an.;
"Papa," he announced, "you can't dies.
CARD OF THANKS
of butter she had brought up from the
Whether it be handkerchiefs, neck.
LEARNED
POST
FIESTA
go to town today. There aren't any
-
serviceability.
Suddenly he iumped to his feet.
cellar and stood for a moment behind
wear, shirts or a suit of clothes, you will find our
roads. It's all white and smooth just Hadn't father said. joist before he left,
MAY OCCUR ANNUALLY
Samuel Starks and family wish to
Beanie's chair, her band resting on
selection
a must extensive one.
liken table cloth."
got that tonight was Chanukah! Then he
thank their relatives and fiends for
his curly head.
e
must light his candles right away, for
Mr. Roth's lips tightened. "I've
The fiesta
plann d by Charles !he kindness and sympathy shown
"Ile learns easily, doesn't he?" she
said a little wistfully. "when he is a to make a road, Bennie boy," he said hadn't father explained to him, while Learned Post of the American le- them in their aunt bens vement in
be held in Convention the loss of their wife and mother,
little older, perhaps he can go to lie- simply. "I'll take a shovel along am , learning the blessing, that he must gion, which will
brew school
my way through. " i
.b, kindle the first yellow taper and say Hall Dec. 25 to Jan. 4, may become' Mrs. Ethel Marks.
o like his cousins in New dig
Iknon , in ow window and ii, : t:(!dil 'i! e"n(n
w words just as SOOT) an annual event, according to those
th
She
sighed,
her
eyes
wander-
clouds
the
strange
Hebrew
York."
Pet r ■ oit's Finest Clothes.
rough the window over the vast the white prairies to the grey
its it got dark on the first night of who are arranging the
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HASTINGS AT WINDER
white fields. "It is lonely out here, over head With troubled eyes. "If the Chanukah? Bennie didn't understam is their purpose to lay the foundation'
far
an
annual
undertaking
which,
for
e
away from all Jews," she murmured blizzard only holds; oft a while longer," iust why he wasn't allowed to light
he muttered more to himself than to the lamps, but would be permitted to pageantry and color, may rival the
half to herself.
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Her husband nodded, fur he under- Bennie, "Ill get the doctor back here li ught
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ght the Chanukah candles; nor did Mardi Gras of New Orleans and other
famous shows conceived on a large •
stood how she missed her family and But if WI' are held op in the SII ..
he u consider how worried his parents
"Is mania very sick?" Bennie asked would be to have him striking matches scale.
all the neighbors in the crowded Jew-
ish quarter where she had lived until him, unless they stood near to watch him.
"I'm afraid so." it is fat her pulled It was enough for Wm that it Was Exhibits of Unusual Interest
her marriage. Ile realized, too, how
hard she had faun,' her many farm on his heavy fur mittens. "B" you Chanukah at last and that he knew
Come to Detroit Society of
must
be a very good by and take care the difficult blessing over the light,
duties, how easily she became tired
Arts and Crafts.
these days, when the heavy snow- of her until I get back. Don't worry every word of it. Why, be wouldn't
Illuminated books, rare bindings
drifts scenic,' to shut them off from her and if she doesn't want to talk to have to awaken poor mother to help
the outer world and even the postman you, just let her rest. I'll bring you him, which relieved him a past deal, and wall inscriptions—the work of
the Society of Scribes and Illumin-
failed to appear down the unbroken some candy from town awl," with soil- Its he felt somehow that she would get
road, bringing their daily Jewish pa- den inspiration, "if you are a gaud boy , well quicker if she were allowed to ators of Great Britain—and a collec-
per and an occasional letter in his bag. all afternoon, I'll let you light the sleep as him; as she pleased. But how tion of etchings from the Chicago So-
ciety of Etchers constitute two ex-
But Morris Ruth feared to return to candles and say the blessing b l nig ht u " tout,' he reach the menorah father had
put away on the very top shelf, next hibits which will be shown during
the city, for the doctor had warned
Come in and tell us your heat-
Bennie clopped his hand s gle efull y .
January in the rooms of the Society
him that he would never be well so "Tonight's Chanukah, tonight's Chan-' to the candle sticks fur Shabbas? lien-
ing troubles. Perhaps we have
of Arts and Crafts, 47 Watson street.
long as he worked in a crowded tailor ukah." he chanted shrilly. "Itoruch at-i n i e was not easily daunted. Even if
Bertha Jacques, president of the so-
met and overcome many diffi-
shop. His brother had lent him to Adonai--please hear nit. say the lie couldn't use the menorah the first
ciety and an authority on etchings,
culties just like yours. You will
enough money to travel west to take blessing before you go, papa." But his night, he was determined not to be
will deliver a lecture Jan. 15.
up a claim in Dakota; if he lived on father kissed him hastily and started cheated out of lighting the very first
profit by se-eking our advice.
The object of the Society of Arts
the land just a little while longer, the for the door. "Tonight, when you candle tonight. Ile couldn't reach the
"WE ARE EXPERTS"
and Crafts is to give expression to
government would give it to him for light the candles;' he promised. "'hit box of little yellow tapers that father
art in its varied forms and to enable.
his own and there would he a secure now I must go for the doctor right had put away with the menorah, but
the public to learn and procure the
on the lowest shelf he found just what
home for Bennie and his mother. He away."
work of creative artists of distinc-
haul learned to love his new free life
Feeling strangely frightened, al- he wanted—an old tin candlestick with tion. During the IS years of its ex-
in the great out-of-doors; he felt he though he hardly knew why, Bennie ' a half-burned candle which mother
istence the society has conducted
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9117 HAMILTON AVE.
could not bear to go back to the city followed his father to the bedroom, 's ometimes used when she went down
numerous exhibitions of the work of
again; but he grew worried when he when his mother lay tossing on the into the cellar and didn't care to boths great artists and arranged lectures by
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noticed how pale and thin his wife had bed. Her face was flushed and she er with a lamp.
authorities on and creators of art.
grown, how often she spoke longing- threw her head about the pillow. But
The rooms are open daily from 9 to 5. 0
(To be continued next week.)
ly of home. "When I have a little
she tried to smile when she saw that
more saved, I will send her back for
Bennie drew back afraid.
a visit," he told himself. "Perhaps
"It's just my throat," she managed
she ion take Bennie with her. If only
her cough would be better and she to whisper. "I don't seem to be able
to breathe. But I'll get along all right
would not get so tired!"
On this bleak Deeember afternoon, till you come back," she ended brave
Mr. Roth renewed the same old prom- ly. "Just leave something on the ta-
ise to himself, as he taught Bennie the ble for Bennie's supper."
A few moments later Bennie stood
in the middle of the kitchen, feeling-
very much alone. The rapidly rising
wind howled and blustered until the
frail little house seemed to shake be. I
fore it; then the howling would cease
for a moment and all would grow so
quiet that it seemed as though he were
the only living person in the world.
The little fellow wanted to run to his
mother, as he always did, for comfort
then he remembered that he was a hig I
boy now, big enough to take care of !
mother and the farm, when father was
away. Hr squared his shoulders rest-
lutely as he went to the cupboard for
his box of toys.
There were only a few playthings; !
tin soldiers his aunt Minna had sent !
him fur his birthday, a rubber ball
which had refused to bounce properly
after he lia,1 pricked it with a pin, a
box of dominoes, excellent for build-
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him so often that he knew them by
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