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April 10, 1925 - Image 26

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1925-04-10

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^AGE EIGHT

PASSOVER GREETINGS
GUNSBERG'S

or leisure; he did not think of life inl
these terms. Perpetually the sum-
mons of fresh woods and pastures new
summoned him imperiously. Perpetu-
ally he knew that if he surrounded
himself too long with one set of en-
vironments, their intrinsic inferiority
to the minute, unforgettable circum-
stances of his life at Harding would
assert itself with such bitter reproach
that his days would be on intense con-
trition.
For his life, indeed, from the mo-
, went when first he saw fading unre-
strainably from his sight the wharves
of an English port, then the break-
water, then the hills, had become the
seat of conflict. Always he was im-
pelled to fresher hills, to birds whose
cries he had never heard, new flowers,
fantastic men; always, with almost
equal strength, the detail of Moisheh's
house at (larding impressed itself like
searing-irons upon his brain. With
startling clarity he would hear the
clock ticking on the mantel-shelf, see to
the shepherds feeding their insatiable
WOMEN'S WARD IN ROTHSCHILD HOSPITAL
upon those unsubstantiated
The Rothschild Hospital was named •fter Baron Edmond de Rothschild, sheep
meadows. The humped cats would
are part of the Had”sah'
who built this one of the five hospitals which ■
I lick the milk with a quick, clucking
Medical Organisation activities.
- ---- I noise out of the silence of his dreams.
i ir
t Ithoel:Ird
Hubbies
s'l)sf.
st e e trn
shuttle s soundlessly
frameszaatn
about him, the slippers of the zadies,
flapping loose, the bonnets of the hub-
bies queerly dangling their artificial
flowers and cherries. Above all, the
seamed face of the moon looked on hint
with the weary melancholy, the un-
told longing of his mother, year in,
year out, where she stood kneading
flour, or washing breakfast plates at
the scullery sink, destitute of all her
I lads whom she had given to the world T
with so much travail and for so little
reward.
I
So through the years this old con-
flict fought and refought the issue,
but always the original victory was
confirmed the lady of the great world
held him for her own--the mother at ftg
Harding faded into the smoky pall of PEI
the murky Englsih town.

Hadassab Work in Palestine

Passover
Greetings

Plumbing and
Heating Engineers
HART OIL BURNERS

The Agree-Garelik
Company

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At this time of rejoiciti4

we wish you untold happi.

ing and feasting he ever
with you.

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"At home away from home."

The Hotel Goddard

May days of rejoic-

ness.

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(Thirteen Miles Out Michigan Ave.)

The Homestead of
Fish, Frog, Chicken
and Steak Dinners

• • •

Perhaps it was because Yankel Le-1
vine asked little else of God than his
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four limbs and sound lungs ,and free- T
dom to go wherever wind and tide
called—even to the most poor ends of
Cordially invite you to
I the earth—that without effort money
I came to hint, almost without his re-
marking it ,until in early middle-age
RURAL MEDICAL SERVICE
he was established in some comfort.
This service is one of the branches of the Hadassah Medical Organisa- Perhaps also, because like some stal-
tion, which supports, in addition to its medical and hospital work, social wart henchman of the Maccabitean, he L
had so passionate a love of his bodily
service activities throughout Pelastine.
fineness, took a lover's delight in the
grip of his feet among rocks on a
loose slope, that the eternal propitia-
tion of Nemesis was demanded from
Every Evening from 7 to 11:30 P. M.
him. He was riding a young horse
one day along a road below an ent-
MUSIC BY ROLANDS PEACH BLOSSOMS
By LOUIS GOLDING
bankinent. The sudden thunder of an
For Reservations Phone Dearborn 83.
away, thou contest not again. God he I express train terrified the animal.
He had surrendered himself to the
thanked, the shop is prospering. Two Yankel Levine was thrown, and his
McMAHON & SOSSI CO., Props.
arms of the great world. Ile had be-
new machines last week, and we may right thigh was shattered, blood-poi-
came the wanderer again, the Eternal
go on to blouses who knows? Before soning set in, and before long it was
Jew. The lure of the gollus held him
so very long, it's for thee to take it necessary to remove the limb.
tight, of the scattered BabyIons of the
Now, at last his wandering days
up, when the Holy One, blessed be His
world. Spaces of sea and sky crooned
were over. Babylon had had her fill
cradle-songs. henceforth the cruel Name, calls me. Understand, Yankel, of him. However urgent was the call
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no
more
to
say."
and kind lady Adventure commanded
There Moisheh would sit, taking his for strange lands, mere sanity de
his loyalty.
manded that he should silence the
snuff steadily, without another word
"Yankel, my son", his mother said,
voice. Nor, on the other hand, could
they have all gone into the gollus, all to say on the issue. The fire would he immediately make up his mind to
throw long grotesque shadows of the
my sons, one after the other. Go thou
seemed a
two humble cats en the wall behind return to Harding. There
not, too. Thou art the last and the
paltriness of spirit in his return home
them The metal fender and fire -irons,
best of them. Thou knowest how the little brass stool, would gleam now, that the strength of his youth 0
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lonely I'll be. Only thy old father to with a warm home-keeping seductive- was gone and he was a half-dependent
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light the Friday candles for. For ness of their own. Steadily the clock cripple. Had his mother deserved so
whom shall I make strudel ...." Her ticked. Old Moisheh turned the leaves little as this—that to the lady of the
this voice quivered a little; a mist
should offer his manhood and
of his large faded folios, and the worn Road he
came over her eyes. The clock, whose
fingers of his mother played like lit- I strength,
and to her only a one-leg-
.
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O
y allow face was patterned with shep-
p
,
herds and sheep, ticked appealingly , ale' mice with her weld and needles. gs He tried to settle in a little Ameri-
mantel-shelf under the portrait Or she would come in from the soul-1 can town. The smiling, tired light of
on
the
cheap pottery that stood or. nicknack lery, hearing three large plates heaped his mother's eyes haunted him; the
magnificently with fried potatoes and
of Dr. Ilerzl. The little lovers in
old clock ticked unceasingly; the little
roast meat, following them with kug-
ledges held out their arms mutely. A
lovers in cheap pottery held out their
gel or sweet carrot pudding. There
shadow fell ever the well-polished
arms. He determined he could help
were no fried potatoes, no kuggel on
brass of the Saturday wine-trays.
to settle his parents in a little ease
the summit of the hills, thought Yan-
But the voice of the wind and the
for the rest of their lives if his long
By the Pound.
kel; no creplach in the trough of the
tar wash of the seas were too much
absence had net withered their love O
stormy seas. So the dream which had
WET WASH
fur his lad's blood. The wander-fev-
for him—if his father had revoked his
FINISHED
WORK
made of his brothers wandering was-
ROUGH DRY
Demp
er was upon hint, as it had lain im-
O
All Ironed
trels of the gollus, some fever in theI decree.
Flat Work Ironed
memorially upon the homeless children
He returned to England and to
blots' which had broken out afresh and
of his race. Even while his mother
Harding. The town had grown so
No Marking of Clothes.
virulently in their bleed after a little
was talking he could hear the whistle
rapidly that he had some difficulty in
interval of pressing and tailoring in
among the rigging of the mean-daring
finding the neighborhood of his mem-
the dismal streets of Harding, the
ships. Beyond the wall-paper, embel-
ories. The Jewish colony that had
dream from time to time would fade
lished with carnations and blissfully
settled there ,had moved to more com- O
for a while. For in truth if the lure
Mined hands; beyond the crude en-
modious suburbs. Where the shoot
000 largements
of the traveler's road was so insistent
of bobbies and zadies and
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aunts; beyond the kitchen where his and insidious in Yankel's blood, hardly had stood, a public house flaunted its
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mother sat after the hard work of the less was he bound by countless little red and yellow walls. The little street
day, rocking in a creaky chair, he links to his neither, to his home, the xhich had contained Moisheh Levine's
or shop had become an avenue
could hear the surf washing glorious- friendly pageantry of shoal. He felt tail
whre
e drab villas replaced the hud-
• that if he should go at last, he must
ly along the sands, and see the
'led
shops. At the post-office round
go round from chair to clock, from
shaking their heads under the cliffs
the corner, a relic from the earlier
clock to picture and holy book,
like baffled dogs. Old Moisheh Levine,
times,
he learned that the shops had 0
throughout the whole house, and with
his father, would sit mutely in his own
sharp shears snip the innumerable been pulled down 12 years ago. Mr.
corner under his shelf of Talmud and
and
Mrs.
Levine died a couple of years 0
1320 Custer Avenue
tendrils of his being which had en-
the holy Leeks. Ile was a man of few
words. When Yankel had first tenta- twined themselves round these famil-
iar things. His father he loved with
tively broached the idea of going away
We Use Soft Water.
a devotion of whichsthat bearded, sil -
where all his brothers had preceded
ent, almost patriarchal figure made
him, away from the tailor's shop with
SUNDAY SERVICE 9 to 12 A. M.
Passover Greetings.
him feel fairly ashamed. And he re-
all its narrow recurrence of drudger-
With the idea of improving LIBERTY service our drivers will
alized with a curious mixture of de-
O
ies, away front the cramped
call for your work Sunday mornings and deliver it on Mon-
light and dread that when he was
town of Harding, the grimy streets,
day afternoon.
away
from
his
mother,
even
for
a
0
the chimneys, the stuffy shoo', away in
short time, a hunger gnawed at his
to the calling world, old Moisheh Le-
Call Northway 4956, Empire 5599
hones.
had
said,
"Yankel,
if
thou
guest
vine
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one night so vivid a vision came to
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him of stars, and mighty trees strain-
ing in the wind, of waters shouting, of
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the sun rising over lonely, marvellous
Ready-to-Wear.
lands, that sleep fled him. Noe would
Quick Deliveries Any-
sleep return to him, as the nights
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went slipping by into the caves of
where in City.
black weeks. Ile became peak-faced;
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hungry for the realization of dreams.
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give their fear no name; they had
named it too often before.
When Mrs. Levine came down one GI
morning and said with a scared face E
that Yankel had not slept in his bed, a
his spare shirts and socks were gone Gs
from his dresser, and with them the
ruck-sack he had taken with him to
school camps and one or two more 'G€
trifles, Moisheh uttered one slight
word. Bending his head over the
file, after a minute or two, he uttered:
"Our kaddish, who will say it now?"
and went on mechanically with his
breakfast. Big tears came scalding
from the tired eyes of his mother. She
rose from her untasted food when her
husband had finished, and the sound E°
of water splashing among Moisheh
Levine's breakfast plates filled the ,
emptiness of that morning with de-
risive laughter.
• • •

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Babylon and Home Again

Where old fashioned hospitality is dispensed in
such a manner that you are

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Passover

PASSOVER GREETINGS

Greetings

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Contractors and Builders
Find
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Boards, Shiplap, Lath, Shingles, Flooring.
Everything for the Builder.

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FIX UP, PAINT UP, SCREEN UP

KEEP IT UP

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PASSOVER GREETINGS

John E.

Smith
Cut Stone Co.

OIN the Detroit Board of Commerce in its cam-
paign to make Detroit a cleaner and better plaCe

in which to live.

Use scrubbing brush, soap and

water, paint and whitewash, which with some light
and fresh air are deadly enemies to all disease germs.
Clean your front and back yard. Have all rubbish in
proper receptacles so as to help speed removal. Re-
port all violations of Ordinance to the Department of

Health.

`ONO

NATURAL INDIANA LIME STONE

So that, I say, Yankel had surren- ,
tiered himself to the arms of the great
world, to the alien lures of Babylon.
What need is there for me to follow i
his vicissitudes? He had gone to sea
as a cabin-boy, a sallow enough little
creature; a rebutter youth, he smug-
Bled himself ashore in the States, and
worked in a rubber factory. Ile had i
hohoed it to the great golden states of
done odd jobs,
the Middle West, and
about the farms. Ile soon grew tired
of one job, and gave it up for another
It was not that he wanted more money 1!

We Have Furnished Indiana Lime Stone for Some of Detroit's Finest
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