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Europe. it isn't even English, Sam-
my says."
"How much," continued the doc-
After the Show
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tor, with seeming irrelevance, "do
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you need to open • store?"
"Why do you ask?" returned the
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bewildered tailor. "What has that
to do with the book?"
"I'll tell you right away. Just an-
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swer my question."
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"One thousand dollars—at least."
For the Most Delicious
The doctor took out his checkbook.
Chop Suey or Chow Mein
"Here is $1,600 dollars—" he be-
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soul of the Jewish tenement dweller gan.
BOOKS
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But one thing he wished to be en
"Wait—what is this" was the
lightened on.
alarmed query.
"Just this," explained the doctor.
"Why," he asked, "instead of
A Story.
working for someone else, don't you "I collect rare books. Here you have
a
copy
of Sir Isaac Newton's Prin-
do like the others and open up a
To the Rhythmic Tune of
By Abraham Burstein.
ciple, in Latin. Ile was a great scien-
store for yourself?"
Bert Milan and His Band
tist,
and
I am paying you a small
Moskowitz laughed, resignedly.
The little booksnip made a brave
"My friend," he replied, "for price for his book. Urn getting the
showing among the dingy clothing everything one needs capital. As better of the bargain. What do you
NO COVER CHARGE
and grocery stores that were its much as I suffer, as much as I work, say?"
street-long neighbors. Its window I spend every penny on my children.
By now Sammy had sat up. The
display of brightly-jacketed books Can you save $1,000 that way?"
rest of the family stood about in
Situisted Directly Opposite
shone like a lone star in encircling
The doctor was silent. Ile glanced open-mouthed excitement. Gordon,
Book.Cadillac Hotel at
darkness. One spot of culture seemed once more at the studious family, examining the volume, assured them
to gleam in the dusk of the ignorance bade them adieu and departed with that the doctor had been correct and
associated with tenement homes and Moses Gordon.
truthful. The check was signed and
219 MICHIGAN AVENUE
crowded streets.
During the ensuing week Dr. Kel- placed in the trembling hands of the
Horace Kellerman, physician, self- lerman pondered on this manifesta- father.
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Aisignatrd dilletante, and lover of tion of the Jewish spirit of learning.
"I remember," said Dr. Kellerman,
rare old books, was paying his bi- A Jew himself, only now had he seen "one thing you said to me when I
weekly call to the bookshop. At first the devotion of the old-fashioned was here last week. 'Our family do
having gazed disapprovingly at his family to the Torah. He wondered not sell books. They are as neces-
environs, he had now become callous
whether it might be possible for him sary as food.' For you, Mr. Mosko-
to the desensitizing dinginess about to help them, but dismissed the witz, they are food. Good luck to
' him. Ile waited at the door until thought when he considered that you in your new shop. . . . Come
l the proprietor, Moses Gordon, deigned money—the only thing he could of- on, Mr. Gordon, it's growing late."—
to lift his head from his supper table fer—would hardly be acceptable to From the Forum.
in the rear. This meal, though it the tailor who had been a yeshibah
consisted of rye bread, sometimes a
bochur.
herring, and milk, was a sacred rite,
Then he drove again to Moses Gor- Insurance Rates Lower When
I not to be interrupted by the best or don's shop. This time the propiretor,
Homes Built With Fire-
nue:t insistent of customers.
on seeing him, rose with an unusual
"How do you do, doctor?" asked
proof Materials.
eagerness.
Moses, nodding. "Go right ahead and
"Oh, doctor—hello!" he exclaimed .
look around." His head was again "Quick—you remember the Mosko -
The prospective builder should con-
turned indifferently away.
witz family? Their Sammy is sick
The doctor, conscious that the ap- and they can't afford a physician. sult his insurance company before he
I
begins
to build, in the opinion of a
parently never-touched shelves were Please do me a favor and take care
,
always receiving accessions, walked of him. It will be only for a min- leading Detroit insurance man
Charles D. Livingston, general agent
about through the dusty rows. The
ute!"
of
Royal
Exchange
Assurance
of
bookseller had learned the importance
"Of course," assented the doctor.
of making the purchaser believe that "No physician asks pay from the very London.
Strictly fireproof construction with
he could delve treasures out of biblio-
poor. Come!"
metal lumber for the interior carries
thetic obscurity. If at any time he
They entered the poor tenement a very low rate, while masonry con-
purchased, in some library sold to without knocking. The mother, smil-
him, a really valuable volume, the ing anxiously, ushered them into a struction, with lumber as interior fin-
ish, comes next, with frame, stucco,
seemingly apathetic merchant would
containing a bed, a cot and a etc., higl er, he said.
be sufficiently learned to offer it to room
chest of drawers. On the rickety
This insurance man claimed that
some well-known collector.
bed lay Sammy, pale and flushed in
the cost of insurance alone would
Dr. Kellrman, though himself a
turn.
have
a bearing on the slightly in-
collector, still preferred to hope that
Dr. Kellerman, bending over the creased cost of the initial construc-
I volumes of great value might be dis- lad. examined him swiftly.
tion, between frame and masonry.
covered in the recesses of this out
"No diphtheria," he said. "Pulse a
"The way we figure it out is like
of the way shop. Often he found little irregular—excitement, perhaps.
this," he said. "On a frame house
purchased at
which
he
books,
rare
Temperature high. Tonsilitis and a standing alone, the rate is fixed for
lees then the estimated worth, but touch of bronchitis. I'll give him a
three years. When it comes time for
in a year or two of browsing he had prescription."
the renewal of the policy and we find
pounced upon nothing that might be
At the last word the father, who
called priceless. After all, he pon- had quietly entered the room, beck- that there is another frame house
dered, he could not expect a store oned hopelessly to Gordon. The doc- alongside of the original one, the rate
is increased because of the increased
catering, presumably, to the people
tor noted the gesture.
hazard, and each additional adjoining
of the neighborhood to be distin-
"Don't worry about the medicine, "
guished for its remarable collection he assured them. "I'll get it." As fame house causes another increase
At this thought he interrupted the he touched the bed again it shook 'in the rate
"A house built of masonry reduces
bookseller's after-meal revery with a
tipsily.
the hazard, protects the adjacent
quick query.
"This is no bed for an invaid," he proeelt y and enjoys a lower rate.
"How is it," he asked, "that you declared. "Have you got anything
"Another feature which appeals to
opened a book store here, where no- to put under that short leg? Bring
the insurance man is the fact that
body reads?"
one of those books."
permanent construction has a better
Gordon looked at him uncompre-
"But," hesitated the father, "they loan value, the banks going further
hendingly.
are Hebrew books."
with loans of that kind, the owner
"Nobody reads?" he marvelled.
"Then find something else."
is better protected and so are we, for
"Why, our libraries have the biggest
"Wait, papa," murmured Sammy if the interior of the place does burn,
circulation in the city! The Jews here "There's a little old book on that pile
a large part of it, the walls, remains
are as much people of the book as
in the corner. Use that."
and it can be rebuilt at a much less
anywhere else."
"The English book?" inquired Mr. cost, while in the case of a frame
"You'd hardly think so," spoke the
Moskowitz.
building, there is little left but the
doctor. "I don't know much about
"It's Latin!" proudly explained ashes and the insurance company has
the Jews today—you see, I wasn't
Sammy. "I saw it!"
to pay the entire loss."
brought up that way. But this is
The book was lifted from the cor-
such a poor benighted tenement dis-
Id slip
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trict!"
der the bedpost, however, the doctor's
Gordon, for answer, beckoned to a
bibliophiliac habits came into play
BAGDAD.—(J. T. A.)—A system
lad bouncing -a ball against a blank and he took the volume into his hand.
wall opposite.
The astonished father saw him halt of voluntary srevice in the Mesopota-
"Do you see that boy?' he said. and straighten up. He waited while mian army has been ordered by a
"That's Sammy Moskowitz. His fa- the doctor, his eyes bent avidly on Royal Decree. All persons between the
Pres. sod Gen. MV.
ther lives in three rooms with three the title page, examined his find. age of IR and 30 are eligible for en-
Ch.. W. Bennet. VI.
children, and he works for a tailor 12 Then the physician turned again to rollment and the duration of the serv-
hours a day. They never seem to
ice
is
two
years.
A
number
of
persons
the anxiously waiting father.
have enough to pay their way, yet
"Do you want to sell this book?" have already enlisted.
the children are being' educated, and
he asked.
The sun will set without thy assist-
the father still reads and studies."
"Sell it?" deprecated Moskowitz.
"Remarkable," agreed the doctor . "It's only an old book. We had it in ance.
"But what can they study?"
"Everything! The children go to
Hebrew school and to the public
schools. The father was an old ye-
Rhihsh bochur. They aren't an iso-
lated case, either."
Dr. Kellerman was becoming inter-
ested.
"I didn't know," he declared, "such
things happened. I'm out of touch
with the Jews of this neighborhood.
It ought to be interesting to see the
people you speak of."
"Slumming, eh?" smiled Gordon.
"Well, I'll take you on a different
kind of slumming trip. When you're
through here, we'll close up for a
few minutes and drop in on the Mos-
kowitz family."
The doctor's remark had been
taken up with surprising suddenness.
Though without real relish for the
proffered visit, he consented to ac-1
company the bookseller.
Sammy had preceded the two men
'homeward. When, after books had
been examined and purchased, and
I no other customer appeared in the
offing, they had progressed to the rear
flat occupied by the poor tailor's tam-
. ily, it was already 7 :30. Gordon,
Five-Room Frame Bungalow
Brick Veneer Four-Flat
Six Brick Stores
having knocked, walked in familiarly.
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"Don't disturb yourselves!" he at
once requested. "I just came in with
my friend Dr. Kellerman on the way
Two-Family Terrace
to get some new books."
Double Frame, 16 Rooms
"Sit down," said Mr. Moskowitz,
I
amiably, in Yiddish. "We're busy
Building Site
, just now."
Building Site
The doctor, however, was already
23 Apartment Building
gazing in pleased astonishment at the
family. Only the mother was on her
2014
feet. The father sat over a large
Talmudical treatise. One older lad did
not trouble to look us from a large
red book, apparently • chemistry; lit-
A,deposit of 10% in cash or certified check required on any of
I tie Sammy held an algebra, and the
these properties at the time and place of sale. Balance of down
single daughter read a soberly bound
story book. His eye, shifting to a cor-
payment in 10 days.
ner, met an old bookcase, stuffed
solidly with brown volumes of vary-
This is the first of a series of auction sales to be held at the
ing sizes.
The lather suddenly closed his Ge-
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mara.
, "Excuse me, Mr. Gordon," he said.
"I was in the middle of a Tosephoth.
Excuse me, doctor—you see, we must
all study That's my chief pleasure in
life."
"It must he a hard struggle." Dr
' Kellerman was expressing his first
I thought on the family's situation.
i "Very hard," murmured Mr. Mo -
I kowits. "I work all day and part of
the night for just enough to eat. I
was a student. though, once, and I
. want my children to learn."
"You have a large collection of
books," commented the doctor. "How
can you afford them?"
"Those? They were my father's,
most of them. And nearly all are
Hebrew and Talmudic books."
"Couldn't you sell some of those
you don't need? That might help
you."
"Sell? Our family do not sell
books. They are as necessary so
food."
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