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"Yes," said another girl, who bore
the features of, and in fact was, an
old maid. "Frieda isn't very young
any more. She can't keep on work-
ing much longer; she's sick already
and is always taking cod liver oil and
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medicines, and the doctor has told her
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to stop work and go to the country
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coons. Also Our Famous
for a rest. I'm sure he won't marry
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Tortes.
her if she loses her looks." And she
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concluded with one of her stock
phrases: "I know from experience."
"That's true, too," said Yetta. "I
knew of a case once where the fellow
asked the girl to wait for him. She
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waited six years, until she was about
30, and then he left her and married
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a spring-chicken. It should only hap-
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pen to our worst enemies. The best
man can't be trusted."
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"Why can't Yankele lend him the
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money?" asked she of the anaemic
features. "lie has money to burn
and he doesn't use it anyway. Yes,"
she added, turning to Yankele, "why
don't you lend him the money? He'll
pay it back. You can't take your
money with you when you die; there
won't be a single pocket in your
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tails."
repeating themselves on the Prairies of Russia.
Yankele shrugged his shoulders.
Maybe," he answered, and went into
the house.
"He's a paskoodniak," sneered the
lady of uncertain age. "lie wouldn't
lend you a penny if you'ikdie. Crazy?
I should say not! Not wlen it comes
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to money, anyway."
Came the darkness of the night—
"My little Iamb, my jewel, apple lives of misery with the grave as the the fertile hours in which the seed of
of my eye—how I love you! How goal.
genius sprouts to godly heights and
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beautiful you are! I shall live only
flowers into the sublime music. But
for you; I shall live only to protect
In a large room of a tenement the night has also hours of pain and
you, to watch over you, to shield you house sat a young man of perhaps 25, sorrow, during which the soul of the
from harm. Your glory shall be my and with a lifelesis expression gazed sinner writhes in agony, lashed by the
glory; may all the pain and trouble into space. His fifi4-was long and scourge of remorse; hours of torture
and his eyes \ dull; but at for the lover whose passion is un-
I in store for you be shifted upon my angular
times they sparkled with the light of requited; hours in which great sacri-
shoulders instead, my crown!"
She was seated on the steps leading intelligence. His noce was long and fices are planned.
The hour of great sacrifice had
a fearful looking tenement house . pointed and his cheek-bones high and
GUARANTEED PURE AND FRESH, DELICIOUS I to
A child was in her arms; she was ca- colored with the flush of ill health. come to Yankele! He lay motionless
ressing it, uttering endearing words It remained for the mouth, however, in his bed. His eyes were wide open
as she pinched its fat little cheeks. to betray its owner as an idiot: the and gleamed in the darkness, like
Demand Them of Your Grocer.
She pressed the little body closer to lips were thick and ever parted; the burning coals fanned by the wind.
her and covered its tiny, red face lower lip was always moist and His throat was parched—he longed
with kisses—brutally, passionately. drooped until it touched the chin, for water; but he dared not rise for
The child, in terror, began to cry. She which, in turn, was so ill-defined, that fear of waking the other boarders.
caressed it again, lifted it over her it appeared to be part of the neck. He began to tremble. His lips moved,
head, then down again, till it squealed
The young man was Yankele. Af- but no sound came from them. Then,
ter the death of his mother, some with an effort he whispered: "No,
with joy.
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Passers-by smiled at the beautiful philanthropic neighbors had watched no; I cannot. God help me! I have
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sight of mother love; for what in life over him for a time, but finding that not the strength. Oh, God, bear me
iWitMcWr is so sublime as love! Without its in- his supposed madness was of an en- up!"
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The next morning they found this
fluence the savage animal in us would tirely harmless nature, and what was
WkWeMIWM predominate; without it we would die, more, that he was industrious, they letter on Frieda's table:
ZNF as the parched flower dies for lack of had taught him cigar making, at
rii
Frieda Dear:—When you read
moisture. "I love you," says the which trade he soon became quite
this letter I shall be far away
mother to her child; "I love you," skilled. And so for seven years he
from
you. Do not grieve for me.
says the lover to his betrothed. And had been buffeted about and at last
I am going to a better and hap-
the wisdom of God manifests its pow- had landed up in a Jewish boarding
pier
life.
In the package you
er by this all-healing balsam spread house. He had no other pleasures but
will find some money. Accept it
work and the saving of money. His
upon the woes of life.
from
one
who loved you. My
She was a Jewish mothre — my state of mind had forced all his ener-
wishes must be carried out strict-
mother, your mother, and she was the gies into mechanical channels and he
ly.
It
will
be
a sin to disobey
wife of a factory worker. The child's was considered the fastest as well as
them. I wish you a happy life—
name was Jacob--Yankele she called the most valuable worker in the shop.
a far happier life than I have
him; and Yankele he remained till the
At times the veil which dimmed the
had. To you and all my friends
end of his short and miserable life.
mind of the young man was rent and
I say goodbye. YANKELE.
When Yankele was 3 years old he the brilliant light of reason pierced
fell from his crib and sustained in- the darkness of his existence. Then
Of the hunchback no trace was
juries which made him a hunchback he saw clearly the hopelessness of his
and clouded his mind to the semi-in- life—but not for long; for the merci- found. Through the open window
sane condition. It was only later that ful hand of God replaced the veil of of the tenement came the gleeful
this mental weakness was discovered. obscurity and his mind was again in shouts of the children on their way
to school and the noise of the passing
And ao year after year went by in the shadows.
elevated train. Pushcart peddlers
slow, painful succession. When the
It was a summer evening and Yan-
unfortunate lad reacher his eighth kele read a Yiddish newspaper by the shouting praise of their wares; the
year his father succumbed to the light of the setting sun. The evening squalling of babies; the playing of
white plague and the mothre, to sup- meal had just been concluded and the Musical instruments, it was the sym-
was gone.
port herself and her son, became a other boarders had gone their various phony of life. But • Yankele
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shop worker. Ten years later her ways—all, with the exception of
It is today. On a bench in a down-
poor, overworked and undernourished Frieda, who had remained to wash a
body was laid by the side of her htis- waist for the morrow. She was stand- town park sits a mother and her child.
band. Blasted hopes, blasted lives— ing by the open kitchen window iron- The mother is Frieda. She fondles
the infant. It coos with contentment.
ing. Now and then a puff of wind
She devours it with her eyes, holds it
caressed her sensitive and mobile fea-
ere pas
tures and brought a grateful "Ah" to fast to her breast and whispers
sionately: "My child, my de—you
her lips. The mellow, subdued rays
are
my
all,
my
little
diamond.
Say
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of the departing sun placed a halo
that you are mine; tell me that you
over her head and she sang a mourn-
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ful folk song with great feeling— love me, my little Yankele."
And Yankele kicked his tiny feet
with the feeling of her race.
and answered: "Da, da da, ada da
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"You are sad, Frieda; I can tell it
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by the way you sing," Yankele spoke
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from the adjoining room.
Save half on your fuel bill. Let us put your heating
forever! Is it not true that the world
"How can one feel happy when one
oc.o
is round? And is it not true that
system in proper condition.
lives as I live?" Frieda answered. "It
life is as a circle? It never ends!
is work, eat and sleep—yes, just
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work, eat and sleep all the time. I
"Let us appoint Rabbi Eleazar ben
guess it will continue so till I marry," Azariah," said the people when choos-
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and she smiled.
ing
the head of the college, "for he is
Between Linwood and Twelfth.
"Well, why don't you marry then?"
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wants me," she answered jestingly.

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Yankele laid his paper aside and
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kled; his tell-tale lip no longer
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drooped and he breathed with effort;
he was transformed! lie stood quite
near her and in a tremulous voice be-
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"I want you, Frieda. . . . I want
you because I love you. . . I will
make you happy.. . . Whatever you
say I shall do." lie was tremblnig I
with agitation and tried to take her
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"Why can't it be?" he asked, draw.
ing closer to her. "Say the word and
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it shall be. You will have a home
taken? Resolve to have one
of your own; you will not have to
work any more. I have $900 in the • taken now. Call for appoint-
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In horror, Frieda broke away from
this repulsive, hunchbacked creature
who she now loathed and despised and
escaped into the parlor.
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Some one knocked on the door.
Best Wishes for a
Frieda composed herself; Yankele lit
a
a cigaret to soother his nerves and
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make vain attempts to read the news-
paper. A young man entered and
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Frieda ran to meet him. Soon they
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were conversing in most intimate
fashion and Yankele left the house
with a sinking heart, and the couple
remained alon e.
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It was Sunday afternoon. The
young people of the house were pre-
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synonymous with Coney Island.
Frieda had already left with the
young man who had visited her after
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"Did you hear about Frieda and
her sweetheart?" a short stocky
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young Jewess named Yeti*, with an
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red hair, asked of a group around $ New Year's Greetings
her on the stoop.
No, they had not heard about
Frieda and her sweetheart. They
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them, and she seated herself.
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going to be married soon—maybe this
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