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since Adam first worried about the earnestly than Elsie on that Friday get her market baskets. But the ba
afternoon just before Purim. Grow- porch was o seim pty. .
crops in Eden.
"Don't worry, Davie," she told the ing reckless, as she considered the
pausing
ogto take off her h
Very Young rabbi. "I know it al- prize at stake, she had trudged shuddering as the clock struck ha
ways rains Friday night when you through the down town open market, past three, the distracted hostess ft
don't want it to, or that hateful danc- basket on arm, picking out the cost- to the telephone. But in spite of I
ing school gives an exhibition and liest vegetables and fruits. Then to pleading, "Try again . . . it's a st,
takes away half your audience, but neighborhood grocer and butcher (he and somebody must answer," Cent
this Friday they'll be sure to come was expensive and had a small stock, continued to return the same sto
because it's Purim. And even if the but a member of the congregation "Sorry; nobody answers the ring.'
Old Man can't preach, people always must be patronized) to deliberate on
"Ile got a telegraph just
chickens for the royal feast. She noon," explained voluable Mrs. Ka
come just to look at him."
"If we could only send him away was turning to ward the door when man when the rabbi's wife called
IT HAPPENED ON PURIM the coffee percolator, a lovely wedding in a good humor," sighed Dave. "You old Mr. Kaufman stopped her.
the grocer's home. "Our son--he
present, still unscratched and shining
know the Old Man prepared me for
"Better leave your basket and I sick all of a sudden and Jake had
after two years' use. The rabbi's wife
A STORY FOR PURIM
college and thought a lot of me once can deliver it with my order. It looks go down state and see him. I
always said bravely, especially when
'cause I used to go to his Sabbath heavy."
going down to keep the store op
her back ached after scrubbing the
School. But he's never got over my
By Elma Ehrlich Levinger.
The basket was heavy. Elsie hated but we don't do much trade tit , .
kitchen floor, that she preferred not
getting in debt in my junior year. to have him prying into it, criticising of the week account of the wome
to have a maid; they always scratched
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(Copyright, 1926, by Elms Ehrlich
Ile's awfully fussy about people liv- her for buying better potatoes and going down to the open markets,
your wedding silver and smashed
Levinger.)
ing within their income. But if we lettuce elsewhere at lower prices. I told Jake just to lock up. No,
your new china. The flat silver serv-
treat him just right ..."
But she had promised to stop at the went off in such a hurry he took
ice, by the way, had been the gift of
This is all about a lady, who wasn't
Elsi sniffed. "I suppose he wants
temple on the way home; the sister- keys to the store with him. Cu
the Mortonville congregation to its
a real lady, for who ever heard of a
me to vamp him and listen to his
hood were having their luncheon guess the boy will deliver the stet
new rabbi two years before; he had
rabbi's wife behaving as she did, and
stories about the Civil War. Well," meeting and although a thousand your home all right.
Ile's milli
graduated into the pulpit and mar-
with a determined nod of her curly
of the feast she prepared for her hus-
guests were to descend on her that slow, 'cause he's new, but I gm, I
ried at the same time. Somehow he
head, "he's only human after all, and evening, she knew she dared not be r e I
band and his guest, just as Queen
l
e
.
had never had the courage to hint to
maybe a good dinner will help just
Esther did in days of old. And it all
absent. So she placed the rest of
the board that the salary they paid
The h a nds of the clock seemed
as much as anything. And I'm going her dinner on the counter. "You're
happened on Purim, when everything
him wasn't at all in keeping with his
move with devilish speed. Elsie
to fix him up a dinner that he'll never
should be topsy-turvy ... and every-
sure it won't be any extra trouble?" about doing what she could with
magnificent silver service; so Mrs.
forget. Even if it puts us in the poor
thing was! Now read the story.
Rabbi did without a maid and per-
"Nu," grudgingly, "I ain't running the missing provisions; by
house afterwards. What do you say
"The Old Man insists upon my ask-
formed miracles with the left-overs
o'clock, having indulged in a
about beginning with a shrimp cock- a delivery auto for the downtown
ing him to preach down here," com-
of her wedding outfit, wondering
markets,
but I'm always glad to spell of hysterics, she dried her
tail?" He doesn't mind shrimps, does
plained the Very Young Rabbi, glanc-
what it would mean to live in Spen-
oblige the rabbi and his family. And and went down the street in
he?"
ing up from his mail one March morn-
cer, a real town with real concerts
of the groceries. Perhaps the Is
"Of course not," shaking out his I got a new delivery boy who's as
ing. "I suppose it'll be a rainy night
and theaters and shops, and a real
cry boy, finding her absent, had
morning paper. "I think he was slow as they make 'em, but I'll see
and we'll have a small attendance, or
salary to allow one to patronize them.
them at one of the neighbors.
brought up in an Orthodox home, but that you get your stuff on time.
something else will happen to put him
Of course, the rabbi wasn't so world-
Up and down the street weld I:
"Oh,
please
do.
No
later
than
two
you wouldn't expect a 'leader of the
in a bad humor, and it'll be all up
ly-minded. He spoke only of a larger
only to receive a polite negativ,
Reform wing' to refuse to stomach o'clock, please!" She wondered as
with me." Ile spoke despairingly.
field of usefulness, a chance to grow
each
house. She dared not horr
shrimps, would you? Only don't tire she spoke how she would ever be
The Old Man was a mighty power in
and express himself. Wondering
since most of the neighbors Won
yourself out cooking for the old boy; ready for a six o'clock dinner. Of
the land and just now desired a young
meanwhile, whether his present in-
to
the
congregation and she did
course, she should have had most of
he won't get me the job, anyhow."
associate to share his most tempting
come could be stretched to cover a
care to be censured for what t
A frown disfigured Elsie's fore- her stuff in the house yesterday, but
pulpit. The Very Young Rabbi had
little more life insurance. He hated head. "If Dave would only believe she never took ice in the winter, since might term her lack of "mom
written to him just the week before to keep worrying about sordid mat-
ment." "The boy must have nue
that since there was this opening in ters like money, but with bills piling in himself just a little," she thought. every cent counted just now. Well, mistake," she would repeat is it
Spencer, he felt that his two years up and what the poets used to call "Anyhow," falling back on her favor- when they were rich and prosperous forced smile on her lips and Taw
of earnest service in Mortonville en- a Little Stranger expected in the ite phrase, "if Dave's morale won't in Spencer . . . All the way to the in her heart, and go to the next
titled him ,etc., etc.; well, just what summer, he was getting a little nerv- win this war, my cooking may." temple she dreamed rosy dreams.
She knew that there was only
Aloud, "I'll have fried chicken, can-
every Very Young Rabbi writes when ous.
There was plenty to do at the sure means of salvation; to hit
ned sweets . . . Dave," with tremen- temple; help prepare the luncheon al-
he wants a better job. And the Old
taxi,
rush to one of the down t
Elsie poured some more cream in dous earnestness, "it's awfully showy though she was not on the commit-
Man had answered him in a charac-
markets, since Kaufman's was
teristic note, promising nothing, but her husband's coffee cup. She knew and effective, but some people don't tee, assist Mrs. Rosen with her wrap- only one in the neighborhood,
offering to occupy the pulpit of his it was wickedly extravagant to use care for it. Would you have arti- per for the hospital, "because you do buy materials for a second din
dear young colleague the following cream, "but we'd feel perfectly pov- choke salad?"
make the loveliest buttonholes," run Dizzily she computed her modest
erty-stricken with condensed milk on
Yes, by all means," murmured the over the janitor's dusting in the rab-
Friday.
lay for the lost meal and was is
"So he can find something wrong the table," she always told her con- Very Young Rabbi, now completely bi's study for the Old Man's inspec- Bed to learn that she had spent
AMERICA'S
science, and I want to keep up lost in the morning paper.
tion that evening. Unfortunately the most ten dollars. She couldn't st
GREATEST SHOE down here in Mortonville and have a Dave's morale." Now she handed him
Queen Esther, preparing the ban- luncheon began late . .. they always
good reason for not recommending
STORE
another ten, with Dave's next mot
me to his board as associate," de- his cup, smiling with an optimism she quet which was to put her kingly hus- did ... and, since it was a "business salary already half spent and host
did not feel, which has been the man- band in a good humor and give Ha- luncheon," was prolonged by various
spaired the Very Young Rabbi.
bills and other horrible "incident
man
indigestoin,
never
toiled
more
His wife glared at him from behind ner of young wives the world over,
"motions," resolutions, recrimina- looming up in the summer exp
tions and the like until after two account. But she just had to
o'clock. The rabbi's wife glanced that devil whom her husband arid
frantically at her wrist watch. "But other young rabbis called the
I can hurry when I get home," she Man.
thought, "and maybe somebody will
And then, having gone up
give me a lift."
down the block on both sides of
Sure enough, fat, good-natured street, she reached the bungalot
A e 1/
Mrs. Stein called to her from the fat, her neighbors on the left. They
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fussy little car that seemed to re- rather nice people, she had thoi
semble its owner: "Won't you come although they always went e
in with us?" and she accepted the in- town for services and sent thyir
vitation with almost tearful grati- dren to the other congregatioil',
tude. She leaned back against the mud Torah. And Mrs. Rabin.
cushions, quite spent with her morn- when Elsie had called, had refuse
ing's shopping and all her anxieties. join the Temple Sisterhood. '
If only Mrs. Corman, chatting at her should give it you should have a
side, wouldn't expect her to answer. ily like mine, five children to
She was so busy running over the for," she answered piously. '
tasks which lay before her: "Peel the just wait and see how much time
potatoes, freshen lettuce, cut up the got for sisterhoods.' Elsie de,
chickens .. ." She came to with a she was willing to wait!
start as Mrs. Stein stopped the 'car
Mrs. Rabinowitz did not con
and waited for her to descend; she the front door, so Elsie' h.
was the youngest of the three, but as against hope, went around to the
the rabbi's wife they always paid her porch. Sure enough, there st,.
special deference.
basket, a basket almost as laro
"But this is'nt my house!" cried the one she had left at Kaufr
Elsie bewildered.
that morning, a basket covered
"Didn't you hear me ask you a white napkin, but, alas, not her
whether you'd stop and call on Mrs. familiar market basket. She I
Frank?" asked Mrs. Stein rather the cover! in the middle of a ne
sharply. "You nodded 'yes,' and, spicy smelling cakes lay a eh
anyhow, I think you ought to stop roasted a beautiful brown.
and see how she's getting on. I
Elsie hesitated for but a ine ,
know how I felt last month and you Up to that moment she had L.
never called me up on the telephone." perfect lady, a respectable r -
Sleek without, raging within, Elsie Now, that lowest of all era
followed the two Good Samaritans. things, a house-thief, she snetU
"It's easy enough for them to pay the cover of her own back
sick calls when they've got maids at carrying her neighbor's mark , '
home preparing their dinners," she ket with her.
fumed. But I haven't done a thing
to
(To be continued next week
but set the table. I have to peel po-
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tatoes, freshen the lettuce, cut up the
chickens . . ." All through the visit
she told the rosary of her tasks,
seemingly absorbed in Mrs. Frank's
recital of her pangs and pains in the
operating room.
"She must have had her mind on
something else," commented that in-
teresting invalid that night to her
husband. "She didn't ask me once
about my operation.
Hardly waiting to thank little
Mrs. Stein "for the lovely ride," Elsie
dashed up the path to her bungalow,
swept through the house like a whirl-
wind to the back porch, frantic to
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