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WITH THE HELP OF THE MATZOTH

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jesting; tonight he found little to Rumania?"
say.
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"Blue tonight, Mr. Appel?" asked twit on a new interest. "I came '
By ISABELLA R. HESS
Billy's mother.
fr in Rumania, too. Twenty years
"Ni," he answered quietly.
I ago, when I was only a young
"Maybe you've got a pain in y air bey.'
Each year it is the same thing," matzoth were matzoth. And Mat-
complained Mrs. Apfelbaum. "No zoth being an unknown delicacy to stomach?" queried Billy. A pain
"So?" said Mrs. Apfelbaum.
matter how much the matzoth coat, his bosom friend, Billy Carroll, in one's stomach was the most un- "Did Louis tell men what your
you must give them away. One matzoth should be given him! And derstandable human ailment t name is?"
gives Nome to the teacher, one must so L Buis carried off to school three Billy.
Louis had not observed that for-
"So," he smiled back at him.
mality, but the guest supplied the
send then, to the neghbors, and now of the flat hard crackers, wrapped
"Maybe
it
s
a
pain
in
your
heart,"
omission.
comes Louis and wants I should up carefully by his mother's work-
"Aly name is Appel,II
is not only a thirst-quenching beverage but
joked one of the boarders.
Philip Appel."
give them to his Billy Carroll." worn fingers.
"Maybe," he answered slowly
"So"' Mr. Apfelbaum laid his
a pure food drink, composed of pure milk,
"Only tw, or three," insisted
Louis could hardly wait until he
pipe down and looked with new in-
Louis tearfully." Alveys Billy he ..to^t to school, and to Billy, who re- "it is.'
real chocolate and Thompson's double
Billy went up to Mr. Appel'. terest at his guest. "It isn't that
gives me ram of what he's got. Al- --rived the parcel with many in-
rani
afterwards,
to
visit.
Billy
you
are a Jew?"
malted milk.
ways in school we are by each toLetions not to shake it, or to
"I am a Jew," was the quiet an-
other. And what's two matzoth!" knock it, as it contained something always did; he was quite as much us
helm
there
as
in
his
mother's
little
saver.
..,
"What's two matzoth!" echoed eiy fragile; he was also instructed
"Now, I'll gut some posachdig ;I
his mother. You think we pick Is to the proper method of eating sitting room down stairs. There
al cakes," answered Mrs. Apfelhaum,
.
them up out of the street? Don't it—to butter it well and if then it were always a few magazines--al-

It is deliciously refreshing for hot days;
o s
I your father work hard enough in be found too dry, to soak it n most always a piece of candy—al- as if the visitor's reply had opened
ways a frolic. But tonight, his some mysteriously hidden spring of
his shop to pay for them? What's !Mir - •
nourishing and sustaining for cold ones.e
/
1 .•
host didn't seem in his usual jolly hospitality.
two matz ith! And matzoth fifteen
o
"We mostly have tea at our mood. Instead, he sat in his easy
1 0
"About twenty years ago, re-
To
serve
hot
place
bottom
of
bottle
cents a pound!"
:vmse," said Billy.
i
chair beside the reading lamp, and marked her husband, "My nephew
e e
"Give him two, and I won't eat
Louis was a bit doubtful as to the looked gloomily into space. Billy came to America, from our town. ■
in
hot
water
and
raise
to
desired
tem-
/
■ e
any," Louis pleaded. "I don't want tea, he said—still, he had no doubt perched himself upon the arm of Almost his name was like yours—
any breakfast any way. Mill it's but that tea was vastly better than the chair and waited—but in vain. Philip Apfelbaum."
perature.
e
nothing.
So
Billy
carefully
carried
e
A
late, too."
"What you thinking about?" he
The visitor was standing now,
e
"You won't eat any!" Mrs. Ante). the matzoth home to his over- ventured finally.
his blue eyes peering anxiously at
haunt's voice became shrill with an- worked mother, who kept boarders
,
"Matzoth," the man replied his host, his cheeks an unwonted
e
e
xiety. "Because I give away a few to help out the meager family in- briefly, red. "I came to the South twenty
e
0
aumnamtemanamemnamini
matzoth, you are to go without! come.
"Matzoth!" echoed Billy. "Mat- years ago, from Rumania. I chang-
Are you so fat and so strong?" She
The matzoth, even to the gay zoth! What you thinking about ed my name from Apfelbaumto e
looked down at the slender face, the paper napkin about them, reposed matzoth?" Appel, upon the advice of friends,
e
r
BUY IT BY THE BOTTI,E!
O
deep-set eyes, the pale akin—and 'oeside Billy's plate at the dinner
ORDER IT BY TilE CASE!
"What am I thinking about mat- when I had been here a few years.
her heart was troubled. "Nu, take table; and to each as he came in, zoth?" Mr. Appel laughed shortly. My father was Jacob Apfelbaum-
your Billy Carroll the matzoth! A he explained what it was. Oh, "Well, Billy, I'll tell you. I'm my uncle was Moses Apfelbaum. 0
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few matzoth more er less won't Louis had taught his lemon well thinking that about twenty or so ale—"
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,
"You see," said Billy, "it's mat- years ago I ate nothing but matzoth
kill us. Quick, I'll do them up while
But what he intended to say fur- 0
you eat." And it was three that zoth., and all that's in it is flour and for eight days—and I'm thinking ther, his host did not wait to hear. 0 1
she wrapped in a flowery napkin, water. You eat 'em for a week— of the father and mother that never Instead he threw his arms wildly
even tying the parcel with a red that is, f you're a Jew, you do. It's dreamed I'd eat any thing but mat- about the young man's shoulders,
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string she had laid aside for some all because when Moses was taking zoth—and I'm wondering what and a sob crept into his throt as he es
,e
the Jews out of Egypt—oh, about a ever made me forget all these half cried, "Philip! For nothing e
such specal purpose.
;
Fourteen-year-old Celia shrugged million years ago—they didn't have years! Billy, I guess I'm a pretty you aint got that face! Don't you
i
e
her shoulders as she watched. "I time to bake no bread and they poor specimen!"
know me, your uncle Moses?"
,,r
don't ask for any, Ma! I wouldn't slung the dough over their should-
Then Billy, quick to defend his
Mrs. Apfelbaum heard, from the ,.1
r I
want to give away such heavy, ers and baked big flat crackers in friend against himself, protested. other room, and came running in.
square ones! Why can't we have the sun. Louis Apfelbaum gave "You're the best ever! Everybody he saw their guest and her husband
the thin round ones like all the :hem to me—he's my pal in school." likes you a lot. And Louis would with their arms about each other,
And they all nodded and smiled, too. Say, you know Louis. Once both of them crying. So she put
girls have? Then"—
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"Then," indignantly declared her and went on. Only one lingered, he was here, on a Sunday. I show- her arms about both, and cried ■ •• ■ •• ■ •••••••WAVs,
mother, "I'd feel like a goy! All Philip Appel, always a willing lis- ed you to hint. It was Louis what too. And Louis and Billy, not half
my life I have square matzohs- tener to Billy's chatter, tonight, he gave me the matzoth. And say, he understanding any thing about it,
now I should have round ones! Any lent even a closer attention. Billly says his mother makes great cake but realizing that their elders were .1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111,
one for whom these matzoth aren't thought there was a wistful gleam out of matzoth, and all kinds of unwontedly happy, danced about CII I I N11111111111111e11112111N111111111112111111111111E1111111111111111111i11111111111111;IL1151111111111i1191111411111111M111111111I11013101111111111MINIMIWIMINISIn
good enough is no Jew. Did the in the man's eyes as he glanced at things."
noisily while Celia wept in sym-
6
Children of Israel when they left the plate, and he picked up a mat-
"I know," said the man. "I know pathy with her mother. and whis-
Egypt have such nice thin matzoth, zoth and handed it to him. "Eat just the kind she makes."
pered, "Don't cry, Ma."
I'd like to know? Or were they it." he urged, "it's all right—hon-
"And say, he brung me some new
Then nothing would do but that
glad to eat what they carried on •st! I ate one. Louis does all the kind of candy yesterday, made out they must celebrate at once. Mrs.
time. Maybe you'll like it."
their backs?"
of honey. It was great! I forget Apfelhnum and Celia rushed about
Celia didn't know, she said—and
"Maybe I will," agreed the man, what he called it." Billy knit his and speedily brought forth cake and
then escaping hurriedly from the and took the matzoth to his seat. brows in the effort to remember.
wine and fruit and nuts; and no-
room, flippantly added that she Billy watched him break it into
"Pesach •candy," sad Appel! a body warned the boys not to over-
didn't care. But as to the style of :mall pieces, which he ate thought- little quietly.
eat and so they had a beautiful
the matzoth they ate, she certainly fully, one by one. In fact he seem-
"That's it," the boy said wonder- time, until the clock struck, and
did care. All the girls had the -d to eat little else. Besides, he ing. "I don't see how you know, Billy, with a csaokie half way to his
ther kind—why not the Apfel- ens so quiet! Why, usually he though. Say"— coaxingly—"let's mouth, stopped, horror-stricken
haunts?
s"pt up a steady banter with the take a walk, you and me. Ma won't "Gee!" he gasped, "Nine o'clock!
But Louis drew no distinctiona— boy, who loved his teasing and care. It's only a few blocks away and I got to go to bed at halp past
that Louis lives, and I want to give eight!"
■■ •• L' ■•■ 111.1 1.1 11: WI OK% 11.1 la' III kl Ile I I al MI L\\1 110 OW him his examples. He forgot 'em. "Not tonight, Billy," laughed his
And if he don't have 'em in the friend, happily. "Not tonight! But
morning, the teacher will bawl him I'll make it all right with mother--
out! Come on, ain't no one else to don't be afraid.
go."
And Billy wasn't—he knew it
Indulgent, the man rose. "I would be all right, if the men said
don't swallow the example story, it would be; and certainly his nyth-
I Billy, but I'll walk over with you. er didn't scold at all when she hod
I'd rather do that, any way, than listened to Mr. Appel's story—she
sit here and think. So come along." lust look glad, decided Billy, when
It was always a treat for Billy they had stopped on the way home
to be out after dark; the street and bought her a great box of
lights were so much brighter than sandy, all chocolates, just the kind
they seemed from indoors, and the she liked!
people passing by were always
The Apfelbaums, too, were so
raughing and jolly. Why, it seemed happy, they forgot for a long time
only a moment before they stood to send B uis to bed, until he slid-
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stay up all night because
But Billy had only been in a few we find ourselves a new nephew?"
or Too Large
moments when his head appeared
"A new nephew!" repeated her
out of a window above, and he was husband, puffing forth a cloud of
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been shut as quickly as it had been
"How I talk!" she echoed indig-
opened, and no one heard his voice. nantly. "How you talk! Was he
the ultra smart in
A
moment
later
the
invitation
was
a
man
then?"
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But Louis was too tired to listen
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and in self-defense, he went up.
loudly and remarked. "Say, Ma,
"I called you twice," said Billy. aint it good I took Billy the mat-
"The first time I guess maybe you zoth? You didn't want me to, did
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you, Ma? Only for that maybe he
didn't hear he."
"That's strange," said the man.
wouldn't have brung the man here."
Having come up, nothing would

"Only for that!" His mother
do but that he must come in and shook her head decisively. "It was
meet the Apfelbaums. As Mrs. the Lord—His Name is blessed—
Apfelbaum hospitably remarked. that did it."
"For what should any one stand
But Louis was sleepy and not in-
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outside, when it's nicer inside?" clined to he agreeable.
and Mr. Apfelbaum removed his
"Well, the matzoth helped it, any
pipe from his mouth long enough way," he insisted. And perhaps it
to say, "Sure! Why not?" and was because it was late, and every
Celia said he must sit down in the one was tired. but no one disagreed
plush chair, because it was so much with hint—The Ark.
softer than the others.
So Mr. Appel sat down as di-
rected, and glanced around half
curiously, half wistfully. "This is
a comfortable chair," he said
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children how hard their father
works for what we got. I tell you
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