A merica lewisk Perim fix! Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO II DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legs! Chronicle December 24, 1943 IL- LITTLE GRANNY II When they arrived in court, if to gather strength. To her- her kind, small hands. "God will they found themselves in a large have committed help. God will not forget us, my self she said, "I room crowded with many people. (low she slowly entered her clean no crime. What can this mean?" children." Thus she came to be Some sat on benches, others lean- kitchen and took clown an old went Mrs. Berman then picked up her known as "Little Granny." Mrs. Cohen could not now give ed on wooden rails. How different shopping bag from behind the bag and slowly descended a flight it was from the brilliantly illu- door. Her movements were me- of stairs to neighbor Cohen's light to the troubled one. And she did not attempt it. Granny minated synagogue with its blue chanical and labored. They were apartment. When Mrs. Cohen opened the kept mumbling, "For shame, at and yellow walls. Looking around the movements of an old body door, she found a trembling old my age, in court with criminals. the room, Granny's eyes fell upon for the silence and rest of the lady whose eyes betrayed a great But the good Lord will help me. a painting of George Washington. grave. She wondered, "Who can this fine Today was another Friday in inner disturbance. The only clash He will show the way." "Little Granny, it's time to go looking young man be?" Then she a long parade of Fridays, but she had ever known was the one noticed the magistrate sitting be- When her husband was alive that of bargaining with a pushcart to court." "But today is Friday," cried hind a long, wide table. old black bag was down from its owner. The younger woman soon "Mrs. Berman," a court attend- nail long before the sun dispelled learned the reason for the Fri- Grandmother Berman." "Suppose ant shouted. Mrs. Cohen spoke they put me in jail? Shabbas in (lay visit. the night. Life had a different softly. "Little Granny, come now; "I can't make it out," Mrs. Ber- jail. No, I cannot go." meaning then. It had salt and After much effort, the younger don't be frightened, Little Gran- tears and laughter. Friday was a man uttered. "It's nothing, Little ny." The old lady followed Mrs. day of preparations for the Sab- Granny," consoled Mrs. Cohen. woman made plain that it was bath. It was the glorious end to "Don't be frightened. You have necessary to appear in court. Cohen to the proper place. She which one's labors were directed only kept some food on your fire Grandmother protested a great still grasped the paper bag as after the struggles of the week. escape. And that is a small of- deal. Finally she yielded. She said if it were the most precious treas- One lived, as it were, for the fense. You must go to court. But she had something to arrange in See GRANNY—Page 14 Sabbath, that clay of refuge from everything will turn out for the her rooms; she would be ready to Little leave in about ten minutes. yourself, Calm troubles, that day on which one best. Several minutes later, Granny Granny " rested and felt aching limbs. Grandmother Berman raised her met Mrs. Cohen on the stoop of Old Mrs. Berman, known as Little Granny to her neighbors voice. But I have always kept the building. The old lady's head Sincere Chanukah Greetings! was covered with a new white and friends (she never had any food there." It was useless to explain to an silken shawl and she had changed children), was about to leave her rooms, inhabited by her for over old woman that no violation was her old sweater for a dress worn thirty years, when the doorbell too small to escape prosecution. especially for holiday. She held Hammerstein's rang. She wondered, "Who could It was still more difficult to show a paper bag. Mrs. Cohen did not it be?" Friday morning was surely why a habit that had persisted notice this. Today was Friday. Drugs no time fur visitors. for over thirty years was wrong Work had to be done. The floors She shuffled to the door. A tall, in the eyes of the law. What did were as yet not scrubbed. Soon red-faced man in a blue uniform that good soul know about courts the children would be home from Cut-Rate Prescriptions looked down on a woman whose and laws? In Europe she had lived school. Yes, indeed, so much small gray head was shrouded in in a small peasant village. When was still to be done. In her ex- a white shawl. "Are you Mrs. she came to New York with her treme haste she almost carried Berman?" he asked. She did not husband, she continued to "live the old woman to a taxi. The 12501 Linwood, cor Sturtevant understand English, but when she according to the traditions of her pushcart peddlers and chattering heard "Berman" she nodded her people. Grandmother Berman women were very much surprised Townsend 8.6662 little head and a strange light moved, or lived, as it were, in to see "Little Granny" and Mrs. tilled her eyes. She knew him to be her synagogue, on the street pop- Townsend 8.4908 a policeman and wondered what ulated with pushcars, and in her Cohen whiz by in a taxi, with a sky view top, too. and brought him to her apartment. (lark rooms. She heard of Brooklyn and the But she had nothing to fear. She had done no wrong. Nevertheless, Bronx, but never did she board that towering giant caused a a train to visit either place, nevet GREETINGS OF THE SEASON shiver to pass through her old did she put her foot in an auto- mobile or a street car. Yet the shriveled body. He handed her a document; he, entire ghetto knew of her kind- an arm of the law, was perform- ness. Every social institution INTERIOR DECORATING STUDIO ing a duty. That she did not nailed its charity box on her Draperies. Slip Covers, Re-Upholstering, Good Furniture kitchen walls and at the end of know English was no concern of Estimates Freely Given a certain period of time, they his. So he continued: "You agree to appear in court would be filled ready to aid the Good Taste Need Not Be Expensive today for violating a tire depart- poor. Friday afternoons beggars RANDOLPH 4244-4245 1414 FARMER STREET ment regulation. You kept food would come to get their baskets on your fire escape. Be sure to filled with fish and white bread. God had never blessed her with be there." Grandmother began to feel any children, so she had taken upon herself to console the hun- We Are Pleased to Extend to Our Many Jewish faint. She dropped her bag and gry and the weak with food from Friends and Patrons Greetings for a leaned against the dirty wall as By HERMAN BAKER High up from a tenement win- dow, between white curtains, a round, wrinkled face looked out upon a narrow street lined with pushcarts. 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