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1 5-' r Hi ?r The I II ST i n w 2 VOLUME IX. NO. 21. Old Jacob Weinberg, prosperous and proud, senior partner in the cloth ing firm of Weinberg Brothers & Co., on Delancey street, and owner of three tenement houses on Avenue A, walked deliberately across the hall way with bowed head and knocked at the kitchen door of his nearest tenant, in quest of a word of human sympa thy. It was early Sunday afternoon, when ordinary mail deliveries are not made, but Weinberg held an opened letter in his hand which a messenger had brought him and which he was reading over for the third time when there came a "come in" in response to his knock. A poignant ache seized his heart as he stopped for a moment inside the doorway. Everything was peaceful in the home of these people. Schwartz himself sat at a table read ing a newspaper with a three-year-old child on his knee. Mrs. Schwartz, a slender little woman, black-haired and still young, was drying dinner dishes and replacing them in the closet above the kitchen stove. Quietly she bade him welcome and then con tinued with her work, as a good wom an should. . . While his own wife, Weinberg considered, had died three years before, and now his only daugh ter had done this disgraceful thing contrary to his plans for her welfare, contrary to his desires. "Schwarts," he said, "that girl of mint was engaged to Goldwasser. You know it, everybody knows it a pub lic engagement, with Tucoim drawn up In the presence of Rabbi Weiss. I don't really believe in all that you know, but she was engaged to him, 11 months. And, now, Goldwasser is a good man, too. A little older, per haps, but only a few years. It is nothing. He is a good business man, a first-rate, high-class, A-number one husband. And now she goes well, look." Schwarts took the letter which Weinberg thrust out to him and, with a little dislike of doing it, glanrei over the two carefully written pares. It was dated that morning, and was from Wclnbergs daughter, Reba. in forming him in a few cold sentences that she had been married and that she and her young husband were leav ing the city. . "I know how you feel about Adolph the letter concluded, "and so I know that you won't forgive us, at least now. But, father dear, there was nothing else for me to do. You see, I love him, father, and I never did and never could care in the least for Goldwasser. ... I won't write where we are until some months later, becuse it would be no use. But dont worry about me. Of course, Adolph has no money, but well get along. To tide us over until Adolph gets established in the city to which we are going we were helped out by t l,Z0PSE,"DX.aTOP i - - -VAX A' FORT WORTH-DALLAS, FRIDAY, A QUIET By I. KAUFMAN, in dear friend of mine, or we could never have done it. And you know we have our love, wich Is something. . . ." "Love tush!" yelled Weinberg, tearing the letter from Schwartz's hand and throwing it on the floor. Then he paced back and forth in the narrow kitchen, gnashing his teeth and muttering furious things, as if this were the first case of a daugh ter' rebellion against her father's plan for her since the beginning of Time. "Bah!" he exploded angrily. "Love! and 'couldn't do otherwise!' I know what that means she didn't want to do otherwise. It's her willfulness. Her mother also was like that. Why I am always punished with women of that sort I do not know." He stopped for a minute and looked around. Except for the rag ing storm within himself everything was utterly peaceful in the Schwartz home. Schwartz's wife had finished with the dishes and was sitting in, a wide-armed chair now sewing at some children's clothes in her lap. The lit Diplomas were awarded to Jacob II. Schiff and Louis Marshall, of New York City, when the honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Law was confer red upon them by the Hebrew Union College at the commencement exer cises held on Saturday, June 6th. Mr. Schiff and Mr. Marshall are the first persons to receive this recognition. The Degree of Doctor of Hebrew Law was created by the College last JACOB n. SCHIFF year to honor those laymen who might render tome distinguished service to the Jewish cause or people. Through hit participation in various move ments of national as well as of local scope, Mr. Schiff has come to be ' known and honored throughout tht country. But he has especially en deared himself to the Jews of the land by his zealous support of Jewish phll anthrophy and of the religion which W L j tTJh,e GgmtSovthwes. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1920. WOMAN the Hebrew Standard tle girl had left her father and was playing with a makeshift doll on the couch in the next room. Schwsrtl continued to listen to his landlord's complaints without comment. "An artist she must have for a husband," Weinberg went on. "And a musician! And she must wander around with him to other cities like " Then, as if crying out against the unfairness of it all, "But why should all this come to me? What sin have I committed? All women are not restless, dissatisfied, willful. Look at your wife. Only a few years older than Reba, and how quiet and calm she sits there and thinks only of her family, as a good woman should There is no running around like a wild one Gods knows where with her." Schwartz nodded, a little uncom fortable, but his wife continued se renely mending the little socks in her hand. "Yes," went on Weinberg, speaking half to himself and half to Schwartz. "That's the kind of a daughter I they love. He has contributed huge sums to Jewish war relief and to char itable enterprises of all kinds, and he has given just as liberally for the ad vancement of Jewish education and re ligion. A gift of $100,000 to the Pen sion Fund for superannuated mnisters is but one of his donations to the cause of Judaiism. Next to Mr. Schiff foremost in the esteem of American Jews is Louis LOUIS MARSHALL Marshall. He has identified himself with many of the great events which are of vital Importance to Jews. At the head of the American Jewish Del egation to tht Peace Conference he persistently upheld the rights of min ority peoples, among them the Jews, before the nations of the world, whose represent tives were assembled In Paris. f.J i f Price Five Cents I hould have had, like your wife. A calm, sensible woman. You are lucky to have such a woman, Schwartz, let me tell you. No foolish talk about love and running away with a musician there. No. A quiet stay-at-home woman, as all good women should be. Am I right?" He addressed the question directly to Mrs. Schwartz, and as he now waited for an answer she raised her eyes. "I think so," she said with a pleas ant smile, "but I had my thoughts on the stitches. One must put one's whole mind on the housework, I find, " though there is but one child in And she turned again to hor- "There, fyeinberg trium phantly. "No .7 VA "to"1 her" He picked up his k) t from the floor, and as he started to go glanced at it and ground his teeth again in a rage. "I would give a new all-wool silk-lined suit to know," he remarked as he left, "who this good friend that helped her run away against her will." For a minute the other two re mained as they were. Then Mrs. Schwartz dropped her sewing and left it lying idly in her lap while she gazed with a vacant, far-off look into empty space. "He has been hurt deeply in his pride," said Schwarts. "Yes," answered his wife, mechan ically. "She is his only child, and he had been planning the Goldwasser mar riage for three years. "Yes," she said again without rais ing her eyes. "It is a hard blow. But I think he will forgive them later. At least I hope so. We can do nothing now, however. It came to him as such a complete surprise." "No," agreed Mrs. Schwarts. "He is a good business man and he thought he was watching his daughter. But he did not see this coming, although she warned him. He did know not her. So blind blind!" Thereupon Mrs. Schwartz stood up suddenly, dropping her sewing to the floor, and going to where her husband sat, she ruffled his hair for a minute and then pressed his head passionate ly to her breast with her hands. "Am I such a calm, quiet house wife?" she asked him. Schwartz did not answer at once. "I wonder," he said then after a few moments, "what 'our landlord would say of my steady and unmoved wife if I told him that she threw away a match with a wealthy jeweler to elope with a worthless one likt mt, only for the lovt of him." "No, no, no," the said In protest against his self-depreciation. Then (Continued on Page IS).