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Doml and Domestic.
.{For the Doraestl News of New York, Philadelphia, Cincin
nati, S in Franci co, and other cities, we arc indebted to
the loc 1 journals of the place.]
CHICAGO.
—Our young men come nobly to the
xanks in the cause of charity. The Zion
Literary Association has contributed
$100 toward the assistance of the yellow
fever sufferers. The money was remit
ted to Mr. H. Frank, to be forwarded
to the right place. ,
—At the office of the Jewish Ad
vance, the following donations for the
.afflicted South have been received in
addition to the sums reported in the pre
vious numbers : William Friedman, $5,
S. Alexander, $1.00, Cash, $1.00, Moses
Lodge No. 18, I. O. F. S. of I., $10.00,
Chillicothe Hebrew Benevolent Society f
$18.50. Total, $35.50, handed over to
Mr. H. Frank.
—The District Grand Lodge No. 6, of
the I, 0. B. B. has issued the following
appeal to its subordinate lodges :
To the Officers and Members of Lodges in our
Brethren We urgently call upon you to
take immediate steps to raise all the money
you can. to relieve our distressed brethren in the
south, who are stricken down with the ravages
■of yellow fever.
In order to arouse your sympathies, we need
not paint to you the terrible scenes prevalent
in the stricken cities, such as New Orleans,
Memphis. Vicksburg. C inton. &c., in all of
whicli places we have B. B lodges, who look to
the order to relieve them in this their hour of
need. We only have to tell you: immediate ac
tion is necessary, as the means have to come
forthwith ere it is too late to do any good. 1 >o
not wait for your regular meetings, but call a
special meeting at once.—This is not a case of
individual suffering, but a national calamity,
hence strain yourselves to your utmost capac
ity and let your appropriations be liberal, aye
extravagant. Remember: You cannot give too.
much. The whole District No. 7. as it were, is
in a state of terrible affliction; the cry comes
to us, Help. Help, and we have answered : Dis
trict No. 6 will respond nobly, even in the same
manner, as we have done in 1873, and with the
same liberality as we have been helped in the
dark days of our distress: the Chicago Fire of
1871.
Brethren, we need say no more: Let the or
der of I. O- B. B. do its whole, unequivocal duty.
Act quickly, send your contributions to the
Grand Lodge Secretary, who, under the direc
tions of the General Committee, will transmit
all moneys to the Grand Lodge of District No.
7, the account thereof to be published in the
annual Repox-ts, same as all other receipts and
disbursements. In B. B. L. & H.
Attest Adoeph Loeb. Sec.
Chas. Kozminski. President.
It. ItEICHMANN, 1st V. P.
D. M. Amberg, id V. P.
, B. H. Skeigman, ( General
Philip Stein, f Committee.
At a special meeting of the General
Committee, it was also resolved to get
up a monster concert in Chicago, under
the auspices of the I. 0. B. B., the pro
ceeds of which, to be sent to the Howard
Associations in the afflicted cities.
Chicago, Sept. 3, 1878.
Editor Jewish Advance:
We have received the following addi
tional subscriptions for the .yellow fever
•sutterers
Zion Literary Society.$100 00
Chicago Lodge, No. 363,1. 0. B. B. 35 00
A. Eichhold. 35 00
A. L. Singer. 15 00
Shoyer & Co. 15 00
Weil Bros. 10 00
D- > ergentheimer & Co. 5 00
W. Salomon . 5 00
Through Jewish Advance . 35 50
Mr. McClanahau. 5 00
I. Lederer. 5 00
Jos. Poliak. 5 00
Abraham Adler. 5 00
L. Sonnenschein. 5 00
N. Gutman . 5 00
Mrs. F. Kohn and Mrs. A. Adler . 3 00
Chas. Haas. 2 00
Proceeds of a fair gotten up by two little
girls, Essie Jadobs and Cora Bensinger
at 338 35th Street. 4 50
Total -.$275 00
Respectfully, Frank Bros
—The “ Sisters of Peace ” announce
an evening festival to be given for the
benefit of the Southern sufferers on the
15th inst., at the Temple Bnai Sholom,
Michigan avenue.
Philadelphia, Pa.—On Monday
afternoon the Mathilde Adler Loeb Dis
pensary, an adjunct of the Jewish Hos
pital at Tabor Station, on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, was dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies. The Dispen
pensary, which is just about reaching
completion, is a gift to the Jewish Hos
pital Association from Mr. and Mrs.
Abraham Adler, father and mother, and
Mr. August B. Loeb, husband of the
late Mathilde Adler Loeb, and is to
stand as a monument to the deceased.
It is a gift from them to be kept open
always for the needy poor and sick of
the city of Philadelphia, irrespective of
creed, color, sect, or nationality, and is
to be under the control of the Jewish
Hospital Association, and connected
with their hospital. The programme
consisted of a dedication prayer by Bev.
Hr. Samuel Hirsch; psesentation of the
building by Messrs. Abraham Adler and
August B. Loeb. William H. Hacken
burg, President of the Jewish Hospital
Association, in a few pleasant words in
troduced his Honor Mayor Stokely, who
received the building, it being a public
institution, and opened to citizens gen
erally. The exercises concluded with an
able address by Mayer Sulzberger, Esq.
Although not yet finished, the dispen
sary will be opened at once for the use
of patients, and hereafter every day
it will be open for medical treatment and
distribution of medicines.
Far Rockaavay, L. I—Dr. Julius
Auerbach, a brother of the great novel
ist, Berthold Auerbach, died at Far
Rockaway at the age of 53 years. The
deceased had studied medicine at Wurz.
berg and Munich, and came to America
some thirty years ago. He married a
Christian lady, with whom he lived very
happily. He practiced as a physician in
the neighborhood of Far Rockaway, and
was favorably known in the whole dis
trict. While the wealthy patients had
to pay him respectable bills for his medi
cal advice, the poor found him always
ready to help them with his advice and
with material assistance. By reason of
his skill he gained great popularity and
a comfortable competence. He was the
owner of real estate at Ocean Point, and
of a fine residence with beautifully laid
out gardens at Far Rockaway. His
death was caused by an accident. While
he was riding home from a professional
visit, the horses grew baulky and over
threw the carriage. Dr. Auerbach had
two ribs broken, and breast injuries,
which caused his death in a few days.
Foreissgn Zlntelligence.
We have been just two weeks ahead
of our American contemporaries with
the report of the “ Reunion ” of Israel
ites from all parts of the world, which
took place at Paris last month. Our
readers have been informed of the
objects of the reunion, the subjects of
their debates, the number of delegates,
etc., in No. 11 of the Jewish Advance
All we have to add is that Adolph Cre
mieux has been the President of the re
union, and that our American delegates
have reflected honor on those who had
elected them for their mission.
Paris.—In every department of stu dy
in art, science and philosophy, the Jew
ish scholars of Paris universities have
obtained the highest prizes for excel
lency.
—At the Exposition of Paris there is
a model of the Tabernacle of Moses ex
hibited by an Englishman. It is praised
as a work of art in execution, as well as
a work of great and deep study regarding
the precision of the plan in general, and
of every detailed subject in particular.
—The Alliance Israelite have con
cluded to extend their work more ener
getically than heretofore in Persia, Rus
sia and the African provinces. The
latest war having brought the influence
of European civilization nearer to the
Turkish domains, it becomes more neces
sary that the Israelites of that empire
be instructed and elevated. Schools will
therefore be established for the Jewish
youth, and industrial professions will be
taught them.
Algiers.—The troubles in Algiers
are not at an end yet. The soldiery who
have made assaults on the Jews have not
yet been called to account, and the in
sults and excesses are continuing at
Constantine and Serif.
—A correspondent of the Times of
India complains of the destruction of the
relics of ancient Babylon. A dealer in
bricks, he says, is excavating Mount
Meyelibeh, near Hillah, and is carrying
away great walls which he finds thirty
feet below the surface. The brick dealer
has discovered a large subterranean
apartment, on each brick of which is the
name of an ancient king. He has begun
demolishing it. Hillah is built with
bricks taken from Babylon, and the
court yard of the house where he resides
is paved with square bricks bearing the
name of Nebuchadnezzar.
WHAT IS MANNER?
What is manner? Manner is the de
portment of one individual to another;
which is as much as to say, the outward
and phenomenal relation of one indi
vidual to another. Now, every person—
if we make exception of monarchs—can
stand towards other people in three dis
tinct social relations. You may be the
superior of the person you are speaking
to, you may be his equal, or you may be
his inferior; and I venture to affirm that
your manner will be good or bad accord
ing as it recognizes or fails to observe
the fact in each case respectively. I am
not addressing myself to those persons
who avow themselves insensible to sub
tile distinctions, and whose only notion
of distinction between one manner and
another is that it is vulgar or the re
verse, polite or the opposite. I address
myself to those who make the complaint
that line manners have suffered decay,
and who are alive to all the infinite
shades and gradations of which a really
fine manner is susceptible. And, firstly,
as regards the deportment of a person of
fine manners to his superior. In this
there will be a standing deference, but
never a shade of servility, and the incli
nation of tone, gesture, and language
will be as slight, as natural, as graceful,
but as perceptible to an observant eye
and ear as the movement, say, of a weep
ing willow in a light breeze. Suppose
that two persons are conversing, and a
third enters. The third ought to be able
to tell at once which is the superior and
which the inferior, supposing the distinc
tion to exist, and though the distinction
be by no means a strongly marked one.
Ask him how he knows, and he can no
more tell you how, than one can say why
one face is beautiful and another is not,
or that a neuralgic subject can say, save
by his own impressions, that there is
brewing a thunder-storm, The superi
ority I speak of may be one either of
rank, age, or acquired distinction; but a
well-bred person, a person of fine man
ners, ever fails to give it recognition. A
man of thirty who comports himself to
a man of seventy as he would to a per
son of his own age is wanting in this
instinct, and is as much a clown as one
who addresses a woman with the famili
arity he employs toward a man. What
constitutes good manners in this case is,
as I have observed, the maintenance of
a just proportion, in plainer language, of
a proper distance, between the two peo
ple; in other words, the preservation of
harmony. The neglect of a just relation
makes impropriety or discord. Quite as
subtle but quite as certain a line will
mark off the superior from the inferior;
though perhaps the distance is created
rather by the inferior than by the su
perior, and by the obligation the latter
feels himself under to accept the situ
ation laid down by the other. Here
again an absolute stranger ought to find
quick indications of the relative posi
tions of the two, though he might be
sorely put to it to give an account of
the faith which is in him.— The Cornh'll
Magazine.
HINTS TO MOTHERS.
Do not be solicitous to bring your
child too forward, that is to say, do not
attempt to teach him anything beyond
his capacity to learn, as by such*means
you will only disgust instead of improv
ing him, at the same time you will worry
and irritate yourself.
Let him go on learning easily and
gently, and give him knowledge and in
struction as little in the shape of formal
lessons as possible. Do not tax his
memory, but teach him at all times, and
on every subject, to exercise his judg
ment. Excite his interest and his curi
osity, which you may easily do, on his
tory, biography, grammar, and other
branches of learning, by anecdotes and
familiar conversations. You will thus
give him a powerful motive to make him
self master of the art of reading as the
key to all knowledge, and when you have
succeeded in inducing him to learn, you
will find it a very easy matter to teach
him.
Be not over anxious in your endeavors
to improve your child; teach him as he
is able to learn, otherwise you will in
jure his mind, in like manner as over
feeding him would destroy his body.
Your part is to assist him to learn, to
make the acquisition of knowledge easy
to him, not to learn for him; and to at
tain this desirable end you must be gen
tle in your manners, clear and lucid in
your explanations, and patient with his
ignorance. You must not expect to
work miracles, nor wonder that he can
not see things as clearly and as quickly
as yourself, nor despair, although he do
not understand a subject after you have
explained it to him ten times over. Call
to mind the difficulties you experienced
yourself when young in comprehending
what you were taught, and you will at
once feel for his apparent stupidity.
I insist thus pertinaciously on the ex
ercise of gentleness and patience in
teaching, because I know how common
it is to think that what appears so easy
to one’s self must necessarily be so to
another. Having overcome the difficul
ties of any subject, they cease to be such
to us, and we at once forget them; and
when we have repeatedly explained what
to us appears perfectly clear, we are apt
to think a child must be either daft or
obstiuate if he cannot understand it
also. This leads to impatience, reproof,
anger, and punishment: the teacher des
pairs, and the learner is disgusted.