The Jewish Monitor (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1920 Page: 1 of 16
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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
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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
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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 $100000 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.
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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
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