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Tuesday, September 14, 1937
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Wish Their Relatives and Friends
A Very Happy and Prosperous New Year
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Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Miss Sophie Roth-stein to Mr. Leslie Phillip Sussman to take place on Saturday evening, of October second, at the Oval
Room of the Hotel Vancouver.
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Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ellingson and their two daughters, Rhona and Shirley, of Melbourne, Australia, spent Rosh Hashonah in the city. They have been on a tour around the world, travelling since February and intend to return home at the
end of October.
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Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Lechtzier returned recently from a three month trip to the Eastern United States and Canada spending considerable time in Baltimore and New York City.
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Miss Belva Plottel has completed a month's holiday in Chicago and Winnipeg.
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Mrs. E. James was luncheon hostess recently in honor of out-of-town guests.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. Fouks are now residing in their new home at 5875 Angus Drive and are "At Home"
to their friends.
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Miss Audrey Evans was a hostess recently in honor of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Sydney Evans. Twenty-five guests were invited to meet the bride. "Bingo" and bridge provided
the entertainment for the evening. « • *
Congratulations and good wishes
are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Kantor (nee Evelyn Shugarman) of
Nanaimo on the birth of a girl on
Tuesday, Aug. 31.
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Mrs. Louis Sable of Montreal is in the city for a few days.
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' Miss Fay Horowitz was a hostess during the tea hour on Sunday afternoon, in honor of Miss Sophie Roth-stein. About thirty guests were invited. Presiding at the urns were: Mrs. Harry Freeman and Mrs. Harry Weinstein. Miss Rose Horowitz cut the ices.
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Miss Audrey Evans and Miss Deena Share are spending several days in Seattle this week.
A Succoth Story From the Pen Of the Great Yiddish Writer!
The Spoiled Ettirog
By Sholem Aleichem
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One day, shortly before Rosh ha-Shono, Leibel (that's me) overheard the following conversation between his parents.
"Even if the world will turn upside down, I shall buy an Ethrog this year!" Father exclaimed.
"The world will remain in its place, and you will not have an Ethrog," Mother replied calmly.
"That's what you think—you may believe it or not, but this Succoth we shall have an Ethrog."
"Amen!" Mother said. "May it be so, and may God's ears hear the words of your mouth."
"Amen!" repeated Leibel in his heart, and he pictured to himself his father entering the sjoiagogue, like a well-to-do member, with an Ethrog and a Lulov of his own. Although his father, Moshe-Yankel, was but a clerk, he would walk in the procession around the Ark. Leibel was happy in anticipation of the great event, and when he came to the "Cheder" he immediately told the other boys that this year his father would have his own Lulov and Ethrog. But they did not believe him.
"How can his father, such a beggar among beggars, afford an Ethrog of his own He probably thinks it is a lemon . . ." one of the boys made fun, and the others helped him. They gave Leibel a few good slaps and punched and pushed him around- until Leibel himself began to believe that a poor man like his father should not have such extravagant ideas. But how great was his surprise when he came home and found Reb Henzel sitting at the table with his father displaying a box of Ethrogs.
"Take this one, Reb Moshe Yan-kel. You'll be satisfied with it."
"Are you sure it is a good;-one?" asked my fatheri^^jejcarBini^ Ethrog on all sides as if it ;was a diamond, with his hands trembling with joy.
"I should say so," answered Reb Kenzel, and the tassels of his cap shook with laughter.
My father fondled the Ethrog, smelled at it, and could not take his eyes off it. He called Mother and showed her, smiling happily, the Ethrog, as if he were displaying before her a precious jewel, a costly diamond, an exquisite antique or an only beloved child.
She extended her hand to feel the Ethrog, but father did not let her.
"Don't touch it; just smell it, that's sufficient."
Mother was satisfied with a sniff of the Ethrog, I was not even considered worthy of smelling at it. I was not even allowed to look at it.
"Here he is again!" Mother exclaimed. "Keep him away from the Ethrog lest he bite off it's top."
"God forbid!" Father cried,
"The Lord protect us!" echoed Reb Henzel, with shaking tassels. He handed father some cotton-wool to wrap up the Ethrog. The Ethrog was wrapped up as carefully as if it had been a diamond. Then it was placed into a beautiful round painted sugar box, after the sugar had been taken out.
"Welcome, Reb Ethrog! Into the box—into the box!"
Then the box was carefully closed and placed in the glass-cupboard.
"I am afraid the heathen"—referring to me—"will open the door, take out the Ethrog and bite off its top," my mother said full of fear, and pulled me away from the cupboard.
Like a cat that has smelt butter, Leibel hung around the cupboard. He gazed at the box with the Ethrog so long until his n^other complained
Park after which they will return to Edmonton.
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Mrs. S. Mason of Chicago, 111., is a visitor here, the house guest of Dr. and Mrs. M. Archeck for the
next few months.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. Lehrer and family of Saskatoon recently visited in the city and were the house guests of Mr, and Mrs. J. White.
Mr. Jack Fouks left on Saturday night for Edmonton where he will be the house guest of Mrs. Hurtig. The engagement of Jack Fouks to Jeanette Shector of "Edmonton was announced recently.
to his father that the young heathen wanted to take the Ethrog and bite off its top.
"To Chedar! You good for nothing!" his father drove him off, and Leibel, with bent head and lowered eyes hurried to the Cheder.
Leibel could not forget what his mother had said about biting off the top of the Ethrog. Her words burned his heart and ate themselves into his bones like a deadly poison.
Leibel could not think of anything else except the top of the Ethrog. He dreamed about it at night. In these dreams the top of the Ethrog dragged him by the hands, saying: "Don't you recognize me, foolish kid? It is I—the top of the Ethrog." Leibel turned around and sighed. But there it was again: "Get up, fool! Go and open the cupboard. Take out the Ethrog and bite me off. You will like it!"
Leibel got up in the morning, and hurried to the Cheder. But he could not help glancing in the direction of the cupboard. Through the glass door, he saw the box in which the Ethrog lay wrapped up. It seemed to him the box was calling to him: "Come over here, little boy." But Leibel ran a.way to school.
One morning, when Leibel got up, he found himself alone in the house. His father had already left for business and his mother had gone to the market. Passing by the cupboard, Leibel looked inside. It seemed as if the sugar box was beckoning to him: "Come over here, little fellow." Leibel opened the glass door carefully, took out the box and raised its lid. Even before he lifted it out of the box, the fragrant pungent odor of the Ethrog filled his nostrils, Suddently the Ethrog was in his hands and its top beckoned to him":
"Do you want to enjoy yourself? Do you want to taste Paradise? Then bite me off. Don't be afraid, nobody will know of it—and no one will tell on you!"
You want to know whether I bit off the top of the Ethrog, or withstood temptation? What would you have done in my place—if you had been told ten times not to dare to bite it off" Would you not have been curious to know what it tasted like? Perhaps you, too, would have bit it off and pasted it on again with spittle? You may believe it or not, but I don't know myself how it happened, but suddenly I held the Ethrog in my hands and its top was in my mouth.
On the eve of the holiday Father came home earlier than usual to prepare the Lulov—he warned Leibel to keep away from it. But the exhortation was superfluous, because Leibel had his own worries. The top of the Ethrog haunted him. Why had he bitten it off? What did he get out of it It tasted so terribly bitter. For no good reason at all he had spoiled the Eibrog—Leibel knew very well that it could not be used after it had been damaged. Why, then had he spoiled this beautiful fruit? Why? Why? In his dreams that night the Ethrog haunted him and asked: "Why did you do this to me? Why did you bite off my head? Now I am useless—utterly useless." Leibel turned over on the other side—but no sooner had he fallen asleep than the Ethrog reproached him again: "What did I do to you, murderer? What did my head sin against you?"
On the first day of Succoth, early in the morning, our neighbor Z^l-
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men, the carpenter, came over to our tabernacle to pronounce the blessings over the Lulov and the Ethrog.
"Zalmen wants the Lulov and the Ethrog," my mother said to my father.
"Take it out, but be careful," my father replied. But then he himself stood on a chair and took down the Lulov from the top shelf and brought it to the Succoth to the carpenter.
Our neighbor Zalmen was a giant of a man—may no evil eye harm him! Each finger of his hands could have knocked down three boys like me. His hands were always sticky and his nails blackish from the glue.
Father has good reason, apparently, for admonishing Zalmen to handle the Ethrog carefully.
"Be careful!" he cried when Zalmen took the Ethrog in his hand. Careful! Careful! For heaven's sake be careful!"
Suddenly Father threv." himself forward and cried out as if in pain. Mother, attracted by his cries, came arunning, "What is it, Moshe Yankel? May God protect you!"
Father kept on shouting and scolding the carpenter, "You coarse man! Is that the way to handle an Ethrog" Is an Ethrog, then, an axe? Or a saw? Or a bore? You have cut my throat, without a knife! You have spoiled my Ethrog! Here is its top—broken off, here, see! You coarse fellow!"
We were like paralyzed. Zalmen was like a dead man. He could not understand how this misfortune had happened to him. He had been so careful handling the Ethrog! What a misfortune! A terrible misfortune!
Mother was pale like a sheet. She wrung her hands and cried bitterly, "When a man has no luck he'd best bury himself alive . . ."
And Leibel? Leibel did not know whether he should he happy because a miracle had happened which released him of all the trouble, or whether he should cry because of his parents aggravation and sorrow —or whether he should kiss Zal-men's hands, - because he" saved him from being blamed for the spoiling of the Ethrog,
Leibel looked at his father's face; he saw his mother's tears and the carpenter's hands; then his eyes fell on the Ethrog now yellow like wax, without a top and without a spark of life. It looked like a dead thing, a corpse,
"A spoiled Ethrog!" father said in a broken voice,
"A spoiled Ethrog!" mother repeated with the tears streaming down her cheeks,
"A spoiled Ethrog!" sighed the carpenter, looking at his hands, as
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if to say, "These cursed hands did it!"
"A spoiled Ethrog!" cried Leibel in a joyful voice. But he immediately tamed his joyfulness, lest it be discovered that he, Leibel, murdered the Ethrog.
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