ishing
sign on the house. All the people in that house were "Red Shields." The
house was seven stories high, and at one time a hundred people lived in
it.

Later, when the name became popular, all of the people in that house
called themselves "Rothschilds." In Goethe's time, there were just one
hundred sixty houses in the Frankfort Ghetto, and these were occupied by
two thousand three hundred Jews.

Goethe says that the practise of walling the Jews in was to facilitate
taxation--the Jews being honored by an assessment quite double that
which Christians paid. At one time any Jew who paid two hundred fifty
florins was exempt from wearing a yellow hat and the yellow O on his
breast.

Many private houses, everywhere, have walls around them, and the plan of
dividing different nationalities from each other, by setting apart a
certain section of the town for each, was a matter of natural selection,
everywhere practised. Mayer Anselm grew up with never a thought that he
belonged to a "peculiar people," nor did the idea of persecution ever
trouble him. The only peculiar people are those who do not act and
think as we do. Who are peculiar? Oh, the others, the others, the
others.

There was a big family for Anselm Moses to look after. All were hearty
and healthy. The Mosaic Law says nothing about ventilation, but outside
of this little lapse it is based on a very commonsense plan of hygiene.

One thing which adds greatly to the physical endowment of Jewish
children, and almost makes up to the child of the Ghetto for the lack of
woods and fields, is that he is not launched on the sea of life with a
limited supply of love. Jewish children do not refer to their father as
"the Gov'ner," and elderly women as "Salem Witches," because the Jews as
a people recognize the rights of the child.

And the first right of a child is the right to be loved.

In the average Christian household, until a very few years ago, the
child grew up with the feeling constantly pressed upon him that he was a
usurper and an interloper. Such questions as, "Where would you get
anything to eat if I did not provide it?" were everywhere flying at the
heads of lisping babyhood. The words "must" and "shall" were often
heard, and that obedience was a privilege and not a duty was nowhere
taught. All parents quoted Solomon as to the beauties of the rod; and
that all children were perverse, obstinate and stiff-necked was assumed
to be a fact. To break the will of