e went to the door to meet her two children on their return from
school, and when she had given each little face a motherly kiss, she
felt a breath of freshness and new life blowing round her.

She took off their cloaks, and listened to their childish prattle about
their teachers and the day's lessons.

The clear voices rang through the rooms, awaking sympathetic echoes in
every corner. The home wore a new aspect, and the sun shone even more
brightly than before and in more friendly, kindly fashion.

The mother spread a little cloth at the edge of the table, gave them
milk and sandwiches, and looked at them as they ate--each child the
picture of the mother, her eyes, her hair, her nose, her look, her
gestures--they ate just as she would do.

And Rosalie feels much better and happier. She doesn't care so much now
about the furniture being old, the dresses worn, the china service not
being whole, about the wrinkles round her eyes and in her forehead. She
only minds about her husband's being so worn-out, so absent-minded that
he cannot take pleasure in the children as she can.

DAVID PINSKI

Born, 1872, in Mohileff (Lithuania), White Russia; refused admission to
Gymnasium in Moscow under percentage restrictions; 1889-1891, secretary
to Bene Zion in Vitebsk; 1891-1893, student in Vienna; 1893, co-editor
of Spektor's Hausfreund and Perez's Yom-tov Blaettlech; 1893, first
sketch published in New York Arbeiterzeitung; 1896, studied philosophy
in Berlin; 1899, came to New York, and edited Das Abendblatt, a daily,
and Der Arbeiter, a weekly; 1912, founder and co-editor of Die Yiddishe
Wochenschrift; author of short stories, sketches, an essay on the
Yiddish drama, and ten dramas, among them Yesurun, Eisik Scheftel, Die
Mutter, Die Familie Zwie, Der Oitzer, Der eibiger Jued (first part of a
series of Messiah dramas), Der stummer Moschiach, etc.; one volume of
collected dramas, Dramen, Warsaw, 1909.

REB SHLOIMEH

The seventy-year-old Reb Shloimeh's son, whose home was in the country,
sent his two boys to live with their grandfather and acquire town, that
is, Gentile, learning.

"Times have changed," considered Reb Shloimeh; "it can't be helped!" and
he engaged a good teacher for the children, after making inquiries here
and there.

"Give me a teacher who can tell the whole of _their_ Law, as the saying
goes, standing on one leg!" he would say to his friends, with a smile.

At seventy-one years of age,