The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-02-01
Sara. The Jewess.

the supper table, mo, Will never suHeI
ny daughter to mount the stage to a
muse with her pirouettes the idlers of
Berlin. A dancer! By Abraham, my girl
a dancer, when young Aaron asks her in
and she might tomorrow be
the wife of the first horse dealer in Meek.
lenburg!
"But, replied bis wife, "she might
make fortune by it, and there is moth
ing to prevent her living honestly,
although the ladies of the theater have
not the best reputation"
"Silence - exclaimed Fleischman, "do
you know any dancers who are not living
Babylons | would rather be Obliged,
like our great patriarch, to sacrifice her
with my own hands, than to permit her
to enter upon such life. The daughter
of Fleischman public dancer y
''But my friend" resumed the mother,
"the Book of Samuel, which the church
es call the Book of Kings, says that Da-
vid danced before the ark"
ale danced there" replied the old
Jew solcmnly, "to celebrate the praises
of the Lord, and his grave and measured
dance had no resemblance to that which
your Sara wishes to practice.
Three months after this conversation,
the great theatcr of Berlin was filled to
its utmost extent The orchestra com
mencei, the curtain rose, and bands o:
Nymphs and Loves, dancing with gar
lands opened the piece At the end OF
the third act Sara appeared She was
tall, with black hair, and of slender,
graceful form. For century nothing
so beautiful had appeared on this stage
All the European powers, in the person
of their ambassadors, were filled with
the most lively enthusiasm. 1t might
have broken the equilibrium and peace
of Europe, but for the following incident.
At the moment in which the young
debutante, after having long time evad-
ed the pursuit of zephyr, fell exhausted
into his arms, man whose costume was
not at all NEUROLOGICAL, with long beard
and broad brimmed hat, advanced from
the side scenes, seized the young girl By
uCT LOUt, W uICu Was lO1 II III Alo A"!lNo3
and exclaimed
"Wretch would nothing stop you!
must you come and disgrace yourself in
the presence of all Berlin? IT'S we'll
in the face of all Berlin, curse you; and
I pray to Heaven that you may die in
shame and misery. I curse you," he re-
peated; and though be was not in the
least an actor, never did paternal male
idction upon the stage produce such an
effect.
At this terrible apparition Sara became
i'll, and two soldiers of the royal guard
seized the intruder and hurried him out
of the theater. The manager could not
comprehend the anger of this man, with
whose daughter he had just signed oRc Of
the most advantageous engagements
which had been made for ten years. The
European powers we're little deranged
in their respective plans by this unfor-
seen interruption; among the women there
was but one voice; the debutantc was
passable, bot she must have been very
abandoned girl to cause such grief to so
respectable a father. The people of the
paHcrre, Who at first were touched by
this scene, when they recovered from their
emotion demanded, that their money
should be restored to them, seeing that
the play bills bad said nothing about
father, and they had come to see ballet,
and not a domestic drama.
On returning home, the father and
daughter were both seized With i fever,
a natural consequence of the violent emo
tions they had experienced. The daugh-
ter was but seventeen years old. and life
was Jet strong within her, but to the old
father decaying nature had long threat
ened dissolution. 1t came at once. They
bore him to the jewish cemetery without
the gate ofthe city. on the road to France,
and, when two months after Sara passed
along the road in the carriage of the Am
bassador, she could not help thinking Of
her old father and his malcdiction. But
rs no voice came from the tomb to repeat
he curse, in less than quarter Of mile
she had ceased to think of it.
/ he smooth road, the luxurious carri-
lgc, the rapid motion, the society of the
Ambassador and his young secretary,
he thought of the brilliant future which
awaited her in Paris, where dancers are
leld in honor as virtue was formerly in
Rome, completely absorbed her.
In the midst Of her extacy, the carri
lge began to increase its speed Soon
he cries of the postillions and the more
nd more rapid revolutions of the wheels,
howed them that the horses had taken |
right, and that they were in danger of
verturning. Fit had happened in France
there, thanks to the estate Of the roads
arriagcs are used to such accidents, the
eril would have been less serious, but in
'ermany everything is done conscien-
iOusly, and, if a vehicle is overturned it
J rare that the unfortunate proprietor
scapes without broken ribs. The result
4 this case was according to custom, the
arriage was overturned, dragged some
istance by the horses. and then left in