Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-06
Eli Perkins on the Hebrew Question.
Letter from Richtield Springs, N. Y

Letter from Richfeld Springs, NY
The Hebrew question is the one alb
sorbing question now being discussed at
the different watering places. The first
thing that greets you when you meet
friend at Saratoga, Richfield or Long
Branch, is:
"Well, Charley, how are you on the
Moses question:"
If you say, ooh! Moses is all right"
or, I'm for Noses" you are immedi-
ately put down as champion of the
Hebrew race; but if you say, "Oh! darn
Moses!" or, mo Moses in mine," the
aristocratic christians shake you by the
hand and receive you into good-fellow-
ship.
Yesterday, when asked Henry Ward
Beecher, at the Forty-second street de-
pot, what he thought of the Jew ques-
ton, the old mans eyes twinkled a mo-
ment, smile blOssomed all over his
face, and he remarked:
swell, Eli, [ know we live in very
wicked world I know the times are very
degenerate; but never expected to live
to see the world so changed that our
Lord and Savior, if he were here to-day,
would have to foot it down to Manhat-
tan Beach. [ never expected to live to
see the time that Christ and His
twelve Jewish Apostles would be refus-
ed baked potato on the piazza Of a
Coney Island hotel"
The train brought me to Richfeld
Springs. Here found the Jewish ques-
ton the great question of the hour. The
two big hotels here are the Spring House
and the American. At the American
were q large number of aristocratic
Jews, while at the Spring House were
400 "swell" Christians from New York
and Philadelphia. There were rows of
beautiful Jewesses at the American, and
several of the handsome Jewish beaux
were flirting with the sentimental Chris
tan girls on the Spring House balcony.
1t may be a case of Montague and Cap
ulet, but the Christian girls at the Spring
House are really very fond of the hand
some young Jew fellows across the way.
They dance with them, play lawn-tennis
with them, and sit on the benches in
the park listening to the handsome Jews
as they speak the never tiresome tale
of love and hope.
When l asked an aristocratic old
Christian lady, from Fifth avenue, how
she liked to have her daughter firt with
that handsome Jew, she said:
Lizzie amt hirting-she's playing
croquet."
But don't you see now, every time
Lizzie and Solomon croquet their part
ner's ball, they sit down on the rustic
bench? There! don't you see Solomon
mt Uio1,
while she flirts her parasol and looks
smilingly up at the tree? They're flirt-
ing now"
"Whatl Solomon Laudeback and my
Lizzie?"
And the old lady dropped her en-
broidery, put on her eye glasses, and
looked like an astronomer trying to
discover new comet.
Yes, Solomon and Lizzie"
"Well, it does look like it," said the
old lady. Then she rubbed her nose
with puzzled look and musingly asked:
"Who are these Laudebacks, any
way?"
"Why, they're bankers-Jew bankers
teered an old lady from Philadelphia,
| w I'LL UlS tlldulOIOo dllo ldlS0 Sldy udlt.
"And Solomon
"Why, he's the only son, and ne
hasn't sister in the WORLD" interrupted
the same old lady.
"Well he seems to be a very nice
young man." unused the old Fifth ave-
nue. mother. ...:
eyes, but they never marry Chris
tians-the Jews don't" continued the
old lady from Philadelphia. "Who ever
heard of d Jew marrying a Christian ?"
"Do'ou mean to say that Solomon
Laudeback wouldn't marry my Lizzie if
he got in love with herl" demanded the
old Fifth avenuite.
"Certainly not. The Jew fellows only
1irt with the Christian girls. They
never marry them. They only keep
other fellows away"
"Well. if that's the way, Pm not going
to have Lizzie waste her time any longer
with that Solomon Laudeback;" and
then the old lady from Fifth avenue
gathered up her embroidered skirts,
but her embroidery back into her work
basket, went out ON the balcony and
called:
'Lizzie! Lizzie, dear; come hear,
dear! Come! It's time to have your
hair dressed now for the hopp'
And when Lizzie stepped on the bal
cony, the old lady put her mouth close
to her ear and whispered, "Why, dar-
ling, don't you know those Jew fellows
are awful bad? You mustn't be seen
with them again.
II fnd," said Judge Hilton to me, one
day in Saratoga, 'the chief objection
to the Jews at the hotels is their man
ner of eating. Ofcourse they are op-
posed to pork and lard, and they will
not eat anything cooked with either of
them. If they order chicken Or calves
liver, it must be fried in sweet oil. If
they order fried eggplant, or parsnips,
or oysters, they must also be fried in
olive-oil. They even send back calves
liver, if they see a piece of bacon on the
plate, or suspect hogs lard. Boiled