Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-06
Ell Perkins on the Hebrew Question.

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thing that greets you when you meet
friend at Saratoga, Richtield or Long
Branch, is:
well, Charley, how are you on the
Moses question:"
If you say, oh Moses is all right"
or, +" I'm for Moses" you are immedi-
ately put down as II champion of the
Hebrew race; but if you say, "Oh! darn
Moses" or, "No Moses in nine" the
aristocratic christians shake you by the
hand and receive you into good-fellow-
ship.
Yesterday, when asked Henry Ward
Beeoher, 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:
"WelI, Eli, know we live in very
wicked world; 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 land His
twelve Jewish Apostles would be refus-
ed baked potato on the piazza of
Coney Island hotel"
The train brought me to Rchield
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 large number of aristocratIc
Jews, while Mt the Spring House were
400 swell" Christians from New York
and Philadelphia. There were rows Of
beautiful Jewesses ut the American, and
several Of the handsome Jewish beaux
were flirting with the sentimental Chris
tian girls on the Spring House balcony.
1t may be case of Montague and Cap
ulet, but the Christian girls Mt 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
rs they speak the never tiresome tale
of love and hope.
When | asked an aristocratic old
Christian lady, from Fifth avenue, how
she liked to have her daughter tlirt with
that handsome Jew, she said:
Lizzie amt flrting--she's playing
croquet."
But don't you see how, every time
Lizzie and solomon croquet their part
ner's ball, they sit down on the rustic
bench? Therel don't you see Solomon
now looking right into Lizzie's eyes,
while she flirts her parnsol and looks
smilingly up at the tree2 They're ilirt-
ing now"
"Whatl Solomon Lauieback and my
Lizzie ?'
And the old lady dropped her en-
broidery, put on her eye glasses, and
| looked like IN astronomer trying to
| discover new comet.
eyes, Solomon and Lizzie"
"Well, il does look like it," said the
old lady. Then she rubbed her nose
with puzzled look &nd musingly asked:
"Who are these Laudebacks, any
way ?"
"Why, they're bankers-Jew bankers
ON Wall eet,-awfully richl' volun-
teered an old lady from Philadelphia,
with big diamonds and false gray hair.
"And solomon
"SVhy, he's the only son, and he
hasn't sister in the world" interrupted
the same old lady.
"Well he seems to be Il very nice
young man" unused the old Fifth ave
nue. mother.
ayes, but they never marry Chris
tans-the Jews don't' continued the
old lady from Philadelphia. "Who ever
heard of Jew marrying Christian p
"Do'ou mean to say that solomon
Laudeback wouldn't marry my Lizzie If
he got in love with herr demanded the
old Fifth avenuite.
Certainly not. The Jew fellows only
! hirt with the Christian girls. They
never marry them. They only keep
other fellows away"
"Well. if that's the way, I'm 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! Comet It's time to have your
hair dressed now for the hop"
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 find" 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 OPP
posed to pork and lard, and they will
not eat anything cooked with esther OF
them. If they order chicken or calves
liver. it must be fried in sweet oil. Ii