The Jewish advance., 1879-08-15
HIT WITH A CLUB.

While the Hebrew community is stag
gering from blow aimed at their vital
parts, by the hand of brutal parvenu,
does it ever occur to them to ward off
the stroke of club that is brought con-
stantly in proximity to their head ?
There is club welded about, regard
less of consequences, like an Irishman's
shillelah, which inficts a great many
wounds alike on the heads of friends and
foes. This club has the effect of making
sad inroads in the Jewish family circle,
amenities of home life, charms of the
hearth-stone, and all that has made He
brews so distinguished as sober, affec-
tionate united people. The club al
luded to cannot be misunderstood, it ap-
pears in every community almost as
soon as a lodge is instituted or burial
ground laid out. Itoccupies the almost
undivided attention of the leisure hours
of large number Of people, to the utter
exclusion Of duties to children, who used
to be entitled to attention and compan
ionship now, so almost universally de-
voted to that dangerous weapon, the
club,
5 Tosappoft this institution some sub
scribe willingly more moneV than they
pay to their lodge and congregation
combined.
Nay, with many, payments to the club
have precedence over those in any other
direction, To pay $1.00 per annum to
the Union, to an asylum, or some public
institution is an odious tax, but come
what may the club must be supported.
Has the home and the ireside become
less attractive than it was formerly I? IF
so, whose fault is it? Have the moth
ers and daughters of Israel less influence
than in days of yore ? Find out the
cause. 1t may not be entirely the fault
of the club, but certainly it is to large
degree.
To many young, as well as old, the
club is an idol to which constant sacri-
ices are made; many young man
spends at it's worship, more in one even
lngs devotions, than he earns in month.
10 escort a young lady to see the club
on one of it's festive days. requires an
amount of ceremonial preparation on
her part, and an expenditure of money
by her invitor, that is absolutely apall-
ing.
The wounds on the heads of families,
made by the blows of this club, leave
ugly scars, but the worst effect is visible
in severance of those home endearments
and social family circle ties, that have
challenged the applause and wonder of
peoples of all times. Are these charms
to be sundered forever by repeated blows
from club ? At first these blows are
simply resonant, in fact in many cases
musically detonant, but remember, it is
not the force but the successive repeti-
tion of strokes that sunders the rock
Little by little the stream issues from
the smallest fissure in the reservoir of
waters that supplies the city, but un-
attended it widens into gap: the tor
rent rushes on, engulphs in resistless
cataract, everything in it's path.
dripping waters wear the stone
1t cannot wash away.
Are the pilgrims who in ecstacies of
devotion place their heads beneath the
wheels of the car of Juggernaut, the
only people who risk the fracture of
their skulls ? A blow from club may
make very ugly wound in the body of
whole people, if handled in such a
reckless manner as we see now -a-days.
This is the preface to what [ intend to
say on Corbinphobia. .-Sopher, IN Am.
ISraelite.