The Jewish advance. (Chicago, Ill.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-08

to the following effect: 1T looks threat
ening outside. [ am afraid we shall
have rain and .be prevented from going
out to see the spring opening at n. n.
Y" She reads on, her thoughts turn
into different direction: Miss Grace
has purchased such lovely lace for her
new dress; | wonder whether the ball
will be a success and whether Mr. n.
will be there?" She bushes just little;
she drops the paper, trips up to the pi-
ano and strikes few chords in minor
key. Just now mother enters.
You have read the paper, my dear,
any news?"
NO; there is no mention Of the sur
prise party of last Sunday"
The young lady knows what there is
not in the paper, but my beautiful sketch
es which are there she knows not. What
a pity
So also Master X Junior on coming
home from school glances through the
paper. He finds no description of the
meeting of the society at which he most
beautifully recited the poem: BLOW,
blow, etc, and is supremely disgusted.
He has not been looking after the other
articles. The gentlemen come home in
the evening and take look at the pa
per. Young Mr.. X. reads my sketches.
But oh. he finds a remark which may
apply to certain incident which oc-
CURED at certain lodge of which a
very estimable cousin of his friend is a
brother" And he is very, very angry
with me for that remark, although
bad not the honor of knowing either Jua
friend or tae cousin or the LODGE OR the
particular incident to which remarks
may aI9iy al last Mr., Y 4jor him
self takes up the pape, He measures
the articles by the SD. u." he reads
them. The poor e,1tv.Is' are 100
sharp for his peaceful disposition, the
lectures are too scholarly and 100 long.
He cares not for the repor55 of schools,
congregations or lodges-and my sketch
es? Well, he is best pleased with them
if he knows not exactly what | Lean.
He is the best of my readers; he takes
my articles for what they are worth on
general principles. If he happens to
think of any special case to which my
remarks may apply, it depends on his
sympathy for the case how he will take
them. | cannot expect of him to CON
slider my opinion as view on the sub
ject worthy of consideration. He is a
man of settled convictions; if | agree
with him he smiles approvingly; if not,
he is displeased and that ends the mat
ter.
We enter another house and find a
different class of readers. 1t is Sun
day morning and MIR. Y. sits comforta-
bly, in an easy chair in the sitting room
He is dressed in his dressing gown and
easy slippers, and smokes his cigar with
the air of man who knows something
about the weals and woes of sublunar
existence.
There are men, pretending scientists,
who study human character by the facial
expression,* by the lines on the palm of
the hand, by the handwriting, by the
bumps of the skull etc, etc. have the
notion of studying the character of
man by his manner of smoking a cigar.
And howl is the character Of lady to be
studied? | hear the reader ask. Heaven
bless you, my friend! This | have Civ
an up long ago together with the study
of Kabbalah and of all other mystify-
ing sciences
Mr. Y, holds, his cigar on one side of
his mouth, allows the smoke to pass
close to his face, comforts the brow on
In Hebrew it is called 7Iy0a7 N01Gl and
all the secrets of,this science are, according to
Kabbal site believers, revealed in the com
mentary of Z'hdr to the verse, land thou
shalt see from the whole people" Gen. XVIII
21. But the revelation is made in such myS-
with the most strenuous efforts.