The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-10

hungry husband Is diligently looking for
q new waitewasher. The old one having
By various means Of intimidation and per-
suasion succeeded in drawing ali due him,
concludes not to finish the Job, and while
packing I'D his tools takes the opportunity
Of reading the weeping old lady a sound
lecture. in which he tells her that, how
ever much be might have doubted the wis
dom of his ancestors IN prosecuting the
Jews, he is now convinced that not only
ought the Jews TO have been presented,
but from the depth of his heart he wished
they we're ali executed. However. since it
is essential 10 move in again that same
night, the withdrawing is completed and
the dirt shoveled out; more often q few
pals OF water are even wasted on the
floor.
The greatest event of the season is yet
to occur. The mates have yet 10 be
baked. This Is done on the cooperative
plan, and as the results of thar system
usually are considerable hard feeling. very
little work and final collapse, so We find
that in this case the cooperative system
comes up to It's full standard Each syna-
gogus hires bake oven and takes COM
plete charge OF IL 4 professional n1at-.
baker only is hired. All the other help
works on the you help me and perhaps l
will help you" plan If any OF my readers
should admire the plan for its cheapness,
/ beg OF them no. TO make so serious
mistake, for the professional baker, who
does nothing else the balance Of the
year, manages 10 steal enough -four and
wood TO pay for all the help. If We &C.
quaint ourselves with how one family gets
its n1atses baked, we can then easily form
an idea Of the whole system. Tomorrow
is our turn to bake" is the welcome news
that the husband brings home in the
evening, after having done the hardest
days work OF his life. and preparations
commence at once. Several large new
earthen Jars are produced, and the whole
family proceeds to the river to get matte
water. If you ask that family in process
sion why they go to the river, why pump
or well water won't answer the purpose
jus: 81 well, you are apt 10 be told that
you are too inGuisitive; that there are Ger
tain things connected with P>sacb that
neither you nor they can understand.
The next day, say az in the after
noon. the turn has arrived, and with the
aid of few friendly neighbors, the water,
-four. towels and several bottles are trans
1erred 20 the bakery.
The first duty in order Is that every man
and woman in that bakery must come out
On the sidewalk and take a drink, for the
VODKA is choonl>tz Qeavened) and must,
therefore, not be brought inside the holy
portals; that Is, it must not be done
openly, certainly the pocket pistols no one
can see.
The next in order is the washing of
hands all round and wiping them on the
towels brought by the housewife for that
special purpose and washed for that
special purpose. No starch is used on
these towels. Starch is made of cio0ps<t-
(lsavenedl. Next work commences. Inc
room is often q large basement, dark and
low-ceiled On three sides of the room
there are long deal tables on which the
rolling is done. On the fourth side is a
low bench where the kneading Is done.
The kneader has an earthen basin into
which quart of -four is put by one helper,
who is called filler, and As much water
as the -four viii stand by another, who Is
known as the gis:en or pourer. Next
comes a table at which the lady herself
sits, and there she receives the kneaded
dough and cuts it into small pieces and
has some small children carry il around to
the rollers. And thereby hangs tale.
Now, economy teaches the good woman
to cut her dough into small pieces in order
to get as many MATES as possible. A
scarcity of time, on the other hand,
teaches the rollers to handle as few MATES
as possible. and since necessity is the
mother OF invention, you may rest as
sured that the tired rollers find = way 70
do as little as possible, thus We find them
consolidating two or three cuts into one.
The ever-watchf1l lady soon detects the
swindle, and peremptorily orders the
ever-ready husband TO station himself in
the middle OF the room, and from this
favorable position see that no more theft's
are committed. Suddenly tiny piece of
dough will strike the target square in the
eye, so that for the next ten minutes the
rollers need not fear the vigilance of the
watcher. Other devices are brought into
play TO keep the company in good humor.
The holy person of the good housewife is
not even considered too sacred when mirth
is in question.
The last two or three days before Pssach
cease 70 be earthly. Every act done seems
TO have some cabalistIc significance, some
mysterious connection, OF which no NOR
tai has the least idea. Take it ali in all,
there is too much rabinical and Talmudi.
stical petty laws connected with PesGch. So
much so that the Jew really forgets that
he is celebrating the greatest event IN the
history of the human family-the striking
of the first blow at human slavery.
ABE SPRING.