New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-02

outer apartment invariably the inner is the bed
room. and matter how poverty-stricken family
may be- the bed In the after is always covered with
white spread There sometimes two narrow
beds but no other articles does this inner
ain OF wardrobes there is no need. for the entire
wearing apparel of each OF these families is their
backs In the living the furniture is always the
same: a leather lounge, a cupboard holding few
pieces Of cracked earthenware. a chest Of drawers
covered with a knitted white spread, small table
drawn up close to the window. a cookingstove and
a cheap print OF Solomon's Temple Not tailor IS
home out OF hundred has any other furniture, nor
i there a suspicion of carpet curtain even win
dow shades
Poverty has done more-it has made all the women
alike The men, finding companionship some chance
for conversation in the streets and even in the shops
develop individual characteristics. but the
women never: those who born in Austria
Or the Pale at least Nine out Cf ten OF the taliors
wives are European born none Of them know
anything about the American world. and only nflu-
enced by L TO the extent that hey no longer wear me
wigs that the custom in European Jewries and
dress In the clothing Of the country.
Most OF the women never go beyond the sidewalk
the front Of their homes except for a trip - the
grocery or the Kosher butcher. LOttie Persky, the
walking delegate of the Jewish girl unions. said a
lay or so ago that she mad Just been on Broadway
mothers and wives in the talors households the
East Side. Lottie Persky Is traveller for she has
been through all the streets OF the Ghetto.
In the hot. alress rooms OF this Old World region.
which, whatever may have been attempted. hardly
hese women. respondent. dsprited, tiny
nables-few households here without babies
Al the breast. wash cook what little they have, and
lean. Contrary 20 the usua. impression, the
looms of the taiOrs surprisingly neat The
walls may he grmy, but the floors clean Thrifty
hese housewives cannot be called because OF their
ignorance but they labor on In "A painstakng way.
There is tide eat In all Of the tailDrs' homes
Meat than once a week Is a luxury that few
AN afford When they get II pound Of the cheap
ast kind steak stices for a family OF six. Bean
soup and rye bread, with the Hebrew shiny crust
big square leaves sell for twelve cents each-is
what they usually live Another soup IS
made with little pieces II fried dough scattered
thckly through x. Meat when il j. eaten, IL first
salted and washed In peculiar way 10 take
Al. the flavor out OF II and make Il dull gray in
color. without particle OF juice. To Christian
Dalates it is not pleasant but no orthodox Jow-and
these tallOrs ,ie al exceedingly orthodox will have
k In any other way.
In a house in Suffolk-st. Is apartment OF three
rooms that are being gradually swept bare OF their
urniture On the floor OF Of them the other day
ay young girl of seventeen eighteen, misera D. V
: ok All but Of the beds had been sold and
there was nowhere else for her TO lie The weary
looking mother told how she was three months be-
hind In her rent that she owed ten dollars 10 the
grocer and the butcher. and she knew they
would trust her longer.
Not all the tailOrs Cf the Ghetto In such straits
today. indeed but many of them are one pa theti
witnessed that Of an aged Jewess kissino
the Janitresss hand humbly, and grovelingy mplor-
ing that she should not be turned out on the streets