New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-01

anu lIlS AlOSI " Sel AOu hAiiO"
! ligion makes a barrier between US. Every Or
| thodox Jew no matter how poor and wretched
he may be, has a certain contempt for any one
who is a 'Krist' christian, and it makes "a
something between US that can't pierce
through
This patient where we're going now she
added, as she turned in at a doorway and made
her way up the perfectly dark stairway with
the ease of practice, while the quiet woman
followed stumblngly after, thinks I'm Jew
ess-why, I don't know, unless it's because m
| always careful to ask, when preparing pouluces
or food for her. which are the Kosher dishes
and spoons, and never to those for purposes
which are not Kosher That is one thing
which their religion specially enjoins. But as
I said, she thinks I'm a Jewess, and haven't
the courage to undeceive her, for if did she
wouldn't be nearly so fond of me. It's Agnes,
the 1 told you about, whose child was
burned to death last week"
At the top of the fifth flight of stairs the
nurse knocked at a door. and they found them
selves in a small room looking out alley.
Agnes was a Polish Jewess. with a beautiful
face such as some of those women have; and the
room was really clean, the floor scrubbed white.
There was a charred place near the stove, the
mark Of last weeks tragedy. Agnes supported
her children by washing for the settlement
nurses Cher husband had been sent to the island).
and she had 10 carry all the water from the
ground floor. OF course, the babies and the
stove were left alone together while she did 1t,
and the usual consequence had happened. AS
for Agnes she still has two babies-and an abb
! scess. which the nurse proceeded to poultice.
Then the nurse turned her attention to the baby
in the cradle.
'"This baby died last week" she said. as she
prepared to give it a bath
'Died?' exclaimed the quiet woman
yes. It has commissions, and in an unusually
bad one 1t did really stop breathing; It was to
all appearances dead when I got here. The
doctor arrived the same minute and set to
work. The only thing to try artificial
! breathing. and after an hours hard work with
| it it was a live baby once more. 1t was the
most interesting thing to see it's little blue
pinched arms and legs grow all pink and rosy
as worked
Agnes feels pretty badly about the child that
was burned" she said. as she led the way to the
street again. she isn't as philosophical as a
woman know. whose boy died from pneumonia
last month. I said to her. Mary. I'm so sorry
WHY'S gone and she said: It's better So
LIES a hard thing. He's better Off d"
In the next tenement the nurse nearly lost all
| the credit she may have gained among the Jews
by observing their Kosher" rites The apart
ment. which consisted Of two cubbyhoes was
fairly chOked with men, all jabbering in Yiddish
They had come to assist at the naming Of the
| hosts newborn boy. Wines were set out upon
the sideboard which is the chief article of
| furniture in a Jewish front room 1t is great
| occasion. the birth of boy. The mother lay in
| the inner cubbyhole the bed and the men
| kept wandering, in that unconventional way Of
people who live whole families in one or two
rooms, right in there. thus getting in the way Of
the nurse. who trying to battle the woman.
Finally she seized one OF them by the arm and
led him to the door.
Now. I want you to get out, and want you
to stay out" she said In her ringing voice. DO
| you understand
There was a great hubbub, and IT developed
| that the man she had hustled was the rabbi
The horror of the other men was intense; but
the rabbi stayed out
The next case on the nurses list took her to a
| tumbedown tenement in Water-st. small
girl opened the door. She was weeping bitterly
why. Rachel, what's the natter" asked the
nurse.
Me ladders been hittin' me mudder. an me
brudders mashed in me dolls face" sobbed the
child.
| tyranny, the doll and the woman. looking
equally battered. The nurse, after attending to
the sick baby on the bed. bandaged the woman's
| bruised arm but refraIned from nquiring into
| the fray.
Il never interfere in conjugaI difficulties" she
lrad 70 tbo aF