East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-24
The Lights and Shadows
Of Life.

The lights and shadows of life were
never better eXemplified than in the
case of Miss Rose Harriet Pastor. the
Jewess poetess, who on Tuesday was
married in New York to John G.
Phelps Stokes, ulti-milllonaire. and
her half-brother, Samche Weislander,
tailor at the insane asylum in Sa-
lem, Ore. To the one has come
wealth, prominence and honor; to the
other there has been as his portion
only the toll of years and the promise
of a continuance of the same until
his day is done. And yet, true philos-
opher and sane man that he is, the
tailor begrudges not the good fortune
that has come to his sister, and wishes
her well of it and says he Is satisfied
with the work that is his.
Mr.. Weislander has been employed
at the asylum since the early part of
February. having come direct to this
city from Chicago, where he had been
employed for the past five or six
years. He is a hard working young
man. energetic and enthusiastic over
his work, rejoicing in the good for
tune of others and asking sympathy
OF none.
He expressed no surprise that his
sister should have climbed into the
band wagon OF prominence for he had
all along expected that she would
make her name one day. She early
evidenced much ability by her studi-
Gus habits and early writings while at
her home in Cleveland. But he did
not expect that she would marry into
wealth or prominence. for. and he
said 1t with pained expression, his
sister was never what might have been
called a pretty girl, being red-headed
slender-almost angular-even pain
fully thin, and with a sallow COM
pleXion.
Mrs. Stokes achieved her distinction
as writer during her connection with
the New York Daily News, a Jewish
publication of the orthodox stamp. IT
was while engaged in her work on
this paper that she first met the man
whom she married Tuesday. Previous
to her literary work she had been a
cigar maker. She learned this busi-
ness in Cleveland. And II was with
much pride that her brother remarked
that she was a good one, If not the
best In Cleveland. She did all things
well that she undertook, he said. She
had sweet voice and used to amuse
her co-laborers in the cigar factories
in Cleveland where she worked. In
her earlier days, while she, with her
mother, was living in London, she
sang upon the stage of a vaudeville
house in the famous Whitechapel dis
trict. But not for long, for her mother
was fearful lest her morals might be
corrupted.
Mr.. Weislander is some years older
than his sister, who bore his name
only for n few years, although both
were children of the same father. Mrs.
Stokes assumed the name of her
mothers second husband. which was
Pastor, and to whom her mother was
married in London.
Both children were born In Avgoos-
tova, in Lithuania, and lived there
until Mrs. Stokes was about two years
old, when the mother and daughter
moved to Germany and later to Lon
don. They came to this country in
the early nineties. settling In Cleve-
land, where Mr.. Weislander Joined
them later on and with whom he lived
until six years ago, when he moved to
Chicago. His sister had shown a
great taste for study. but was Of such
n nervous temperament that the doc
tors forbade her going to school and
she never got beyond "the second
reader" However, as her health Inn
proved she gave all her spare mo-
ments from work to study and read
ing, and developed the remarkable
literary ability that charactcrizes her
writings.