The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
TALES or 7HfGREAT EASTSIDE
MfRi KELLY TELLS SOME THE
MAGAZINES NAVE MISSED.
THE woman hho Hadn't Time 20 See Life
Outslde-HOw Mamma NBre tie stylish
Coat--The GOnOrowsky Feud aud What
Eya's Papa said, Falllns Down stairs.

Miss Myra Kelly. who IS well known az
writer for the magazines about the lie
of East Side children, entertained the Emma
Willard Association and it, guests for an
hour yesterday by telling stories about her
own little people Miss Kelly was intro
duced by the Rev. Mr. Mellish OF Holy
Trinity Church Of Brooklyn
She begun by explaining that what little
familiarity she had with the way folk IS
think and live and love on the East Side
was altogether due to her experience NJ q
school teacher The teacher gradually
won the confidence Of the babies Mics
Kelly always speaks OF her pupils as babies
and through them got giimpses OF their
homes, from the children the parents began
to learn the pnme confidence, and at last
one parent and then another would come
10 the school TO see the children. But
rarely would the children tell where their
homes were. They gave fictitious adj
dresses or they couldn't remember where
they lived
Miss Kelly minated that it Was rather
more than year before she was able TO get
any Of her little ones to let her 60 home
with them. They have an illilultable sus-
pioion and fear of the -knsht' Even
..iter they have learned TO love their teach
ers the children will not accent food from
them. They will take money and buy food
with il in kosher shops. But the religious
trimming is too strong 20 take any risks by
tasting krlsht food They speak a Ian.
guage in which Bowery slang, Russian
Hebrew and sometimes little German
are interminged
The poverty of those people VIII ose
children among themselves describe Them
selves d. ~Sbeenies however much they
may resent the tarm when they are older
i beyond description Miss Kelly told Just
one example Of IL. She had gone out looking
for a little girl who had stayed away from
school for several days. She found her
on the top floor Of a tenement where seven
sewing machines were running; the baby
was lying III IN a packing box behind the
stove
yet" said Miss Kelly they are a funny
people They can't help seeming happy
in their own contented way. The men. OF
course. realize that tue world does not
give them much chance-they are not happy,
But the women do not know that they are
unhappy. Their lives are complete
know OF one woman who did not come
down stairs TO the street IN seven years.
She had not time 10 go down stairs She
was too busy making button holes at 10
cents hundred
She could not speak word of English
She did not have "A very clear idea Of where
she was. and indeed Re might as well have
been back in Russia know by this time
she has come down into the street. because
the house was torn down TO make room
for the new bridge approach. Other
wise she might have been there yet.
Then Mis- Kelly began 10 tell stories
The first was to illust rate the ease with
which an East Side family could be made
happy teacher had given to one Qf the
babies cloak Of a type now gone blythe
~ - q .a.sln
child cane back. the Monday after the gift
had been made. eiTervesoent because the
cloak had made sucha glad foreverybody.
Her little sister had worn II, her big sister
had worn. it and her mother had worn IL,
au4. ali OF them had been 'Oh, 30 stylish
Teacher could understand the styli-h-
ness of the little sister and the older sister.
But Inanma weighed between 200 and
800 pounds Nevert helees, the girl insisted
that the cloak had made mamma stylish
But wasn't it all open down the front?'
asked the puzzled teacher.
NO, ma am, no. the child assured her
-She wore the baly there
Then there was the story OF the Gonor- |
owsby feud A. all magazine readers know, |
Miss Kelly hides herself behind a Miss |
Bailey" in telling her stories, Yesterday !
she told how Miss Bailey noticed that the |
two Gonorowsky girls had no social inter |
course. The name vas peculiar even in |
that neighbOrhood. and Miss Bailey was |
sure that they were related She instituted |
inquiries and learned that they werecousius. |
but that Eva and Sadie couldn't have a |
glad on with one another because Eva's /
mommer had mad on Sadie's mommer /
and Eva's pepper had mad on Nadie's |
pepper and Eva'S grandfather had a mad |
on Sadie's grandfather
The feud broke out actively in the school |
Sadie complained that Eva, she makes on |
me a snoot with her hand" Likewise there |
came in an element u loves young dream. |
Eva complained that Sadie had put a young !
man up to kicking her and backing her |
eye. Investigation showed that Sadie had |
promised the young man a kiss IL he would |
black Eya's eye. Also that Sadie's pepper |
owned a verv stvlsh caodv cart.
M@ Miss Bailey kept Sadie in. Argument I
according to all the advanced educational /
methods failed to bring forth an eVplana- /
tion. But that which Miss Kelly described /
~ a nursery method did. 1t was ev-
planned that when Eva's father came over /
from Russia he had no money. And Sadie, I
father was awful kind 10 him lending him
return when he became prosperous
And it mint polite said Eva, TO not I
pay back Il tousan' dollar
After two months Sade's father wrote |
for his money. There was no answer. 30 !
he got lawyers tterF which Miss Bailey ,
was made to understand was a most ex- |
pensive proceeding, costing punches and !
lunches Of money,
After another two months Sadie's father I
rad a most awful mad on Eva's father and I
wrote him a letter which must have been 1
a work Of art
For said Sadie all the mad words 4
mine fader knows he writes; my mudder, /
rhe has an awful mad, too, and She sits by :
ride by mine fader and all the mad words /
she knows she says, and my fader writes, .
on the letter
IA a result OF this letter Eya's father .
came TO the other Gonorowsky fat late at /
night and -knopped on the door. This /
also was not polite. Sadie acknowledged |
that she had an awful scare.
Sadie's father made tho door open and [
then her uncle made fiat in her fathers
face. Fists are not for people Sadie OBJ
served, who do not pay back thousand /
dollars With many blushing- and STAN
merings Sadie explained 10 Miss Bailey
that her father said to her uncle the terrible
words Go 10 hell With more stam-
mering and more blu-hing she added that
her uncle addressed her father likewise
Miss Kelly apoloG I'D to Mr.. Mellish most
sweeuy for reproducing the shocking
Goncr )wsky langunge.l
Then Sadie- father who was prodi-
giously strong because he had been taking
-extrasize' with machine every morning
bifed his brother on the nose Il was on
the fifth Hour. and Evas father fell down
down down 70 the street and on every
stem a 1itN most died az punl.a m lzrnauf