The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22

When he is near they always act
M AFRAID that he is going to stay.
N Nor t eYsn MN I'm n not to come for lunch.
When there's seamstress in the house
Man has to live his life alone.
Just let a seamstress enter there
And man is Insignificant:
ne cuts no ffgure-not as much
AS does the family rubber plant.
| They do not want to see him round,
He is a useless thing until
Until the seamstress wants her pay.
Detroit Free Press.
Strange Deathbed Divorce.
TO save herself from participation
| IN what orthodox Jews regard as the
most solemn and distressing ceremony
known as "Chelitze," Mrs. Mary
Chairman, a pretty nineteen-year-old
woman, of Williamsburg, was d.
vorced from her husband, Noah
deathbed in Bellevue hospital. The
decree of divorce was granted to her
by rabbi and gives her the right to
marry any man that she chooses.
According to the Mosaic law, the
| widow of an Orthodox Hebrew must
| marry her dead husbands brother in
the event that she is left childless.
But the brother of the deceased must
be unmarried, and unless she marries
she must undergo the "Chelitze" GER
emory.
There were two reasons why Mrs.
| husband. to whom she was married
| only few days ago. The first was
that she didn't want to become the
| wife of her husbands brother, and,
| then, she didn't care to go through
the strange ceremonies known as
| "Chelitze." Had her husband died,
she could have married some one else
| instead of her husbands brother II
he had granted her "Chelitze.''
Now it won't be necessary for her
to go through "Chelitze'' in the event
that her husband dies. because she
has been divorced from him.
The strange ceremony is perform
ed in the temple on the Sabbath
morning. The brother Of the deceas-
ed dresses himself in the ''Kittel' in
which religious Jews are buried. A
large wooden shoe is put on his right
strap, a part of which is tied into a
very tight knot. The widow is COM
PEELED to enter the temple. which is
pitch dark and she is ordered to I'M
| tie the knot. 1t often takes three to
four hours to unite the knot, because
she is permitted only to use the first
two fingers of each hand. If she fails
| to unite the knot she can marry no
one but her husbands brother.-New
York American.
Horse Tried to Commit Suicide.
Police Sergeant Mylett and Will
liam Mahan, and Patrick Sullivan,
| residents of the South End. proved
| themselves near heroes yesterday
when they saved a horse, owned by
scrap iron dealer. from committing
| suicide.
The horse had his head buried in
water which filled a trough in front of
| the Woodland avenue cemetery, when
Mylett came to the rescue. The driver
had attempted to back the animal
bulge the beast. When the police Of
| ficer tried to coax the horse to put
| his head out of water he had no
| better success. Then Mylett called
| Mahan and Sullivan to his aid, and
| the three men by main force pulled
the horse away from the trough. The
sergeant ordered the driver to take
| the animal to the barn and get an
other horse to pull home the load.
The driver said that the horse was
| tired, and that he thought he would
refresh the steed by watering him at
| the cemetery trough. After the ami
NAL took one swallow, he buried his
| head up to his ears in the water and
refused to pay any attention to the
| voice Of command.-Cleveland Leader.
Survived Loss of Brains.
| With his brain smaller by four
| ounces than when he fired a bullet into
his head on April g. Jacob Ritz within
a few days will be discharged. cured.
from st. Mary's hospital. in Brooklyn:
His case has drawn the attention OF
physicians from all parts of the city.
| The hospital doctors said yesterday
| the recovery was one of the most re-
| markable on record.
1t was thought that even II Ritz sur
vived he would lose sight and taste, as
| the bullet passed through the part OK
| the brain controlling these senses. Re
peated tests, however, have shown his
| sight has not been impaired and that
| his taste Is as sensitive as ever.
| A bullet piowed through Ritz's brain.
! fracturing the skull on both. sides and
passing through the frontal lobes. He
| lay unconscious for several days. A
tumor formed between brain and skull
and pressed upon the injured lobes. A
1 rubber tube was inserted In the bullet
hole in the right temple and the tumor
was drained Off. Before Ritz began to
recover the physicians removed,
through the bullet hole. part OF his
brain, Weighing in all about four
| ounces-New York Press.