The sun., 1910-02-17
JENNIE SCHLOFSKY'S EXIT
SHE LEAPS FROM HER SMALL
World INTO THE DARN.
, A Baker walking In the street ReIOw
Runs as Her FALLING BO6y scAtters HIs
warm hOaNes-- Before That Poison
Mamma Faster Explains About IzzS. -.

Runs as Her Failing BOOy scatters HIs
warm I.OaNes--B Before That Poison
MAMMA PaSter Explains About Izly
Jennie Schlofsky's world was a small
one too small to contain both hurts aud
happiness. When the hurts crowded out
the happiness Jennie Schlofsky chose to
leave her small world, and the way Of her
gong was the clumsy way OF distracted
girl
Before 9 O'Clock yesterday morning
chen the sweatshop workers were iust
beginning to stir on Second street Jennie
got out of bed, half dressed herself. creut
through the fiat OF Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Faster. with whom she boarded on the
top noor Of the house at los; took from a
shelf glass and filled it with water. then
vent up the stairs to the roof She also
carried to the roof small wooden box
filed with gray white powder that
smslled strongly of csrbolic acid salts.
This box she had bought at a drug store
the night before.
Alone on the roof where the bristling
chimney pots and the webs of clothesIines
we're, the girl whose hurts she believed
10 be too great poured most Of the boz
fll Of powder into the water, then drank
the water. Before the poison twisted her
limbs into paralysis she crawled under an
iron railing up steep slope of tin man
sard to the edge OF the roof That was the
edge, Of the dark. She stepped out into
the dark.
A baker was Walking down Seoond
street, the basket on his arm filled with
warm loaves, stacked like cordwood
Something ripped the basket of his arm
and scattered the loaves broadcast The
baker did not stop to gather his stock but
he ran painting with terror. When the
police came later they gathered up the
broken loeves' with methodical honesty
and took them along to the station in the
same wagon.
It was because Of Izzy. said Mamma
Mamma Faster. did not see anythine
grotesque in the name Izzy at the root OF
httle Tragedy IL was because of lazy
hreneisky that Jennie had done this
hing. lazy was her sweetheart Mamma
Faster asserted with a grave shake of the
head. which indicated that though Mamma
Faster was an old woman she remembered
days when there were sweethearts. Could
any one doubt that IL was because of
lzzy when there was the note that Jennie
herself had written and left stuck in the
edge Of q shut drawer?'
can't live no more the FIRST line of
the four scrawled ones read Il love
l1zy. It's maddening. II can't have
MIN Il Will uOt uNs NlJlOuE nlnl. INe
next line was smeared and blotted and
then were the " ords forgive me
Jennie had chosen an odd time to write
that note, said Mamma Paster Jennie
slept with her dearest friend. Jennie
RaoinowItz, that poor girl there with a
.Iowei on her head--ah. how the poor
glrl has tsken on since Jennie Schlotsky
uld thzt thtngi Jennie Schlofsky got
up out'of her bed at 4 clock in the morn
ing and began to write letter st the
table. Then her friend Gwoke and asked
her why she wes writing at such a strange
hour. end Jennie replied that she must
get letter of her papa, who lives in
blalovstok, Russia. That was the last
Line thi.t Jennie Rabinowitz saw her
dearest friend
YES. yes, but Jennie Schlofsky was a
good girl. Mr'mme Pester went to the
misntel and brought down q brood photo
grapn. 1t showed a father in long black
clothes and skull cap sitting by mother
sttffiy back of him. Mamma Pastors
fingers settled on e slender girl with
siesr cut face End great coils OF hair piled
u plrits over her eyes. That was Jennie
three yeers ago before she came from
Russie to New York; she was only 10 then.
One OF those brothers in the photograph
hNed In Paterson, \. j., and Mamma
Faster thought that he ought to be over
soon. for she herself had sent him a tele-
gram.
Aboat Izzy? Oh, YES. Mamma Faster
wished 10 tell OF how Jennie had had
such q great love for Ezzy. who is paper
hanger when he is not out OF a job. but
who has been out OF job these two
months now. IL was a good love; OF
that. Mamma Poster was sure. and a
consuming
Jennie had worked at shirtwaists until
the strike and sh went back after the
strike. But all the time she thought of
Izzy, and she talked OF how fine a man
Iw~ .f,.t
he could not get stes.dy jobs and money
TO marry with. Izzy used TO come end |
cali on Jennie on Sunday and Wednes- |
day nights. and on those nights Papa !
and Mamma Faster used to sit together |
N the Kitchen allowing Jennie and Izzy I
TO be alone on the yellow plush sofa in the
parlor. !
Perhaps there was trouble between |
them; who knowsY Al any rate FIVE !
weeks ago Jennie had q terrible sickness |
IN the head, so that she lay in her bed |
and sang and screamed and laughed |
and all the time talked OF killing herself |
because lazy was no longer loving.
Mamma Faster said that after she and !
Papa Paster had held Jennie in her bed !
ali one night 80 that she would not get !
nut and do herself harm they sent for /
lzzy and be came the next morning and
stayed by Jennie all day Everything
seemed to be all right again. Izzy was
around just last Sunday and he took
vile .s.L."
But something happened between them
after that. Mamma Faster lifted her
hands and her eyes. Who knows what
II was that happened?
And see," said Mamma Faster. lis
his not stranger" She led the way to
one of the fats front windows end pointed
down TO that place on the sidewalk six
floors below where the bakers loaves
sd been so suddenly scattered that
morning. A marble cutters shop was
next door to the house where Mamma |
Pastet lives, and on the sidewalk, olmost |
under the windows of Mamma Pacter's !
Eat. were the bristling spires OF to nh |
stones