New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08

needs is fresh air and cod liver oil and raw eggs, and
then he'll be strong.
RUT the mountain air, the aroma oi the pine woods
- raw eggs fresh milk and cod liver oil were never IN
tended for Ycd. Three later Chayim, Herr knobc
cashier as he looked through the circular hole IN the
window saw Yckl gazing al him. His face was terror
stricken His eyes blinkcd he gaspcd for breath and
held handkerchief 10 his mouth He saulcd ChaNW
who emerged from the boXOitCc with nod OF his head
"Now you'll kcrch it when Herr Knobcl sees YOU.
exclaimed Chayim.
What can DO. dear Chayim," said Yckl. For no
amount OF money will go back there. It's so cold up
there no fire can warm YOU. MI day and night the wind
blows and they have open windows they won't let YOU
cIosc. WHY does Herr Knobc bother me? In New
York the air is hundred time, better there. WHAT 30
| get from IT, Look AZ this,
His handkerchief was hcckcd with blood.
The cmincn, ragoiian seated IN the foyer oi ms
thcatcr when Yck presented himself He stood before
him with such ab,cct humility and SO wocbcgonc that
Herr KnObcl face broke into kndncss as he 'd
well what do YOU want now, YOU scamp;
In reply, Yckl handed him a roll OF bills. He SAID
"Hcrc is eighty dollars, what | got lett. owe YOU
twenty, which you can take of from my wages.
"What wages, Whose wages; exclaimed Herr kno-
bel rising in "a rage. Has anyone asked You about
wages; Fool | send him away he should get well; he
talks TO me Of wages! What shall DO with you, lcll
say, ask YOU, can YOU FIX mp my costumes when You
spit Your lungs out; What will people say OF me now
when YOU got consumption too. Look at yourself, YOU
poor boy and what YOU We made OF your poor body
Come with me. You must see doctor the first thing
night away.
He followed Herr Knobcl mccklv 10 the office Of Dr.
Kamcnctz. who stripped him, examined him with in
s'rumcnts and then told him 10 dress Then he took
Herr knobcl aside and spoke TO him. When they had
LEI, the physicians Office Herr knobc said stcrnly:
THE doctors advice ls, chI, that YOU must get on
diet az once. \ die, YOU must eat some things
lots and other things not at all. You must sleep with
open windows and Ill the time YOU must be- IN the open
air You don't wan, 10 go the mountains; the ncXt
best thing is 10 move into the Bronx. You make Your
choice. In the mountains III pay all expenses. In the
city not at all; but TO show YOU that have Jewish
heart III get YOU stand in front OF my thcatcr and YOU
can sell things there few hours day. Maybe th Will
cover expenses. So let me know what YOU want 10 do
For a week Ycll went about as in a dream. His life
was on the verge Of being rcmadc His experiences
i'm the mountains had been terrifying lie had felt
around him people, but bleak and uncouth Nature
subject TO outbreaks OF temper. Life up there WAS an
unbroicn soloquy. There according to Herr knobcl,
was health.
But 10 leave the thcatcr to miss the intimate touch
with the dressing room whence Herr knobcl emerged
as the hereto Uric Acosta night the next the
mystical Black Jew who iorsook his parents and his
people for Christianity; another night the distressed
father: the next as sobcrhucd Hamlet not to all
this grandeur in the making and to hear the rumbngs
of applause they waited up to him in the dress
ing room,
Within hearing distance Of the thcatcr he could catch
the comments the thcatcrgocrs between the acts ne
could meet Ihul and gossip with him on the affairs OF
the world Of make believe He preferred that TO the
solitude Of the mountains. Had he been gifted with
speech, YcI might have said that the mountains were
too close TO God. and ne was afraid
He took lodgings in the BronX and came to Herr
Knobcl and said:
"II stay here Herr Knobcl Give me what to pcddc,
and III pcddlc"
The actor placed his hand Yckl's head and said,
"If YOU had done what told YOU, YOU would not be
what YOU are now But there is no use talking to you
Scamp, You want to stay with me and die But don't
think I'm going to leave you pcddIc and maybe not
earn q living and sarvc instead OF getting well. which