The Denver Jewish news., 1921-09-28
Sarah Miriam Goes To
College
BY Leah Rachel YOMe.

even lIlt hdbDi thhuStu lht usuui
order of doing things. for was not
Sarah Miriam, the only daughter, the
beloved. going off TO college in few
days-going off to that strange new
world which they knew nothing of. and
where they entrusted her to the keep
ing of the God of mercy?
The Rebbetzin hurried abont, saying
to herself "Only n few more days" She
] packed and sewed and polished. while
Sarah Miriam stood over her and plead
ed. Mother. I'll never use this or
There's no need to give me that"
But the Rebbetzin FURNISHED the old
brass candlesticks that had been her
mothers mothers. she polished the little
hand wrought copper tea-kettle which
she had carefully brought all the way
from Russia.
.'Oh yes, / know" she nodded, "these
will make your room look pretty. i
heard Mrs. Blumenstock say the other
day that they were very valuable; and
she knows because she's rich lady and
lives in the West End,
But does she intend me to turn my
shop?"
Never mind. your tea will taste bet
ter from that nice little copper kettle.
I'd give you the samoyar, only ! don't
know how to pack it,
you funny mother. I believe you'd
put the whole house into my trunk.
Oh. here comes Mrs. Blumenstock now"
Mrs. Blumenstock sailed in. She was
fat and sleek, and her fingers were GOV
cred with diamonds.
'Oh. my dear" she gushed, "wc're all
so proud of you, A Jewish girl to get
the Warren Smith scholarship! And
my dear. think how wonderful the en-
vironment will be!''
Environment" smiled Sarah Mi
riam what do you mean?"
"well, you know" Mrs. Blumen'
stock hesitated. She did not like to
hurt these plain people by speaking OF
what she considered their deficiencies.
You see. tit will be such n different
life"
Mrs. BlumenstOck finally took herself
and her perfumes off. but Sarah Miriam
thought for n long time over what she
had said. "Will it really be so wonder
ful? Is the environment so elevating
and is our life here among our poor Rus
sian Jewish people so very interiors?
And she began to expect great things OF
the State university where she was
going.
The Ancient Greeting.
| But her dreams were broken by hei
father, who was just returning from the
synagogue with Reb Chayim and Rel
Shmool Presently they would go into
the next room, which served as the
Rabbits study and audience chamber.
there to work out and decide some com
plicatcd question in Jewish law. Now
they greeted mother and daughter with
the ancient greeting of their people.
Peace be with you"
And the answer was given in the
beautiful old Hebrew words:
w ltn you De pe'tct.
80 you're going away. Sarah Mi
RAM"
Yes, Reb Chayim. I am going to
study at big university
"And you won the scholarship a your
high school. That is great honor"
"Oh. no. laughed Sarah Miriam, Il
am ashamed to take the scholarship: ]
did so little work for it. / spent most
of my high school years in reading, not
getting my lessons. You know, it is
very easy for me to learn things, and
so the scholarship came to me without
any effort. and / deserve no credit for
it at all"
Easy to learn things! No wonder!'
exclaimed Reb Shmool. Her ancestors
for three hndrcd years have been Rab-
bis and scholars. All, Rabbi he added
sadly. IF you had a SON.
"God has blessed me with daughter"
answered the Rabbi.
| A few days more and the good-byes
were said, the blessing given, and Sarah
Miriam was in the train. with hamper
full of homemade goodies in her lap,
and sob and choking lump in her
throat.
Once before she had been homesick,
when she spent week in the country
with n group of her chums But it was
nothing like this this going off into a
strange world.
But Sarah Miriam could not be un-
interested in the world about her. The
cornfields on either side of the train
flew past her in queer geometric de-