The Denver Jewish news., 1922-03-15
Esther FuIfills Her
Destiny
By JESSIE ABRAMS

queen OF Persia. saved her people
nom total humiliation. And the fiery
ambition of youth burned within her
breast, so that she made Il vow that
She too, would one day do as much
for her people.
But ambitions are the creatures of
circumstances, and we are the crea-
lures of our. ambitions. Thus, when
Esther Rosoff WAS sixteen her al
truistic dream had quite faded from
her memory. and she was much more
concerned with the economic status of
portunities for making money than
with the desire to be Il champion of
the oppressed.
Within Esther's breast there now
burned the ambition to become a sales
lrdy in departmental store for to
her a saleslady typified the very cs'
sence of the highest form Of lady
hood Her air of nonchalance, her con
temptuous ignoring of her customers
her complete self-possession in the face
of whitening glances, made Esther feel
that the saleslady had the poise OF
true breeding and she louged to be II
lady. as her limited intelligence I'M
der stood the term. just as strong
man longs to ruin "A race.
But the work of II saleslady, genteel
Ms it is. is hardly desirable as pay
ing proposition. And there were o
number of little Rosoffs pushing their
inquiring heads out into the world,
that made it absolutely essential for
Esther to add substantially 10 the
family budget.
s., Esther went to work in Il factory
sewing buttons ON coats, work that did
not oyertax her slender intelligence
and that permitted her ample dreams
to indulge in speculation of the future.
Into her perspective came one Har-
ny Blickstcin. who fashioned the but
r-holes to which Esther fitted tho
buttons. Being thus thrown INFO
sort of commercial partnership Harry
and Esther gradually came to looH
upon each other as making the bes'
of partners for the journey OF life.
/ with a little money" said Harry
Il could set up little buttoniioi'
shop of my own. and we would get q
fine living for two people, who are no.
too cxtravagant.
Which modest ambition seemed Il
Either Intensely desirable. and she
looked out upon life as a road fun o
rosy possibilities. in which there hg
urcd prominently number of babies
10 cleaner than was necessary and ;
modest little house. in no better
neiglborhood than the one she ha'
been brought up in.
But in that year the war broke OUT
and buttonholc makers attained "A tire
| mcndous Importance in supplying nun
! dretls of thcusands of soldiers uni
/ forms with that absolute necessity o.
T, modern civilization. the buttonholc.
| The miraculous advance of Harr!
| iSlickstein was the miraculous advanc,
/
| possess what we call war-fortunee
and in the fourth year of the war he
| was known as the ''Buttonholc King,
and Esther was far more II Queen
| absolute independence than was hei
namesake in Persia. who after all. wa
no more than the head-wifc of the
Harcm and knew nothing of the free
dom from restrictions enjoyed b!
women of today.
Esther Blicdstein had worked just
as hard as her husband in the foui
years of their miraculous rise-not in
tho factory hut in trying to keep III
their social position to the high-water
mark set by their financial rise
Now. all women will agree that
Fsther's was the harder part Social
position of the kind that has to he
climbed for. is the most elusive thing
in the world and needs to be follow
I'd with answering loyalty and single
ness of purpose. rr.
First of all. Esther had 10 live down
the friends of her youth. with whom
she had exchanged many intimate
anecdotes over the railing of bach
gallery. to the musical accompaniment
of a suuCaky clothes line
As early in the game AS the acquire
ment of the first Ford, Esther lad
81. IL