Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-02-23


Nov, now, Bertha L amt so steady
myself If you hang on me like that"
mo, but them three rough days
when we first started, you could hang
on me, l tell you. When my legs
wasn't even so steady as they are
now"
Trees closed over them, cacti and
the heavy fronds Of palms.
"Mama-papa Just see. Isn't 1t
just perfect? Oh. Mr. Danziger, no
wonder you raved and raved about
Madeira"
Just wait, if you think this is 60
ing some, Miss Esther Wait until
we go up the mountainside on the
funicular and come down on sledges."
"Whew, give me my fan out of your
pocket, Aaron. l don't want to say
nothing right in the start, but l tell
you l amt stuck on the smells here.
Mrs. Kron and her husband was right
to stay on the ship If"
Mama ~
"Oh, come now, Mrs. Lefkovitch !;
this smell isn't so bad"
There's nobody, Mr.. Danziger, can
tell me better as my own nose what
l SMELL"
"Mama!"
There's no use talking, Miss
Esther; your mama don't think much
of us Chicago boys. She's all to the
New York"
SIT amt Chicago 1 don't think SO
much of, Mr.. Danziger; never blame
the jug for what comes out of it."
"Ouch, take that one with you,"
cried MIR. Danziger, lodging an imag-
mary blow
"And maybe. Mr.. Danziger, since
you say 1t, we got right in New York
as fine boys as"
"Ach, Danziger, my old lady likes
to have her little fuss with everybody.
I'm glad enough for a while it should
be you instead Of me. Like my son
Niche back home in New York saws.
her bite is worse as her bark. l got
a fine boy back home, Danziger. But
always when he wants to tease his
mama little, that's what he says to
her"
Laughter, two large dimples and the
crow's-feet Of amiability crept into
Mr.. Danziger's face. and he flung one
arm along Mr.. Lefkovitch's stopped
shoulders.
"You got mighty fine lady for a
wife just the same, Lefkuvitch-a
mighty fine lady"
"See, see, mama, there 20 some Of
the Portuguese who live here, right
past you"
A group of native riff-raff, bare
limbed and their brown backs still
glistening from the dive, scuttled past
"Don't look, Esther, 1 feel ashamed
enough. tell you If l had known
what goes on In town like this, right
on the boat where a young girl dom
need to be ashamed where she looks
you would have stayed"
Mama, this isn't"
II don't think 1t is so nice, Mr.. Dan
Tiger, since you been here before. vol
didn't first tell my daughter they e
around in this place worse as in bath
ing suits at stylish summer resorts
at home In America"
Mr.. LefkovItch cast a thoughtful
sQuint after the group.
Il tell you, Danziger, there's a gold
mine in this kind Of a town for a
smart fellow with few dollars to in
vest"
wouldn't be surprised"
IF l was young fellow like my
son, Niche, right away in town like
this in furnishing goods business l
could make money"
wouldn't be surprised"
"Cheap rents and low expenses! To
sell pants to men who don't know
anything about them amt so hard as
to sell them to men what know too
much about them. l bet you, Dan
Tiger, with a few thousand dollars,
two young fellows like you and my
son Niche, or his friend, Abe Katz,
could make big money in a town like
this" =
"For our son, let me tell you, Aaron,
right in New York, where you built
up for yourself your own business, Is
good enough for him, too"
"Oh, look, mama, please Iooki See
the oxen teams pulling the sledges up
hill"
Zach, and Esther, see over there the
embroidery shops. A whole string of
them like Mrs. Kron said there would
be-"
mo, no, mama, please don't cross
over there. We're all going up the
mountalnside in a little train, mama,
to see the scenery. Aren't we, Mr..
DanzigerT
"You won't have time for shopping
this time, Mrs. Lefkovftch, If you want
to take that trip up the mountain and
be back on the boat by three"
"For scenery, Mr.. Danziger, l got
time when l got nothing else what is
more important. l guess, Aaron, If l
can buy linens here half so cheap as
at home, you want yet | should go up
on the mountain top to look at seen
eryT
"But, mama, everybody goes up.
See, they're all going toward the
funicular. We didn't come all this
distance to look at linens. Honest, If
you're going to start that way, II
just wish hadn't come"
Zach come, Bertha; If the child
wants we should look at the scenery
what's the difference if you got to pay
little more for such linens back in
American"
"You always, Aaron, in front Of
company got big ways. l tell you