Elmer replied apologetically

“You see, of us, you don’t know what it means to be on a God-forsaken island someplace within the Pacific. You crave to be with your individual…. You’re lonesome” “Aha!” stated the daddy, “you’ve touched the actual level. In your absence we too had been lonesome. The hundreds of thousands of individuals round us didn’t imply something. We had been lonesome just for one particular person—you. It was within the temple when he prayed for you that we felt as if you happen to had been with us.”

As Mr. and Mrs. Oppenheimer had been about to depart the home they observed that Elmer was additionally placing on his coat.

“Don’t keep out too late,” his father pleaded with him. “I hope you’ll be residence once we return.”

“We’ll all return collectively,” Elmer stated. “I’m going with you.”

THE LAST RUB

It was early Friday morning and Moishe Babroisk entered the Russian-Turkish Bathtub Home owned by Nathan

Paravik. He had labored within the tub home as attendant for the final thirty-five years. He kissed the mezuzah, wiped his watery eyes, and sat in a chair to relaxation.

He may hardly consider that this was his final day on the place the place he had labored all these lengthy years. Throughout this lengthy interval he had attended hundreds of jews, infrequently just a few non-Jews, who got here to refresh themselves with the stream and warmth of the bathtub.

Just a few days in the past, he had had event to attend a funeral and go to the cemetery the place he learn quite a few acquainted names on the tombstones. A few of those that rested underneath the stones appeared so vividly to him that he may nearly visualize having them on the bench, soaping them, washing them, and getting an enormous tip.

He gazed on the empty partitions from which the paint was coming off, for the reason that proprietor, Paravik, didn’t care to make repairs in view of the truth that he had deliberate to shut up the institution.

Of the various incidents he had skilled throughout his lengthy tenure, he was reminded of the horrible factor that occurred about twenty-five years earlier than when the bathtub home had been become a human slaughterhouse.