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Updated: June 28, 2025
"If a girl can cook a little and " "Look there at Ray, nothing in her head but that novel she's reading, and little snips that'll treat her to a soda-water if she hangs round the White Front long enough, and ride her down to Brighton on one of those dirty excursion boats if she " "You shut up, Miriam Binswanger, and mind your own business!" "You let her talk to me that way, mamma?"
In this age of prose, when men's hearts turn point-blank from blank verse to the business of chaining two worlds by cable and of daring to fly with birds; when scholars, ever busy with the dead, are suffering crick in the neck from looking backward to the good old days when Romance wore a tin helmet on his head or lace in his sleeves in such an age Simon Binswanger first beheld the high-flung torch of Goddess Liberty from the fore of the steerage deck of a wooden ship, his small body huddled in the sag of calico skirt between his mother's knees, and the sky-line and clothes-lines of the lower East Side dawning upon his uncomprehending eyes.
"A no-count yet is what we need in the family. Get right away such ideas out your head. All my life I 'ain't worked so hard to spend my money on the old country. In America I made it and in America I spend it. Now just stop it, right away, too." "Go to it, pa!" Suddenly Miss Binswanger let fall her head into her cupped hands. Tears trickled through. "I I just wish that I I hadn't been born!
Binswanger fell into the attitude of reading again, knees crossed and one carpet slipper dangling. "I know plenty girls as get engaged on dry land, Carrie; just get such ideas that they don't out of your head." "I don't say, Simon, I don't give you right, but after a winter like I been through I feel like maybe it's better to go as to stay." "That's right, ma, loosen up and she'll get you yet."
I tell you it's easier we should all go to Europe, even if we have to swim across, than every evening we should have spoilt for us." Ray Binswanger rose out of her shoulders, her eyes dazed with print, then collapsed again to the pages of her book. "Let her cry, mamma." "It's not so nice, Ray, you should treat your sister like that."
Ray should see Europe before she finds out there there's just one thing that's better than going to Europe. Please, mamma, don't get excited. I tell you we'll have things fine when you come back. Won't we, Irving, won't we?" "Ach, nothing in the house, Miriam." "We got to get off now, Miriam dear, we got to. You can write us about those things, Mrs. Binswanger mamma. Come, Miriam!"
Binswanger, according to Lewin, took eight gm. in two doses within an hour, which was followed by nausea, vomiting, and a feeling of pressure and fulness of the stomach which continued several hours. Molodenkow mentions two fatal cases from the external employment of boric acid as an antiseptic.
Binswanger rose from her restless couch and into a black flannelette wrapper. "Simon, wake up! How a man can sleep like that the day what he starts for Europe!" To her husband's continued and stentorian evidences of sleep she tiptoed to the adjoining bedroom, slippered feet sloughing as she walked. "Girls!" Only their light breathing answered her.
The sun rose over the roofs of the city, gilding them. At seven o'clock the household was astir, strapping, nailing, folding, and unfolding. Mr. Binswanger stooped with difficulty over his wicker traveling-bag. "So! Na!" In the act of adjusting her perky new hat Miriam flung out an intercepting hand. "Oh, papa, you mustn't put in that old flannel house-coat.
"You you can't fool me with that poor talk, papa. Everybody knows you get a bigger business each year. You can't fool me that way." Tears burst and flowed over her words, and her head burrowed deeper. Across her prostrate form Simon Binswanger nodded to his wife in rising perplexity. "Fine come-off, eh, Carrie?" "Miriam, ach, Miriam, come here to mamma."
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