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A young man like Leo Friedlander crazy to propose and my child can't let him come to the point because she is afraid to leave her mother. Oh, I know I know more than you think I do. Ruining your life! That's what I am, and mine too!" Tears now ran in hot cascades down Alma's cheeks. "Why, mama, as if I cared about anything just so you get well." "I know what I've done.

Trying to come between your mother and me. Ain't you ashamed? What is it you want?" "Louis I don't " "First you turn down a fine fellow like Leo Friedlander, so he don't come to the house any more, and then you take out on us whatever is eating you, by trying to come between me and the finest woman that ever lived. Shame! Shame!"

At the business of sewing some beads on a lamp shade Carrie looked up, her eyes dewy. "And I felt that way about one good husband," she said, "and now I see there could be two." Alma tiptoed out. The third month of this she was allowing Leo Friedlander his two evenings a week. Once to the theater in a modish little sedan car which Leo drove himself.

Didn't that youngster go out to Dayton the other day and land a contract for the surgical fittings for a big new hospital out there before the local firms even rubbed the sleep out of their eyes? I have it from good authority, Friedlander & Sons doubled their excess-profits tax last year." A white flash of something that was almost fear seemed to strike Mrs. Samstag into a rigid pallor. "No! No!

When the score or so of guests were seated, he announced that he was collecting subscriptions for some public object the national airship fund, perhaps and sent a sheet of paper to Herr Friedlander Fuld, the "coal-king" of Germany, to head the list. Herr Fuld wrote down £5,000, and the paper was taken back to the Emperor. "Oh, this will never do, lieber Fuld," he exclaimed, on seeing the amount.

It was to Friedländer that Bishop Malchevsky, actuated, as he maintained, by a desire to render the Jews worthy of the enjoyment of civil rights, applied for suggestions, in 1816, when the missionary zeal of Alexander I was first aroused.

The bishop of Kuyavia, Malchevski, addressed himself in the name of the Polish Government to Friedländer, calling upon him, as a pupil of Mendelssohn, the educator of Jewry, to state his views on the proposed Jewish reforms in Poland. Flattered by this invitation, Friedländer hastened to compose an elaborate "Opinion on the Improvement of the Jews in the Kingdom of Poland."

That very same, that dreadful night, almost without her knowing it, her throat-tearing sobs broke loose, her face to the waistcoat of Leo Friedlander. He held her close. Very, very close. "Why sweetheart," he said, "I could cut out my heart to help you. Why, sweetheart. Shh-h-h, remember what Louis says. Just the beautiful memory of her is wonderful "

To the credit of the Jewish financiers be it said that they were always the banner bearers of enlightenment. It had been so with German Aufklärung, when Ben-David, Itzig, Friedländer, and Jacobson, laid the corner-stone of the intellectual rebirth of their people. It was more especially so in Russia during the "sixties."

The whole edition of his Yen Lebanon, which fell flat in the latter country, though offered gratis, was sold when introduced into the former. Joseph Pesseles' correspondence concerning Dubno, with David Friedländer, the disciple of Mendelssohn , proves the high esteem in which the liberal-minded savants of Berlin were held in Russia.