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Updated: September 24, 2025
"I say to my Roscoe that after school to-day he should bring up the rubber-plant out of the cellar." "That's right; use 'em while they're young, Mrs. Lissman. When they grow up it's different." "Mrs. Shongut, you should talk! Only last night I says to my husband, I says, when I seen Miss Renie pass by, 'Such a pretty girl! I tell you, Mrs.
Like I says to Shongut coming out on the street-car with him to-night, if it hadn't been that I thought maybe my mother would like a little fanciness after a hard life like hers, for my own part a little house and a big garden is all I ask for." "Ach, Mr. Hochenheimer, with such a grand house like that is sunk-in baths Mrs. Schwartz says you got!
Just because he comes here on a day's business and then comes out to supper with papa don't mean so much." "Don't it? Well, then, if you know more about what's in this letter than I do, I've got no more to say." Mrs. Shongut sat down as though the power to stand had suddenly deserted her limbs. "What what do you mean, Renie?"
"Some time, Mrs. Lissman, when my Renie ain't home, I want you should come over and I read you some of the letters that girl gets from young men. So mad she always gets at me if she knows I talk about them." "Mrs. Shongut, you'll laugh when I tell you; but already in the school my Jeannie gets little notes what the little boys write to her.
If I wasn't afraid of papa, with his heart, I'd tell him so, too. I'd tell him so now. I won't be married out I won't be married out! I won't! I won't!" Mrs. Shongut clasped her cheeks in the vise of her two hands. "Married out! She reproaches me yet a mother that would go through fire for her children's happiness!"
Down at Rindley's this morning nothing was fine enough for that Birdie to buy for her table. I tell you, Mrs. Shongut, money ain't everything in this world." "I always tell Renie she can take her place with the best of them." "Washing?" "An hour already my Lizzie has been down in the laundry." "Half a day I take Addie to help with the ironing." "You should watch her, Mrs.
Shortly after, the Adolph Shongut Produce Company signed a heavy note and bought out the Mound City Fancy Sausage and Poultry Company at a low figure. The spring following, large "To Let" signs appeared in the second-story windows of the modest house on Cook Street.
Shongut laughed deep, as though a spiral spring was vibrating in the recesses of his throat. "Bashful with the girls eh, Hochenheimer?" "I ain't much of a lady's man, Shongut." "Well, I wish you was just so bashful in business believe me! I wish you was." "Shongut, I never got the best of you yet in a deal."
Shongut, whose soot balls increased, and by Rena, who developed large pores; shamed by the scorn of a son who had the finger-nails and trousers creases of a bank clerk Adolph Shongut joined the great pantechnicon procession Westward Ho! and moved to a flat out on Wasserman Avenue a six-room-and-bath, sleeping-porch, hot-and-cold-water, built-in-plate-rack, steam-heat, hardwood-floor, decorated-to-suit-tenant flat neatly mounted behind a conservative incline of a front terrace, with a square patch of rear lawn that backed imminently into the white-stone garages of Kingston Place.
You seen for yourself, if it was not for Aunt Becky begging him nearly on her knees, how he would have treated us that time with the mortgage. Better, I say, Izzy should stay with his papa in business or get out West like he wants, and where he can't keep such fine white hands to gamble with." Miss Shongut slanted deeper until her slim body was a direct hypotenuse to the chair.
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