a child was a very essential thing to
do.

The lack of the spirit of brotherhood that the Jew has encountered from
the outside world has found a balance in an increased expression of love
within his family. That most atrocious English plan of taking the child
from his parents at a tender age and placing him in a boarding-school
managed by holluschickies has never been adopted by the Jews.

Fear, repression and shock to vibrating nerves through threats,
injunctions and beatings have fixed in the Christian races a whole round
of "children's diseases," which in our ignorance we attribute to "the
will of God."

Let this fact be stated, that old folks who are sent over the hill to
the poorhouse have invited their fate. And conversely, elderly people
who are treated with courtesy, consideration, kindness and respect are
those who, in manhood's morning, have sown the seeds of love and
kindness. Water rises to the height of its source; results follow
causes; chickens come home to roost; action and reaction are equal;
forces set in motion continue indefinitely in one direction. The laws of
love are as exact as the laws of the tides that moan and cry and beat
upon the shores, the round world over. A family of ten children born and
reared in a noisome Ghetto, and all strong and healthy? Impossible, you
say, yet such is the fact, and not a rare exception either. Happiness is
the great prophylactic, and nothing is so sanitary as love, even though
it be flavored with garlic.

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The father of Mayer Anselm was a traveling merchant--call him a pedler,
a Jewish pedler, and have done with it. He made trips outside of the
Ghetto, and used to come back with interesting tales of adventure that
he would relate to the household and neighbors who would drop in.

Not many Jews ventured outside of the Ghetto--to do so was to invite
insult, robbery and violence. However, to get out is to grow. This man
traded safety for experience and so got out and grew. He evidently knew
how to take care of himself. He was courageous, courteous, intelligent,
diplomatic. He made money. And always he wore the yellow hat and the
yellow patch upon his breast.

In the "Red Shield" there was usually at least one Rabbi. One of the
sons of Anselm Moses must be a Rabbi. The parents of little Mayer Anselm
set him apart for the synagogue--he was so clever at reciting prayers
and so glib with responses. Then he had an eczema