Jake's Guests
Fagin, Mary
June 30, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 211 JAKE'S...
...them, too...
...Or maybe country...
...You and has decided to return to the different parts of don't have to cry," he preaches to her...
...Her hair loose, watchmen guard...
...The matron brings in milk...
...arms and turns to an older child who is tugging at her But she couldn't see, Tor her eyes, too, are misty...
...Katherine is happy among Russian political prisoners: "Guard all you and doesn't seem to mind her deportation...
...He, he...
...Are was late for the month's quota...
...Russian student, but he has failed to . prove that he She talks a good deal but so quietly that not a word came to America to continue his studies, and he is is clear...
...And there goes big Moishe, the eleven-year-old de"Keep quiet...
...Geller is aware of a strength in ' CARDINAL GIBBONS his hands that comes only to those in sheer misery...
...The guard and teller are off, leaving specks of blood in their wake...
...Jake is good to whom he loved and for whom his life was spent...
...And there goes the Geller family, rather out of E. P. DUTTON & CO., Publishers step, an awkward and befuddled group-he with a 681 Fifth Avenue, New York white bandage on his right hand, pulling along some...
...Those who find no more seats and milk and tries to quiet them...
...And there trudge along an old man and his boy...
...Geller thrusts the crying baby into her husband's Kayata, who walks beside him, might see him cry...
...I don't care, every country is good that protrude from her untidy belongings...
...Katherine many records have to be made 1 The matrons are on is being sent back because she is insane...
...This is not the first tii'he...
...He would send me to school, and-" Big these particular travelers have been in their traveling Moishe's voice chokes...
...In writing the 'Life of Cardinal Gibbons' you "How did you do it...
...He resentfully...
...But you are older than I," Kayata interrupts him, Sad and hopeless is Jake's reception room...
...The deportees are led to the tugboat...
...dragging the other at her skirts...
...But she the alert to help those with little children...
...Nobody knows...
...The nipple is stuck as if glued to the bottle...
...the author) have placed the public, but especially "You darnphooll Don't ask him questions, take the members of the Catholic Church...
...Feodore is a typical Does Rosa mind being sent back...
...Katherine's wish must have been to lonely window and hums quietly a song once popular be a nymph...
...Back where...
...She looks like one...
...Go ahead," he shouts, country to country, from city to city before we could "don't block the way...
...Be it as it may, Jake's guests but and he apologizes to Kayata : "You see, my mother seldom display glittering garments...
...But, then, a new quota each newcomer with a genuine smile and a kind word...
...Had her parents morning up to about two o'clock in the afternoon come five instead of three years before she might Jake's guests keep coming in...
...She is only nine stick and rouge...
...boldly With every incoming guest the greyness of the "We'll be able to come back, only now we'll have room increases...
...The bottle breaks...
...The room is hot he moves as fast as the colleague in front of him perand smelly and noisy, and the little one is not pleased...
...lessly brushed back, he leans against the wall near Does Rosa know that she is being sent back for the the window and looks out into the distance...
...But the little baby of the Geller family can- With head bent, a small bundle under his left arm, not and does not want to keep quiet...
...skirts...
...She hugs her bundle of They don't seem to worry that they are being sent meagre possessions, and dries her tears with the ends back as bad girls...
...Her lips His Eminence Cardinal Dougherty writes: quiver...
...guests are...
...He doesn't even look sideways, for fear that Mrs...
...Strange creatures these and be admitted...
...Tall, pale, his thick hair care- with another person Rosa talks, quietly, in whispers...
...Poor wide and Jake welcomes his guests amiably, greeting little Kayata must go back...
...A Moishe feels himself older than he really is...
...Maybe...
...For two years to wander from A guard attends to his duty...
...They pacifies Kayata...
...In Jake's room quota is open again they will let us in...
...In an extreme corner of the room she sits, being sent back as excess quota...
...With others he shakes hands and wishes them In two volumes, illustrated, ,$10.00 better luck next time...
...I'll come back again," baggage with his left...
...His face turns pale...
...room...
...I can't, I-" She cries softly...
...Water, water," Mrs...
...How can I be calm when I think of what we man proceeds : "Didn't you tell us that we might-" have gone through...
...At about two o'clock the pathos of this Moishe cannot control himself any longer and the room reaches the stage of grim tragedy...
...Nor brilliant con- died at home and I have nobody there, my pa-" versation...
...How can I be calm...
...He grapples with the bottle, trying to remove the (Archbishop of Baltimore) nipple...
...Geller, go on as "'The Life of Cardinal Gibbons,' by Mr...
...Singly or in groups their "first" papers and children under eighteen are adthey are ushered in...
...He had not months would matter so much, for a few months is been aware of his disqualification...
...The interpreter has nothing to say...
...mits...
...June 30, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 211 JAKE'S GUESTS By MARY FAGIN JAKE receives...
...Moishe doesn't look up...
...Her and back we must go," he complains in a husky, chokcheek bones are protruding, as though in an effort ing voice to an interpreter who watches the procesto break through the skin...
...will come and Kayata will have a chance to come again They in turn hardly speak...
...His Eminence Cardinal O'Connell writes: Jake's guests, except for Mrs...
...They did not think that a few found physically disqualified to land...
...They Noise...
...When the th world from which they had come...
...they flirt with the guards and giggle...
...Others stand...
...will...
...he feels ashamed of his tears clothes too long...
...As though in earnest conference of intellectual dignity...
...Will, is a story of a great American and a good Time for departure...
...It becomes two cry shamelessly...
...his right palm is cut and By ALLEN SINCLAIR WILL, Litt.D., LL.D...
...on the benches sit on their baggage...
...So watch gay Katherine do her fancy steps...
...Good-by, good-by cuties...
...A guard is sympathetic...
...A matron brings them crackers painfully interesting...
...Moishe is not of her race but of her are people whom the United States does not want "quota-nationality" and he can speak to her...
...My papa is in this traveling clothes always of a dull grey...
...The officials appear busier than ever...
...Geller screams...
...Rosa talks quietly...
...This is the at Ellis Island they await the dreaded hour of de- second time they are sending me back and-" portation...
...She, too, enough for Pie," says Mabel, winking at a guard...
...well worth reading by all who love the Church...
...His deep- same reason that Katherine is...
...He medium-sized room with faded tan-painted walls and is big for his age, and has gone through enough sufa lonely window facing a narrow part of the yard of fering to entitle him to act like a man and he speaks the Island...
...He looks out the top of her voice...
...Geller gets out a baby 1 bottle from their baggage...
...The But there will be other guests...
...she with a thin white face walksays Suzan...
...or rather, they are have been admitted to them...
...Rosa is pretty...
...as he sings on his melancholy tune...
...Not of the mixing kind...
...The two half-doors are open mitted outside the quota only to citizen-parents...
...Kayata will have to wear her charming, little Bulgarian The meek Geller looks guilty and lost...
...He pats the baby...
...reach the American shore and now to have to go back...
...Allen before...
...Yes, it was he whom the doctors and four children...
...And set grey eyes close and open with the play of emotion Rosa doesn't know she is pretty...
...Stoop-shouldered and smiling, Christian admirably told . . . a true portrait of with a pleasant word to everybody, Jake sees his guests his pure, genial, faithful soul . . . The book is ,off...
...From about ten o'clock in the is being sent back as excess quota...
...bleeds profusely...
...Four children in America, all citizens, mad l" She slaps the baby over the mouth...
...The doesn't know she is being sent back...
...may : I don't intend to run away...
...And guilty costume a while longer...
...Jake remains alone...
...have invested it with sadness and hopelessness...
...lacks to become a citizen and to be entitled to receive He pleads with her : "Please be calm ; it is God's them outside of quota limitations...
...Good-by, Moishe," some official yells to him...
...every time ing after him, carrying one child in her arms and I come they don't know me, and I get by...
...The deportees keep on going...
...he is, for aren't they all, he thinks, being deported And there go five of our future citizens, a mother because of him...
...retorts his wife, "I am going Excess quota...
...roughneck of a party from the West...
...They come only because they must...
...Were drying the corners of her mouth used by her tears as a legend told about it, it would say that the deportees a convenient stopping place...
...I'll let out my troubles on your head 1" portee...
...He looks at his all that the husband and* father of these deportees wife and his heart aches for her...
...They come And here is deportee Moishe, eleven years old...
...Suzan and Mabel are busying themselves with lipLittle Kayata is another guest...
...under a debt him to a doctor," commands one of the deportees, a of gratitude...
...The child goes on crying...
...and very lonely and helpless...
...The old small...
...The 212 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1926 latter laughs and is careful...
...Katherine is still singing and dancing, Rosa is still talking confidentially, Suzan and Mabel are still gig- In these pages the Cardinal speaks again to those gling...
...He nods his head in answer to their waving...
...Her eyes are red and sion...
...All dressed in traveling clothes they to wait longer, for the new year's quota...
...comes a shrill, angry voice from the centre of the "Call again," adds another...
...baby is encouraged to raise his voice...
...The children forget their grief for a while...
...A gloomy room...
...Suzan laughs loud...
...Feodore is not hand- her head bent low and supported upon her hands, and some but there is a peculiar charm about him, a kind talks incessantly...
...as it is they only have brought in by Jake's assistants...
...her blouse half-way off, she dances and sings at the Feodore is one of Jake's guests...
...last time I come, ready for the voyage intended for them...
Vol. 4 • June 1926 • No. 8
