Show Rachels Birthplace The Swiss it is said are about to erect a monument to commemorate Rachels birth in their territory She was born In the Golden Sun Inn at Munf In the Canton of Aargau her father being described in tho parish register as un homme qui colportalt He had been educated to be a rabbi but had become a peddler and drove acros Europe selling soap ribbons laces and popular Illustrated almanacs His cart contained his family as well as his wares and It needed to be a large one to do so for his wife Esther Haya Felix bore him no fewer than sixteen children though only six of them lived to grow up Tho fulness of his quiver was apparently one ot the reasons why he gave up peddling and settled at Lyons where he became a teacher of German while his wife dealt in ladies cast off clothing |