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Show SUICIDE STIRS PipUIGE Russian Girl Kills Herself After Marrying Professor in Jewish School P' M'tillKEEPSI E. N T., Nov 2 "I am not responsible for her BUloldOlj I wish to Ood she were alive avnd happy. But Shewn and i could not have been happy as man and wife She did not want my love She wanted freedom Hut aa od is mv witness I did my best: Whut other man would have done so much. These were the first words uttered by Rabbi Joseph Lomvisch In an Interview Inter-view lasting more than an hour PICT1 RES K M N I Barneet)y and with deliberation hel had tobl me of hla bp -ami -girl ro-i munce In Russia 10 years ago. f how he had come to America studied and 1 1' ught und prospered, dreaming of th'- imme he should rejoice in when he has .'iiV.il I'tlllllgll I.. S'Mld f'-T Shew. I ,- vim;. And of how he did at last send for her. mil h.-r at Ellis Island and iAedde. her th'- same day and determined deter-mined 24 lmurs afterward to repudiate the marriage because of things the girl In her amazing frankness told him Then suddenly he rose from his place by the table In his landlady's living room and pounded In emphasis upon the clean linen cloth; "Yes. I repeat it what other man ; would have done better by her?" "Can a man," he asked, "hear such things from the woman he hoped t" ! marry that she does not believe in God that she spits at the idea of I hearing children -that she compares me with her lover In Russia and finds me wanting that she wants money and fine possessions and freedom t. live hor life unrestrained by religion or ihe ethics of the average community com-munity " "Tell me! You are a woman' Do you call It reasonable that T should have gone on with If" The Rabbi Eouwlsch's tall, athletic figure straightened, his dark features blared in a challenge. HOUSE FALLS QUIET The Jewish women who had been 1 ; talking without pause In the kitchen, Iwert silent. The child whining for a caraway cake stopped Wth her DlOUth a1a r. In the moment's stillness T could almost al-most Imagine to be present the an-1 WerlnfJ spirit of the girl who had gone to her uncle s home in Boston and bv the hideous Simplicity of hanging her-1 self with a stripped bed sheet, escaped from the disappointment and complexities complex-ities her too-ready candor had i-re-l uted ED VS. M Rabbi l-ouwlsch broke the tension 1 1 by a movement of weariness and despair de-spair "it Is the old against the new." he ; said "The orthodox against a type of so- ! called modernism, that I feel would ruin the world." i "Then it comes down to the age-old age-old moral code .' Men " I looked lev-j ellj a' the handsome Rabbi may I lead what they call 'u man's life,' but i the girl who dares kiss and tell1 " ! I might have t-vu forgiven the! .thing she BO lightly told me," he slow-I fly answered, "but she did not tell it I repentantly. I "II was part of her code of living; A year hence two year and what w-'.uld our life hai . 1 n - Yes--it is different it bus tu be different wit,, a woman, a man's wife, the mother lof children. 1 "My very soul revolts against the Ideas she had for teaching children 1 my children hers! Nu it could not be "But she might have boon happy with someone else, i Intended to try and help her. J was working to find her a position to teach languages n New York. "I felt she might eventually chancel her ideas amid the surroundings of this country. "Shewos ancestry xvhs of the best Her education was superior to mine. She used to laugh .it my Hebrew ' Her father and uncle were rabble. ThfcJ taught tuc. I loved lh'-m. And 1 loved Shewn BJQd WOUld never bring myself In all these 10 yejxrn to sny lli word that would bind me to another an-other although at times 1 was lonely lone-ly and tempted ' One C8JH easily believe th' good-lookinsj good-lookinsj Kablii Louwlsch mual have been smiled lpon by many p leasing maidens. Fine of eve and straight of llOV be Is. with :. jet iiius'.-.i !i. ;iml Ink-black hair. He has been reverenced for his learning by the Jewish people of PoiiKhkecpslo and respected by the Gentiles for a good and worthy cltl-Zen. cltl-Zen. I am told he Is not, in the strictly religious acceptance of the word, a ohl nf fll':itrl with a synajfojf ue, except ex-cept as lecturer and tvi-cher. ...iked ivnul lie will do now. ho an- I .-mu.. right here!" At which 9dn HI ETrledman and Mrs. Levlne. landlady HB land neighbor respectively, broke' into HH "He is a greu! and good man!" they Hi iboih declared, "and this terrible thing HHI Ihi nmie of bis fault No matter vvhi.i HHJ the wild women Of this neighborhood HHJ j try to do lynching oi whni we are HHJ his friends and will stick!'' HHJ The rihhl s.iys lie Is heartsick and H phytloall broken by his violent ux- periences with tic- mob that attacked HH him and the anxious weeks preceding. HH but that he "will gu on leaching und HHJ 'not think ( marriage for a long a H long- time." H no hVsI |