A Romance of the Ghetto.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7849, 15 June 1905, Page 2

A Romance of the Ghetto.

America's millionaire socila reformer, Miss Rose iPgstor, the erstwhile Jewish cigar-roller, who is to marry . Mr J. Helpes Stokes, has'ibieen tell- ! ingi her simple life story to an interviewer. She is now writing poetry, for a Jewish newspaper in New York'. The bride-elect resembles stores of young Jewesses. She 'is not beautiful according to the ordinary standard, except for her abundant flaxen hair. She has big brown eyes, and features of the Oriental type, neither coarse nor delicate. Her face suggests the poet and thinker, her eyes are those of tho dreamer, and her hands those of the She left Russia when three years old for London, where she lived for nearly seven yearsi. Of that time she spoko with evident! reluctance. Those were very hard, hungry days, which she tried to .forget. Sho recalled Petticoat Lane, and! tho crowded rooms where hor family lived. When her father died in London she tried, young as she was, to help to support the family by sewings When eleven and a half years old she went to work ,in a tobacco l factory at cigar-rolling. She remained in tho factory, twelve years, helping to support the family, and always spending

her spare time lio educating herself. For the contemplative life slue recommends cigar-rolling. While at the factory she commenced writing for the Press, but the time came when she wap obliged cither to her studies or the newspapers. Sho decided to abandon the nowspapers, but the editor of tho Jewish Daily News, who admired her work, wrote offering her an appointment on his journal in Xow York, which she accepted. In that way, and through her social work in the east side, she came in contact with Mr Stokes, who she admitts she has worshipped from their first meeting until now. Neither her mother nor any broad-minded .Jews, sho sai'l'. oUiectcdf to Jier 1 knofriagK with a young 'American whose views' in al! things, whether religious or otherwise were her views. WJ.cn -they return from their wedding trip they \ntend to live amongst the poor on the east side of New iYork.