Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1912 — SPEAKS, BUT LOSES MOTHER [ARTICLE]

SPEAKS, BUT LOSES MOTHER

Journey From Russia to “Promised Land” Proves Too Much for Mrs. Lipsitz. Chicago.—Mrs. Schule Lipsitz never heard her daughter call her “mamma.” Months ago the .mother and her children, (me of whom was a mute, left Russia for the promised land- — America. There was some trouble at the dock. Msriese couldn’t speak and therefore was barred from the states. Mariese regained her speech, verifying the wonderful stories that are told in Russia abont the goldgn land of promise, and the Lipsitz came to Chicago. Mrs. Lipsitz lived to enjoy the promised land only a week. Mortally 111, she called to 4 her daughter Mariese, "Speak to me,” she said. Her hearing had become affedted. Mariese spoke, Mrs. Lipsitz leaned forward to listen, but the power that had restored speech to the dumb girl took away the mother, and the aged immigrant fell back dead. & Mrk Lipsitz died at the home of her son-in-law, Philip Singer, 726 Ashland boulevard. The Singer family said her death was due to the excitement attendant on her passage through Ellis island. The doctor declared her death was due to weakness from age—she was 76. Bat Mariese believed differ-, ently. Her opinion was colored by the poetry and superstition of her race. “God gave me WT speech—God took from me my mothey,” she said, “Now I am able to mourn aloud her. whom I krvadisilently. But it 1s better, to love in dumbness than to

mount even in the language of heaven.” >' '

Mrs. Lipsitz, before her death, said she was happy that she was to die in America. Persecution in Russia khd embittered her life there. When she left home, it was in the hope she would find freedom. The complications that arose at Ellis island grieved her, .but when Marlene regained her voice she. felt compensated. When she died the daughter, who had been dumb since a little girl, wag at her bedside and called to her continually. Mrs. Lipsitz could not hear, but she appeared to understand and smiled.