A dead and gone wag called the street "Fashion Street," and most of the people who live in it do not even see the joke. If it could exchange names with "Rotten Row," both places would be more appropriately designated. It is a dull, squalid, narrow thoroughfare in the East End of London, connecting Spitalfields with Whitechapel, and branching off in blind alleys1. In the days when little Esther Ansell trudged2 its unclean pavements, its extremities3 were within earshot of the blasphemies4 from some of the vilest5 quarters and filthiest6 rookeries in the capital of the civilized7 world. Some of these clotted8 spiders'-webs have since been swept away by the besom of the social reformer, and the spiders have scurried9 off into darker crannies.
There were the conventional touches about the London street-picture, as Esther Ansell sped through the freezing mist of the December evening, with a pitcher10 in her hand, looking in her oriental coloring like a miniature of Rebecca going to the well. A female street-singer, with a trail of infants of dubious11 maternity12, troubled the air with a piercing melody; a pair of slatterns with arms a-kimbo reviled13 each other's relatives; a drunkard lurched along, babbling14 amiably15; an organ-grinder, blue-nosed as his monkey, set some ragged16 children jigging17 under the watery18 rays of a street-lamp. Esther drew her little plaid shawl tightly around her, and ran on without heeding19 these familiar details, her chilled feet absorbing the damp of the murky20 pavement through the worn soles of her cumbrous boots. They were masculine boots, kicked off by some intoxicated21 tramp and picked up by Esther's father. Moses Ansell had a habit of lighting22 on windfalls, due, perhaps, to his meek23 manner of walking with bent24 head, as though literally25 bowed beneath the yoke26 of the Captivity27. Providence28 rewarded him for his humility29 by occasional treasure-trove. Esther had received a pair of new boots from her school a week before, and the substitution, of the tramp's foot-gear for her own resulted in a net profit of half-a-crown, and kept Esther's little brothers and sisters in bread for a week. At school, under her teacher's eye, Esther was very unobtrusive about the feet for the next fortnight, but as the fear of being found out died away, even her rather morbid30 conscience condoned31 the deception32 in view of the stomachic gain.
They gave away bread and milk at the school, too, but Esther and her brothers and sisters never took either, for fear of being thought in want of them. The superiority of a class-mate is hard to bear, and a high-spirited child will not easily acknowledge starvation in presence of a roomful of purse-proud urchins34, some of them able to spend a farthing a day on pure luxuries. Moses Ansell would have been grieved had he known his children were refusing the bread he could not give them. Trade was slack in the sweating dens35, and Moses, who had always lived from hand to mouth, had latterly held less than ever between the one and the other. He had applied36 for help to the Jewish Board of Guardians37, but red-tape rarely unwinds as quickly as hunger coils itself; moreover, Moses was an old offender38 in poverty at the Court of Charity. But there was one species of alms which Moses could not be denied, and the existence of which Esther could not conceal39 from him as she concealed40 that of the eleemosynary breakfasts at the school. For it was known to all men that soup and bread were to be had for the asking thrice a week at the Institution in Fashion Street, and in the Ansell household the opening of the soup-kitchen was looked forward to as the dawn of a golden age, when it would be impossible to pass more than one day without bread. The vaguely-remembered smell of the soup threw a poetic41 fragrance42 over the coming winter. Every year since Esther's mother had died, the child had been sent to fetch home the provender43, for Moses, who was the only other available member of the family, was always busy praying when he had nothing better to do. And so to-night Esther fared to the kitchen, with her red pitcher, passing in her childish eagerness numerous women shuffling44 along on the same errand, and bearing uncouth45 tin cans supplied by the institution. An individualistic instinct of cleanliness made Esther prefer the family pitcher. To-day this liberty of choice has been taken away, and the regulation can, numbered and stamped, serves as a soup-ticket. There was quite a crowd of applicants46 outside the stable-like doors of the kitchen when Esther arrived, a few with well-lined stomachs, perhaps, but the majority famished47 and shivering. The feminine element swamped the rest, but there were about a dozen men and a few children among the group, most of the men scarce taller than the children--strange, stunted48, swarthy, hairy creatures, with muddy complexions49 illumined by black, twinkling eyes. A few were of imposing50 stature51, wearing coarse, dusty felt hats or peaked caps, with shaggy beards or faded scarfs around their throats. Here and there, too, was a woman of comely52 face and figure, but for the most part it was a collection of crones, prematurely53 aged54, with weird55, wan33, old-world features, slip-shod and draggle-tailed, their heads bare, or covered with dingy56 shawls in lieu of bonnets--red shawls, gray shawls, brick-dust shawls, mud-colored shawls. Yet there was an indefinable touch of romance and pathos57 about the tawdriness and witch-like ugliness, and an underlying58 identity about the crowd of Polish, Russian, German, Dutch Jewesses, mutually apathetic59, and pressing forwards. Some of them had infants at their bare breasts, who drowsed quietly with intervals60 of ululation. The women devoid61 of shawls had nothing around their necks to protect them from the cold, the dusky throats were exposed, and sometimes even the first hooks and eyes of the bodice were unnecessarily undone62. The majority wore cheap earrings63 and black wigs64 with preternaturally polished hair; where there was no wig65, the hair was touzled.
At half-past five the stable-doors were thrown open, and the crowd pressed through a long, narrow white-washed stone corridor into a barn-like compartment66, with a white-washed ceiling traversed by wooden beams. Within this compartment, and leaving but a narrow, circumscribing67 border, was a sort of cattle-pen, into which the paupers68 crushed, awaiting amid discomfort69 and universal jabber70 the divine moment. The single jet of gas-light depending from the ceiling flared71 upon the strange simian72 faces, and touched them into a grotesque73 picturesqueness74 that would have delighted Dore.
They felt hungry, these picturesque75 people; their near and dear ones were hungering at home. Voluptuously76 savoring77 in imagination the operation of the soup, they forgot its operation as a dole78 in aid of wages; were unconscious of the grave economical possibilities of pauperization79 and the rest, and quite willing to swallow their independence with the soup. Even Esther, who had read much, and was sensitive, accepted unquestioningly the theory of the universe that was held by most people about her, that human beings were distinguished80 from animals in having to toil81 terribly for a meagre crust, but that their lot was lightened by the existence of a small and semi-divine class called _Takeefim_, or rich people, who gave away what they didn't want. How these rich people came to be, Esther did not inquire; they were as much a part of the constitution of things as clouds and horses. The semi-celestial variety was rarely to be met with. It lived far away from the Ghetto82, and a small family of it was said to occupy a whole house. Representatives of it, clad in rustling83 silks or impressive broad-cloth, and radiating an indefinable aroma84 of superhumanity, sometimes came to the school, preceded by the beaming Head Mistress; and then all the little girls rose and curtseyed, and the best of them, passing as average members of the class, astonished the semi-divine persons by their intimate acquaintance with the topography of the Pyrenees and the disagreements of Saul and David, the intercourse86 of the two species ending in effusive87 smiles and general satisfaction. But the dullest of the girls was alive to the comedy, and had a good-humored contempt for the unworldliness of the semi-divine persons who spoke88 to them as if they were not going to recommence squabbling, and pulling one another's hair, and copying one another's sums, and stealing one another's needles, the moment the semi-celestial backs were turned.
To-night, semi-divine persons were to be seen in a galaxy89 of splendor90, for in the reserved standing-places, behind the white deal counter, was gathered a group of philanthropists. The room was an odd-shaped polygon91, partially92 lined with eight boilers93, whose great wooden lids were raised by pulleys and balanced by red-painted iron balls. In the corner stood the cooking-engine. Cooks in white caps and blouses stirred the steaming soup with long wooden paddles. A tradesman besought95 the attention of the Jewish reporters to the improved boiler94 he had manufactured, and the superintendent96 adjured97 the newspaper men not to omit his name; while amid the soberly-clad clergymen flitted, like gorgeous humming-birds through a flock of crows, the marriageable daughters of an east-end minister.
When a sufficient number of semi-divinities was gathered together, the President addressed the meeting at considerable length, striving to impress upon the clergymen and other philanthropists present that charity was a virtue98, and appealing to the Bible, the Koran, and even the Vedas, for confirmation99 of his proposition. Early in his speech the sliding door that separated the cattle-pen from the kitchen proper had to be closed, because the jostling crowd jabbered100 so much and inconsiderate infants squalled, and there did not seem to be any general desire to hear the President's ethical101 views. They were a low material lot, who thought only of their bellies102, and did but chatter103 the louder when the speech was shut out. They had overflowed104 their barriers by this time, and were surging cruelly to and fro, and Esther had to keep her elbows close to her sides lest her arms should be dislocated. Outside the stable doors a shifting array of boys and girls hovered105 hungrily and curiously106. When the President had finished, the Rabbinate was invited to address the philanthropists, which it did at not less length, eloquently107 seconding the proposition that charity was a virtue. Then the door was slid back, and the first two paupers were admitted, the rest of the crowd being courageously108 kept at bay by the superintendent. The head cook filled a couple of plates with soup, dipping a great pewter pot into the cauldron. The Rabbinate then uplifted its eyes heavenwards, and said the grace:
"Blessed art Thou, O Lord, King of the Universe, according to whose word all things exist."
It then tasted a spoonful of the soup, as did also the President and several of the visitors, the passage of the fluid along the palate invariably evoking109 approving ecstatic smiles; and indeed, there was more body in it this opening night than there would be later, when, in due course, the bulk of the meat would take its legitimate110 place among the pickings of office. The sight of the delighted deglutition of the semi-divine persons made Esther's mouth water as she struggled for breathing space on the outskirts111 of Paradise. The impatience112 which fretted113 her was almost allayed114 by visions of stout-hearted Solomon and gentle Rachel and whimpering little Sarah and I key, all gulping115 down the delicious draught116. Even the more stoical father and grandmother were a little in her thoughts. The Ansells had eaten nothing but a slice of dry bread each in the morning. Here before her, in the land of Goshen, flowing with soup, was piled up a heap of halves of loaves, while endless other loaves were ranged along the shelves as for a giant's table. Esther looked ravenously118 at the four-square tower built of edible119 bricks, shivering as the biting air sought out her back through a sudden interstice in the heaving mass. The draught reminded her more keenly of her little ones huddled120 together in the fireless garret at home. Ah! what a happy night was in store. She must not let them devour121 the two loaves to-night; that would be criminal extravagance. No, one would suffice for the banquet, the other must be carefully put by. "To-morrow is also a day," as the old grandmother used to say in her quaint85 jargon122. But the banquet was not to be spread as fast as Esther's fancy could fly; the doors must be shut again, other semi-divine and wholly divine persons (in white ties) must move and second (with eloquence123 and length) votes of thanks to the President, the Rabbinate, and all other available recipients124; a French visitor must express his admiration125 of English charity. But at last the turn of the gnawing126 stomachs came. The motley crowd, still babbling, made a slow, forward movement, squeezing painfully through the narrow aperture127, and shivering a plate glass window pane128 at the side of the cattle-pen in the crush; the semi-divine persons rubbed their hands and smiled genially129; ingenious paupers tried to dodge130 round to the cauldrons by the semi-divine entrance; the tropical humming-birds fluttered among the crows; there was a splashing of ladles and a gurgling of cascades131 of soup into the cans, and a hubbub132 of voices; a toothless, white-haired, blear-eyed hag lamented133 in excellent English that soup was refused her, owing to her case not having yet been investigated, and her tears moistened the one loaf she received. In like hard case a Russian threw himself on the stones and howled. But at last Esther was running through the mist, warmed by the pitcher which she hugged to her bosom134, and suppressing the blind impulse to pinch the pair of loaves tied up in her pinafore. She almost flew up the dark flight of stairs to the attic135 in Royal Street. Little Sarah was sobbing136 querulously. Esther, conscious of being an angel of deliverance, tried to take the last two steps at once, tripped and tumbled ignominiously137 against the garret-door, which flew back and let her fall into the room with a crash. The pitcher shivered into fragments under her aching little bosom, the odorous soup spread itself in an irregular pool over the boards, and flowed under the two beds and dripped down the crevices138 into the room beneath. Esther burst into tears; her frock was wet and greased, her hands were cut and bleeding. Little Sarah checked her sobs139 at the disaster. Moses Ansell was not yet returned from evening service, but the withered140 old grandmother, whose wizened141 face loomed142 through the gloom of the cold, unlit garret, sat up on the bed and cursed her angrily for a _Schlemihl_. A sense of injustice143 made Esther cry more bitterly. She had never broken anything for years past. Ikey, an eerie-looking dot of four and a half years, tottered144 towards her (all the Ansells had learnt to see in the dark), and nestling his curly head against her wet bodice, murmured:
"Neva mind, Estie, I lat oo teep in my new bed."
The consolation145 of sleeping in that imaginary new bed to the possession of which Ikey was always looking forward was apparently146 adequate; for Esther got up from the floor and untied147 the loaves from her pinafore. A reckless spirit of defiance148 possessed149 her, as of a gambler who throws good money after bad. They should have a mad revelry to-night--the two loaves should be eaten at once. One (minus a hunk for father's supper) would hardly satisfy six voracious150 appetites. Solomon and Rachel, irrepressibly excited by the sight of the bread, rushed at it greedily, snatched a loaf from Esther's hand, and tore off a crust each with their fingers.
"Heathen," cried the old grandmother. "Washing and benediction151."
Solomon was used to being called a "heathen" by the _Bube_. He put on his cap and went grudgingly152 to the bucket of water that stood in a corner of the room, and tipped a drop over his fingers. It is to be feared that neither the quantity of water nor the area of hand covered reached even the minimum enjoined153 by Rabbinical law. He murmured something intended for Hebrew during the operation, and was beginning to mutter the devout154 little sentence which precedes the eating of bread when Rachel, who as a female was less driven to the lavatory155 ceremony, and had thus got ahead of him, paused in her ravenous117 mastication156 and made a wry157 face. Solomon took a huge bite at his crust, then he uttered an inarticulate "pooh," and spat158 out his mouthful.
There was no salt in the bread.
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