It was some weeks before Abe could bring himself to recount to Morris the full details of Sidney Koblin's regeneration, but Morris had learned the facts long before there appeared in the advertising section of the Clothing and Haberdashery Magazine the following full-page advertisement:
| KATZBERG, SCHAPP & KOBLIN Announce the Opening of Their New Office and Showroom In the Chicksaw Building, West 4th Street, New York Makers of Trousers for Finicky Folks A HEADLINER The Rainshed Pants Manufactured from the Famous Rainproof Fabric "KOBLINETTE" Keeps the Legs Warm and Dry Spring Line Now Ready |
It caught Morris's eye one morning in January and he read it over—not without envy.
"Some people's got all the luck, Abe," he said bitterly.
"I bet yer!" Abe replied, without looking up from his order book, which was overflowing with requisitions for spring garments. "I bet yer, Mawruss! You take my Rosie for instance: at her age you got no idee what a sport she is. Yesterday afternoon she went to a bridge-whist party by Mrs. Koblin's and she won a sterling solid-silver fern dish. And mind you, Mawruss, she only just found out how to play the game."
"Who learned her?" Morris asked.
"Mrs. Klinger and Mrs. Elenbogen," Abe replied. "That's two fine women, Mawruss—particularly Mrs. Elenbogen."