On the cake, a pink and white affair with five reil candles representing ten years each and two.white candles for the two extra years of the President’s fifty-two. were the words, “Happy Birthday to Our Worthy President. F. D. Roosevelt.”
And as Goldtc herself said, standing in all the majesty of her three feet ten inches, “May the President be in good health until the Messiah arrives I”
Goldie Zwichcl doesn’t know the exact date of her birth???yon can forget a lot in a hundred and (our years, ISut she remembered where she was born, in Galicia, at that time a part of Austria. When she was six years old. she recalled, she was forced to start working for her living. She rocked cradles for busy mothers. She was married once, and had three children. One of’lhcni lives in Brooklyn and another in Newark. Her husband died seven years after their marriage, and Goldic never married again. The reason? Simple, she explained to the newspapermen, “a rich man wouldn’t want me, and I wouldn’t marry a poor man!” And her eyes twinkled coqucttishly.
There were about ISO inmates of the Home in the auditorium, their ages ranging from 67 to 110. The other eighty or so inmates were in the Hospital of the Home.
CONTRIBUTE TO FUND
The celebrants sal quietly in rows, their eyes looking steadily at the table covered with cakes and candies and even some warm red wine. When there was a collection for President Roosevelt’s Warm Springs Foundation, they all put in their mite, so that all of twenty dollars was taken in.
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