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| Helen Korngold, Dec. 1919, New York City |
Monday 8
School – Monday is always such a bright day. Mama bought a black tricolette for me also a darling blue velvet.
Tuesday 9
Working hard – comparatively. This is a good time to spur them on.
Wednesday 10
Letter from Ruth [Pawling] in which she asks me to come to N.Y. Thrilling.
Thursday 11
Coming along fine
Friday 12
Last day of school until Monday. I’m crazy about this bunch of youngsters.
Saturday 13
Downtown – Did some shopping
Over at Isenkramers for a party. Had a good time.
Sunday 14
Sunday School – children were so sad to hear that I was leaving for New York. I am happy as a bee. B’nai – El Dance. Met Milton Breschel. A regular hero – traveled all over the world.
Notes:
Dec 8
Is Helen wearing the blue velvet dress in her New York City photograph? It looks like it could be velvet!
Tricolette is a silk or rayon knitted fabric for women’s wear.
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| St Louis Post-Dispatch ad Dec. 7, 1919, showing Tricolette dress at $19 |
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Dec 13
Isenkramers is perhaps the family of Ludwig Eisenkramer (1877-1942) who on the 1920 St. Louis Census was a draftsman and engineer living on Evans St. His wife was Frieda (nee’ Brasch) and they had three children, Florence, Charles and Henry, all in their teens or younger. Ludwig arrived in the U.S. in 1904 from Alsace Lorraine, of German heritage, and became a citizen in 1925. His 1918 WWI Draft registration show he was stout, of medium height, with black hair and brown eyes. In 1938 he is an engineer/salesman in the St. Louis City Directory. A very good genealogy can be found on ancestry.com.
Dec 14
El Dance was held at B’nai El in St. Louis, a founding member of the Union for Reform Judaism.
Milton D. Breschel, according to The War Record of American Jews, was on born July 8, 1892, in Milwaukee, MN. He was a commissioned officer in WWI. He was a student living in St. Louis at 5001 Gates Ave. when he entered the war. His mother was born in New York and his father was Czechoslovakian/Russian/Polish. On January 18, 1915, he was promoted to 2 Lt. He worked with heavy tanks. He appears in the 1914 Scranton, PA City Directory. In the 1920s and 1930s, Milton D. Breschel appears in Jacksonville, FL city directories, working as a salesman and married to Fay.
In the News:
The Dec 12, 1919, The Jewish Voice had an article on the movement to keep children in school. To keep teachers there was a movement to raise their salary. Helen's career choice was very important.
Money was being raised for the Jewish Hospital Fund. This week's contributions came from people in Helen's life including S. J. Russack of United Hebrew Temple and Prof. Langsdorf of Washington University.
The Dec. 13, 1919, St. Louis Star and Times ran this editorial cartoon:
A St. Louis war hero was in the news. Miss Julia Stimson was the head of Army Nurses during WWI.
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