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THE ORPHAN OF RICSE
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and Hannah Zukor exchanged the economical gentility of a country parsonage for a hard life as wife to a peasant storekeeper. They had three sons. The first died in early infancy. Five years later came Arthur, vigorous and bright from his birth; and two years after (January 7, 1873) a small but healthy and well-formed boy whom they named Adolph.
When Adolph was one year old and Arthur three, Jacob Zukor essayed one day to lift a heavy box. He strained himself, broke a vein. That seemed only a minor accident until blood poisoning set in; and after much suffering, he died. Left alone with two small children, Hannah Zukor did the only thing possible for a woman of her time and place. The business was her sole asset for bringing up her children. That a woman should conduct a shop seemed an impossible thought for the Ricse of the time when Emperor Franz Josef was young. With frank reluctance, she married again. From that day she went into a decline and when Adolph was seven years old, she died. Her surviving relatives do not even remember what the doctors named as her malady, so certain are they of the real cause — a broken heart. That marriage to Jacob Zukor had been a singularly close and personal union; “they were wrapped up in each other.” When he died, her world went away from her.
If I mention this intimate detail, it is by way of proving an old-fashioned and sentimental theory. This marriage produced two extraordinary man-children. Both