Mother ought to make a pilgrimage to a "Good Jew"-- say, the Rebbe of Lubavitch--to get his blessing on our journey.
She must be sure and pack her prayer books and Bible, and twenty pounds of zwieback at the least.

If they did serve trefah on the ship, she and the four children would have to starve, unless she carried provisions from home .-- Oh, she must take all the featherbeds! Featherbeds are scarce in America.

In America they sleep on hard mattresses, even in winter.

Haveh Mirel, Yachne the dressmaker's daughter, who emigrated to New York two years ago, wrote her mother that she got up from childbed with sore sides, because she had no featherbed .-- Mother mustn't carry her money in a pocketbook.

She must sew it into the lining of her jacket.