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TBISOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 9, 1966
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A Word With The Women
[Mui Witt u on the staff of the
Cleveland Jewish News)
LISTEN, ALL YE sufferers of
the Feminine Mystique complex!
You know that blank space on
application forms where they ask
“profession” and you try to think
of glamorous new ways to say
"just a housewife”?
Just for kicks, and the puzzle
ment of bank officials, charge-
account managers, and Internal
Revenue, try putting down ”bal-
albusta.” It does wonders for the
ego and ’ has remained, since
by VIVIAN WITT
time immemorial, The Accolade.
Quite properly, you cannot be a
self-proclaimed balabusta, since
the title must be earned, and is
generally bestowed by a mother-
in-law (instantaneously on a
daughter, and more grudgingly
on you), and envious friends and
mahj players.
• • • *
IF YOU HAVE a sneaking sus
picion that you aren’t a bona
fide balabusta, chances are
you’re probably right. Balabus-
taism is a feeling in the bones,
a way of life, and I personally
think balabustas are born, not
made. You can work hard at it,
using women’s magazines as
primers, and think you’ve almost
made it, but then a little detail
like washing a bleeding madras
shirt with other things goofs the
whole bit up.
Balabustas, I’ve discovered, get
all the winter clothes cleaned
and put away for the summer be
fore August 1. Balabustas also
keep cancelled checks in neat
order, serve well-balanced meals,
have banquet table cloths ironed
and spotless when they need
them.
Balabustas also find no need to
tidy up the day before the clean
ing woman comes. Balabustas
never have an accumulation of
mateless socks in the mending
box, and are never thrown into
a panic when unexpected guests
come and the edible refreshments
in the house turn out to be a jar
of peanut butter and frozen
daiquiri mix.
• • * «
For instance, I have a friend
whom I consider a marvelous ba
labusta. She even goes so far as
to arrange her canned soups in
alphabetical order. This, I think
is really great. But another
friend bairia wouldn’t be caught
dead alphabetizing canned soups
— she’d make her own from
scratch, yet.
• * * •
BAIRIAS CAN ALSO, I am
told, be super-mistresses not only
of homes, but of offices, busy
and efficient, with desk drawers
creatively and neatly organized.
A little informal poll I took
yielded the astonishing discovery
that there is no single word in
common usage to describe some
one who is not a balabusta. The
best that anyone could muster
was “my next door neighbor,”
“my brother’s wife,” a “shlime-
zalnitza,’ a “shlumper.”
For the women in our com
munity—and I salute them all—
whose homes are spotless, make
six-day watermelon pickles, ar
range weeds and dried flowers
they grow themselves, have chil
dren whose washable tennis
shoes really are, and serve tasty
meals by candlelight, I have
coined a new word, combining
the best of two heavenly words:
“bala” (from balabusta) and
“bairia’’ from the word of the
same name: “Balabairian” — a
true household engineer!
L. F, JENKINS CANDIDATE
FOR THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—DIST. 119
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VOTE
FOR
COUNTY WIDE
one man + one office
= good government
Julc 11. Fell on, Jr.
CANDIDATE FOR
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COUNTY WIDE VOTE
EXPERIENCE Drafting Legislation
EXPERIENCE Community Affairs
EXPERIENCE Member, Official Board, First Methodist
Church of Atlanta
EXPERIENCE Legal Aide to Floor Leader, Georgia House
of Representatives
EXPERIENCE Trial Lawyer, State 4 Federal Courts
JUIE W. FaTON JR Is:
DEDICATED to early completion of expressway system
DEDICATED to effective representation for Fulton County
DEDICATED to qualify education
DEDICATED to completion of Rapid Transit System
DEDICATED to obtaining more state money for Fulton
County
Jile tf. Ffltoi Jr. for
STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COUNTY WIDE
' DISTRICT 123
POST NO. 2
Democratic Primary-September 14, 1966
IT WOULD BE great to be
known as a balabusta, because
then one wouldn’t have to cul
tivate obscure talents like writing
Zen poetry or following the stock
page. But the real pinnacle is
when one of your relatives des
cribes you to someone else as a
“bairia” which is like magna cum
laude.
How do you know if you’re a
bairia? First, you have to be a
balabusta—that goes without say
ing. Then there are certain little
refinements that put you into the
top echelon along with that very
select group in the sisterhood that
not only plans and cooks delici
ous luncheons but makes the
table decorations as well!
W. £t.nd Jl Cordial We/comr
to visit Atlanta’s OLDEST Genuine
Chinese & American Restaurant
ENGLISH TRANSLATION: “The Very Best!"
26 H CAIN ST., N.E. JA. 2-6706
Half Block East of Henry Grady Hotel
• Authentic Cantonese Chinese Food
• Delicious American Food
Daily 11 A.M. to 11 P.M.—Sundays 12 NOON to 11 P.M.
for REAL representation
VOTE
FOR AND
ELECT
John Francis Collins
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
POST NO. 3 118TH DISTRICT DEKALB
SEPTEMBER 14TH, DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
JOHN FRANCIS COLLINS PLATFORM:
• Supports local, state, and national officials, against the Viet-Cong and
Communist China in Viet Nam (opponent voted to seat Julian Bond, SNCC’s
Auti-American publicity man.)
• Believes the big utilities and life insurance companies should pay business
license tax like all other businesses and help take some of the tax load off the
DeKalb tax payers (Opponent refused to support this in the legislature.)
• Advocates broadened support of DeKalb School system plus a new Jr. College on
the Honor Farm property in South DeKalb and a new Jr. College in North
DeKalb.
• Supports increased state Fund aid for DeKalb Roads
• Supports new state Dept, of Aeronautics to be located in DeKalb
VOTE PROGRESS -VOTE COLUNS- SEPT. 14
P S I need your HELP to beat my highly financed, SNCC approved opponent,
Please send your campaign donations to me at Box 176, Avondale Estates, Ga.
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This Ad Paid for by Frionds of John F. Collins
