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TBISOUTHERN ISRAELITE Friday, September 9, 1966 r«i* lb 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 POST 2—DEMOCRATIC TICKET L. F. JENKINS REALTY COMPANY 531 MORELAND AYE., S.E. Shop for Your Holiday Outfit THE SAMPLER SAVINGS OF UP TO 60% 2105 N. Decatur AT CLAIRMONT Rentals—Sales and Insurance 627-5768 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. -mi* Ad Paid for by Friends of Jule W. Felton, Jr. This Ad Paid for by Frionds of John F. Collins