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THE DAY MA
We had probaUy the first tralned-to-keep-kdsher colored' maid in the entire Soatbwest Addie Fay was a gem; a maid servant' our neighbors did indeed covet To Ma she was the rehi-caroation ol the 'Shkbbos Goy, (a non-Jew who turns flo Oie light on the SabbatlO tt>e one peasant my grandmother had trusted.
Who but Mama could go oat 'erev Shabbos' and come home to find not only the chicken soup flavored Just so, but the milcbig and fleishig dishes each resting in separate, pristine purity? Or had a maid with 'so much secU she even saves tiie Yiddish WeeUy, it's the right size for wranphig the Passover dishes?"
Little wonder ttiat people like old Mrs. Kessel, who claimed she "couldn't stand them under her feet' were forever slyly asking Addle Fay if she was sure Mother
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Zionism Comes
Somewhere in Israel. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said last week that "if we wish to ccmtinue working in Israel for the Zionist ideal, against the will of the Arabs, we shall have to reconcile ourselves to the idea that it is going to cost us human lives."
leaking at the passhig-out ceremony at the Command and Staff College, Dayan, quoting the late Arthur Rupphi, said that now, as before, "what the Arabs would give us we cannot accept <uid what we need they will not grant us."
' Dayan' did not believe that theVi^abcbimtrips today, siqppprtedby.tbe Soviet Union were any readier to accept Israel's eiistence than the Arabs of Palestine had been hi Riq)phi's time. "What could be more tangible,'' he said, "than the Israelipres-ence on the ceasefire lines. But still the Arabs do not accept this as a fact The Arabs can also pohit to facts — their numbers tathe area, for instance. Thus we see that fkcts do not bring us any nearer to peace — which is all that we ask for."
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treated her rii^t Or Mrs. khrsh^ who even offered her an additional dollar a week. But Addle Fay said no to all changes; She had never been breated like family her fore and she loved it
,. True, she wAs at first puzEled by Mama's'Yenke^' liberalism.' When Mima urged her to bring Sumy, who was exactiy my age, along, taistead of leaving him on the streets vdiile she worked, she accepted; but when Mama tried to dissuade her from teaching him 'his place' (meaning that even hi our childish rames he must defer to rnei, 'that' took Mama's best efforts. Still, once convinced. Addle Fay held her head very high indeed. Mama bragged on her and she bragged on Mama. She must have dazzled her friends, who had never heard of 'overtime,* let_ alcme been paid for it
As for Mama's friends, there were some who shook thehr beads sagely sidewise and exclaimed: 'Those shvartzesi 1 wouldn't let one hi my kitchen. Mhie Morris urouldn't eat ftom them.^ Even Bessie, my maider aunt who lived with us, was forever saying: ^They all steal. Cut off thehr hands, then they wouldn't steal.' But Mama, who paid six dollars a week histead of the standard $4.50, thus proving herself liberal hi both senises of the word, would hislst: 'Treat them like a mentsch and they'll act like a mentsch.* And Addie Fay, already with us twelve years by the time my brother married, had long since proved herri^t
My sister-in-law Pearl may be as big as a house now, but you should have seen how small and proud of her cute figure she was when she and Stan first married. Stan wanted his own apartment ri^ away, but Papa insisted ttiey should live with us the first year so Ma could fatten up the bride, she sbouUn't be so 'oisgedart'. Curhwslx Pearl went along with Papa, and Ma, irtip had at first thought Pearl not good enough fbr her Stanley, was hot immune to the flattery of being shadowed by ttie little, barefoot kim<Hioed figure who begged to learn to be a cook and balabosta Juist like
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At first she got up at 6 o*clock, like Ma, but gradr ualiy she began to sleejp later. Although we never saiwhef eat much, periodically she would announce that she'll losing her figuf and was gotog on a diet-tomorrow.:
Still,:-ijftti^ it was ^ialn she was getthig fatter. When Matooktocom-plainhig' to Stan about how late she slept and how litUe she ate, my good-natured brother would bave none of it Fhially a light began to dawiL and Ma's resentment liqaified into t e nd e r n e is s. WatcMng Pearl get heavier and lazier, while still eat-hig like a bhrd. Ma began to smile^j^ore broadly. Soon Pa wjLs'^Siarhig her lo<ft of secret deficit Ma drcqpped her complaints enthrely and only hisiisted ttiat Stan should make Pearl eat more. 'You know/ she teased, 'hi that condition.* Stan answered hbnchalantty: 'What condition?" M^a' and Pa only chuckled.
For years other branches of the family had prepared the Seders, but the feasts before and after the Yom Kli^ur &st were Mother's and Addie Fay's private property, from which even our frugil Tante Bessie was excluded. This year they were forced to allow some trespasshig by Pearl, although Addle Fay was heard to murmur: 'Can't stand'em under my feet*
Mama didn't know how to code a chicken - she could Only CQok 'two' chickens. Many a restaurant prepared less for a week's busii^ss tiian Mama did erev Yom Kippur. She assumed each of the twenty-odd guests must eat hi advance the equivalent of ttie three meals he would miss vAiile lasting, and when it was over, the equivalent of these same three meals.
On this piarticular Yom Kippur, when the last guest bad been fed, Ma put on her best hat gave Addie Fay last-iaihmte, unneces-. sary bisbr^sttons forcoolhig ttte food1before„putting.it V away, then called out to ■ ■ Pearleleh to be suretbput " on w a 1 k i ng shoes, she shouldn't be too thred walk-hig to shut But Pearl said she was too tired already; she would stay and help Ad-
dle Fay and go to bed early. Ma didn't much like it, but what could she say?
: We walked honie after services still savorhig the traditional melodies. The warm bll air felt good after the hot crowded synagogue. KnowinghowlitUe headway ttie new buzz feui could possibly make agahist the cooked hiterior of our frame house, we welcomed Pa's suggestion tiat we "set out and shmuis a spell* on ttie porch; except Ma, of course. I could hear her busUing around hisUe, and imaghied her making sure tomorrow night's food had been properly stored, wakhig Pearl to ask if she was sleeping, and fhially mercifully re-movhig her corset
Suddenly ttiere was ah omhious silence, followed by an agonized: 'Oy vay is meirl'
We rushed into the house, our hearts poundhig. Mottier stood there, bosom heaving, starands of hair escaping the fancy hat plastered to her red, wet foce, staring in disbelief at the contents of the huge roaster. 'Lode! Half of tomorrow's 'holishkes' gonel* We looked.Maybe it wasn't ball; but it sure was a lot Said Tante Bessie: 'I told you sol When you'll cut off ttieh: hands-.'
Ma, who usually treated her sister's interminable maidenhood witti ttie tender r-ness accorded a long term invalkl, interrupted: "Sbar-rup!' addhig fiercely: 'Pm going over and talk to herl'
"You want I should gowitti you?" asked Pa wiOi gentte commiseration.
'I hisist to go alOTie,' she answered, pale but proud, as her plump, short legs teetered down the unpaved street on unaccustomed holiday heels.
Papa, pohited his chin after her, urged me: 'Go, go' go!* I rah after her and she did not send me back. Durhig ttie .three block walk she kept stoUng her anger: 'How could she do me ttiat way? It's not ttie few'holishkes' - I 'believed' hi herl*
When we got itq^ A<1 d 1 e Fay's, the lights We still on. As Mother' £%bmped up ttie broken stairs, I glimpsed ttirough the open wkdbws half a dozen colored women gattier hi one corner of a bed pUed high witti hroned
linens, firom which a musty smell arose. The wallpaper drqpped £rom damp walls onto a room furnished largely witii out old furnlhure, Uie hisides of whl(Hi peeped through in unexpected spots and came to final rest on the Imre floor.
Seehig Mother's look. Addle Fay rushed to her, face contorted with concern. But Ma was already pourhig out her hidignation: "So tills is how you get even with me, you - you - chazzerl I treated you like ahumanbehig../
Suddenly she stopped, conscious for ttie first time of the complete silence hemmed in by those dark fkces, which although non-commit-al at first were now disthict-ly sullen. Addie Fay's look of concern had changed to one of seething rage and humiliation. LooUng at Ma, I was shocked to see pure, unvarnished fear. Addie Fay was saying quietty, between her teetti: n didn't do it -wA I'm not about to come inin the morningi'
Mama's face crumple hi-to tears. We left very quickly. The door slammed after us.
Next morning Tante Bessie looked as chipper as Ma looked sick. Papa tried to make light of it "What's ttie matier a headache so early hi the mornhig, Rai^ z61? May be you're getting too old to fast?' "Don't aggravate me,' faioaned poor Mama.
Papa, consolingly: "So what's so terrible if she 'did nosh' a little? Why making yourself sick over a few lousy meatballs?"
Mama:. "Lousy meatballsl AU year they're waiting special for my'holishkesl...' besides, What will I serve all those people tonight?"
Papa: 'So as soon as ttiey'U blow shofar, we'll go out and buy a couple pounds corned beef, some salami, and make sandwiches. Something different forachangel"
Mama: "Some difference! Besides, it's the principle! Here I'm trying to prove if you tireat them like ment-schen...*!'
P^'Maybe you had less than" you thought. Maybe we all ate too much. After all, she says she didn't do it"
Mama, brightening, as though waithig for such a thought to be voiced by some-
Obswviag loday't GenMoyt The American Jewish Committee of New Yoric last mbntfi completed a personal, four-day survey of the German scene.:Above dre Members of the delegation With. Foreign Minister Willy Brandt on July 9, before their return to the U.SA The detegationVarrived in Berlin July 6 and conferred With West Berlin's Mayor Klaus SchOtz. On July 7 they met with Heinz GaTinski, leader of the Jewish corhmunity in BeHin. They arrived in Cologne that evening. On July 8 they attended a reception at the American Embassy with Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge as host. They were the luncheon guests of State Secretary Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz of Bonn's Foreian Office. During the Bonn part of their trip they also tdlketd with other officials, among them Foreign Minister Brandt (above). Minister of Justice Gustav Heine-mahn and Ernst Benda, Minister of the Interior. The group, which was accompanied by Professor Max Horkheimer of Frankfurt University, included Max Bey, Martin Gang, Bertram H. Gold, Jerry Goodman, Philip E. Hoffmann, Norman
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one other than herself. "That's right maybe I didn't.."
Tante Bessie, eq)losively: 'didii't haviB as muchi No you had morel Don't make a fool out of yourself! I still say, when youUl cut off their hands..."
Mama, ignoring her: 'Maybe you're fight Molshe. Even U she felt like to 'nosh' - it's not so terrible that 1 should make her ashamed hi front of her friends. Didn't I ever make a mistake?"
Papa, gentty patting her hand: "After all, we treated her like family, so she acted like family."
Mama: ''YOu know what Mbisbe? Pm going over and apologize right away.*
But Just then Stan entered and remlJDded us we were air ready late for services. ;Peul was sleeping Sind would come later. And by the time we reached the shul, to the tune of Tante Bessie^: .*She's-not-such-a-metziah, you mustn't-let-ttiem-get-tiie-upper-hand; tiiere-afe-other^maMs hi the world..." she had replanted all Ma's doubts. ■
In the next few months a subtte change took place hi Ma's enthre outtook. A succession of new maids came, were hired, then failed to (Cont.oniM(ia6)
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