Verhovayak Lapja, 1949 (32. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1949 / Verhovay Journal
January 19, 1949 ASPECTS (Continued from page 10) fered a little from the teasings I got from the kids I met about being a “hillbilly.” The first week was spent in getting a sun tan and I was seriously considering cutting my hair but abandoned the idea, for just about this time, exactly two days before I was to go home, my great adventure took place. I had met a girl by the name of Marie, who lived not far from usj She was my age, with dark black hair which she combed to the back of her ears, that were accented with a pair of large golden earrings. It was at her home one evening that I decided to get my ears pierced like hers. She took me to her mother, who was a nice fat lady and who seemed to be very gentle .She smiled at me, for she didn’t speak English, and brought out a big silver needle. I took one look and almost changed my mind. After the operation, Marie found a pair of earrings like her own and put thorn in my ears. Then she started my hair so it would look like hers. When she finished and I looked into the mirror, I was very pleased with my new hair do. I really looked like a gypsy now. My face was dark, but not from paint, for my tan was quite noticeable. My hair was pulled back of my ears and hanging from my newly pierced ears were two great rings. As we followed the sand road home Marie stepped suddenly and said, “Do you hear anything?” I listened for a minute and was about to say no when we both heard a faint sound, like music, coming from the distance. It sounded like Negroes at first and then I wasn’t sure. Marie grabbed my arm and started for a road in the opposite direction. “Come on,” she called, “its the gypsies.” We ran for a while until we came to a small pond. There we found a foot log and hurried over. From a small hill we looked down to a small grove, where about twenty wagons were drawn in a circle. After watching for a time Marie got up and said, “Let’s go, we can come back tonight.” s On the way home I got an idea but said nothing to Marie. When we reached the house it was already dark and we hurried to my room. Quickly I found the colored scarf 1 had brought and the long white ruffled dress I had. I put them in a large bag, threw in some bracelets, found my lipstick and stuffed it with the rest. Marie watched and as I hurried with my preparations she asked: “What are you going to do?” Then on another thought she said, “If your thinking of some crazy thing, you better just forget it.” She watched me turn around and then quite suddenly I said, “I’m going to dance for the gypsies.” She started laughing at first and said I’d more likely get thrown out, but she was excited I could tell, and finally it was she who was telling me to hurry. We were both excited as we crossed the pond and ran for the hill. A fire was burning in the center of the wagons as we looked down upon them. Old men and women were sitting near the warmth of the flames talking among themselves. In one corner, a few of the men were softly playing romantic gypsy music. Soon more women came out and then more men. We watched and as the music got louder and more lively, the women would stand up and began to Verhovay Journal PAGE 11 IT'S A GIRL FOR THE JOZIKS! The many friends of Albert Jozik of the Home Office, former editor of our Journal, and his wife, the fqrmer Margaret Vargo, were mighty pleased to receive a post-Christmas card from the happy couple, bearing the following announcement: “Our Christmas card has much to say, For we’ve several reasons to be gay: We’ve a fine new house — Santa really did treat — It’s Twenty Two Hundred Cleveland Street!'' Then, Albert Junior, besides all of his toys, Got a Junior-Partner to help him make noise! Margaret Elsie is the new baby’s name — The prettiest in all the world, we claim. And by choosing Dec. 28th as the day of its birth She has added much to our holiday mirth. Seven pounds, three ounces is its weight — Forgive our boasting, but please set a date To see our new baby and visit our home: And last, but not least, to close our poem, Season’s Greetings and best wishes to you, From Margaret, both Alberts, and Baby, too!” We are happy to report that both mama and papa are doing fine and tthe little princess is thriving, all set to catch up with her big brother, Albert Junior. Our best wishes for good health and a world of happiness go to the Joziks, their big son, and their newly acquired daughter, proudly residing at 2200 Cleveland St., McKeesport, Pa., in the Grandview section of the Tube City. May the new year, and all the future years to come always offer them a — Grand View! Techniques Of Preventing and Curing Headaches Explained sway. It seemed to me they were too lazy to dance so they just swayed. When the music got slower, the people would, sing. I pulled Marie behind a tree and started changing my dress. I put on the white dress while Marie fixed my hair. After getting or. my scarf, painting my lips and putting my beauty mark I turned to Marie for inspection. “Gee, you do look like a gypsy,” she said, “only keep the scarf over your head.” We neared the wagons and slowed down. I wasn’t so sure of myself any more. The gypsies were playing faster now and a few of the young girls had begun to dance. The musicians had pulled in closer to the fire and there was a lively mood about the whole group. We started looking for a good opening and as we reached another knoll in the hill we stopped. We could see them all very well and I could make a grand entrance here. The group looked friendly enough and Marie kept saying that they weren’t going to hurt me. I felt my earring, pulled the scarf around me and as the moon came directly above us, I stepped into the circie. The men had started playing an exciting and stirring song and I began to dance. I wasn’t afraid anymore. The group was stunned at first, and I could tell by their faces that they were enjoying my act. They made room as I came closer and I could see in the corner of my eyes that I had their attention. The air was warm and the shadows kept shifting around the fire. All my life I wanted to dance for some real gypsies and now my wish had come true. My long dress swung out as I whirled in my dance. My scarf fell from my head, and my hair, loosened by my whirling, fell around my shoulders. As the dance came to an end, I happened to stop right in front of the leader of the caravan. He came toward me and I stood there trembling. I glanced for Marie and saw her peeping from behind a wagon. The man put his hand on my shoulder and spoke in a language I did not understand. I smiled ar.d nodded my head. An old lady came up to me with a pair of golden earrings and put them in my ears. “You dance very well,” she said in very good English. This was my payment for entertaining them. We sat with them for a while and as time passed by we started to go, A little boy came close to me and called something to the rest. They nodded and smiled and Marie told me they were calling ms their blonde gypsy. They waved and smiled as we left, but as we walked over the last hill, I paused slightly to look back to the people that had called me their “Blonde Gypsy.” Then we started home. Love It seems that a girl and a boy were madly in love. So great was their love that when fate separated them and sent the boy to a distant city, he telegraphed messages of his devotion and affection each morning. Every, day for three years the same Western Union messenger boy knocked on the girl’s door, bearing the messages of undying love. At the end of three years they were married — the girl and the Western Union boy. “Senator, you promised me a job.’’ “But there are no jobs open.” “Well, you said you’d give me one.” “Tell you what I’ll do: I’ll appoint a commission to investigate why there are no jobs, and you can work on that.” Headache is the commonest of all ailments. And yet it is also the ailment in which the patient can do more about prevention and cure than can the doctor, says Dr. Martin Gumpert. Discussing what medicine has learned about the ordinary sick headache and the migraine, in Redbook Magazine for December, hetei! s how to avoid an attack and how to treat one once it comes: “The majority of ordinary headaches originate in the blood vessels of the head. These blood vessels can be narrowed, enlarged or stretched by various influences. “Many people wrongly blame their headaches in ‘sinus trouble/ vriiich is overrated as a headache cause. A genuine sinus headache centers in a single, well-defined region: the forehad or the cheekbones. Eye strain is another overrated source of headache. Many teeth were pulled, many tonsils removed in. the days when ‘focal infection,’ which has now been largely abandoned as a headache explanation, was widely-accepted. “The headache victim should take into account everything he has done during the forty-eight hours before the headache began. He should consider mental or physical distress, fatigue, insomnia, excessive coffeedrinking, poor ventilation (or poor illumination) at home or at work. There may have been excessive noise or light, inhalation of fumes, or menstrual difficulties. There may have been use of drugs, exposure to heat or cold, over-exercise, undereating. These, and combinations of these, are the chief causes of sick headache. It should be remembered that severe headache pain is nature’s danger signal, not something to be dulled automatically with powders and pills. “Migraine headache is a very special kind of affliction. Medical science now recognizes that there are migra ne types: persons of aboveaverage intelligence, nervous drive, and strong emotions, who are particularly sensitive to ailments of all kinds and, frequently, too conscientious about the.'r work. They worry, and take life too seriously. Some are a hit neurotic and have difficulty in adjusting to life. “Dr. Harold G. Wolff, professor of medicine at Cornell Medical College, suggests in an extensive scientific study called ‘Headache and Other Head Pain’ (Oxford Press, 1948), that doctors urge migraine victims to try to accomplish only three-quarters as much work as usual. Being less tense, they can then actually produce more than normally, and they may avoid headaches, too. “For migraine or any other ordinary headache, you might try these measures: “1. Take a prolonged warm bath as soon as you feel an attack approaching. Take a warm bath of thirty minutes’ duration three times daily during a prolonged attack. “2. Don’t take food or drink. If you feel nausea, try holding small pieces of ice in the mouth. Put icecap on head and hot-water bottle on feet. “3. If an attack is approaching, lie down in a dark, quiet room. “4. If you feel better sitting in a chair than lying down, try that. “5. Once recovery begins, do not eat foods which are irritating. “One migraine relief method which deserves to be better known is the application of finger pressure to the carotid artery which is in the neck, about two inches to the left or right of the Adam’s apple. During a migraine attack, the pressure inside this artery is high, and the reduction of that pressure is often helpful. Ask your physician if he believes this will help you. “Any drug which constricts the arteries of the brain is helpful, but these, of course, cal! for administration by a physician. One of these, a drug called ergotamine tartrate, is injected under the skin.” MISERY The young wife was feeling and looking very gloomy. “What’s the trouble, dear?” her friend, a wife of ten years’ standing, inquired. “Oh —• my husband has been out all the evening, and I haven’t the faintest idea where he is.” “You shouldn’t worry about that,” her friend replied, breezily. “You’d probably be twice as miserable if you did know!” OUT OF HIS CAGE “I’ve got a freak over on my farm,” reported Farmer Brown. “It’s a two-legged calf.” “Don’t need to tell me that,” snapped Farmer Jones. “He came over to call on my daughter last' night.”
