The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-12
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~ NORTH CALLAHAN


| True, your appetite may depend on
what section Of the country you are
from. But even so, one is apt to
have very definite opinion about
| Gotham menus. Not yet have found
good hot biscuits and cornbread ex-
cept in one private home on Long
Island, so l suppose I'll GO right on
hunting for them and telling about
| The kind that mother used to make.
| If it is sometimes necessary to eat
| foreign food, | decided, it might as
well be quite foreign. So we hied
ourselves off on a recent evening
an Egyptian restaurant on 9Th
Avenue, exoticaly named The
| Sheik.'
Here the owner, one, Simon kier-
lahy, presides Orientally over his
eatery as he calmly puffs on tall
vase-like water pipe called a mar
CHILE. A bit of charcoal BURNING
in the top of this "vase" fires the
| tobacco. and the smoke is pull ed
through half-gallon of water in the
glass base and out through a hose
| like tube to the mouth. Simon talk
| ed Of the war as we sat down at
| corner table. He said Egypt and
Syria are very pro-British and will
use their $4,000 troops against the
Germans if necessary, because they
| took or the Nazis as intruders. Simon
.,as been in the restaurant business
here for 81 years, ever since he left
| his native land. He and Miss Amina
Shari Waly, our guest, conversed
voiubly over the food. It turned
out to be grape leaves stuffed with
meat, mashed chickpea salad
dish resembling gravy, baked egg
plant, salt bread in great hunks. pes
tachio, pastry and coffee from
drinking water, Simon dash
cd some orange blossom flavor, MAX
ing it taste like perfume The whole
repast tasted about like it sounds.
Amina, an American girl whose par
ents- came from Egypt, is a member
of the Royal Egyptian Consulate in
New York and has visited her par
ernal land several times, although
/ she says it is practically impossible
1 to go there now--witness the sinking
1 of the ZamZam. Once when she visit
/ ed near Alexandria, a strange visitor
was announced Young and hand
/ some, he entered the house and chat
ted with the guests. Soon he left.
| Afterwards, Amina learned he was
King Farouk who took this incognito
way of going around to see what
j his people were thinking Pretty
with jet black hair above fair com
plexion, Amina has had many chan
css to marry while she was in Egypt
But she prefers an American hus-
band. / advised her to serve him
plenty of American food as we'll
as Egyptian if she wanted every
thing to run smoothly.
! Your worries are over. At least
! the statesmen in downtown shop
here say so. In their window are
several strange birds of new
species guaranteed to Guido the ex-
ploits of the famed willey-loo bird,
the giant condor or the faithful
stork. This type is called "Tne
Worrybird' and customers are urged
to buy one to send to their mentally
| harassed friends. Get wild worry
bird (of the species floogie boo)"
! the signs say. "Let him do your
worrying for you. Just park him
somewhere around the house and
turn your worries over to him. It
probably won't do any good but he's
going to be up all night anyway. He
flies backwards because he doesn't
give a darn where he is going but
is anxious to see where he's been"
This winged toy is made of a pine
cone painted blue, with enormous
webbed feet and has along face with
!, crocodile tears attached.
/ A heroic rescue was made here
this week. Across the murky Hudson
River, great pillows of smoke rolled
skyward as mighty fire consumed
warehouses along the Jersey shore.
Firemen fought but much of their
work was in vain. One fireman not
iced cat come dashing out Of the
smoke and flames right to his feet,
1t dropped something on the ground,
/, then sprang back into the flaming
building, and was soon back again.
On the ground, the fireman made
out that there were two little kit
i tens. Again the mother cat made the
dash. Finally. five of her fuzzy TT
;! tie babies were safe on the cool
j sod, unconcerned about the danger.
The fireman caught them all up in
his arms and took them to his home.
! Perhaps he was thinking that there
). should also be a Carnegie medal