Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1948 — Page 14

| Bucking Crowds in High-Heeled Shoes and Ham af $2.52 a Pound Bring Awakening

By LILLIAN TRUAX ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov 27—In the States, the weekly shopping for groceries was a monotonous, dull task I always dreaded.

The neat rows of canned goods

in the super market around the(®

corner were very uninteresting, the slabs of beef and bacon failed

to inspire me.

self in an endless maze of twisting passages. The narrow cobble -stoned streets are lined on both sides with double rows of shops . Ope stalls in front, and small enbooths behind. ot and there a lone peasant sets his basket of produce on the

If only, 1 dreamed, the Del Monte peas and Heinz pickles coula/sidewalk, or on the edge of the

be exotic fruits; street were a picturesque, cobblestoned XborGugHInre tWemed with seething crowds of. colorful natives. If our grocer (genial friend” that he is) were an Arabian Nights character with a fierce black beard. Then this Sppeseing chore E t become a a is a advenMiss Truax ture. For posterity, I now wish to record my experiences in the daydream that came. true. Tippy, always amused at my

if the familiar)

Miss Lillian Truax of Clermont 2 has gone to Istanbul, Turkey, to marry her Indiana University sweetheart, Ismail Hakki Egilmez, known at IU as Tippy." Mr. Egilmez, a Turkish national, returned to Turkey after studying at Bloomington. Miss Truax relates her experiences in the Turkish capital in a series of dispatches to The Times.’ ‘

on the basis that men do not realize that high heeled shoes are quite comfortable, once you're ac-

romantic wanderings, viewed the expedition with misgiving. It was hard work, he said. Haughtily I assured him that I had been shopping for a Joo many years. If he would be so kind as to act as interpreter

customed to them. He took in hand a battered old suitcase, (tol: jcarry our purchases) a gesture] which I laughingly derided. The small market near the apartment was rejected in favor of Istanbul's famed and fabulous

street and, with loud hawking of his wares, proceeds to conduct his business. - o ”

HAVING a yen for ham, the

ost Turks do not eat pork in any form but, like most things, it is available.) ‘We made our

‘way to a shop near the entrance

of the market. The shop was modernly refrigerated and glisteningly™ white tiled, but approximately the size of an Ameeican bathroom. A delicious looking ham -bore a neatly printed card, “14.00.” “Surely not 14.00 liras ($5.04) a pound,” say I, incredulously. “Not a pound, a kilo,” says Tippy. as if the whole thing weren't outirageous. A kilo ig 2.2 pounds; therefore, ham is selling for $2.52 a pound, roughly speaking. I decided to prefer salami. We ordered half a kilo, a kilo of the delicious white butter; received a

Egat market was our first stop.|

eggplant were brightly displayed in the dpen stalls, We made our way toward some crisp, fresh spinach; ordered one kilo. The merchant with the fierce black beard weighed it out on scales the likes of which I had not seen heretofore except in the hands of the Goddess of Justice. We added carrots, green beans, eggplant, radishes and lettuce to the little pile of spinach. Tippy

chant scooped “all our purchases in unwrapped. Tippy seemed to know where he was going. Recklessly he. turned \corners and dashed down narrow |streets without once pausing. to blaze a {rail or mark his route. Staggering along behind, dodging horse carts, heavily burdened porters and rough descendents of the gents who were responsible for the death of chivalry, I was

lost. 5 » = AT LENGTH, Tippy halted before an open booth lined on one side with pens of noisily cackling chickens, and on the other with straw-filled crates of eggs. How many eggs should we buy? The price is 121, kurus (cents) per egg. I ordered 29. Nobody batted an eyelash. The merchant

few pennies change from our 10

began counting them. I;waited in

THE INDIANAPOLIS’ TIM{IS

A fu Come True? Miss Truax Makes First Turkish Shopping Trip

whichjtranck. 1 had been pushed, shoved)

opened the suitcase and the mer- Per.

ished not to break them. Further and further into the depths of the market we went. At a fruit stand a basket of lus-

us. Tippy inquired how much. Eighty cents per kilo, Tippy offered to buy two kilos at 70 cents

Thereafter followed the inevitable haggling. To my delicate ear it sounded like a viglent ar-

Actually, Tippy a mildmannered guy, it was a very subdued version. (This haggling may be avoided by paying the first pricg quoted, which is, generally speaking, one and a half times the worth of the article.) Now, if this were a story book,

convinced that we were hopelessly it could be said that the hagiglers eventually agreed on 75

cents, and the deal was closed.

Both Tippy and the merchant were of the opinion that the other was a robber, so we trudged on to another fruit stand. Finally, we did buy some grapes (for 80 cents); some oranges, tangerines, apples and a yellowish green melon. These were crammed into the. suitcase.

clous white grapes beckoned to|-

gument in unprintable Turkish.|

Such was not. the case, however.

2nd smitten My ankles had been turned so

\stones” that, in desperation, 1 now walked on the sides of my feet. Working back through the laIbyrinth of streets, all the impolite characters we had confronted on the way in had apparently reversed course, and we had to battle them again on the way out. Tippy, using the suitcase as a shield, marched resolutely ahead.

I staggered and stumbled along, |

attempting to keep one eye on his retreating figure as corners and ducked in and out, and the other on my purse.

Incidentally, bag of eggs in a carnival crowd,

some distant, fast-moving object? Anyway, you get the idea.

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las Brown, assistant secretary of

often on the “picturesque cobble!

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Charlotte officials designed the first enclosed-cab fire engine in 1935 to shield firemen from the

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and a 750-gallon pump. Its engine delivers 213 horsepower. Firemen say the cab’s soundproofing enables them to carry on normal conversation inside while they race out on calls. ‘

Spry at Age of 101 BOSTON, . Nov. 27 (UP)—Mrs, John H. Burtt, whose next birthday will be her 101st, still walks up and down stairs unassisted.

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States, according to John ‘Nigho-i}

(Turkish is still a lost language’ “fish” market, where one can buy | bucks, and Jett. {horror for them to be dumped

to me). »

HE REMARKED that I ought to wear low-heeled shoes, a: suggestion I pooh-poohed

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