THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
62 Friday, March 21, 1986
OBSERVATIONS
FOR THE WELL DRESSED WOMAN
WHO DOESN'T WANT TO SEE HERSELF
COMING AND GOING
the BLOOM NEVER FADES
when you look your finest
in DESIGNER FASHIONS from
Rolling Your Own
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Mr. Shamroy suited the
medicine he suggested to his cus-
tomers' (patients'?) pocketbooks
and dispositions. For boils, he
usually recommended ichthyol
ointment, commonly known as
"black salve," or flax-seed poul-
tices, but his poorest customers
were told, "Go home and put on
hot water compresses. Just as
good."
Anyone complaining of feeling
"low" got a concotion called
"Three Bromides," or an elixir
which contained enough alcohol
to refresh a tired soul in those
days of Prohibition: Once, a
hollow-eyed man came and told
Shamroy that he hadn't been able
to sleep for an entire week. The
druggist seemed lost, in thought
for awhile. Then he gave the man
a bottled labelled "elixir of
Phenobarbitol," a misture of both
alcohol and a narcotic. With the
medicine came this final sugges-
tion: "Take a vacation. Go to the
mountains and have a rest." Even
as a kid, I thought it strange ad-.
vice to come from a man who
never even took an hour off.
Over fifty years ago, Shamrey's
drugstore was torn down to make
room for Vladeck Homes, one of
the first low-income housing proj-
ects. Mr. Shamroy disappeared
together with his bitter fever
powders and elixirs. Pharmacies
in the neighborhood sell perfume
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hundreds of factory-made, high-
powered drugs. People no longer
depend on neighborhood drug-
gists to mend their injuries and
give them medical advice; hospi-
tals are ,not seen as slaughter
houses, and even the poor and the
aged have Medicare and
Medicaid.
The Shamroys of my childhood
would be utterly bewildered.
Counting out pills instead of com-
pounding drugs? No one coming to
ask what to do for a child's croup?
Drugstores closed evenings and
Sundays?
The simplicities of their time
are gone irretrievably. Every-
thing is more complex and more
efficient, and a forty-hour week is
quite enough for a pharmacist
who has a life to lead beyond his
work. Yet in those bygone years,
Mr. Shamroy, together with
others of his generation, was
there when we needed him at any
hour of the day or night. He served
well.
Yaacov Luria, recipient of a
Saxton fellowship from Harper
and Row for the completion of a
novel has published fiction in The
New Yorker and Harpers. "He
Rolled His Own (Pills, Of
Course)" is drawn from a memoir
about growing up in the Twenties
on the Lower East Side of New
York.
Saudis Need Missiles: U.S.
Washington (JTA) — The contributed significantly to the
Reagan Administration will try peace process," Shultz said in
to prevent Congress from rejec- testifying before the Senate Ap-
ting its proposal to sell $354 propriations subcommittee on
million in missiles to Saudi Foreign Operations. Shultz
Arabia by stressing the Saudis' spoke in response to a question
need the -weapons to defend from Sen. Arlen Specter. (R.Pa.),
themselves and other Persian who raised the question in view
Gulf states from Iran. The of the Reagan Administration's
missile package; which was sent proposal to sell the Saudis $354
to Congress last week, does "not million in missiles.
represent a threat to Israel," a
Shultz maintained that "the
senior Administration official ability of Saudi Arabia to assert
itself in the Gulf has stood us in
asserted.
"This sale will not threaten good stead" and the proposed
Israel's qualitative military arms sale will help , to contribute
edge nor change the power equa- to the "stability" of the region.
tion in the Middle East," he
Shultz told Sen. Daniel Inouye
(D.Hawaii) that sale is not a
stressed.
The proposed sale includes threat to Israel. "The basic
4,666 Sidewinder air-to air mis- superiority and qualitative edge
siles, of which 995 are the most of Israel remains very much in-
advanced type of Sidewinder; tact," he said. He said the U.S.
200 Stinger shoulder-fired is committed to -maintaining
ground-to-air missile systems Israel's security and qualitative
plus 600 replacement missiles military edge.
When Inouye asked Shultz
and 100 Harpoon air-tosea
missiles.
why $750 million in emergency
The Saudis now have 2500 economic assistance to Israel
Sidewinders, 200 Stinger sys- had been held up; the Secretary
tems with 200 replacement mis- replied that it was done so be-
siles and 178 Harpoon ship-to, cause providing all the funds at
one time would notlive forced
ship missiles.
In another development, Sec- Israel to take somacifOia tough
retary of State George Shulti economic measures it is doing
maintained that Saudi Arabia so.
has been helpful in the Middle
He indicated that the funds
East peace process, but would May be provided 'vkben. -Jsraeli
not say publicly what the Saudis '.. Prime Minister Peres. •
have done.
visits WashingtO g in early.
"I believe the Saudis have - April..
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