Worran7s life
Richer Since
Loss of Arms
By JOE McDAVID
United Press Correspondent
Memphis, Tern. Time
has mellowed Mrs. Martin
Ch.-inin.
Fifteen years ago, she prayed
for death. Today, she can look
back without de-pair on the ac
cident which cost hr-r both arms.
"Perhaps my life i? richer,"
she 5aid. "If I had not lost my
irmv I might never have mar
ried "
It was the summer of 1941
Clhat Mrs. Chanin. then Mis Mar
Karet Jones, a dental student at
ttel University of Texas, was
injured.
She and a group of friends
had anchored their sailboat in
Sfn Jacinto Bay. Margaret and
her date decided to go for a
swim.
Mrs. Chanin jumped into the
wa'r-r and grabbed the steel
anchor chain. Her date started
tugsing at her arm.
At that moment, a breeze
rocked the boat and the mast
grazed some power lines, strung
(Tim shore across part of the
bay.
The young man was killed
instantly. Mrs. Chanin was pull
ed from the water, both arms
badly burned.
Back to School
Three weeks later, when she
rame to in the hospital, Mrs.
Chanin realized both her arms
had been amputated.
It was then Jiat she prayed
for death.
But her sister, Mrs. W. B.
Thorning of Houston, Tex., and
her mother, Mrs. R. H. Jones of
OscebiX Ark., refused to let her
retreat into a shell.
"They made me dress like a
fashifirj plate," Mrs. Chanin re
call They talked her into
going back to school, and she
won three college degrees.
Six years after the mishap,
Margaret met and married Dr.
Martin Chanin. They now have
two sons, Philip, 8, and Robert
6.
When she married Chanin
Margaret was completely de
pendent on others.
The doctor made his wife her
first artificial arm, so she could
hold the baby they expected.
Mrs. Chanin quickly became
proficient with her mechanical
arm.
"Now I can do pratjcally
everything except dress myself
and comb my hair." she .said.
"My husband does that."
O Mrs. Chanin drives her own
specially equipped car, keeps
house, and 3$es her own gro
cery buying and cooking.
She writes letters with the
pen held firmly in her teeth.
Mrs. Chanin's most delightful
conquest over handicap came
when she got her driver s li-cen-e-.
The state highway patrolman
was dubious, even aiter she had
passed the written test.
Then they got into her car,
n and the trooper told her to drive
round the block.
When they arrived back at
patrol headquarters, the trooper
took off his hat.
'Idy, mind if I tell you
psomethii-g?" he said. "You're the
bes driver I ever saw."
"Woman Makes Candles
in Old, New England Town
Sisters Paper Walls
With Presley Photos
Memphis, Tenn. W Teen
ase sisters Oralee and Sharyn
Davolt have more than 1,000
Elvis Presley photographs dis
played In their bedroom.
For Oralee. 15, and sister Sha
ryn, 14, it s floor-to-ceiling Elvis
Presley, with just about every
inch of wall space covered with
pictures of the guitar-strumming
singer.
The girls wanted to continue
"Elvsging" the ceiling itself,
but mother said "no." They plan
to hang pictures of their "darl
ing" on strings stretched across
the room.
The girls feel they can get
500 more pictures of the "hound
dog" man into the room in that
way.
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!ty VIVIAN SANDE
Tnited Press Correspondent
; New York It takes
Mrs. Bertha Moulton just a few
minutes to drive to work. But
. this lively grandmother actually
goes back nearly two centuries in
time in those few minutes.
She wears the ankle-length
dress and starched white cap of
; the farm wife of the late 13!h
j century. She works in the hack
i kitchen of a house built in 1735
i and never modernized.
' Horse drawn busgics and ox
drawn carts are the only vehi
j cles that bump along the dirt
I road outside her window. And
she works at an early craft, hand
dripping candles, or forming
i them in simple molds.
I Mrs. Moulton is the randle-
maker at Old Sturbridge Village,
I Mass., a recreated country town
of 1 50 years ago.
j A Native
i Old Sturbridge, an independ
ent, non-profit educational in
: stitution. was opened to the pub-
lie in 1946. It covers 200 acres
i and consists of more than 30
buildings moved fom all parts
! of New England and re-erected
: on the hanks of the Quinebaug
river. There's a grist mill, a saw
l mill, bar, blacksmith shop, gen-
; eral store and a varietv of
, houses from a salt-box to a man
sion house. The houses are filled
with collections of antiques
ranging from furniture to fire'
arms. And in the buildings, skill
ed craftsmen demonstrate early
American skills.
Mrs. Moulton, a born and New
Englander, didn't know what she
was in for when she applied for
a job at the village in 1953. Her
children were grown and she
was widowed. She thought may
be she could get a job as a host
ess. Instead the village curators,
who had a lot of antique, candle
making equipment in their col
lections, asked her if she would
try her hand at organizing a can
dlemaking demonstration. Mrs.
Moulton said yet even though
she didn't know a candle-dipping
stand from a drying rack.
12.000 Candles
The determined grandmother
began her studies in the books in
the curator's office. In a month
she set up her vats, dippers and
molds in the kitchen of the old
Fitch farmhouse, and began to
show visitors how candles were
made from bayberry or beeswax.
Now, Mrs. Moulton s kitchen
shop is one of the most popular
in the village.
She turns out some 12.000 can-
dlf-s during the course of her
talks. They're sold at the house
I and in the general store, and the
money goes back into the educa
j tion project which is constantly
expanding.
i Mrs. Moulton also is an expert
on candlemaking equipment,
j Sometimes a visitor asks a
: question she can't answer. But
! she doesn't mind a bit.
Said the 20th century grand
, mother, who made a career of
j IP.th century candlemaking, "I
I just go out in search of the an
j swer. The most wonderful part
I of this job is the learning."
Four Persons Needed
For Legal Problems
Urbana, 111. TO A wife
should know four specific per
sons from whom to get financial
and legal aid if anything seri
ous happens to her husband.
says Virginia Guthrie, Univer
sity of Illinois home manage
ment specialist.
These should be a lawyer,
banker, insurance agent, busin
ess associate or other profession
al man. Such persons can make
a situation less confusing by
handling problems that arise in
cases of death, illness or acci
dents.
Section an orange or a grape
fruit over a bowl of crisp salad
greens, and toss with oil, salt
and pepper. Dice a ripe avocado
over all, and toss once.
Ex-Stereotyper
Lives on $91
Per Month
Miami, Fla. IP Eighty-five-year-old
Harry Bickford scoffs
at elderly people who complain
about money. He lives on $91.65
a month and gets along "fine."
"The trouble is most old peo
ple nowadays want too much,"
the retired stereotyper said. "I
rend the other day about a man
retired on S25C a month and
couldn't make ends meet. If I
was that fellow, I'd think I was
a millionaire."
Bickford retired at 70 after
working on newspapers all over
the country. When his last paper
in San Diego, Calif., folded and
his wife died, Bickford headed
for Florida.
"All I had, besides my little
savings," he said, "was a S58.50
social security monthly and
S.?3.15 a month from an annuity.
And I get along fine."
He bought his one-bedroom
cottage and furnished it for a
total investment of about $4,000.
He did most of the work fixing
up the place and he beautified
his yard with shrubs and fruit
trees.
Saves $200 .'.nnually
Bickford does all his own
He cooks, washes, irons, keeps
house and shops. He said he
spends about three days a week
on the housework. The rest of
the week he goes to ball games,
relaxes, talks to people and
"once in awhile I take in a
movie."
Bickford said food costs him
S5 to $7 a week, and "I eat
well bacon and eggs, vegeta
bles, stews, soups, cheese; things
like that." i
And he added that he ha?
wine "or something stronger"
every night before retiring.
He spends about SB a month
for electricity; water comes
from a pump; he subscribes to
a newspaper and his bus fare
he likes to ride downtown and
look at people runs about a
SI a week. Hespends 40 cents
a week for cigars.
What does this "king in his
castle" do with his $200 savings
from his annual income of
$1,099.80?
"I use that for Christmas
presents," he explained.
When anyone asks him how
he lives on his income, Bick
ford always replies:
"If you've got a little place
of your own and can take care
of yourself, it's easy. "I wouldn't
trade places with anybody."
Woman Wears
'Beads Over
3,000 Years Old
By VIVIAN SANDE
New York 'IP Like most
women, Mrs. Aziz Atiya likes to
wear beads. But the ones she
wears are apt to be 3.000 or so
years old and have folk - lore
meaning.
Take the blue beads on some
of her necklaces. They are to
"ward off the evil eye," she ex
plained. Mrs. Atiya, archaeologist and
student of old beads, explained
"they were used centuries ago
for that reason. And -even now,
in Egypt, you'll find blue beads
strung around the necks of ani
mals or draped somewhere on
such a modern institution as the
automobile."
Writing Book
Lola Atiya is the wife of an
eminent Egyptian historian and
coptologist student of an an
cient Egyptian race.
The Atiya family is living in
New York, while Dr. Atiya lec
tures at the Union Theological
Seminary.
Last year Mrs. Atiya was
asked to join the staff of the Kel
sey Museum, at the University
of Michigan, because of her
knowledge of ancient beads.
Now she is writing a book on
the museum's collection.
Lola Atiya is a petite woman,
with large black eyes and
straight black hair. She dresses
smartly, but conservatively, and
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utes or until the glaze is set.
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rarely is seen without a strand
of ancient beads to complement
the outfit she wears.
Another Collection
She is an authority on glass
beads, some of which date back
to 3,000 B.C. She said archae
ology has revealed women liked
to adorn themselves with beads
then just as they do today.
Mrs. Atiya has one of the larg
est collections of ancient beads
in Egypt but that of the wife of
an American professor tops her
collection. i
She said Mrs. Arthur Jeffery,
whose husband teaches at Col
umbia university, introduced
her to the hobby of collecting
strings of ancient beads as well
as the old beads themselves.
She met the Jefferys several
years ago when they were on a
trip to Cairo.
Mrs. Atiya has glass beads,
stone beads, and mosaic gla&s
beads in her collection. Some of
them were found in tombs
where they had been placed cen
turies ago to keep the spirit of
the dead from rising. Some were
used to ward off illness, or pro
mote success.
Cooking Experts Have
Suggestions on Potatoes
Champaign, 111. W A class
in experimental cooking at the
University of Illinois for house
wives who want to include pota
toes in quick meals.
The class found, that french
fried and escalloped potatoes,
which ordinarily require long
cooking, could be sped to the
table by partial preparation in
advance.
French fries should be blan
ched in fat in the morning to
the point where they are cook
ed but not browned. Then they
can be browned just hefore the
evening meal by a few minutes'
cooking in hot fat.
A thin white sauce prepared
in a sauce pan is the first step
in making quick escalloped po
tatoes. After adding sliced pota
toes and boiling over direct heat
for two minutes, they should be
placed in a buttered casserole
and baked immediately at 350
degrees. They should be done In
about 30 minutes.
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plans with tender, light brown
waffles. Chopped, cooked bacon
and diced cooked smoked ham
are always grand when added
to the waffle batter. Grated ,
orange rind and orange juice '
give a tart touch and for still
another flavor add grated Amer
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