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Show Blind Mother Never Saw Her Children A J Mrs. Amy Slavin Msthesan right), blind and partly deaf ar-d her 1C-year-ld daughter, Amyt youngest fur ehildren whom she has never seen. NEW TGPJC Aug. IS fBy NEA Br-vtee Br-vtee A mother waa baa never seen her eh i Mrs a or her husband aays: "I am blind, . but I see without eyea People do not know how to nee their sy -a many do not aee ssentaii." Mrs Amy Slav la Math axon Is not miserable. She Is happy. She ears so, sad sh shows yo her fsmby to . prove It husband, a daughter and thre sons- The ar th things ab does: Keep house without a maid. -Goes to market, selecting th food ahe buva Ceeas th family meals and bake Makes her daughter's areas aa a aewing machine. Mrs. Matheeon waa stricken blind whs she was It Daughter of a veteran vet-eran ahowman. ahe had glared "Mule Eva" whea she wu - In a West forty-fourth street boarding house h snee JoOrt Mathegoa, aa electn-eftsn. electn-eftsn. and married him. "Although I never saw htm." she ears. i knew he was th right maa beeatas I knew ate habits and Ibe hour he kept!" She bed d' earned of a stag career. - rhe blindness cam a. sequel w an ' ma ess, she determined to make good at omethtng else bom making. Taiib. ny etseat eon. Is I .,-she .,-she astd. w-hn he was a baby f waa Afraid that I couldn't bring him up ruyku But Instinct served Instead ml eras. I r"jld literally ee him." yootstep Identify ar eht'.dren so tkac Mother Matheeon doea not har e see tbem. E.va thourh partly eeaf. he knows them Instantly. Billy, she ea-.-e, emes la with a long, quick S'ep. She krowg Ray, her second fn, br Q slew and quiet Wa!k. Kowad. 17, fairly trots along, he s-. while Amy comes with a soft, gosling movement like dance sepe. A a4d to a.g Motasr Malb- i eon keep hot. Hh bad one once. "It was when Billy waa a bebv," she laughed. "The deceitful girl would tell me ahe toad chJugd baby's dre and think I wouldn't know the difference: Indeed. 1 didby the touch of It. Then In Washing the windows, she'd oi.ty wash one aide. Just aa If I dtdn't know. "Mental aignt, somattme think. Is more sec urn te then physical sight. "Knenda often try tn dt-scril some, thing to me. and they stumble end halt and full because they huv looked at something, but they hew not sen It." Marketing has ne terrors for thta remarkable blind woman. She plka a good cantaku by Its weight and odor, an ear of corn by piuchtrg -the grain to find hi Juiciest Oood lettuce, let-tuce, ah says, should b dry ad crisp and nn have a el'my feel. Th Matheeon children aay their mother la the world's best cook. Vhe bts such original recipes as these; Ooulsah a 1 Matheeon: Tke a flanked steak, ettce la three er four pieces, then brown it In dripping: add tomato, carrots ar.rt a pinch of coves - serve on luacsroni. Mathesoa fruit Uyer cake Maks f ordinary sponge or Uyer c t three i layers; spread between a concoction of ratstns which nave beer. "tinmered 1 down" in water, batter. sugi. syrup (and efnr.antton. with te wn.ie of as I egg added sfterwsrd. t I Amy 1 Mrs- Malhesoa's favorite) reader, , Aad sh reciprocal ey I making dreaeea for Amy. now It. who !s t eater th Metropoll'en opera I bailee And her own clothe, too. tihe I runs an Otd fashioned sewing ma-1 ehine. ' "Keertmr house snd raising a faintly fain-tly kui't hrd work," savs Mrs. Mathe-eo.T. Mathe-eo.T. '"I know It so well now 1 don't have to grS! Tears ago I vpeet everything when I sweep th carpet. Now I'm sure i'ea grac Ueeil with a lavoosBl, |