Show woman age 68 studies A B Cs to read news pittsburgh pa mrs elizabeth mazana sixty eight year old mun hall woman is studying her ABC s nowadays as she is learning to read and write two nights each week she goes down the hill from her home to the munhall neighborhood house there with a group of students mostly immigrant youths she pon ders over the alphabet and her first grade reader it is a little difficult she admits to guide a pencil with her hands that are gnarled from years of household labor and it is even more difficult for her age dimmed eyes to make out the let of the primer but despite the handicaps mrs matanin is as enthusiastic and de ter mined to succeed as any six year old child f A native of the old world she came to america thirty years ago she has been unable since that time to read and write and long enough too she said through an interpreter just think all this time ive never been able to write a letter or read a paper about the only thing I 1 can do ii Is to follow my prayer book at church and because iva I 1 ve memorized it |