Page 8/The Battalion/Tuesday, June 5, 1984 l ife made easier Book helps blind lighting, use color contrast, rear range furniture, organize drawers and closets and place tape in con trasting colors the width of steps to improve visibility. The author says many older peo ple have vision problems that cut them off from essential information, such as food and medicine labels, So cial Security and Medicare-Medicaid notices, personal correspondence and bills. Organization is the key to safety with medication, he said. For example, always keep medi cines in alphabetical order in the same place on a shelf or in the medi cine cabinet. If you cannot identify bottles or packages by size, shape or color, mark them in individual patterns with one, two or three strips of adhe sive tape, vertically, horizontally or diagnonally, or with varying num bers of rubber bands. In the kitchen, develop the habit of turning off range top burners and ovens before you remove food. Glare is a major problem for older people, Dickman said. Light, airy lounges in nursing homes may be unoccupied on sunny days because the bright light that looks cheerful to youthful architects, designers and the staff can be painful and disturb ing to the elderly. The $5 price of “Making Life More Livable” includes postage and handling. Order by title and catalog number PALI 15 from: American Foundation for the Blind, 15 West 16th St., New York, N.Y. 10011. Cutting torch adjustments Kelley Adamson, graduate civil engineering major from Houston, Monday afternoon adjusts the tip of a cuting torch which is used to cut metal plates. The plates will be used to fabricate model connections, which are used in the Houston Convention Center, for engineering analysis. Adamson uses one of the fabrication labs in the Engineering Laboratory Center. United Press International NEW YORK — Humorist Clar ence Day once suggested that con tracts for architects require them to break their legs before designing buildings so they would understand the need for entrances accessible to the disabled. A new book called “Making Life More Livable” addresses a related problem: How to help the blind and visually impaired cope with homes, home furnishings, utensils and ap pliances designed for the sighted. Many of the author’s suggestions are simple adaptations requiring little or no effort or expense — per haps placing a chair in a different position or painting a wall white or using a stronger light bulb in a lamp. Many older people create one problem in solving another, says au thor Irving R. Dickman. Because they’re afraid of falling, they look at the floor as they walk and sometimes run into a door left ajar. He suggests either converting hinged doors to sliding ones or re placing doors with curtains or re membering to open or close doors all the way — and reminding visitors to follow suit. Dickman’s $5 paperback is printed in large type and published by the American Foundation for the Blind, a non-profit organization serving the blind and visually im paired in cooperation with more than 700 agencies, organizations and schools nationwide. Dickman’s copy and photo illus trations are arranged on a room-by- room basis, showing how to improve WHAT ARE YOU DOING Tiddlywinks returns United Press International GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The next time you get down in the dumps and need some perspective, just think of tiddlywinks, the Rodney Dangerfleld of games. Much maligned by the masses as a silly diversion for children, the game that like Dangerfield “don’t get no respect,” is taken very seriously by a chosen few adults in Great Britain and the United States, including members of the North American Tiddlywinks Association. “People think of tiddlywinks and they think of the kids’ game,” said Larry Kahn of Gaithersburg, head of the association and the world’s reigning singles and doubles tiddly winks champion. “But,” he said, “it involves a very high level of strategy. It’s a combina tion of chess and billiards. There’s a lot of thinking and a lot of physical shots you have to make.” Why, then, does the general pub lic think of tiddlywinks as simply a kids’ game? “Because it is a kids’ game,” Kahn said. Indeed, tiddlywinks was invented in the late 1800s as a game in which children shot winks — small round discs — into a cup. It wasn’t until 1954 that tourna ment tiddlywinks was developed by two Cambridge University students who, it has been written, were not athletic and thought it would be good for their resumes to have com peted at something — particularly against Oxford. The tournament game came to the United States in the mid-liKQ | when schools such as Harvard, Mu sachusetts Institute of Technolop and Cornell formed teams. Today, Kahn said, there are|| “serious types ... tournament-tyn players” who might participatec the annual Continentals Teat Championships, held in February. “In this country most of the pe, pie who play are very mathemat cally oriented ... probably beaus we’ve recruited players in thus (type) schools,” said Kahn, 30, as MIT graduate and an ocean et| neer in the Washington, D.C.,area Like most games, tiddlywinks-o: winks, as winkers call it — hasdevd oped a lingo all its own. “Potting” is to put a wink in lit cup. “Potting out” is to put all you winks in the cup, one way to w “Squopping” is shooting a winko: top of an opponents’ wink, anodic way to score points and win. Finally, a “squidger” is the ph; disc a winker uses to shoot. Tit come in different sizes, dependut on the shot desired — “like goi clubs,” Kahn said. “There’s no tiddly,” he said. And, to this day, there isnogrea interest in tiddlywinks. Kahn and his American com terparts are hoping they will gel: publicity boost like their friendsr Britain got when tiddlywinks w coupled with Prince Philipinasatir cal news article — but they’re i holding their collective breath. “People just don’t take us* riously,” Kahn said. MSC Barber Shop Located on the Texas A&M University Campus Hours: Monday-Friday 8a.m.-5p.m. 846-0629 THIS SUMMER? REGISTRATION JUNE 9:00 am BEGINNING COUNTRY § WESTERN DANCE Learn country § .western dancing at the Texas Hall of Fame. Be ready to learn the two-step, polka, waltz, cotten-eyed joe, schottish, and jitterbug, plus stay free and dance after the class. Enroll ment receipts from this class will enable students to get in the Hall free on Wednesday and Friday. Instructors: Ford 5 Sandra Tavlor Fee: $15 Meets: Wednesday, 6:15-7:30 p.m. Begins: June 13, 1984 Weeks: Five ADVANCED COUNTRY § WESTERN DANCE Learn to do continous turns and jitterbug moves for the two-step, polka and waltz. 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