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| Miss Delphine Binger at work, and some of the novel tokens she fashions from wishbones for brides, 1939. |
Scraps from a thousand Sunday dinner tables form the raw-materials for a
novel and thriving industry built up by Delphine Binger of New York
City. Miss Binger collects the wishbones from turkeys, chickens, and
other poultry, treats them by a special electrical and chemical process,
inscribes them with special greetings, dresses them up with ribbon bows
and sprays of artificial flowers, and sells them as decorative
good-luck novelties to accompany wedding, birthday, and graduation
presents, and gifts for other special occasions. Among her specialties
are wishbones bearing tiny stethoscopes for medical-school graduates.
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