Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-20
TULSA DAILY WORLD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1918

any.
Grandmother Goldstein chose I,
live In that neighborhood
In vain did her progeny beseecf
her TO live up town and be stylish
She liked TO visit their flats with
such shining plumbing and polite
tanitors, In tho summer. she wen
with them TO grand hotels where
Jewish families flocked TO froIo ~
80 nd and sea and sandwiches and soft
| drinks. Hut firmly she reslsted all
attempts 10 transfer her to Harlem,
People Will think we can't make
money" walled the sons. ~ We leave
our old people behind In such set
ting-'
The daughters artfully pointed out
'hat they NEEDED her more. as married
women, than when they were little
| Eiris. GRANDMOTHER resisted plead
lngH and threats She said she would
fhrn 10 use telephone and they
could talk TO her Just as easy. hut
| she stayed In three little rooms iust
! or Grand street, and continued 10 do
her marketing from pushcnrts
Indeed, after tho children and
/ grandchildren had been lifted out OF
! the downtown ghetto by good for
/ 'hne ana Industry. the littlo old wo-
I ''''''' h''ih'h i'allN w hftNtuf recon
/ clled To- America, During her young
married life In this country. she had
been homesick. M. tormented with
! poverty aud hard work She saw her
I children grow up-~and away from
! hor-- caught In the terrible American
I IRE In which old customs wrre neg
| lectod, old traditions foutcd old
/ country ways ridicDled The mpn
/ tient Youngsters became. American
yed with cruel ropldlW that separ.
/ ated them from their parents almost
! ns soon as they were big enough tu
| toddlc out TO play
Mrs Goldsteln was not one Of the
! many foreign women who never learn
! English She was "old country" but
! merited the description of irrcvercnt
| grandchildren who described her aA
some old girl" She helped Grand
rather Goldston In his business and
| picked up English thru that But ~
| she grew older and the family IDEALS
| progressed II took the combined cf-
forts of father, soma and grnndsons
| TO convince her that. In America an
old woman's place is IN the home.
Retirement from business was ac-
| complishcd In many muttcring- and
great hoartache Grandmother came
| from long line of traders aud bar
| gaining, buying and selling were as
| much part Of her life ms cooking
ana baby tending. She thot them all
| cruel TO make hcr sit with folded
hands, II the children had ruled on
| tlrelv they would also have made
| Grandfather Goldstein close his grub
! hy second hand furniture shop IN Al
len street But the old man was
| backed by the traditions Of patri-
a V4lt tgI l.sv tv.a. a
| be lo0fer an bum"
Grandmother had 90 try to conquer
| the training OF lifetime. In AM
tsterdam. the market stand where her
father sold everything from antique
brass to fresh eggs, was 10 her family
what an English estate IL to titled
eldest son. Generations had stood
there on the scrubbed bricks and
bought and sold and traded, under
the scant shelter OF the white tent
like top. She had been the pride OF
her father, who encouraged her
Shrewdness. tact and Judgment whom
she married and came TO America,
her usefulness in the shop kent her
close to her husband and shs was In
touch with the new life as few for
eign wives can he because they are
I imprisoned In their kitchens and
learn OF this country only thru their
tired husbands and needless children.
Grandmother's sons had Inherited
a good business instinct beginning
with secondhand shoe dealing, they
developed into shoe merchants, with
up -to-date stores all over town They
had nice families. too. Grandmother
| GoldAteln loved their babies. But
what modern baby can fill a grand
mother heart nowadays with such
cranky notions about spen aa,lr sleep
ing and 90 rocking Or feelings be-
tween meals, and no sweet things at
afi2 She had nothing 10 do In their
homes or their nurseries And they
forbade her TO enter the store at all
At first, she had tried TO make
visits but she noVer could resist
sticking a word Into a bargain or taxi
ing stuff out OF the hands OF clumsy
salesmen who might spoil sale aud
let = customer escape. All day they
made her sit In her neat homo, fur
nished Ms nicely as money and her
preindlces would permit. She cooked
HIS favorite dishes until Grandfather
Goldsteln WAS threatened with Eout
ANA then there was an awfui period
whom she sat with her hands wrapped
woefully In her apron. silent. cross.
lffeless and much given 10 dripping
tears.
No one noticed when the change
came about Grandmother had been
80 splteful and hateful that tho
children made brief visits and were
glad to hurry away from her tenn
perish nnthursts They did not know
that Grandmother Goldstein had
started secret" for the first time In
her forty odd wears Of married life
Every morning she left l<me half
an hour after grandfather went to