The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-18
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b,yid A. Tracy, 203 Mary Brockman
sentiments. And they ought to
NOV. for they have travelled n long.
iong road together. and now, on h
ave ~ their golden wedding anniver-
.arv ha%upiness and the light OF
,oui hfulness that such happiness
brings is reflected in their faces.
september Fl. fifty years ago. near
oxford, Ohio, a dark-eyed and black
haired girl married a young man in
tbe mercantile business. With youth
In their eyes and a boundless future
whose hard work held no dread. but
enthusiastic anticipation for them.
,bev act up Housekeeping near Mill
vile. ohio. II was there that h
rrst baby, a little girl. was born.
won that time on their lives might
90, have read differently from that
Of any other young married people.
A little boy was born to them later.
moved TO Indiana in 1885 and
is,,r 10 Newcastle, the Rose City"
Tracy was busy with real estate and
Insurance all OF the time, and his
isSure hours, those early days, he
devoted to the loading Of music
conventions" From the father the
elder Of the two children, Mrs. w. l..
cain. one of the well known must
clans of Tulsa, inherited her talent.
in 1914 they went to Hot Springs
and from there they came TO Tulsa
They're Both Young Yet.
Tracy and his wife not only look
young. but they are young. Tracy,
y,ho has been i'll for several months,
iv lust recuperating, but even with
The shadow of sickness still lingering
one would never suspect that insofar
ss years go, he is 76 years old. He
,s The last OF a family of ten chill
dren, Mrs. Tracy the last Of a family
of thirteen. lie has the ~alertness
and vlgor OF q man wenty years
Younger. And in Mrs. Tracy Is the
vivacity and enjoyment OF people
and Of things that surely Is seldom
seen in a oma who, according TO
birthdays. is nearly 10 years old. Her
black hair is only lightly touched
win gray; her black eyes have lost
none OF their light. She laughed a
little as she touched the dark hair
fienderly streaked with gray, that
fgaved smoothly back from her race
10 the heavy coil on top of her head.
IT wouldn't feel old at all II 1t
were not for this gray hair-it wor-
ries me- she said. Until two years
ago there wasn't a gray thread in my
hair. But. of course. / don't feel ola,
even now. l haven. had time TO get
old. l have always been too busy
think perhaps that is one reason
why Daddy and | have been so hap
nv we have had a great deal TO
40 all our lives, and We ave been
wrapped up in our children. Then
We have always enjoyed u young
folks and their friends, and | guess
perhaps we stayed young with them.
We enjoy people. As long as we
don't feel old, why act old? L nke
10 see folks dress and act ike they
feel. and I don't feel like an old
woman, so why should l dress ike
one?"
Not an sold" Lady.
We who listened to her wondered
why, too, and rejoiced silently that
she dressed Just as she did. In
cool summer dress with it's delicate
tracing Of white against a black
background was a little vest OF
cream colored lace, and she wore
a string Of pearls. The customary
descriptive thing TO say about a wire
and mother who Is celebrating her
golden wedding anniversary Is usu-
ally that she is a very charming oIu
lady. Mrs. Tracy is a very harm
ing and a very interesting lady. but
70 save ones life, II would be I'M
possible to say that she is a very
charming "old" lady, because sHo
usxAerally is not old. She looks as
. though she should be discusslns
problems of her high school daugh-
ter's fall clothes and her young sons
graduation into long trousers instead
Of her great-grandchildren.
In those great-grandchildren is
vested a very large share of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Tracy's affection n Interest:
1heir son, Arthur w. Tracy, wen
lHown newspaper man and wash
ington correspondent, has two sons
Paul and Archie. Each OF the sons
have a small daughter. Margaret ana
Pauline, two years aud four months
old. Because the grandsons live so
far away II will be Impossible Tor
them to be here for the golden wed
ding anniversary celebration, but the
son arrived last week. He lives in
Washington, but spends a part or
his time in New York. Mrs. CAIN,
with whom Mr.. and Mrs. Tracy are
living now, has lived In Tulsa Tor
.he last four years,
Big Dinner "Wednesday Night.
A few close friends OF the brlde
md groom OF fifty years ago have