The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-01
Girls Don't Mind Mother
Like They Once Did, Says
Bride Married so Years

danced she lifted her dress. like
this"
And the little lady stood in tho
middle OF the floor as she gracefully
lifted the long skirt OF her dress to
her ankles, then took hesitating
experimental step or two.
at was lovely Just like a show
And Mother Waldrep liked IT,"
Mrs. wa'drep loves pretty things.
she wore n soft little crepe de chine
dress the other day whose VIII te
lace collar was pinned with a Dis
gold medallion. She never wears
black. She doesn't like II, and she
makes for herself little house dresses
OF white, and street suits OF tan and
brown. She likes to sew and there
are lovely pieces Of embroidered
things about the house that she has
done. Best OF all she loves her
flowers, and she mourna because
the vagrancies Of Oklahoma climate
won't let her roses grow as they
used to grow in Arkansas.
Born and reared in Arkansss. Mr.,
and Mrs. Waldrep lived there for
years before starting out on n jour
ney that shifted them. before II end
TO Oklahoma where they have lived
for the last eight ~cars. Ali or their
children except their baby. Walter.
are here. Walter Is marine and
while his brothers and sisters and
father and mother were celebrating
the passing OF the 5Oth matrimonial
milestone last Thursday he was
somewhere in Africa. William Penn.
the eldest son, is 40. The other chill
dron are J. 4. Waldrep, j. w. wal
drep. Miss Alma, who teaches music
and lives with her father and
mother. Mrs. Florence Dixon and
Harmon Biggs Waldrep. The Oldest
grandchild, William Day, IL 90 and
the son of the oldest son while the
youngest Is John David. who has not
yet reached the dignity OF two years
and Ia the son OF !. W. Waldrep
Thursday night each Of the chill
dren presented the bridal couple
with flye-dollar gold piece. There
were gifts of gold and yellow flow
ers for them, and the register In
which the names OF all the guests
were written was presented to them
as a souvenir Of the day by their
eldest grandchild. William Day Wal
drep. Mr.. and Mrs Chambers, old
friends, presented them with SOU
venir booklets. Thelma Waldrep. n
granddaughter, read for them, and
Mrs. G. j. Montgomery proposed n
toast to them. From a punch bowl
surrounded by decorations OF gold.
enlivened by Christmas bells and
holly, punch was served all evening
and the daughters and daughte-s-in-
law, who planned and gave the
party, served a salad course. Every
one admired the little bride. She
wore n gown made especially for the
occasion-brown charmeuse, en-
broidered in blue and gold. She
looked very lovely and very tiny by
the side of her big husband, who .s
as broad -sh houldered as he is un-
erringly six feet tall.
II is a fault commonly found with
wedding stories, that they are all
about the bride. The poor bride
groom apparently is a nonentity. But
Mr.. Waldrep isn't n nonentity. He
Ia a perfect wonder of husband. No
wonder his wife looks young. Not
only has she been cared for, shell
tered, protected. loved, but she has
been fed from the springs of the
fountain OF youth. In all the 80
years of their married life, her hus-
band has never forgotten her birth
day nor a wedding anniversary