Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-19 | Page 11 | Woman of 101 Advises Lovelorn Not to Marry

WOMAN OF 101 ADVISES LOVELORN NOT TO MARRY (Ry ititenintloiml News Service.) NEW VORK. Jan. 19 Mrs Cath-crino Cath-crino Tlbball. 101 years old. an. I mother of eleven, who. though she recalls her own courtship with ex-treme ex-treme pleasure, advises lovelorn mai-dens mai-dens to be cautious when considering marriage. "Marriage at best Is a risk." says fl Mrs. Tlbball Mrs. Tibball's homo is at 961 Lafayette avenue. Brooklyn. and many lovelorn maidens have sought her counsel concerning affairs of the heart And invariably they are advised against matrimony. Despite her dlscouragelng advice to young girls. Mrs. Tibball likes to re-call re-call the romantic features of her own IH courtship "I can remember very well," she said with a far-away look in her eyes as she leaped across those elghty-tWO years when her hair was black instead of snow white "I was sweeping out the arenwny when a note was dropped down for me. It was a valentine. At church the following Bulday I was Introduced to tho sender of the valentine, and It wasn't long before L married the young man. I've hud eleven children and all but three are .b ad. And I'm ready to go horn. , Mrs. Tibball attributes her longevity to her abstinence from "high living" and front the use of fn toxicants.