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Show Bride Of 63 Says She'll i j "Mother" Husband Of 20 j t ,,,,,,, ' V y , Here are Mr. and Mrs. Gene Self of Woodland, Wash., on their honey moon after the wedding. i ; appointed to see mat. sue uuusn i squander the estate left by her first husband. "There's just two rules for keeping keep-ing a husband, the 63-year-old biide explains. "Feed them well, and give them lots of hugging and kissing. Gene, he's not much of a one for running around with the young girls, so I'm not afraid of that." The honeymoon cottage is neat as a pin. The honeymoon atmosphere atmos-phere Is a blend of the old and the new. There is an old organ the first Mr. Self used to play and a "stereoscope" thru which he used to look at pictures on cards. Then there is a fine radio and a phonograph for the amusement of the second Mr. Self. "I'm wife an1 mother and sweetheart sweet-heart to him, all in one," the bride explains. "He's young yet and has j a few things to learn, but I'm i teaching him. I kept one man for I years, so why be afraid of losing another I declare, getting married has taken 30 years off my life. I don't feel a day older than 45. After you've lived with a man for years "He's Young, But I'm Teach- ing Him," Says Wife On Her Honeymoon. TACOMMA, Wash., Dec. 30. He calls her Trixie and she calls him Gene. She is 63 years young, and he is 20 years old. They are married mar-ried and are spending their honey-.moon honey-.moon on her berry ranch at Woodland, Wood-land, a suburb. Gene is a nephew-in-law of Mrs. Self's first husband, with whom she lived for many years. He helped her nurse his uncle thru his last illness. Together the aged widow and the boy started putting in a patch of raspberries. Love ripened along with the raspberries and then one day Just Like That! "I looked at Gene and he looked j at me, and I said: 'Gene if I was younger I think I'd marry you, and then nobody could make you leave the place.' He didn't say anything. Then the next day I said: 'Gene, if you don't want to get married, I'll adopt you.' He looked at me a minute, and then said: 'Oh, shucks, Trixie, if you want to, we'll get married'." , . The ceremony was performed by Rev. E. J. Huston in Puyallup. The ' children of the aged bride object 'seriously and a guardian is to be you sure get. so you neea one house." . The boy husband seems happy, too. "I am fed better than anv man in the neighborhood," he declares. "We are sure -happy together, aren't we, Trixie?" And Trixie answers "Yes." |
