The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-08-27
AN INTERESTING
SCOTCH ROMANCE
Unknown Lassie Becomes
Famous.

young Scotch girl by name Jane
Arden. was recently presented at the
English court and a month later was
married to the only son of Sir Edward
Mcfarland. When this little Scotch
lass come into notice London's leading
artists said: If all the world was
searched a more beautiful face and fig
ure could not be found"
The Macfarland blood is very blue.
Sir Edward Is one of the wealthiest
and most distinguished linen weavers
in the British kingdom. The marriage
of his only and heir to
known Highland girl was an event
that made society gossip.
beautiful face was not all that
Jane Arden possessed. She was ar
fist born; the story of her fame and
fortune runs like this:
At the age of sixteen she took up.
designing in a country school. Her
teachers sent some of her designs and
patterns to the Macfarland mills. offer
ing them for sale.
Young mcfarland had just returned
from oxford and had entered into his
fathers business a partner. Being
rather of an artistic temperament he
had been given charge of the art de-
partment of the great mills. He
bought little Jane ArQen HTSl dS-
signs and asked for others-they came.
and the Macfarland drafts in payment
therefor went promptly back, always
with the request for others. On one
occasion young Macfarland asked the
teacher who sent in the designs for the
name of the artist, but being proud of
her pupil, and knowing there was in
terest in mystery this request was re-
fused.
The designs of the mcfarland mills
began to attract attention under its
new head. Jack mcfarland soon
recognized that his one security lay in
controlling the work of this new and
mysterious artist. He could not afford
| to have her work go to his COMPETE
tors. Her teacher was sought and with
much difficulty the name of Jane Ar
| den was revealed Jack sought an in
| terview with the young girl and Sc
cured a contract with she and her
| widowed mother to control all her de-
signs and art work.
Jack took away his contract but left
something vastly more important in
the keeping of Jane Arden. He left
something that could not be sketched
/ with the artists pencil and upon
| which there was no price.
Two years went by. the Macfarland
designs became famous all over Eu-
| rope. Jack suggested in a courteous
letter one occasion that Jane send
/ a set of her designs to him and he
| would send them to Mary. the pres
ent queen of England. which was done
| They were at once named the I'm
| perial Patterns" The queen adopted
| them for her court costumes and pro-
nounced them the most beautiful de-
signs in the world. Jane Arden was
sent for and presented at court, also
to the queen in private, who took her
hand and said, II cannot tell which is
the prettiest. your beautiful face. your
beautiful name, or your beautiful de-
signs"
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