The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-02-22

Widener encourage. Sometimes, 1t Is said,
Eff would vary this by remarking: But
love will find a way! No matter what the
bolts and bars, ah, love will find way"
And Fiji was right. Despite all watch.
fulness, detectives in the guise OF garden
ers, chauffeurs. indoor and outdoor SER
wants, even governesses who watched her
every move to keep young Leidy away
from her and her away from young Leidy,
wilful and resourceful Miss Widener de-
parted calmly when she had fully made
up her mind.
Girl bride and boy bridegroom are now
at Asheville, North Carolina, having
gorgeous time.
There is no doubt that the Wideners
have not been so thoroughly and unpleas-
sntly surprised since the day years ago
that workmen, making repairs at Fifteenth
and Filbert streets in Philadelphia, tore
down a false wall and uncovered sign
with letters three feet high, telling the
world that here was the P. A. B. Widener
Meat Emporium, Ready and Willing to
Sell the Best Meat to Philadelphians that
thew ever tasted. It was the wall OF the
old butcher shop where the fortunes OF
the Widenef~ family were laid. But as for
a generation they had been trying to Tor
get this humble originating and to make
fashionable society, into which they were
Just entering, forget 1t, the disclosure was
disconcerting. Philadelphians still remem-
Der with what dizzying quickness host
of workmen descended upon and obliter-
ated that shameless and distressing sign.
Nor was this later surprise and discomf1-
tire lessened when It was found that Miss
Fiji, with an unusual enterprise and thrift,
and fearing perhaps, that forgiveness
might be long withheld, had taken with her
all her own jewels and some others that she
thought she had a right to. These we'd
ding presents to herself were worth,
friends say, no less than 100000!
The attachment of Fiji for young Leidy
was noted by the Wideners in the Spring
Ct 1918. The two had known each other
since babyhood. They had always been
friends. But Fiji, though only fifteen then,
was precocious, unusually developed for
n girl of her age. There were phases that
lifted the romance from any usual boy
and girl affair that could be depended
upon to die out in month or two.
Resides. Papa Widener had other plans
upon which it is said he had set his heart.
Extremely ambitious socially, he had
dreamed of a titled son-inlaw. Indeed, II
was said. a list of eligibles, any one of
whom might qualify and bestow his title
upon the Widener heiress, had already
been made up.
A tentative guard was placed around
Miss Fiji Also her opportunities for see
ing her Carter we're carefully curtailed.
Then the Wideners got real shock.
One night Miss Fif was caught sliding
down from her maiden chamber In the
great Elkins Park mansion. She had
knotted the sheets OF her bed together,
cast them from her window, and in true,
oId-fashioned, romantic style she was
climbing down to freedom,
love and her sweetheart. She
landed, as a matter of fact, In
s the arms OF one Of the watch
|8.%4.Ass ing guards!
Up to this time Fiji, friends
say, didn't know just how ex-
tensive the plans for restraint
we're. Now, like her parents,
she awakened to them.
tc) 1920. Interns