Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-21

situations such as these dlu not
make 1t any easier for Marion to con-
duct her establishment along the lines
she had laid out for herself An al
Turing and grown daughter complicat-
ed matters. More than that, the
boarders were beginning to take on
a resentful attitude toward the alleged
snobbishness of the daughter of the
landlady. Marion, had II been a mat
ter of choosing between the success of
her boarding house ana the necessity
for Shirley to live more closely In Its
environment, would have sacrificed the
former. It was due to her own rigid
discipline that Shirley had learned
that her world, her mothers choice of
world for her, must lie outside the
boarding souse.
And in the end, all of Marions care
fully laid schemes for her daughter
bore richer fruits than even she had
dared to visualize. The sweet Shirley,
impeccably lovely at eighteen, met, be-
came engaged to and married, all with
in ten days, young radio magnate
WIN Ut oONldlly SCNuiNt
full of the vitality that matched Shlr-
ley's, was already regarded as one of
the important financial men of the
country.
Overnight, Marion Howland's board
ing house became thing of the past,
that is, in so far as Marion's proprietor
ship was concerned. Llewellyn Lewes
literally sold his mother-ln-law's board
ing house over her head, making, as
he laughlngly put 1t, fiat profit"
The first year that Shirley was mar
ried Marlon's son-in-law, with a lar
gesse Characteristic of him In every
thing he did, settled the modest nest
egg of one million dollars upon her.
As Marion herself was fond Of eX-
planning, 1t might just as well have
been one-tenth that amount, since her
senses reeled after the first one hun
dred thousand mark had been passed
But Marion Rowland, well set-up,
attractive, full Of energies and inter-
ests at forty-flve, was thoroughly Gu
pable of entering her new estate. She
bloomed with happiness in her own
well being and In her daughters. Her
son-ln-law was congenIal to her. The
new and dlzzylng environment of crea-
ture comforts In which she found her
self was ever gratifying. Also, Ma
rlOn Rowland had known too much OF
the deprivation of life not to see to II
that out of her own empty some of
1t poured into the empty hands Of
others.
Marion, being mutually congenlal to
her daughter and son-in-law, was not
permitted out Of the regime ef their
household. The Llewellyn Lewes Oc-
cupied, along with Marion Rowland
a twelve-room suite on the top floor
of the most exclusive family hotel In
town.
Yet Marion Rowland was deter
mined, that with the new life of ease
her interests were not to deterlorate
She determined to keep up her actIvl
ties, and yet try as she would. there
was something about the condition OF
being relieved from the routine of the
running Of the boarding house, that
left her with a stranded feeling. Part
of her credo was to interfere as little
as possible In the lives and activities
of her two children. She insisted that
they travel, go about, regardless OF
her, and refused to mingle more than
casually in their social activities.
One day, when the realization had
settled quite definitely uon Marion
that she was on her own hands, and
that time was beginning to pail, she
did characteristic thing and one that
ultimately was to make her, In her
own way, as nationally prominent as
her sOn-ln-law.
Observing one day during the alb
sence OF her son-In-law and daughter
on an European Jaunt that the family
hotel In which they were living was
run along lines that seemed inefficient
she bought the hotel, paid for It one
third cash, and few weeks later had
established herself as proprietor.
That was the beginning Of the inter
national hotel series now known as the
Rowland Chain.