Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-13
Writer Weddinq@
BY BERTA RUCK
copyright 1889: BY News Syndicate Co.. Inc
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO

IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO
Miss Landon, I haven't had a frock
that fitted since the last one you had
designed for newly, it must be a
dozen years ago. suppose you saw
that your successor at Lola's' has just
II shall" said Lola Landon, and
forthwith began negotiations.
She bought back that Mayfair es-
Enlistment at the price of the lease
Ted and Florence Landon were over
missed her London bridge club friends
her London life, and Ted his days at
the patent office, and his club! Now
the old life was to begin again.
Il tremble to think how that fool
Of woman who's had Iola's' all
these years has let it down." said the
late head of the Phoenix as they board
than ever. I look to you all to pull
your weight. especially you, Rose
"Of course Aunt Lola" said her
willowy, pretty, color-and-line con-
scious niece, coming to herself, ii
seemed, with start. OF all the family
Rose Landon alone shed, or rather
steamed out of Puddieton station.
Her aunt glanced at her over Major
Hounslow's farewell bouquet and said
There's French proverb that agrees
little"
Roses eyes showed that she wouldn't
mind dying as much as she minded
leaving Puddleton. "One will miss
ones friends"
Friends" as her mother said later
to her aunt, mean Cecil Brown
Cecil was the son of their Puddleton
bank manager, who. for the last six
months had been Roses adoring es-
cort and dance partner. "a nice boy,
but Rose will do better for herself
than that in London" planned Roses
socially ambitious mother. Rose will
soon forget Cecil"
"A girl can forget anything" agreed
Roses aunt, but her face softened.
She had soft spot in her heart for
the young niece who sometimes re-
minded her Of her younger self. No
one else saw the likeness. Rose" they
mental. Whereas Lola" No one
would suspect Lola of any secret gar
den Of passionate regrets, of tender
memories to which throughout all
these years she could withdraw.
Back in London the dress artist
flung herself into the work of raising
"Lola's" out of a heavy slump. She
banished the exaggerately modern
showroom decorations, the faceted glass
furniture, the surrealist paintings; she
brought back soft no-colored velvet
hangings, her old Venetian mirrors, the
empire escritoire. She engaged first
class workwomen, including that genius
among filters she had discovered in
Puddleton. She put her own shapely
back into her job. Things went we'll
Presently the returned creator of 10
las" could sit back and see that she'd
surpassed herself.
And on my seth birthday I shall
throw that celebrated party"
IF you're not married before, auntie.
Always supposing I am not mar
rfed before" agreed the woman who
could afford to treat this subject of
marriage with assurance.
Her major, that limpet-like sutton
of Puddletor days, made many jour-
neys up to London. In vain, though
he would have been jumped at by
plenty Of younger women, Miss Lam
don's once willowy lines, once willowy
figure, now inclined to be Junoesque,
but even before curves came in again
she had designed a Phoenix model
that made plumpnesS into asset.
As soon as her brown hair began
to show unbecoming gray streaks, she
took herself to a secret process of
which she did not divulge the details,
and returned with hair as white as a
fall of snow. 1t made her resolute,
live, subtly tinted little face into that
Of a marquiSe years younger than 80.
But the plans for her party crashed,
for in November, Lola's sister n-law,
Florence, caught a chill and died very
quietly. Rose, now her aunt's right
hand, saw that her handsome, easily
led father was likely to marry again,
moved into her aunt's large Shepherds
Market flat. "Lolas" extended its
premises and outdid its first success.
by towards Miss Landon'S 10th birth
And the wedding party that I've
planned ever since I was Is" said Lo-
Ia, lis going to come off this year
Nothing shall stop me-
Silver on white cards, the invitation
ran
asks for the pleasure of your COM
pany at 80 A Berkely Square on
Dec. 9, on the occasion of her
wedding to
No presents, by request.
Dancing-3 to $50.
At the bottom of the card appeared
the intriguing announcement:
$3.50 SURPRISE
This went out to everybody connect
ed with "Lola's" from its wealthiest
client to its youngest sewing girl. Ev-
erybody thought it would be an enor-
nous joke.
"a publicity stunt" said some, but
a good one"
"a shame. call it, that it isn't 60
ing to be Madam's own wedding" de-
clared one of the skirt hands. why,
she'd make a lovely bride, still!'
No bride-to-be could have flung her.
self with more zest into the prepara-
tions. Lola's two big sfowrooms on
the first floor were cleared and the
folding doors thrown open. At one
end ran the long buffet with the re-
freshments and the vast, frosted, Al
pine wedding cake. Champagne was
10 be of the best, and lavish, not the
youngest guest could complain Of the
hand NofhinO Uas In he lacking tn