| Show How th file Grocers Doubtful Aft Hili HIS is the age of what Is fa coiled called THIS soper- soper super And accord accord- according according ing ins to the gossip of the smart set set the same methods that achieve such mar mar- marvelous marvelous mar results in the tho business worlds world's in- in intensive intensive in intensive so campaigns have recently been employed with great success by a ayoung ayoung young oung man in winning the heart of ofa a fashionable society heiress that The young man who has proven salesmanship can be useful in romance as well ell as business is Milton w W Holden and the heiress to whom he has sold himself and the idea that he will provo prove a better husband than her ber first one Is the former Fifi Widener the divorced wile wife of Carter Leidy There is every reason renson to believe that in Fifi Widener Mr Holden had what and salesmen call a tough prospect that it required all the patient persistence and persuasive elo- elo elo eloquence quence of which he is possessed to sell himself and the idea w ol of marriage to her But Dut like the good salesman ha he has bas proved himself in the business world he stuck to his task with bulldog bulldog tenacity for months and the other day he be had the satisfaction of seeing the heiress name placed on the dotted line of a marriage certificate as his bride Of course ourse probably nobody except the husband will ever bride bride- and her new know the full details of the tactics in his novel young Mr r Holden employed selling campaign and that's a great pity If the psychology of his salesmanship could be put in book form it would instantly in- in in instantly become u best seller and be a aboon aboon aboon boon to worried young oung lovers for tor all aU time As a salesman salesman Holden long ago proved himself a phenomenal success in the tho business world and now he has bas proved that his methods can be just as successful successful success success- successful ful when applied to the romantic task of selling himself and the idea of mar mar- marriage marriage marriage to a prospective bride It is not hard to understand why Fifi Widener should have been extremely doubtful about the wisdom of marrying marring Mr Holden or anybody else Although still a young woman and married only once before she has suffered more dis- dis disillusionment dis disillusionment concerning matrimony man many women get in a I lifetime of several marr marriages She sacrificed so much in order to marry Carter Leidy and after all an she shedid shedid shedid did facing her parents stern displeasure and exiling herself from fashionable so- so so the love match turned out so dif- dif The former Fifi Widener Leidy who has haa R become Mrs Milton Holden arc A s J J from what she had expected i-expected expected As many readers of this page will re- re remember J member the y Widener heir heir- heir beir p- p ess and Carter B Leidy w wore were ere fay school days sweethearts Long after after she sh shwas was old enough to make her debut th the two youngsters had decided that they the were made for each other and would be b marri married d as soon as they e could But the parents e of both the children got wind of their romantic plans Carters Carter's father and mother took him in one direction and the Widener parents sent Fill FiJi in another with detec detec- detectives detec- detec detectives detectives tives to watch her night and day and prevent her communicating with her sweetheart Then came a repetition of the story that is as old as boy and love itself All An the f parents could do was powerless to make Fill Fifi and Carter forget or think any less of each other The young people people peo- peo pie however concealed their real feelings so 50 successfully that the parents were de- de deceived deceived de deceived into thinking the romance was all off They were allowed to return to their homes in Philadelphia and from there one cold January morning they eloped to Knoxville Tennessee and were married The The two families highly indignant and 1 o i f 0 1 j n unforgiving at first finally decided to bestow their blessing on the newlyweds But forgiveness was granted only on con con- condition condition con condition that young Leidy prove his ability to t ke take care of a n wife by taking an overall job in tho the car works at Ber Berwick Ber- Ber Berwick wick ick Pennsylvania Nobody thought that Fifi Fill Widener would have the tho courage to tear herself away from the smart set and accompany her young husband in his exile but that thatis thatis thatis is exactly what she sho did For several years she kept house for him in a hum hum- humble humble humble ble Berwick cottage getting the meals packing his dinner pail and doing most of the household work with her o on rn hands At first the love match seemed one of those rare ones destined to last for for- forever for forever ever Carter Leidy proved a pretty good husband working at his job with nn an industry that surprised his so society friends Every now now and then when he grew tired of the monotony of daily toil he be would let off steam by indulging in a wild automobile ride and getting into trouble with the traffic cops But Dut Fill Fifi did not mind these escapades She got r v Fill Fifi and r N Ny Nr y her persistent and eloquent suitor photographed at a fashionable beach during the progress of the selling campaign that finally ended in in their marriage as lIS much fun out of them as her hus- hus husband husband hus husband band did It was not until after Carter Leidy Leid had been promoted to a job jobin jobin Jolin in New York that the differences which finally the couple began to de- de develop develop de develop The love that had thrived so amazingly in the Berwick cottage began to languish once it was transplanted to the luxury of a fashionable apartment hotel For two years there were repeated rumors of separation and divorce The Th truth o of these was confirmed early last year when a divorce degree was granted in Pennsylvania The papers in the tha case ase were impounded and the cause of ac- ac action action ac action tion tion has never been disclosed Of Ol course a woman so young and rich richand richand and charming as Fifi Fill Widener Leidy at- at attracted attracted the interest of many prospective suitors as soon as she was free But her distaste for another try try at n marriage wa waso was wasso wasso so great and she surrounded herself with so many barriers harriers that Milton Holden was wa the tho only man clever enough to break breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough through the outer defenses and lay siege to her heart 1 J Holden started his bis business career de delivering livering goods for a Camden New Jersey grocer He lie got the tha orders around so promptly that he was promoted to a job inside the store and there he began the mastery of salesmanship that has proved so 80 useful to him in more ways than one When the war came he be was employ employ- employment employment employment ment manager for a large corporation lie He enlisted in the air service became an anaid anaid anaid aid to General Pershing and later served as military at the Versailles Peace Conference After Alter the Armistice he ho became a bond salesman Some one has facetiously observed that all nil gentlemen prefer bonds but whether this is true truo or not the selling of these is a matter of the tho fiercest competition But young Holden made a great success of It justas just justas justas as he has made a success of everything he has undertaken from the delivery of groceries to the winning of ah in heiress heart Just how successful he is can be measured by the fact that after he and his bride return from their honeymoon they will occupy an apartment on NewYork's New NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's fashionable Park Avenue that contains seventeen I rooms and six baths I Living here hec with her second husband will be in great contrast for Fifi Fill Widener t with the conditions she sM faced with her first husband when they settled down to life in the Pennsylvania manufacturing town But her new husband has her so sowell sowell sowell well sold on his good qualities that she is very sure she will find the happi- happi happiness ness happi ness J she missed mis ed before Milton Holden comes from irom a family far removed from that of his bride brido in wealth and social position His father is a Philadelphia dealer in fancy dressed fowl and lives ina in a modest bungalow ina ina in a New Jersey suburban town The wedding was a very quiet affair The ceremony was performed in id the famous Van Dyke room of the Widener mansion where Fills Fill's father Joseph E Widener displays his costly collection of masterpieces by the great Dutch painter Mr Holden will not have to worry 4 about persuasively talking bonds to pros pros- prospective pros prospective buyers now that he is the bus hus- husband hus husband bandol band of ol a pretty society lady who has all kinds of bonds of her own But he will never cease to be a salesman at heart and it may be that he will have bave an nn Ope op- opportunity opportunity to keep his hand in when the little difficulties that beset all married couples arise |
