The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-21
WOMEN WITH FORTUNES.
HOW rEEY GAME TO BE SUCCESS
Full IN LIFE,

Interesting Features in Their Careers
Financiers. Cattle Queens and
Authors-Mrs Cleveland as She
wns and She is-Gowns and Hats
Which Are the Latest Things IN
Paris - Creams and Perfumes
Which Any Bright Woman Can
Make at Home and SO Get the Better
OF the Druggist.
From the Ne1 York World.
Women can earn money. Women can
save money. But the women who can
make money are soarcsr than the hens
teeth Of tradition.
Twenty-Five dollars o week, paid as a
regular salary into feminine hands, makes
the recipient marked individual among
her sistera Fifty dollars week surrounds
a woman with an atmosphere which is
hazy With notes Of gold dust. One hun
bred dollars a week places her among the
financial elect of her sex.
However, there are good many women
who draw large salaries or earn generous
incomes. But the women who stand out in
bold relief from the background OF fort
une which they, however, have accumu-
lated, would ill very few Of the unoccupied
inches in the temple Of fame,
OF course, there is Hetty Green, the
witch of Wall street," the "Prinoess Of
Whales" 1t was in pursuit Of that festive
fish that her father earned few millions
which, at his death, became the portion Of
bis thrifty daughter. Heiresses are no I'M
common thing in this country. But Hetty
Green, hsiress, with her genius for business,
hsaV- rf1fk nj 10
900 which she has added to her inheritance,
Is figure upon which the eyes Of the world
look with Unsuitable curiosity.
Hetty Green is now a stout, poorly dressed,
hard featured woman OF about So
She was once, however, quite q social bell
although the way the youthful Hetty
plowed through the snow in order to save
a carriage when she went TO a party, was
certainly straw which showed whlcn way
the wind blew. Whom she got her father s
dollars in her keeping she foreswore parties.
She set about the accumulation of a fo-
tune. She invaded Wall street and she
''corueredn Reading sgock about four tim)s
a year with un!siling success.
Having squeezed what millions she
thought possible from that stock she took
up Louisville and Nashville. Real estate
was added to her possessions and stocks,
bonds and securities accumulated in her
Golfers. Her instructions 10 her brokers are
brief aud upmistakable. They are only two
Ia number; Buy till tell you to sell, " and
Sell till tell you to stop"
Mrs. Green evidently thinks that econ
oIny is the road to wealth for she pays only
81 week for board and it is said that $50
would purchase her entire wardrobe. She
Is married aud 1t is her ambition TO leave
her son the riches man IN the world.
An entirely different type OF q woman is
Mrs. Frank Leslie or Mrs. William Wilde,
as she is now. The story OF Mrs. Leslie 3
life reads Ike romance, but the fortune
which she has piled up by her own energy
is as realistic as the modern novel. Every
one knows how she made it.
Another little woman who has wooed a
goodly fortune from the tickle goddess is
Lolita, the popular actress of the nimble
heels Lolita is credited with having a snug
1000, 900 put by as the result Of her taking
stage pranks. She has hotel in Boston
ad Joining the Park theater, which she also
owns She has an apartment bo Use in New
York, real estate all over the country and
she keeps on cointng money at the rate OF
$50, 900 a year.
All! but there is a watehful power behind
the thronel There Is a Mrs. Crabtree-thAt
being the little actress sngularly inappro-
pirate nRme-and Mrs Z, looks with an
eagle eye after her daughters earnings.
But Lolita made il all, for her father W rs
an unsuccessful miner, and it was from a
log cabin at Rabbit Creek, Cal, that the
actress made her debut.
Another though lesser fortune won by
histrionic triumphs 10 That OF Fanny Dayeu-
port. Fanny Lily Gypsy, as she was christ
ened by her actress mother, Is now worth
about $100, 900 exclusive of what might be
CALLED stage capital, suoh as jewels,
gowns and playrights. These are in
themselves worth a small fortune.
az can be realized when one con-
slders that the gowns for Cleopatra alone
cost the modest sum Of $4,000. Miss Day'
EXPORT has beautiful home at Hillside
Pa, which is furnished with all sorts OF
rare and costly brlo-a-brac. She also has
$50 acres of land in Fulton's Canyon, Cal
near the home OF Modjeska, This is on the
way TO becoming a rival to the English
manor 1t has game preserves aud parks
which the $4,000 claimed 20 have been
expended will soon develop.
Frances HodgsoD Burnett is another
money -making woman. Mrs. Burnett was
q country scho ! teacher once upon time.
IL may bs superhuous TO state that she was
also poor. The very stamps which were
necessary In order to send her Arst story
to an editor were earned by pick.
ing berries. Then she found O
friend in Charles J. Peterson OF Philadel-
phia, who not only accepted her work but
paid her It.
lltL6 W6uO on ana 40 mTS. DuTn6Ib.
She earned money with increasing rapidity.
She was a successful literary woman. Still
she was not rich. She had, In fact. precious
little Of competence laid by for an emer-
gency. Finally she wrote book. 1t wes q
comparatively little book for little people
But the way that volume took hold of the
hearts Of big and little alike was enough to
make the very covers warp with the warmth
Of its reception. The dollars came pour
log In, and, as Bill Nyo would say. 1.-THE
first flush ana fluff and bloom of Little
Lord Fauntleroy's" prosperity bad come.
The dramstization Of the book added TO the
tide Of money that flowed in and Mrs. Bur-
nett's annual income is now about $50, 900.
She is lavish in her expenditure. however
and therefore cannot boast Of the piled ur
thousands Of some other women.
The children Of Amelie Rtves Chanler's
brain have brought her substantial reward,
She received an advance payment for Que
story Of $1,000. This Is said TO be the largest
sum paid for a single story in this country
with the exception Of the payment OF 5.o0C
20 Mrs Burnett when she was on the very
crest of the Fauntleroy wave. IL isn't
known exactly what income this daughter
otVirginia receives from her publications,
but some idea Of its extent may be bad from
little BIT Of comparison which some one
Instituted In a spirit OF curiosity.
John Milton wrote poem concerning q
fallen angel IL was a long DOam. hut Mr.