The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-18
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HfrrY GREEN MAKES MONEY.
Peoplc arc beginning TO understand
Hcttv Green better than they dld. ~
the richest woman in America anu w
poorest dressed woman In the worm, -
the woman without any home In Sly
over which her mortgages spread Ike
blanket, and the woman VINO al"aS
has twenty lawsuits on her hands' , ~.
has been criticised often enough. ,1
Hetty Green has turned farmer a ars
people are beginning 10 say that peii'"P"
She wasn't understood before. ,,
In I'm Vermont there is n very beaulS
ful country place. long the properly Oh
the Green family, and here Mrs lte,E
and her daughter She is there now
and were YOU TO meet her any Day VAN
ing along the road with pail or DeIil's'
or coming in from the gardens Will -
basket Of tomatoes. you would Judge ne'
TO be the happy wife Of a well-to-do-laf-
I'm here" says the wealthy Mrs
Hctty. because folks can't ma me out
without coming a long way. IN mr.
for my husbands rheumatism, ana III
here because my daughter isn't strong
and more than all. I'm here Tor me ied-
son that I'm born a farmer ana I1Nc
10 work the ground and raise crops We
raised everything we've had on me taple
may doubt the meat part OF my ldiin-
Ing but IL is true. We live on chickens
and ducks and turkeys ana eggs. anu
for variety we had very nice spring
calf. the son Of a fine red COW biouslt
M here a year ago. ! am not here all
the time because I've other interests.
But some day / am going 10 live mere,
and then / Will astonish all the farmers
I'm the big crops / will get and the money
I will make off this little place. If
a estate
town left to me. you may be sure ia
never been driven from Eden TO the
noisy city-cither for comfort or TO make
money
Hetty Green's farming gown was not
made by Worth, though IL is tidy and
becoming 10 her. II could easily have
been bought with one days laying OF
eggs but as Mrs Green truthfully says,
10 is part Of the making Of money IN
the country TO be able to save it in
clothes.
The story Of how Mrs. IT. C. flatt,
wife of the politician and express mag
nate sighed for farming ana bought a
grove in Florida for raising oranges is
one Of the prettiest in the annals OF
women farming. And ii is wei deserv-
ing Of its sequel Friends Of Mrs Piatt
tell how ably she succeeds with the
oranges. She has designed an improved
case for packing oranges which gives
ventilation yet warmth, so that none
freeze coming North. and she also sorts
them before shipping. Ihere are llISI
second. and thrd-class oranges. besides
a lot OF small. imperfect ones for the
penny oranges of the stands and also
few very fine selected ones.
The selected ones 20 TO a great hotel
which pays her unusual rates for them.
and the others go TO firm of grocers
who have. IL is said, a contract OF sew
eral years for them. Narmalade IS soon
20 be made Of the smaller and sourer of
the oranges ~ plans are in progress
for expanding the grove.
FUN AND osANGIs
Not the least noteworthy is the pleas
ure which the mistress gets out OF hcr
enterprise. Zach winter she takes g
party Of friends South and gives them
the run of the low, long wooden shantN
on the plantation, while she attends
the business affairs of the grove. She
picks oranges. helps In the packing,
makes arrangements for shipping ana
notifies her patrons when they can eX-
HETTY GREEN FARMS IT.
pect their shipments. She is the only
woman fruit-grower who Is sharp
enough I'm the business Of transportation
10 get her products through promptly
Her oranges are delivered at the door
within week Of being taken from the
trees. while the ordinary orange Of com
merce lOiters on its way for months
The mushroom farm of Mrs. A. NJ
Palmer wife Of the theatrical manager,
and herself President of the famous Pro-
fessional WOmau's League, is one Of the