The morning times., 1895-08-18

always has twenty lawsuits on her hands
she has been criticised often enough. But
Hetty Green has turned farmer and people
are beginning to say that perhaps she
wasn't understood before.
Up in Vermont there is very beautiful
country place, long the property of the
Green family, and here Mrs. Hetty goes
every summer, with her husband and her
daughter. She is there now, and were you
to meet her any day walking along the
road with a pail of berries, or coming in
from the gardens with basket of toma-
toes. you would judge her to be the happy
wife of wel-to-do farmer.
I'm here" says the wealthy Mrs. Hetty.
because folks can't find me out without
coming a long way I'm here for my hus-
bands rheumatism, and I'm here because
my daughter isn't strong, and, more than
all, I'm here for the reason that I'm a
born farmer, and l love to work the
ground and raise crops. I've raised every
thing we've had on the table for a month,
even to the meat. You may doubt the
meat part of my farming, but it is true
We live on chickens and ducks and turkeys
and eggs; and for variety we had a very
nice spring calf, the son OF a fine red cow
l bought up here year ago. l am not
here all the time, because I've other in
terests, But some day am going to live
here, and then 1 will astonish all the
farmers in the big crops l will get and
the money / will make off this little
place. If / hadn't had fortune In real
estate in town left to me you may be sure
I'd never been driven from Eden to the
noisy city-either for comfort or To make
money"
Hetty Green's farming gown was not
made by Worth, though 1t is tidy and
becoming to her. 1t could easily have
been bought with ope days laying of eggs,
but, as Mrs GreeH truthfuly says, ii is
part of the making 81 money in the country
to be able to save ikjn clothes
The story of how Mrs. T. c. Plat, wife
of the politician fnd Texpress magnate,
sighed for farmingiEandi bought a grove in
Florida for raisingl oranges is one OF the
prettiest in the anrialslaf women farming
And it is well describing OF its sequel
Friends OF Mrs. P1etttelI how ably she
succeeds with the oranges. Shehas designed
an improved cases for packing oranges,
which gives ventiliatiae, yet warmth, so
that none freeze coming North, and she also
sorts them before shipping There are first,
second and third class oranges, besides a
lot OF small, imperfect ones for the penny
oranges at the stands, and also few very
fine selected ones.
The selected ones go 20 q great hotel,
which pays her unusuafrates for them, and
the others go to a firm Of grocers who have,
it is said. a contract OF several years for
them, Marmalade is soon to be made OF the
smaller and sourer OF the oranges, and
plans are In progress for expanding the
grove.
Not the least noteworthy is the pleasure
which the mistress gets out OF her enter
prise. Each winter she takes a party of
friends South and gives them the run of the
low, long wooden shanty on the plantation,
while she attends to the business affairs of
the grove. She picks oranges, helps in the
packing; makes arrangements for shipping
and notifies her patrons when they can ex-
pect their shipments She is the only woman
fruit grower who is sharp enough in the