Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-21

everything else that I buy. tell you,
| have to watch them closely, or I
would lose all possess" declared Mrs.
Green
The subject of conversation changed
to the Thaw-White murder case, and
Mrs. Green, in speaking of the rich
young men Of the fast sets of today,
said emphatically:
IF my boy Ned lived as Thaw did
and committed the crime he did. I'd
give him a hypodermic myself and put
him awav where there would be no
more chance for disgrace.
1T is the trouble of a race for So
ciety preference today.
They have made all kinds of allega-
tions that, because I am supposed to
be immensely rich. I wanted to break
into New York society for Sylvia s
sake
Every word of that was a lie, for I
am not anxious for any of their COM
pany, and neither is Sylvia
Some of the sets in New York, and
particularly the one that Thaw and
White Travelled ip, are living in worse
manner than the people of Sodom and
Gomorrah did, and I know it. for didn't
some of them try to tempt my boy Ned
just after took him out of college and
brought him to Chicago?
one of these actresses tried to snare
him there and then. When | fought
her, she came the religious dodge on
me, telling of how badly her minister
down in Lexington. KY, would feel
about the position she was placed in
by my boy
II ended her game very quickly when
I wrote to the minister's wife, for if
you want anything to spread just tell
the wife of the minister in any COM
munity and you will never need to hire
an advertising agent
Mrs. Green then went on to say that
throughout her life she had remained
a firm believer in the Bible, and that
her prayers, according to the old ortho.
doX teachings had saved many a fight
that she was forced to wage against
those who sought to ruin her or take
her money away.
Prayers have saved me In every
fight that 1 have made. and so long
as 1 live / will fight for the right
against murderers, thieves and perjur-
ers, as they are the curses of the world
today"
Taking the reporter down to the barn
she showed the badly charred 'interier
and remarked:
Il am having the carpenter do a few
days work here to kind of fix up the
place for Ned, as he is coming up here
from Texas at about the middle of Au-
gust to stay until the first of Septem-
Der, and he will need the place for his
automobiles"
In genial manner, that is said to
be entirely contrary to her usual GUS
tom, the female Midas of Bellows Falls
then parted with the newspaper man,
and simply asked that in writing of the
visit she be not misunderstood, and, if
anything was to be said, to be certain
to impress on the readers that, while
she lived in manner to suit herself,
she was at least a thoroughly God-fear-
ing woman.
This is the result of a full hour spent
one recent morning with woman said
to be worth more than $4,000, 900 and
who lives on less than $4,000 a year.
BY those who know the woman best
and very closely, it is claimed that she
is not a miser but that she is simply
a, sturdy clear-headed, conscientious
woman. who has the most hearty con-
tempt for show and feathers, and is in
reality endowed with a warm heart that
responds quickly in time of real need
to the wants, sorrows and mlsfortunes
of others.
Her sole ambition, it Is believed.
though she will not admit it, is to make
her son Ned, now in Texas, the richest
man in America.