The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
BEAUTY IN coNroRrIoN.


She is merely adjusting her veil.
To see her at home Is treat.
mat only the fair can bestow:
AZ the play she is perfectly sweet,
But abroad she's the picture of woe.
- See ss her lips, how they twist to and froi
With physical anguish? Not So
She is merely adjusting her veil.
Ifshs sticlstout her tongue when you meet,
II she gasps like a fish in the heat.
Don't run for assstance-go slow
With practice, you'll probably grow
Quite hardened, and not even quail
AT the sight, but may tell yourself, 'Oh,
She is merely adjusting her VEIL
On nth the ioveiiest countenance 10!
Is 1t toothaohe? Mumps? Chewing gum?
She is merely adjusting her veil.
Unhappy Hetty Green.
II you have been a part Of the
hurrying throng that daily jostles
down lower Broadway you have seen
withered leaf, it seems, strangely
tossed in the great financial current.
Follow this little old woman in rusty
black and see her enter the Chemical
National bank. She is not the scrub
woman. The scrubwoman has no
the alpaca gown that has weathered
many seasons; the black wooden cape
that has shaped itself to the shoulders
as they have bowed through the last
with it's little bunch of flowers that
faded with the millinery OF many
summers past.
Yet she has made no mistake in
entering here, where the atmosphere
is crisp with the ways Of the bust
yorJd nd at lio VyifyIa he
sound Of money. For 10! office boys
and clerks and men higher up stand
obseQuiously aside as she enters. The
bowed gray head turns neither to the
right nor to the left as she walks
straight on. With assurance her hand
rests on the gate that leads inside be-
yond the brass barred windows Of a
mahogany roll-top desk. This Is her
Office.
The shabby little old woman who
has just passed from view is worth
$50. 600. 0G0-even 800, 100000, some
estimates says. She Is Hetty Rowland
Robinson Green, greatest mistress of
finance the world has ever seen.
Seated atop of her huge yellow mill
lions a wrinkled old woman, the
plays about her as she directs the
destinies of men and Of corporations.
There Is power in the penstroke of
her aged fingers, the thin old fingers
that are busy, busy all day long cut
ting coupons and signing checks. She
mand than any other one individual!
Wall street waits on her Golfers. To
the old-fashioned mahogany desk
comes procession of bank presi-
dents. hat in hand, railroad mag
mates bowling low, and rich directors
humbly making obeisance. Even the
CITY of New York in need has brought
| its plea to her, its richest citizeness.
CoolIy, caIculatingly. she listens, bal
ancing want and entreaty with a grim
| nicely of judgment. Then she drives
her bargain ehrewdly.
They get her money and they pay
| her price.
So rolls up the fortune from which
she has long been famed as the rich
est woman In America. There is the
possible exception OF Mrs. Russell
Says, but hers was amassed by her
been no other woman who, by the
exercise of her own ingenuity, has
| made so much money as this supreme
| woman f1nancier.
Yet the Midas touch that has fairly
| incrusted her life with gold has been
fatal gift. For Hetty Green is real
| Iy bankrupt today, bankrupt in de-
| sire. With money to buy all that the
world has for sale. 1t holds nothing
that she would like. She has mort
cages strewn in acres from Boston to
! San Francisco. She owns railroad
Michigan, gold mines IN Nevada, iron
| mines In Missouri, telegraph and
| telephone securities and government
bonds, and in her safe is locked q
| pint of diamonds and one Of the
| finest collections of pearls on earth
Yet the girl stenographer who takes
her dictation probably has a lighter
heart under a new spring gown, the
butcher from whom she buys chuck
| steak at - cents a pound has a bet
| ter Sunday dinner, and her neighbors
| in a Hoboken fiat, when they go on 6
| mono chrome of existence with more
of color than varies her drab days.
Poor Hetty Green, least happy
woman in New York!-Broadwa.
Magazine
Buying on Margin.
| Some brokerage houses do no mar
gin business, but those who patroniz,
such houses may proceed essentially a.
in the other case-paying for thei
same to bank and obtaining a LOAF
on note secured by the stock as col
lateral.
Dealings on the short" side of tn,
market, or making "sales Of what mel
do not possess to quote the presi
dent, differ not essentially from thes
longside dealings, and are common t.
business of all kinds apart from tn
purely speculative markets. On
would suppose the president should b.
aware of this, and probably he is; AM
his giving way to such a shot at Wal
street may find explanation in the fac
that a combative spirit has been stir
red beyond the bounds Of restraint b,
bitter Wall street criticism. But thi
is simply one more of those vain eff
forts at suppression which are peri
} odically stirred UP by the abuses an
tragedies of speculation. That thes
speculative markets perform imp
economic functions can not admit o
successful question, and we can no
better enforce this point than b,
!, noting that the New York World i
is aeitating for q suppressive tax OIL
the buying and selling of stocks Will