The National tribune., 1909-03-11

Hetty GreenS the famous woman finan-
cier, was engaged to be married to a
great grandson of the first John Jacob
Astor, was, for wonder perfectly cor
rect, as the wedding took place on Feb.
%, at Morristown, n. ]. Miss Sylvia
Green, in spite of the great wealth of
her mother, has lived a very quiet life,
completely out of the limelight. and
the public has known very little of her.
This being the case, and in consequence
of not having the usual milestones in
the career of a young society woman
to reckon from, like her coming out
ball or reception, etc, people have not
kept tab on Miss Green's age, and the
general idea prevailed that she was
somewhere in the 20s. The marriage,
which took place in Morristown the
other day, however, did not celebrate
and had nothing specially romantic
about it. The bride was no bluShing
girl, but dignified woman of 43, and
the bridegroom middle-aged man %
years her senior. The bride and her
mother had a great time slipping away
unobserved from the home in -Hoboken
to Morristown on the day of the we'd
ding, but they were more or less sue
cessful. There they met the groom and
a party of relatives and friends, and in
the most quiet, transformations manner
possible, with no usherS or bridesmaids,
hHu III dH dlIllOSt tlHpls SiiulCll, hiSo
Green and Mr.. Matthew Astor Wilks
, were made manEand wife. The bride
wore a travelling gown of brown en-
broidered with white, a white feather
/ boa and a white picture hat, while her
mother was dressed in black, her gown
nearly covered by a black satin wrap,
which looked new and very nice. AS
the party were about to leave the
church some camera fiends tried to get
q picture of the bride, who shrank be-
hind an open umbrella, for it was then
raining. Practical, sensible Hetty Green
thought this action foolish, and, brush
Ing the umbrella aside, gave the camera
man a chance, for" she said, the
picture may as we'll be a good one"
The crowd asked her what she gave
her daughter for wedding present, but
got little satisfaction, for Mrs. Hetty
replied that she gave her her love. The
bridegroom is said to be worth $4,000
300, and as Mrs. Green has only son
besides this daughter, the bride has
every prospect of having her mothers
fitie of richest woman in the world'
fall upon her shoulders when in the
course of time Hetty Green shall have
passed on to the land where stocks and
bonds are unknown.
There are so many splendid philan-
thropic movements going on. all the
lime in every part of the country that
1t is impossible to keep up with them.
Mrs, w. K. Vanderbilt, one of New
Eorks most prominent society women,
has been specially interested for several
Tears in the housing of those of the
poor of the Metropolis afflicted with
tuberculosis. She has been doing a
great deal for these unforuunates, even
10 visiting them in their miserable
homes, and is now about to do great
deal more. She has purchased, thru
IL.
proposes to build four apartment
houses, each to be six stories high and
to contain apartments of two, three,
four and five rooms, large and airy and
catching all the sunlight possible. These
she will rent at low figure. Each
apartment will be provided with bath
and with gas ranges and other up-to-
date improvements designed to give to
sufferers from the white plague the
advantages of sanitarium in their own
homes The four buildings will house
from $50 to 375 families, and will cost
about s250,000 apiece.
Another fine thing in the way of
philanthrophy is Mr.. Horace Fletcher's
effort to help the poor. Mr.. Fletcher
is quite interesting personality. Mr..
Fletcher is very, very rich man. He
mas a beautiful palace in Venice; could
have half dozen if he wanted them,
and lead just the kind of life that most
spending his time in his beautiful pal
ace overlooking the blue Adriatic, in
drifting slowly up and down the grand
canal in his gondola of moonlight
nights, and in other equally pleasing
ways, he has chosen to come over to
New York, establish himself, not at the
Waidorf-Astoria, but in a model tene-
ment, in order to spread his gospel of
maStication. Mr.. Fletcher discovered
some years ago that by showing the
food until the jaws were tired excellent
results followed, additional strength. in
creased mental vigor-in short, a splen-
did condition of health. Mr. Fletcher
IS himself fine example of his preach
Ing and practice, being AZ 5S able to do
what a young athlete cannot. and ig-
norant alike of illness or fatigue. But
he is over here specially to help the
poor, for Mr.. Fletcher says there is no
reason why two people cannot live and
i've wen on Sc a week. He says that
proper mastication Will solve the prob |
lem or starvation, or at least the uliser- |
hpIe and insufficient food upon which so |
many OF our poor in the great cities sus-
tain life. If" Mr.. Fletcher says, Il can
reach the real tenement dweIlers and
show them how to live / shall consider
this the most useful Winter of my life"
May all success attend his commend
able undertaking.
Miss Floretta Vining, of Boston.
shows what bright, active, energetic
woman can accomplish. She is the ex-
elusive owner of nine newspapers, and
writes all the editorials herself. OIL
course, she couldn't do this If she hadn't
learned to use her time to the best ad-
vantage and to dash off a Leader"
while on the train, waiting for some
one to keep an appointment, etc This
ability to make every minute count she |
has down TO a fine point, and SAYS she
has no more trouble with her nine pa |
pers than most persons have with one. !
Miss Vining looks as if she took life
easily and found lot of pleasure in |
living. She Is most decidedly and above
everything else woinanly woman and
OF attractive personal appearance. The
newspaper profession, she thinks. offers
as good chances for woman as anything
else; in fact, she thinks better. She
has owned her chain of papers for nine
years, being, previous to that, a maga- |
zine contributor. When she first be- |
came ihe owner of the papers she had
some man manage them for her: but. |
hnding she vas losing money, took the |
management Gpon herself, since which |
time she has made a complete success |
OF them. Miss Vining finds time for
other work than her newspapers. and