Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-20
Some Women

Mrs. Belmont complains that the
public is not responsive to her appeals
for funds to carry on her charities.
In one instance she says that she
worked with killing" perseverance for
two months to get a subscription list
filled of less than 5000. There is consid-
erable reason for surprise over this
statement in view of the fact that 1t
is perfectly well known that Mrs Bel
mont received a million dollars when
she was married to MIR. Vanderbilt and
she is exceedingly careful in saving
the pennies. 1t Is also a matter Of
record that when Mr.. Vanderbilt ar
ranged his divorce with her he handed
over the alluring sum of $4,000 000.
Then she married Mr.. Belmont. He
died a couple of years ago and left
her $2,000,000. Thus it proved that the
habit of receiving millions is worth
cultivating by almost any young girl
who has the necessary patience. Any
how it all foots up $130O0,000, and If
the money only produces per cent
Mrs. Belmont has the comfortable sum
of $650,000 a year. Perhaps somebody
will explain why she should have
worked two months to make $500 with
this comfortable reserve to draw from.
All the prominent suffragettes in
New York are rich. Mrs. Mackey,
who pulls against Mrs. Belmont in
the struggle for notoriety is the wife
of fifty-odd millions and the list of
leaders prominently identified with the
movement is brilliantly smeared with
the dollar mark
Miss Maud Adams is quite as domes-
tic as everybody suspects her of be-
ing. She has three houses of her
own; one in New York and one in
where she plays, evJn If the engage
ment is only for three or four weeks,
she invariably takes a house and
moves with her mother. aunt, several
dependents and cats and dogs into a
domestic atmosphere on the day of
her arrival in town. 1t is odd that the
most famous actress in America alb
solutely abhors publicity
Miss Katherine Elkins has by some
curious freak of newspaper power
been tclteted as the leading society
woman of America. AS a matter of
fact, Miss Elkins was never socially
prominent. The Elkinses are political
family and, though they are rich, they
have never been accepted in Virginia
or Washington as of the socially elect.
1t is true also that the smart set of
New York have never conspicuously
entertained Miss Elkins, though the
newspaper publicity which resulted
from her engagement to the Duke of the
Abruzzi induced a number of them to
run after her as a social lion. This
she refuses to sanction as she seems
to be rather level-headed young
woman, but the papers will have 1t
that she is a society leader and proba-
bly, no one will ever change this
view.
Miss Mary Garden, who Is known as
the great American prima donna, was
born in Scotland and has passed the
greater part of her life in Paris. Her
grief over the fact that young girl
has no chance in America will not
cause tears of anguish to spring to
the eyes Of the sympathetic who know
her because Miss Garden sang in pub
lie twenty years ago in Chicago and
twenty years added to any young girls
life rather puts her out of the young
girl class.
Annette Kelerman, who is a pro-
fessional swimmer and diver. an
nounces that headaches, sallow skin,
biliousness and a faulty figure are
due to breakfasts. "All women have
to do Is to take a glass of hot water
when they get up and eat nothing for
eight hours" says Miss Kellerman
'and then they look and feel like me" ="
To look like Miss Kellerman would
seem to be sufficient reward for the