The Washington herald., 1910-10-23

Hetty Green, one OF Americas richest
women. with an income OF $4,000 day.
waited I'VE hours recently on the rickety
steps OF her former home. at Bellows
Falls. VI. while w0rkmen removed sew
eral old. crumbllng stone posts from the
wall in front OF the house.
I'm SO tired I wish I could go and lie
down. but couldn't rest II did until
knew those posts had been hauled into
the woodshed and I had turned the key
on them" she said.
Mrs. Green is not as reticent as most
women about telling their age. for she
freely divulged that secret sacred 10
every wOmans heart.
Il am seventy-nine years DID," she
said, and ! get tired more quickly than
I used to. and I'm growing TO look so
old that I'm ashamed TO have my picture
in the newspapers"
Handsome Woman Once.
TO look at me now you would scarcely
believe that I was a handsome woman
once she continued Il had the most
beautiful long eyelashes and my hair was
a golden brown. and so long that 1 could
sit on IT. My nostrils were thin and my
cheeks so pink and pretty Just you feel
how soft my flesh Is" and Mrs. Green
rolled up the sleeve of her dingy black
waist
Twenty thousand people came TO look
at me when I used TO go to Saratoga
President Van Buren,. OF the United
States; Lord This and Lady That" and
Mrs Green ratified of many names.
used 10 entertain me. But-I have been
too busy spanHing people and lighting of
late years 10 think much about clothes
Now there is my daughter Sylvia who
married Matthew Astor Wilkes a short
tine ago; she wears corsets all day and
keeps dressed up with her hair frizzled
and does a lot OF entertaining When
she came to see me a while ago in New
York she was 50 tired that she went 10
bed and stayed two days"
How does 1t feel 10 be so rich?" Mrs
Green was asked.
Il don't feel any different from any
one else. I've always worked hard. and
there is a living for every one II he only
will work for il. My father used 10 say
that If you Dut me on log in the back
yard I'd find something 10 do, I'm so
active.
Prayer Wins Salt.
You see that little white cloud up
there? That cloud puts me IN mind Of a
stained glass window I saw in Trinity
Church In New York once when 1 went
in 10 pray. I was being sued for several
thousand dollars. and it looked as If I
would lose my case. but I prayed TO God
that if it we're right for me to lose my
case TO make me reconciled; but didn't
think it was right that I should lose.
Il told God that l didn't have any one
in this world TO help me. and that I need
ed His help Wen, there were three
Supreme Court judges who We're con-
nected with the case. One OF the judges
lied Tor three DAYS, and the third day
they caught him in lie and I won my
case.
l am religious woman. My father
was Quaker. and he brought me I'D
never 10 speak when I was angry. Some
times I would not speak for an hour.
and sometimes 7 would not speak for a
whole day. as I could not get over my
angry mood
Il believe that ones soul lives after
death You know when Elijah ascended
into heaven he didn't take his clothes
with him. and I can't take my clothes,
and that's why I don't have fine ones"
Wears $40 Costume.
. Mrs. Green lives up 10 her belief In this
respect. She wore an old black cloth
skirt and, although It was a warm day.
she wore a waist made Of black velveteen
and over her shoulders was her Gus
tomary black cape. Her hat was par
ticulariy shabby. II was a black straw
effair covered with black netting and a
bunch OF faded cotton roses. The cost
or her entire costume when It was new
was probably less than $40
Il am going back 10 New York to meet
NY son Ned al the Waldorf-Astoria. Ned,
that's my son, you know. IS a smart
boy. He has been made an officer in
bank in New York" Mrs. Green ran on.
DO you like New York;" she was
asked.
Yes. like New York like the bus
tie and the noise OF the city. and it does
not tire ne. Again. l think it would be
enjoyable to have place in the country
where I could keep COW and a few
hens and a horse, for I am very fond Of
horses. ! would want it near enough 10
New York, though. so that I could go
back and forth every day without hav-
Ing TO ride TOO far. I have TO go TO busi-
ness every day.
New York is filled with eonvicts; YOU
can buy any mans vote down there.
Never Fought Janitor.
II have lived in Hoboken for i've years
in the same apartment house. and have
had the same janitor, and I have never
had fight with him vet I think that
is a pretty good recommendation for me-
Mrs Green laughed heartily. for she
has a good sense Of humor.
"A German family who lived in the
fiat over mine was going to have a party
one night and one of the members told |
me they would probably disturb me a |
little, but that they would try and keep |
as quiet as possible under the eircuno- !
stances. I told them to go ahead and !
enjoy themselves-just to leave the cell |
ing over my head and the chandelier. |
Since then I have been popular with nv |
Didn't you live at the Plaza Hotel at
one tine2'
oh, that was where I gave the dinner /
10 Sylvia and we ate OF gold dishes. /
] had my dog Dewey in those days"
There was a catch in Mrs. Green's !
voice, FOR Dewey had been dead but three /
months.
sirlOin Steak tor Dog.