Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-25
HETTY GREEN SHIFTS BURDEN
Mrs. Sylvia Wilkes to Try Money
Making Game for Time.
WORLDS RICHEST WOMAN TALKS
Pleased with Aptitude of Daughter,
who VIII he Trained 60 Look
After Her Extensive
Business.

NEW YORK. April 2l-(Special Tele-
gram Mrs Hetty Green the worlds rich
est woman and the most picturesque figure
in American financial circles has begun to
shift her burdens upon the shoulders OF her
daughter Mrs. Sylvia Wilkes.
Mrs Green is not going to retire alto
gether from the arena of business; she
could not possibly do that even though she
is % years OF age and her health has begun
to fail, but she is going to transfer large
burden Of her business responsibilities. she
said so today and at the same time preached
an eloquent sermon to the American
woman. praising her native shrewdness,
but criticising her frankness.
Men Spend Too Freely.
Mrs. Green thinks the men are as ex-
travagant as the women; many men, she
believes, are more extravagant than women.
The rich people of today live amidst too
much adornment and think too much OF
| their peronal pleasures and luXuries She
says it is just as easy to make money now
as it ever was; that the women now have a
| far better opportunity to acquire wealth
than they had twenty years ago.
While Mrs. Green did not say So It is
believed that she will practically give the
entire management Of her $4,000, 900 fortune
to her daughter. She had hopes that her
son, Edward H. r. Green, might prove a
master of finance, but the money-making
trait seemed to skip the son and settle in
the daughter.
Wearing her proverbial black dress and
bonnet with her white hair combed tightly
back over her head, Mrs. Green sat at her
desk in the National bank today, looking
somewhat pale and wan, although her keen
al. ~.
You couldn't expect me to make public
my plans" said she, "as it has never been
my custom. But 1t is true that my health
has not been good for months and my
physicians have convinced me that l must
not continue personally conducting the de-
tails of my business after this" Here she
smiled quantity and said:
Don't Dispute Newspapers.
you know my financial affairs are rather
large. believe the newspapers have said
so and they call me the richest woman in
the world. I don't like to dispute the news
papers, so I shall allow them to continue
publishing their stories about me.
Il have been handling business for a
great many years. 1t has become a part Of
my life; get my recreation from it. Where
another woman might get enjoyment from
trip to Europe, 1 get pleasure from busl-
ness. Not that I need more money, but
just because l have an inherited liking
for it.
Il have been pleased at the aptitude
which my daughter, Sylvia, shows for
business. l have tried quietly to train
her in business and Instnl liking of it
in her nature for some day she will have
very big estate to handle"
This seemed to give the woman financier
a new thought, for she continued
THE possibilities of the women of to-
day in business are without limit. Condi-
tions have changed in the last score OF
years, so that a woman stands an equal
' chance with her husband or brother in
e the amassing Of a fortune. Many women
have grasped their opportunities and some
= time they will be keen competitors in the
&, race for wealth
New Race of Women.
why, from my own experience. some
y of the brightest bargainers l have met
have been women. A woman in business
can still retain all the womany graces
that mon admire
Some women are spoiled by indulgence
out new race of women are springne
up. They think for themselves and ac
: for themselves and they are independent
= At this juncture Mrs. Green tackled agar
! and she gazed searchingly at her inter
viewer as she said:
People talk of the extravaganza o.
r. women causing the high cost of living
o Please allow me to say that many mer
are more extravagant than women. l can
not see why persons of wealth cannot live
lives of comfort in healthy environmen
{ hnstead of allowing their moneybags t
h get the best of them.
. Many rich men and women reside amids
Q too much adornment in the fashionable
}. hotels and apartments and their lives ar
y artificial and unhealthy. That natural!
breeds discomfort among the poorer peo
pie too.
! "Of course, every person is entitled L
live the way he or she enjoys most, i
! within their means But it seems tha
they forget the simplicity of the old-fash
: loned home and the farm when wealt
comes. That is one of its bad agencies.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is famou
+ for its cures of coughs. colds and Group.