The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-01-12
HgTry eaeEN oNcE 4 erAury
Worlds Richest Woman Says She
was a Good LOOKING Girl

Bellows Falls, Jan il-Hetty Green
one OF Americas richest women, with
an income of $4,000 a day. waited |
nte hours The other afternoon on lie
rickety steps of her former home |
while workmen removed several old, |
crumbling stone posts from the wall |
in front of the house.
Tn so tired wish [ could go and |
lie down, but | couldn't rest II | did |
until | knew those posts had been /
hauled into the woodshed and | had
turned the key on them" she said.
Mrs. Green Is not as reticent as
most women are about telling their
age.
81 am seventy-nine years old, and
! get tired more quickly than | used
to; and I'm growing to look so old
that I'm ashamed to have my picture
/ in the newspaper" she said.
/ TO look at me now you would
scarcely believe that | was a hand
some woman once. / had the most
beautiful long eye'ashes and my hair
was golden brown and SO long that
| could sit on it. My nostrils were
thin and my cheeks were 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 | used to go to Sara
toga President Van Buren, Of the
United States; Lord This and Lady
That and Mrs. Green ratified off
many names-'used to entertain me.
But | have been too busy spanking
people and fighting of late years to
think much about clothes. Now there
is my daughter Sylvia who married
Matthew Aston Wilkes a short time
ago-she wears corsets all day and
keeps dressed up and her hair friz-
zled and does a lot of entertaining.
When she came to see me a while
ago in New York City she was so
tired that she went to bed and stay
ed two days.
Sylvia and her husband are living
at Cruchton Park, in Canada. They
have an estate there OF 500 acres;
they keep twenty servants and 100
horses and nineteen colts. He's gone
up there to raise pheasants. He'll
put pheasants eggs under ducks to
hatch them out" and Mrs Green
laughed heartily
Don't you miss your daughter very
much since she married. Mrs. Green
was asked.
YES, | do. Nobody knows how
much and | want her and Wilkes TO
come here and live in this house. But
Wilkes don't like this place Sylvia
and | are going to get him to drive
over here some day when the wind Is
at the westward, SO that he won't
smell the paper mills here. He
would dislike that odor as much as
do" and Mrs. Green snined the air,
for the paper mills are opposite her
house and the smell Is nauseating.
I'VE are going to give him a good
supper and put him to bed early
and then when morning comes he
may feel so good natured that we
can coax him 20 stay" and Mrs.
Green's eyes sparkled az the thought
Of her shrewdness.
How does it feel to 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 q living for everyone II
they will only work for IT,
You see that lite white cloud mp
there? That cloud puts me in mind
of stained glass window ] saw Ia
Trinity church in New York City once
when | went in to pray | was being
sued for several thousand dollars and
Il looked as II / would lose my case.
But | prayed to God that II It was
right for me to lose my case. TO make
me reconciled. but | don't think u
was right that | should lose. ! told
God that | didn't have anyone In this
world to help me, and that I needed
His help. Well, there We're three
supreme court judges who were con
nected with the case. One of the
judges led for three days and the
third day they caught him In lie
and Won my case.
Il am a religious woman Ny faith
err was a Quaker and he brought me
up never TO speak when ! was an
CRY. Sometimes | would not speak
for an hour. aud sometimes ! would
not speak for whole day, as | could
not get over my angry mood.
Il believe that ones soul lives az
ter death. You know when Elijah as
cended into heaven he didn't take his
clothes and that's Why | don't have
fine ones.
Il am going back 10 New York to
meet my son Ned at The Waldorf
Astoria. Ned-thats my son. You
knows a smart boy. He has been
made an officer OF bank in New
York
New York City is filled with con
victs; You can buy any mans vote
down there.
Il lived in Hoboken for five years
in the same apartment house and had
. the same iGni,or-ard ! never had a
fight with hun. think that is a
. pretty good recommendation for me.
Didn't You like the Plaza Hotel az
1 one time?'
"Oh. that was whore gave the din
ner to Sylvia and We ate OF god
4 dishes had my dog Dewey in those
4 DAYS" There was catch m Mrs
Green's voice for Dewey has been
dead but three months.
81 owned Dewey for twelve years
and In all that time he never was
away from Sylvia or me but Eve days
Why. that dog was almost human
E Poor Dewey! He died from eating
TOO many highly seasoned soups
4 When we lived at The Plaza with
Dewey ! used to feed him siroir
steak every day. The hotel people
used to send It up. timing e was foi
. me. but Il was for Dewey. / did not