The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-24

Is in Therefore This Lady Young.
young lady-young every of the word in spite
of the fact that she proudly proclams herself great
moher-i this is written, celebrating with other at
Falls N " the seventy anniversary of the first
meeting demanding equal rights for women.
That meeting held in 1913 Mrs. O. H. P Belmont after
celebrating the anniversary will head solemn visit to the grave
Of Susan Anthony of the of the country
buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N Y
Mrs Belmont happens young in years as well as
looks having married the late W. Vanderbilt while
she girl at school Her great grandchild is the
grandcd of her daughter Consue who married the Duke
Marlborough.
interesting infant consequently looks back the
American side Mrs Belmonts family from the South also
the Vanderbilt family that made railroads and hundreds of
millions in the North and the original Churchill whose
reputation would make that of the doubtful American
money king seem sanity.
Very powerful qualities the young Britsher of American
descent will inherit from that old Churchill and especially
his wife, who ruled Queen Anne with a rod of iron.
But qualities equally strong the youngster will get from
the American great grandmother
Mrs O. H. P Belmont whose first husband was Mr. Van
debit is young because she has kept THINKING and
WORKING.
Is alive there is no death and no old age.
Mrs Bemonts interesting. At first she was
society time when they little dreamed of going
She taught them how to have footman sitting beside the
solemnookng butler in black flaming footman in scarlet
instead of having opened by looking maidevans
She made old W. f. Vanderbilt build the two big brown
houses that fill whole block Fifth avenue
arranged buy the block opposite to make playground
for her children connecting it with her browntone house
tunnel under Fifth
That fell through because the mayor objected ideas
not small
Finally as contribution to her branch of the Vanderbilt
family Mrs Belmont persuaded her nlaw, William
Vanderbilt change the Vanderbilt in making his will
The system of the Vanderbts to give certain lump
about ten millions each child and all the rest to the
oldest
Mrs Belmont was married to the second son of William
needed Therefore, by her sound logic and
persuaded William a. to leave millions each Of the
children EXCEPT THE TWO OLDER SONS and the property
divided between those older sons, of whom,
William r. Mrs Bemonts first husband and the other
the Cornelius Vanderbilt It due to Mrs Belmont
that the late W. K Vanderbilt inherited hundred millions
instead of ten.
Cornelius seems kindly that
q ittetrift in the Vanderbilt lutte.
That rift got good deal bigger when Mrs w. K Wander
bt divorced William K married O. H. P Belmont and firing
of social fooshnes plunged violently into suffrage
which she has financed to large extent and pushed along
with energy and intelligence ever since
Mrs Belmont's face reveals energy and common
Her judgment is proved by the fact that she
has always expressed pride in the Jewish blood her husband
the late Oliver H. p Belmont Her father Jew and his
mother daughter of Commodore Perry who of
Lake Erie Both Oliver Belmont and his wife
the Jewish blood that made the Bemonts rich they
That's than for other New Workers
that have got Jewish blood and spend the Jewish
out saying much about the Jewish ancestry.
brain working take interest in something FIGHT FOR IT
IF YOU HAVE TO.
Mrs. Belmont great grandmother looks about forty five
whereas in reality she nearly sixty because
mind working and growing.