New Britain herald., 1925-02-28
ROCKEFELLER 'THRIFT" AND ABBY,S ROMANCE

AND ABB1'S kONANCE
 For thrift, nothing can surpass the Rockefeller family: not that the 1 Rockefellers made their money by ! practicing thrift-it takes consider ably more than thrift to save" half 1 a billion dollars. or whatever the Rockefeller fortune may amount to. But 1t isn't on record that any of the Rockcfellcrs were spendthrifts. The nearest approach is when the elder Rockefeller distributes pennies to newsboys and tells them to hurry and place them in bank, there to grow like the green bay three.
 Abby Rockefeller. daughter of John D., Jr., got started in life in the regulation Rockefeller fashion. It seems that the giri-the story comes from no less a parsonage than her father-receiyed 30 cents a week spending money when she was eight 1 years old, but of that sum was al- ] lowed to spend only ten cents, an- other dime was contributed to Sun | day school, and one was set aside l for rainy day. Evidently her father took care to stress the rainy day theory. Anyway, when she grew to womanhood Abby had a nice little bank account of several hundred 1 dollars. or less. Meanwhile her ] daddy had done better than that, but not by exercising intensified thrift.
 Now Abby is to get married; quite q romance, too She is going to marry David Merriwether Milton,
 Jr., a lawyer just out of the law
 school and at present holding the
 job of clerk in law office. Young
 Mr. Milton "has no money" at
 least MT Rockefeller woulda regard
 his nest egg as inconsequential
 atom-he has not made his mark,
 he has not been identified with social
 life. But when the young hcircss was arrested for stepping on the
 gas" in her mothers car about a
 year ago, MT. Milton. then still a student, appeared in court and vol unteered such legal pleading as he
 was capable. The pair had known , each other since childhood. Now , they will be married in May, with the approval of. the entire Rockefel- , l Ter family.
 But now comes some more Rocke- = fcIler thrift Instead of Abby going S into the housekeeping business or grand scale she will save her dac 6 money by making a frugal start - Young MT. Milton seems to be en ,. tire1v willing. The couple will no have access to the Rockefeller mil |. ions but the young husband himsel t will be the sole breadwinner. Abh' r will do some of the housework her ,. self, and will have only one servant a She Will keep accounts and he
 father says she is so adept at in Is that he calculates Abby will hay @ no trouble in making her house e keeping books balance. They WI n have no motor car--can't afford on st vet for awhilc-and if they go mo le toring it will be in car borroWe IF from Mrs. Rockefeller. The coupl ,d homes 10 be able 10 save enough l. buy a car of their own later
 7e American mothers can learn muc Is from noting the way the Rockefelie
 children have been reared. lnstea
 of being palnpGteu' pSl'eu "''' 9
 anything money could buy, they ha
 to r>e in strict accordance with u
 Rockefeller traditions - or vel -, much like poor people. But the r :, suits appear to justify the method
 There is nothing like guiding chi , arcn alright, instead of merely pc . hitting them to grow up' There
 nothing as devastating as eAtren
 wealth can be, but the Rockefell 'o children have not suffered in spi =, of the family good name. It looks
 if the Rockefeller fortune Will he'
 he suuaudercd.