"CURSE" OF MONEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 306, 26 December 1936, Page 6

"CURSE" OF MONEY.

UNHAPPY HEIRESS

FEARS FOR HER SON'S HAPPINESS. LONDON. When Lance • Haugwitz-Reventlow, nine-months-olcl son of the richest girl in the world, crawls to reach his stocking on Christmas morning, onlytwo people will he watching him. There will be little, if any, entertaining in the London house of Count and Countess (Barbara Hutton) HaugwitzReventlow this Yuletide. The Woolworth heiress is not happy in London. Her mother died when she was eight. She was a lonely child. Now married, and with a charming son, she is still lonely". "Why don't people like me ?" is her continuous question. "Surely it can't he because I have a fortune. That is not my fault. But I know tliat I am disliked. . Such unkind things wouldn't be written and said about me if I were popular. "I had hoped to be happy in England, where no one pays any attention to me, but actually I am very unhappy. My money is a curse. It makes me suspicious of making friends with people. I can never be sure that it is me they want to know or if they are after my fortune." Although the countess is homesick for her own country, it is unlikely that she will return. She is terrified that in the United States, land of racketeers and gangsters, her baby may be kidnapped. She feels, too, that America has not given her a square deal. Last year her name was omitted from the New York social register. She felt that keenly. Now the countess is wondering whether the fortune which has brought her nothing but unhappiness is going to hurt her infant son.