ONIONS FOR HEALTH.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14554, 3 January 1913, Page 6

ONIONS FOR HEALTH.

Mrs Hetty Green, America's richest business woman, is seventy-eight years of age, nnd despite her millions sho persists in attending to her own business in "Wall street in her own way. Sho is best described, the New York correspondent of the "Telegraph" says, as tho feminine counterpart in tho financial world of the lato Russell Sago, America's thriftiest financier, but, unliko Sago, she gives largely to philanthrophy, and is always willing to tell her fellow-countrymen the . secrets of her success. So far as one can judge, tho secrets consist of great natural business capacity, rugged health, and unlimited energy, which cnablo her to dispense with tho usual recreations of a septuagenarian, and to derive joy from personal strife in tho business world. Old Mrs Green, plainly dressed and looking tho picture or health, was chewing onions in her oifico when sho received a delegation of pressmen on her birthday. "You mny smile," she said, "but the healthy colour in my checks is duo to eating onions; they are tho finest things in tho world for tho health, and I am never without ono handy." Mrs Green chatted with tho reporters for an hour, giving them much useful advice relating to thrift, virtue, industry, and accuracy in their reports, as sho usually does on her birthdays.