MILLIONAIRES’ WIVES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

MILLIONAIRES’ WIVES.

MR. CARNEGIE’S CRITICISM. Mr ; Carnegie visited a publishing-, firm in New York recently, and gave excellent advice, to the girls employed!' there. .. . “Most millionaire’s wives aren’t happy,” declared Mr. Carnegie, after contrasting the happines of toil with the doubtfid advantage of being born rich, “they have too' many luxuries and nomental resources. Don’t refuse A man simpily because he is a millionaire. Personally I’d rather be born poor thana millionaire, and I have some experience in both directions.

- “I have made forty-two millions in mi time, and I want to say that th&oidy right a raw has to wealth lies in his acquiring it in some useful labour. Tlie great 'trouble with wealth to-day is that tlie sons of millionaires don’t always-realise this!very necessity of being or use to ■ the" community. I amglad to see you all- so happy in your work. Work that one is not glad to do never amounts to much. Smile aIE the time.

“I shall never forget how proud I was whefl L got my first wiges-tfive shillings a week—and how’ I felt when it was raised to six. To take homw ahat sum to my good mother gave mo a feeling of independence. I owe a great deal to my mother. She was seamstress, cook and washlady, and’ never until late in life had a servant in /tho house and yet she was a cultivated woman. She possessed real’ charm, and kept up her ifiierature every day. When I was a little tot sheused to read bcoks to me. You young women have every opportunity of literary culture, and you ought st» avail' yourselves of it.”