FAMOUS WOMAN FINANCIER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9757, 24 March 1914, Page 6

FAMOUS WOMAN FINANCIER.

Mrs Hetty Green, America's famous woman financier, and reported to lx> the wealthiest woman in the country, celebrated her seventy-eighth birthday on November 21 by rising slightly earlier than usual and receiving a large assortment of newspaper representatives and photographers in ner city office, wlierA sho daily transacts business with banks and other corporations. Mrs Green seemed to be in capital health, arid was evidently in splendid spirits. She thanked tho interviewers for their congratulations, and said sho tried to feel younger as she grew older. She refused to diacnes thb Mexican situation, tho money markot of tho tariff; but repeated her anijual advice to her inquisitors to lead the simple life and, eat onions. "I am never without my onion," Mrs Green confided, "the strength of the onion kills the germs one gathere about, the streets. I have eaton Onions constantly for years, and they keep me healthy." Asked if she would give other rules for attaining old age, Mrs Green replied: "Have a good conscience, no worries, and trust in God. Most people eat too much and work too Httle." Mm Groen expressed her disapproval of the Tango and new styles for women. She declared that she was still a Quaker, and Quakers didn't believe in -xlanoing. "Do j you do your own shopping ?" someone asked. "Yes," was the roplv, "and I get 100 centfl worth for every dollar. If more people did that there would be lees talk of hard times and tho high cost of living." ( Asked what she proposed to do with her millions of dollars, the venerable ladj taid she had- no announcement to make, but her friends predict that one day "she'll startle the world." *' ■