A PAIR OF MILLIONAIRESSES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 28 June 1911, Page 5

A PAIR OF MILLIONAIRESSES.

TWO LADIES COMPARED. England cannot claim many of the world's very wealthy women, 'but it numbers among its few the Marchioness of Graham, whose fortune is given as £5.000,000. The Marchioness comes of a fine old family. Her grandmother was a cousin of Napoleon DLL, and she is the only daughter of the Duke of Hamilton. One of her aunts married a Prince of Monaco. She is one of the very few rich women whose wealth comes from homo sources, and n °t from across the Atlantic. -i. Master —or should 1 it be Mistress? — of Hotmds, the Marchioness of Graham is one of the most prominent of British sportswomen. Just as it is with their poorer sisters, the tastes and habits of the world's wealthy women are as far apart as the Poles. No greater contrast could exist than that afforded by the Marchioness of Graham and Miss Hetty Green. The former, it ha® been shown, lives the life of a country gentlewoman.; the latter is 'known as the Grand Old Woman of Wall-street. There is no shrewder speculator on th>3 American Stock Exchange than Mrs Green. When her father died, she inherited nine million pounds. This sum she has since nearly doubled. Hers is a strenuous life, and she has little sympathy for the "idle rich." To her, money is merely the means of making money, so she dwells tn a little, obscure boardinghouse. and dresses in the plainest of plain gowns. "I want real friends, not money friends," she once said. "I won't buy my friends with 2000-dollar dinners and rides in a smart auto."