HOW TO LIVE LONG.

Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 90

HOW TO LIVE LONG.

WORLD’S RICHEST WOMAN TELLS HOW SHE KEEPS YOUNG. GIVEN UP BY DOCTORS. “ Forty-five years ago the doctors told mo that 1 wouldn’t last another year. Today I am 77, and I feel younger than-over 1 did. Wherefore, I say, put not your faith in doctors, but in work —the greatest cure for all ills, whether mental or physical.” Thus Mrs Hetty Green, the world’s wealthiest woman, in November, to a party of reporters, who called' on her at her Wall street office to tender their congratulations on her birthday. ‘‘How do you keep go young?” she was asked. “ I have never got into cobwebs. I always keep active. J would prescribe for long life first, a good conscience; next, a good appetite for the best food plainly cooked; thirdly, work; and, finally, good will to others. If these rules are followed, anybody cun live long and be happy. 1 have the spirit of 20 men, and I fool five years younger than on my last birthday.” When Mrs- Green was asked to give an explanation pf good will to others, she replied, “ I’m Opposed to bragging.” One reporter ventured to ask Mrs Green whether she had ever given a cent away. “ Young man,” said she, severely, “ I never parade good works, but since it is my seventy-eeventh birthday, and you have all been so kind, I will toll you there is a school for boys and girls of intermediate ago in Now Pork to which I have subscribed between £60,000 and £BO,OOO. This is one of forty acts of which I feel proud, but have said nothing.” By way of celebrating the occasion Mrs Green went for a two hours’ motor drive before calling at her office to give her eon, Colonel Green, instructions for the day. Her son greeted her with a birthday present in the shape of a black silk bag. “Isn’t it beautiful?” aaid Mrs Green to the reporters. “Mv old one was worn out. It gives mo more pleasure than any number of diamonds.” . Although, she is a multi-millionairess, Mrs Green lives in a email flat on New York’s “Surrey side,” and is as thrifty as nnv working man’s wife. She once tried living in a first-class hotel, but soon gave it up. Her son, who is now middle-aged, promised his mother when ho was young that bo would not marry for 20 years. That period elapsed recently, and ho was deluged with offers of marriage from all over ti« world.