A Rich but Mean Woman.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1816, 5 April 1886, Page 3

A Rich but Mean Woman.

In New York there u om well-known character on Wall-street, named Hetic Gteeu, who is the richest woman in New York State. Her lather left her £1,800,000 which, having great business tact, the youthful Hettie at once set about increasing by commerce. She travelled about in England and other places, buying up mortgages,—which eventually increased her fortune to £1.000,000. She then married Mr Green, who is a very “ nice fellow,” and who had £140,600. He sent Hettie a valentine which by mistake happened to be a receipted tailor’s bill for a £5 salt of clothes. She was so pleased with the apparent economy of the thing that .she married him, making a contract with him that be should pay all the house expenses, leaving her £4,000,000 intact settled on herself. After marriage atre plunged into business once more with a will, and got into Wall street speculations. She could buy large blocks of stock, and could" bull " and “ bear” the market at will, always winning when her husband lost. She is now worth £8,000,000 and penurious to a degree. She rides in a 2Jd omnibus, and to save buying rubbers will pull old stockings over her shoes when going to a party in the snow. When she arrives she pulls off her stockings and hangs them up to dry on the hatstand. She keeps all her silver in the bank, going on certain days with a box of whitening and polishing it up herself. She is only forty, this Hettie Green, and her sole ambition is to make her invalid son the richest man in the world, which there is every chance of her doing, as she still labors indefatigably.— Auckland paper.