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Show Retrenching. It was Mrs. Hetty Green's seventieth seven-tieth birthday. "Madam," said an Interviewer, "will you tell mo how you account for your success?" "By being different," Mrs. Green answered. an-swered. "By getting us much knowledge knowl-edge as possible and by working on anything I undertake as hard as possible. pos-sible. She smiled grimly. "I have boftn different from a New Bedord girl, a friend of my childhood. child-hood. "This girl, though sho married a poor man, gnvo no more thought to money than a child. "Her husband ono day opened a letter, let-ter, turned pale and said reproachfully: reproach-fully: " 'My dear, It was only last monUi thnt I paid a milliner's bill of $75, and here hi nnothor one for $50 this month.' "She smiled nt him. " 'We!l,' sho said, 'that shows that I am beginning to spend less.' " |