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Show Hetty Green as a Belle. While credit must be given Mrs. Het ty Green for wonderful shrewdness anc business sagacity in building up hei f 01 time, it must not be forgotten thai she had a good start. When her fathei died, he left her $9,000,000 to fight th battle of life with. It was more money in those days than it is now. He was an old whaler and shipping merchant oi New Bedford named Edward Mott Robinson. Rob-inson. He married a Miss Howland, and the full name of Mrs. Hetty Green is Harriet Howland Robinson Green. Sfie was her father's private secretary for four or five years before his death, and in this way she acquired a knowledge knowl-edge of business matters. Old Robinson was frugal and economical to extremes, j and among the lessons early impressed upon the daughter's mind were economy econ-omy and simplicity in daily life and the value and virtue of money. Before the war began Mrs. Green, at that time Miss Hetty Robinson, the heiress, spent several winters in New York and was almost a belle in society. She had considerable beauty of a robust sort, and her family and fortune were certainly irreproachable. She lived for a time in a boarding house on West Twenty-second street, and when she went to parties would walk frora there. It is related that rather than pay cab fare she used to pull a pair of heavy stockings over her stout shoes and tramp through the snow to a reception or ball, pulling the stockings stock-ings off when she arrived and spreading them out somewhere to dry. New York World. |