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Show It was Mrs. Hetty Green's 70th birthday. "Madam," said an interviewer, "will you tell me how you account for your success?" "By being different," Mrs. Green answered. "By getting as much knowledge as possible, and by working on anything I undertake as hard as possible." She smiled grimly. "I have been different from a New Bedford girl, a friend of my childhood. "This girl, though she married . a poor man, gave no more thought to money than a child. "Her husband one day opened a letter, turned pale, and said reproachfully: " 'My dear, it was only last month that I paid a milliner's bill of $75, and here is another one for $50 this month.' "She smiled at him. "'Well,' she said, 'that shows that I am beginning be-ginning to spend less.' " |