Show LEFT AN SIXTEEN GIRL IN A FAIR WAY TO WEALTH chemist when dying gave to HI daughter a formula that meant riches j new york fob 3 frances maud mendenhall a sixteen year old girl who is at school at fort lee across the hudson from new york Is in a fair way to become wealthy through an odd bequest made her by her father A D mendenhall was a chemist by profession and lived a small town in kentucky he was possessed of a small competence but his was lost by unwise investments and hi died almost penniless before he died he told his little daughter of a chemical formula which he had discovered and which ho believed would make her wealthy this he taught her and for several weeks before he died he mado her repeat it to him every day until she had learned it thoroughly after his death friends brought the child to new york and she told them of her strange legacy A well known business man in new york became interested in the child story and has turned the formula to account miss menden halls income from it is already much greater ithan her needs and there is every prospect that she will be wealthy before he becomes of age |