MILLIONAIRE WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 697, 23 December 1909, Page 4

MILLIONAIRE WOMEN

v , In his book, "Tho Eomanco of Monfcy. '> " making," Mr. Hall has a chapter on "Women ' as Makers of Millions."- There wo road of Mrs, , ' Bichnrd King,*tho "Cattle Queen of Ainci-ica," _<■■' ' who owns a ranch of 1>200.000 aores and'2oo,ooo \ . tattle, i\ho employs 300 .cowboys, and prijs . > about .£20,000 a year in nages, of Mrs, Nat , Collin>), tho "Cattle" Queon of Montana," whoso , rtory is as jomantic as anythin b ' in fiction. when a schoolgirl she was captured, by Indians, , kept prisonor for nnnths, and compelled to tho tortures und burning at the stako of her fellow-oaptivcs A number of womca > oyrn millions which they havo not , s :ado. v i , Amonc them may be reckoned Sonora Cousino, a Chilian lady, whoso fortuno is eald to be , .£4,000,000; Fran von Bohlen, tho hoiress of " , the Krupp millions, who is said to bo worth and to have an incomo of JE40.000 • l ,a month; and Madame Creol, of Washington, / ' who, with an income of .£1,000,000, is content to wear dresses that cost only JM each. She , s onco remarked that she owned 600,000 very good cattlo and 280,000 acres of very good land, and . ' that at her tablo sit every day 400 good friends, ,i Yet tho yearly expenditure on her wardrobe r is small—three dresses at £3 apiece, sho tells ■; us, two hats at 30a. apieco, 14 pairs of boots and shoes at aboat £4 apieco, and 336 pairs of * »flk stockings at 255. apiece.