A PAIR OF MILLIONAIRESSES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 528, 21 December 1912, Page 7

A PAIR OF MILLIONAIRESSES.

THE MARCHIONESS OP GRAHAM MRS. HETTY GREEN. England cannot claim many of the world's very wealthy women, but it numbers among its faw the Marchioness of Graham, whose fortune is given as £5,000,0u0. The Marchioness comes of a fine old family; Her grandmother was a cousin of Napoleon 111., and she is the only daughter of the Duke of Hamilton. One of her aunts married a Prince of Monaco. She is ons of the very few rich women whose wealth comes from home sources, and not from across the Atlantic. A Master—or should it be Mistress ? —of Hounds, the Marchioness of Graham is one of the most prominent of British sportswomen. Just as it is with her poorer sisters, the tastes an:V habits of the world's wealthy women arc as far apart as the Poles.-. No greater contrast could ezist than that afforded by the Marchlmess of Graham and Mrs. Hetty Green. The former it has been shown, lives the life of a country gentlewoman ; the latter is known as the Grand Old Woman of Vv'a-1 Gtrest. There is no shrewder speculator on the American Stock Exchange than Mrs. Green. When her father died she inherited nine million pounds. This sum she has since nearly doubled. Kcrs is a strenuous life, and she has little sympathy for the "idb lich." To her is merely thi means of making more money, co fho dwells in a little, obscure boarding-house, and dresses in the plainest of plain gowns. "I want real friends, not money frienels," she once said. "I won't buy my friends with 2000-dollar dinners and rides in a smart auto."— "Royal Magazine."