Hetty Green As A Belle

While credit must begiven Mrs. Het;y Green for wondert' ui shrewdness and msiness sagacity in building up her 01 tune, it must not be forgotten that he Bad a good start. Wben her father died. he left her $9,000,000 to fight the battle of life with. It was more money n those days than it is now. He was an old whaler and shipping merchant of STew Bedford named Edward Mott Robnson. He married a Miss Howland, and the f uil name of Mrs. Hetty Green is Harriet Howland Robinson Green. She was her father's private secretary 'or four or five years bef ore his death, and in this way she acquired a knowledge of business matters. Old Robinson was frugal andeconomical to extremes, and among the lessons early impressed upon the daughter's mind were economy and simplicity in daily life and the valne and virtue of money. Bef ore 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. Sho lived for a time in a boarding house on West Twenty-second street, and when she went to parties would walk from there. It is related that rather tban pay cab fare she used to pull a pair of heavy stockings over her stont shoes and tramp through the snow to a reception or ball, pnllingthe stockings off when she arrived and spreading