The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1909, Page 4

hed dally by The & ©e, THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE THE COMING ISSUE Might just as well as not ; or two on the money question, rd up your loins for a ¢ Mr Bryan It w on't be ampaig lo to b THE STAR—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1909. AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE HALF BILLION IN LAND Baterea at offt t tty vomr, 985 ate poat- d-claae STAR DUST donk Wine Mayne William, but 16 to 0—16 bankers to run the money of the coun try and the people 0. After after disowning the trade do! Twelve Women of the United States Worth Fabulous Sums of Money ~~How They Spend It. aying the rag baby greenback in its little fiat grave, lar and debasing and divorcing poor old hard-working silver coin, it is discovered that we need | “a safe for a central bank of issue and sound financial system,” “some sort of arrangement erve and Taft has which shall control the res Bill awing need, and is advertising it AMERICA'S TWELVE RICHEST WOMEN $ 95,000,000 $3,000,000 78,000,000 68,000,000 39,000,000 Nonnie Leeds 30,000,000 Mra, Matilda Zleglor.... 27,000,000 Mrs. Morris K. Jesup 25,000,000 Miss Helen Gould 24,000,000 Mra, Glula Moroaini 18,000,000 Mra. Mary Copley Thaw 1 Mra. T. B. Wanamaker. 11,000,000 exercise a power to meet and control stringency made the of this ¢ throughout the west. Nels tell the ignorant west all t ‘Taft says it's bound to come, and that Mra. Mra. Mra. B, Hh. Harriman, Hetty Green discovery rich is to father the scheme and abe Aldrich has done Mra. lownward that well in revising necessities upward and luxuries he is peculiarly fitted to head the new movement for saneness and soundness. Mr, Aldrich has already blushingly accepted, but he sees some dangers. The central bank should be kept free from Wall) st. influences and not be manipulated for political purposes. | He threatens to talk along this line, and Wall st. and the politi-) When Baward H i , almost, not quite. }dead railroad wisard, wrote hin Cigna ace slready scared to death, almost, q tt j| famous Mword will, hé made his he process o widow the richest woman among 12 very rich American women, whose wealth totale half a billion Their total wealth. . $500, 000 Harriman, the Tn case of a casual stringency, nowadays, relief is to have the United States treasury grab a bag of money and run over to Wall st. and help out. It will doubtless be much | goiiars ht in Wall} Most of Mra. Harriman'’s $86, | 000,000 estate is in stocks, bonds and cash, With one exception the other 1! have put their riches Into bondt—low interest bearing but more convenient to have a central bank located 1 st., with power to control the money market depends on who is given this power, Ii the president appoints Of course, much another galaxy of corporation hirelings, of course, a politician or two, or some fellow with friendly interest in Wall st. ma slip in. However, Mr, Taft and Mr, Aldrich will show the m imum of danger in this to the wild, woolly and wall-cyed in their junket speeches. Get ready to swallow! atrong as pl armor. Rockefeller, the steel trust and jother great holders of capital have | it invested in huge j which give employment hun dreds of thousands bf mon ny draws its profit #r the investor vd | 4 c.aded benefit to the pub | in the case of these 12 mm women the money ie an in tense burden to the world of com m and trade, and it alao la a greater burden to the owners of It ~—Take the case of Mra. Harriman, [for instance. A kindly, sweet-faced Jelderly woman, schooled more to her hame than to society, suddenly | finds herself the richest woman in | the world, The mind of one man—Harriman Was oufficient to steer this ship of wealth among the uncharted | shoals of Wall st. during Hfe. Dead, i the minds of many men, lawyers It seems to have at last dawned | high financters are required to From the rendhbuse keeper’s|on both discoverers that there are|*!P the widow change her great $86,000,000 estate into low interest point these suicidal joy rides! plenty of lecture dates for botli bearing securities Who are these 12 rich women? What do they do with their wealth? What CAN they do with it? Some of thowe 12, like Mra. Sage Mra. Hearst and Mins Gould, dis tribute huge sume in philanthropy But, try as they will, they cannot jatve it away ax fast an ft in increas ing. Like a snow ball descending a hill, this big body of wealth keeps growing This country may have no Bank! of England, but In the wealth of its | 12 richest women there ts « eum of | money—a body of gold—that is larger than that bank's resources Misa Anne Weightman, daughter | of the’ Philadelphia quinine king, | ay in Industrie west te English suffragettes are {m-/attract a lot of embarrassing atten @ignant that their inalienable right | ton. to starve to death is being tnter-/ with ‘by rude men with) ‘Tho fact that 15 motorman ts stomach pumps. . alive and loeuacious is going to| lcompl'tate the matter of fixing the The present Spanish war with! siame somewhat. the Moors is nearing an end. ¥he next one is also all ready to start. | ‘“: | Asan exercise the wreatling game If you'll take Dr. Rollers word |*°8 the double crossing and re-| for it, Mr, Warner is not a bit of a crossing ability of the best of them. clubby. thap, y'know, onde “1 OLLEGE. -the California senator, has | cation | hewapaper venture: MRS, HARRIMAN, HUSBAND'S Pen Inan was married to Frederick (¢ field, an attorney, and the agement of her wealth fell upon him. Mra Hetty Green turned over to her #on for management a big block of ber money. Mra, Green herself dc want to see her money decrease. She ts the guiy one of the 12 who made ber maney herself, Most of it, too, is Invegted in good real estate .rather than honda h is a hemvy Rage give most of her fortune away founded $2,000 Bhe 00 of benavolentios and found the time It take@)to di rect them would prevent firther gifta at present. Meanwhile her wealth is drawing an inc@tng of more then $2:500,000 a year’ Mra. Phoobe Hearst, widow of given $7,000,000 to philanthropy and edu She ts reported to have sunk a similar ow . Yet her fortime today is qroater than it ever wns Mra. Nonnie Leeds bought in Paris a black pearl which even King Edward VIL could not afford | Her expenditures on e have been enormous, without any de crease in ber income. Widows Charitabie, Mra. Matilda Ziegler and Mre. Morris K. Josup both were left le cles by men who tn life had been! IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK BY NORMAN. i Dear Mr. Trne: Ihave a chance; Dear Truehelmer; What will te make a big fortune in a very|toughen the palms of the hands? short time; at least, the promoter! Mine are so soft and tender.—Per ef a gold mining company has ctval K. given me such assurance if I will imvest the bulk of my savings. | Kindly advise me. Truly yours, A. TOILER | SWING THIS EIGHT HOURS A Answer: Made Great Hit It is @ subject of much wonder ment to.me why so many and actresses seem to try so hard in thelr make-up to destroy all ro jsemblance to ordinary human be ings such as one sees in dally life Answer: actora If a man were to appear in com. monplace society wearing one of andish wige or tow » nightly seen on the would think he And if an actor can't make himself look odd with a droll sky piece, then: he rolls bis eyes, or | Wears spats, or painta his counte- gance into the likeness of a pastel |by an impressionist Take Edward Emery, for instance | Emery is a mighty good actor, who jeame over from England some years ago and decided not to go back, He made a great hit In @ minor part in i“The Great John Cariton last jspring, and is now doing excellent 3 jwork in “The Ringmaster” as an ox 7 |jxenator who has become a trust vn |magnate. After the holidays, it is Sigs j announced, he is to become a star jin a new play Mr. True: Is the south pole cold And how does Mr. Emery er than the north pole? How can I|up for the part of Ser find out?—A Polar snthusias in “The Ringmaster"? Thus own hair, rather thin, plastered down. Short brown mustache, N jaray in halr or mustache snow white, beetiing, bushy ¢ brows! w, where, in real life, was any human being ever seen with brown hair and whiskers and OF MONTHS, stage, people was | Dear Mr. True: How can I race | °"*”” back my ancestry? I would tke }¥ery much to know who my fore fathers were.—Genealogical, COUPLE uP! My Dear Everett: To settle an argument, how can I prepare five potatoes so they can be eqnally di-| vided among six persons?—An Am- ateur Chef. VISIT THE ZOO! ° Answer; Answer: ‘em! Dear Everett: How best can 1 prevent the odor arising from per sptration? WM. THERMO. make tor Some Answer: Answer And WINTER AT EACH | PRACE. ae GARVIN’S CORNER BY THE REVEREND JOSEPH L. GARVIN PASTOR OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1 “J0¥-niDE” | onght att But they we track, Joy-ri sport today aad ride for Nor do the m following « be iar r midst. Two » ful girls are the victims of night drinking bout. fun. How the word its charm in such an all They called it “joy” has lost associations © pleasures,” life in sacred, n taught. It is city’s concern, I of organizations, indi ilonts mat But It is our busine the iris from shaime and of “ihe A ° worth a fle y Prodigal Son t et it Impossible for pie to do wrong. An a om is equal to a joy d license our chauf- nitgh | these taverns 5 eautiful girthood sacrificed on the alias of pleasure to move us to action? My heart goes ov people th What lives they ive to fei for an evening's Dieasure they must lose all sense of modesty and honor. fe dltterenc © wayward wh to deat) permitting and young in} the} “don tolerating to these young ‘Traveler: © botel Cabby No, | don't want | another. Well, Santa Claus eyebrows? Emery knows. Maybe Mr Exception to Rule. There was a chap in “The Blue Mouse” here last winter who was the one great exception to the rule of make-up absurdities, He played the part of the uptodate farmer who comes to } York to see bis daughter and son-in-law, bringing them some apples from the farm That man might have stepped off a trafn at the Grand Central station and walked onto the atage, so far as his appearance was concerned He did not have funny hair, nor even funny whiskers, nor a funnily colored face. Not ma funny hat Just a rather slouchy looking outfit of clothes, and a worn suit case, and a plain human face, on which the makeup was not noticeable, if it was there Why are there not more like him? Is the daubing and smearing and odd dressing an inviolable rule of the profession. Then the Hate Mew, Sybil—tt's no use denyt Maud. It was too dark for who it was, but [ distin some young kins you I ned of y why y George I don't we A man should have a goo. ready before committing act a mban AN INDUCEMENT, 4 a cab. It's only a short walk to it's just as short @ drive, GROM A GNAPSBHOT proposed to! in her son's; exdune 4 | Bridget ahut the kitchen 10 DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH. } sinctaeninimneaes aitieneindt | i noted for charity. They have con tinued the work of thetr husbands, but their wealth increases automat! cally Mins Helen Gould has devoted her life to nding Jay Gould's gift to her of $18,000,000, Her benefac tons are scattered over the United States, but she is wealthier every year | The best dressed woman of thease 12 rich women is Miss Giulia Moro» int, who spenda more than $100,000 & year on gowns. All her dresses and the blooded horses she owns can't begin to stop the golden flood | that pours in on her every interest | day ‘| One woman alone of these 12 black-clothed figure of Mra. y Copley Thaw—has found out oe ‘money brought her sadness. The troubles of her son haye taken much of her wealth, but the $10,000,000 that Wm. Thaw willed her has grown to $12,000,000. Mrs. Thomas B. Wanamaker wilt! find herself worth $20,000,000 with in 10 years if her income grows as it has dose Does this half billion, which | mounting big § is rand higher every | year, constitute a menace to this jcountry? Or dows ft give it a | stability that the banks lack, by reason of that vast horde of gold, which no one spends, nor no one cares to spend? Only the future can te wel dog is the “eyes els and dimes for his, master The dog can smoke a pipe and is an aristrerat, for he days Thousands of persons have and fis as they man eyes, seek sits by while his faithful dog makes his money for him j | REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. | | A woman's baby couldn't be any | more wonderful to her even if it | was twine. 1 A woman specially likes a man's} compliments when probably he does | hot mean them. | | The more a girl could help around | ‘the house the more she'd rather her mother did it | People who can do useful things | are always considered by those who | can't to have very little intellect A valuable thing to a man w has gone through college is witht ja lot he could have learned any-| | where else. | It takes a man to be pleased with | hime@f for having a dog that can | | flaght, butedisgusted with his neigh: | jbor for having one | | A woman has such an imagination | |that before the seamstress who} sews for her by the day has got on the trolley car in front of the {house she can speak of her as her tatlor—New York Press POINTED PARAGRAPHS. | Don't hit the pipe; | kiek A man is pretty lucky draw anything in a church give it a swift not to| raffie| J office force, Here's a moving picture from the other gide of life an old blind beggar who lives in Hoboken, N. J of the blind man and gathers up pennies and nick wears a fur watched Munband—Why don't you, he an smell the breakfast cooking @ er the house wi leave it open pur mell te all that gets the Judge. Femivy up voking thing in what lot more strateht thinking can do with her beart than with his head.—-New York The most pr Proas Washington blind? | Barina irse not. Where] ok me to th d show man that ork Weekly ova ‘Ladies the p inne man ¥ ortrait New he snder a whady You can toll ag soon 4s you rk that he bas some en in bie tt ww think It That has he aad ; said for Bal with Dutet mbarked him rriage he f the earth sward—And he did it—to got after away marriage Life The father fh the son himself praising Chinene. (after three hours recruit) —Right in ing)—Thank t about something City Journal Drill Sergeant new face! yn ( onquest is the greatest of ries. Tato one thing we demand from enid the head of the ie correctness in fg smoothed her “The our employes, ures.” The apptioant hiplows skirt Stanford University Cushing Young woman (to siderly duche fo good « u to patronixe charity b r. dear duchess; and | need hardly add how we would ita fayor if the duke woul also, If only to fetch ¥ Royal Magazine Pleasures of Domentietty. Henpeck—-How terribly John, that you » Mra. Major Upperten Henpeck — 1—1—er he day you bit me with 9 pair stand. my oar Henpeck--Ob, then It was on away know It the no—er—that | the teap ay Hoppeck — No was the day you threw at me.—ferapa They Travel im Patrs. Hanke--Het a dollar clear against girl is coming Hank bull p It shows and has a dog. The do cute tricks overcoat even The old beggar on the hottest these two-—the blind old aid. The man, superior in thought, and have to give it up to raffled over again : | Never judg what a wor by what ehe says It ts not always the family that foots the MeN BeK they have ne men an thinks head of the bills. m to be happy a gr attempt so much that they never get anything finished. And flour by any name would savor of high priced wheat Speaking of love, a should kK before he otherwise y fall in The mgre men a girl could have married the more she an idiot to pick the ¢ only nce. other man leaps hel nm arns she was she did. One..Doctor Mave No doctor to best one, only sense one ddvtor—just onef in running from one another! Select the then stand by him. No sone in trying this thing, that thing, for your qpugh, Carefully loliberately sole the best cough take it foh ? Ask your doctor. about Ayers Cherry 1 for throat long troubles. Doctors have prescribed Mt for 70 yearn, J. ©, AYER 60, Lowell, Mass. wm, Bit SBoats stop a eee FREE EXCURSION BEAUTIFUL 8) BIG, F. 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