1958-08-02 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1958,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

New York's Richest Women...........

Page... 9

By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER

THEIR JOB: MAKING MILLIONS

ASK the average of appointments involving

the operation of a variety----- of businesseS, the ad-

und

woman-on-the-street what she would do if ministration of trusts she suddenly became the pursuit of charitable the custodian of a and philanthropic ventures. $50,000,000 fortune and Ench is an urdent it is more than likely faminist and is firmly con her answer would be a vinced that there is no logical reason why women lbud guffaw.

should not be KA SUCCESA- "Are you serious?" she ful in the highly competi- might add. "If I had that tive world of businesa and kind of cash I would never finance ne ure men. lift a finger again. I would sleep until noon, eat all my meals at Pavillon and buy

(ew mink coats week."

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Many rich women in the

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U.S. do live such a life and actually find it appealing, but to

of many wealthiest women such existence 13 unthinkable anda tragic waste.

To a Mary Roebling, Ferry Schultz Downey or an Abby Rockefeller Mauze, idleness and frivolity are unforgivable sins in any th dividual, no matter how rich.

Each of these extremely gifted millionairesses fills

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MARY ROEBLING, the attice- Hve and dynamie president and beard chairman of Trenton Trust, symbolises the "working hatress." Insicas of contenting herself with enjoyment of the millions left her in 1936 by her late husband, Siegfried Regbing this enterprising little lady has parlayed her inheritance into a vest fortune.

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Born in modest circumstaricus

Collingswood, N. J., foebling attended Moorestown nigh School and lalor WOR from the University graduated of Pennsylvania. At the time sho met Roebling in 1933, she was working as a customers' woman bank

MRS MORTON DOWNEY

which, while one of the

for a Philadelphia investment 300 largest in the U.S., had Arm and was quite successiul it ber own right.

Hér husand's death left

her days with a busy round responsible for the future of

her

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assets of only $17,000,000. She managed to raise her two child- ren and, at the same time, learn enough of banking and Anance

SUPER-DUPER OLD GUARD

Among the wealthiest women of the greatest city in the world ̄ira" group-

'Until their a vanishing, group, to be sure who changoth not with the old order. very extinction they intend to retain the solid gold doorknobs, the liveried servants, the private railroad and other such little expressions of super-elegance

of the early 1900.

YOUR BIRTHDAY

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2

Own BORN tohy, you are rather too luxury-loving for your

good. You carmol be happy unless you are surrounded with, beauty, perfection and harmony. You are an artist by tempern- ment, yet you do not have the self-confidence so necessary in pursuing the arla as a career. You must learn to have faith in your Ideas and the strength of purpose to follow them through to com- pletion.

MRS JEAN MAUZE

to become one of the outstand- ing women in the Neld.

with a

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NERO NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THIS

SHOULD have called it I knew all about' the virtues my lenst favourite of Turkish baths: How they im

proved the circulation, toned up dream-if it hadn't been the system, removed the deep true 1 was riding in a lift down dirt from the skin, helped wagring n bath cap and the rheumatic conditions. I know malest piece of checked all this, but I did NOT know gingham. The gingham surroundings "which Spoked was doing very shaky duty rather like pictures of the best English clubs where women aro

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that I should take the bath in

I was en routa for my first never allowed..

Turkish bath. I had bounY driven there. by statisticsmmt7

Pink Lady.

DWT and the loss vital ones I was baffed by Inscriptions which prove that more Women like "Fortitude“ and "Charity" than ever before are losing their written on the domed ceiling. weight and their inhibitions in Then I discovered frot impresi the_stcom-heated precincts of sions were right. The place the bath.

HAD unce been an exclusive club.

It is a country-wide awaken ing. In Manchester, a bath which can accommodate only 20 vrômen a. day is always booked to capacity.

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What the dignified members would have thought if they could have drifted back Info their deep-carpeted, clubroom to * "We open only, three days 4 liscover a plump pink lady, week," the manageress told me, standing on a weighing machine Mrs Roebling commutes be- while in finishing school she "but we could all up with In one corner, while her oqually tween Trenton, Philadelphia and received only $100 a month and ladies it we opened, six days. plump and pink friend lounged By the time her children, Mrs New York as though they were had to esk her grandfather for a Housewives and bushess girlt- on a divan, I do not know, Andrew K. Dutch 34 and une large city and often break loan to buy her firet automobile. they all come, and the Arst.

I did not have lung to think, ector Paul Roebling, were of fasts in Trenton

Веслизо all speculation married David thing they nok is: What do we

and :: age. Mrs Rocibing had built, customer, speaks before a ladles' In 1925 she

much breath was cut short when Trenton Trust into one of the luncheon club in Philadelphia Merriwether. Milton, young

I was directed into the steam healthlost Cnancial institutions and then hustles to New York attorney with little money, and

So Modest

room. in the East with assets totalling for dinner with friends in her net up housekeeping

It looked like an ancient $70,000,000.

Carlton House apartment.

apartment until such time as he

They hang on to their little She maintains the Stockion, "My hobbics," she once told could offer her a more stylish Joincloths. Housewives especial. Roman orgy--naked pink forma wide marble step, N. J., home which her husband, an interviewer, "are golf, tennis abode an 18-room triplex apartly, are frightened to death of lying on grandson of the builder of the and my collection of fine old ment atop 1 Beckman Place.

auppearing in the nude. They're dimly seen through clouds of Ireathed hot steam Brooklyn Bridge, left her, but glass but my love is banking

During her marriage to Mil-very relieved when they know team. an end finance,

like a dragon in reverse for as it isn't spends most of her time in

necessary." ton, which ended in divorce in "apartment directly-across-the-

In London (where they're not long as I could, then leapt out -1943, Abbey was able to combine.

to-ind out if it was meant to street from the bank. Her day

ohe bath reports"

be as hot as that or had come- ner task of being a wife end to Inhibited) "whenever the phone begins

that women Bro streaming mother with the job of being a

wrong with starts ringing" and Mrs Roebling

1wckefeller and managing the through at the rate of 80 to 100 thing gone 3:30 I usually at her desk by

inillions which had been left a day, using about 1,500 bath pipps.

through her father and hand towels between them, ner, both end her

former and round about ten pounds of mother, tho

soop a week. Abby Greene Aldrich.

The Order of the Bath is said the attendant in a swimsuit, During her subsequent six always the same, though the soothingly. "Gn back. It's doing years of marriage to the late Dr soup occasionally differs, Gore you good." Irving Hotchkiss Pardee and her times it is almond oil and fresh I survived the steam and. Peggy was born with

the prezent norrlage to banker Jean Ieman, sometime buttermilk staggered into the hottest dry proverbial silver spoon and Mauze, Abby has continued to end sometimes purs super- rbon, feeling like a fugitive prior to World War II.

went participate nctively I the fatted. abroad to live with her mother management of her varied hold and stepfather, ex-Ambassador inga and considered a match, .to Poland Anthony Drexel from standpoint of business Biddle. At the outbreak of war acumen, for any of her brothers, Peggy and her parents flod

weekday morning", dictating letters to her three secretaries and meeting with customers.

By STELLA

SUNDAY, AUGUST 3

PORN today, you are a quiet, introspective individual. Honest and "sincere, you are not inclined to take others too much into your confidence. You have an inner life which no one can share. You have değinile opinions which you will hold fast to, no matter how much influence is exerted upon you, to change your mind. You many not shout these opinions from the house-tops, but you are firm and determined. If you are asked for your opfalon, you will give it, and that is that!

VERY DIT AS BUSY a busi

ness woman three days is Peggy Schultz Downey, the beautiful young wife of singer Morton Downey und the daughter of the late Margaret Thompson Biddle.

She

SUMMER

Warsaw, escaping to Itomania, Due to her shrewd business and there she met and married sense her two married daughters Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, a need never worry about money. handsome Polish Cavalry officer. Abby has seen to it that fier was then 17 and her war personal fortune will survive es hero husband was 10,

long as the U.S. is a free nation.

They came to the U. s. aur- for several ing the war and,

were a popular couple familiar years, in New York society,

When helt faces in the gay whirl of parties and nightclubs. marriage foundered, Peggy sought a divorce on grounds of misconduct and asked custody of their two children, Christian and Katherine. She got both.

Perry married Downey and to becoming a Your Achilles heel is your affections. You are apt to be in- settled down

heless. Upon her fuered by those you love. When nothing will move you, a loved working Arath in June, 1955,

You will not fall in mother's The one can cause you to change your direction.

inherited Schultz, love easily, but once you have found the "ene and only," It will be Peggy and her brother, Ted nobody else. If frustrated in that romance, you might never wed business empire which they have at all. You would never be one to take second cholce in love.

since operated together from the Although you are impulsive underneath a calm exterior, you Manhattan offices of the Thomp-

son Mining Co. have trained yourself to weigh everything carefully before making a decision of importance. Sometimes you find this a little difficult emotionally, for one side of your character is constantly tugging against the other.

You are meticulous concerning deiall and will work hard to reach the peak of perfection, You can take os much time aud

You have good executive ability, know how to keep your own energy to complete a simple task as someone else might take to finish u gigantic project. The difference is that your small project counsel, and can handle large enterprises with one and efficiency will be perfect; the larger one may be a slap-dash job, honey-You are a perfectionist at heart and want to see everything done exactly right. You are just and honest in settling problems and combod with inaccuracies.

would make a nie judge.

Your Interests are varied and you are inclined to scatter your cnergies over too wide a field. You are the type to know some- This is rather frustrating thing about a large variety of things.

For there are two personalities in one Intiividunt: for you. perfectionist, on one hand, and the intellectual Jack of All Cultures, or the other. The two are sometimes cross purposes, making life rather difficult. You are not suffelently interested in attain Ing material success to push yourself. You are content with little material wealth so long as you are left to pursue your own Ideas.

You have a magnetic personality and attract people into your orbit. You are a good organiser, but once you have set things in mation, you prefer to sit back and watch other people make the wheels go around! A little more persistence in your nature and you can become highly successful

Among those born on this date were: F: Marion Crawford, author: John Sloan, American painter, and Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, engineer and planner of the city of Washington.

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding pârogreph. your birthday stor be your daily guide,

SUNDAY, AUGUST 3

LEO (July 24-AUK. 23) It is to be hoped that you can spend this day in telurely re- creation and rebuild your ener ges for the comkast week.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-8ept. 23)-- Sack spiritual inspiration and got ready for new projects to come. You will need strength. and energy for them.

Let

a colossal

ACCE

Today' Peggy is seldom st parties in Manhattan, is an infrequent vislior to nightclubs

good wife and mother and 7 pletely immersed in being good business woman to manage her huge Inheritance.

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Among those burn on this date were: Hamilton Fish, states-and seems to have become con- man: King Frederick William III of Prussia; Rupert Brooke, poet, and Elisha Graves Oils, elevator inventor and manufacturer."

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. your birthday star be your daily guide.

MONDAY, AUGUST 4

Let

Perry is the only heiress who comes to mind who successfully made the change-over to work- Ing girl without losing o million in the process.

few

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)- AQUARIUS (Jan 21-Feb, 19) AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)

of your big days This Take full advantage of any A certain degree of self-control One

There may be month. Start the day in high new opportunity, offered at this is needed today,

WEALTHIEST OF THE work:-" tensions all around you. Dispel car and keep things moving in time. To delay your acceptance

is tutali your direction.

Eng heiresses in our list of New them with care..

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)-York's top 12 is Abby Rocke PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- VIRGO (Aug, 24-Sept. 23)---.

enieslatest Romance may be where you feller, only daughter of. John D. A simulating day when your You can take that

Winthrop, Nelson, David, Lou- new peak, risk and,wing business advant least expect it Someone at the Rockefeller It, and sister of ambitions reach a

over your competitors, office could prove to be your rance and John Rockefeller. Make plans. for your future ac-age

"one and only." tivities now.

Anticipate a profit,

Despite an inheritance $100,000,000 Tako a big step forward toward estimated between $200,000,000, end.

Abbyw your major goal today Every M Jonn Mauze-wis

taught thing seems to be falling into carly, in the the value of a your lap just now:

dollar Some of her: vazliest' TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) childhood memorier

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- ABIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20).

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LIDRA. (Sept; 24-Oct. 23}- An inspiring sermon this morn- After your devotional exercises Be co-operative with others and ing may give your spirit an up- this morning, take stock of what you will find. that you lift that you have been needing is in store for the future. Plan making strategie gains in your Lately.

carefully.

occupation.

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ABIES. (Mar. 21-Apr. 20).

nickel to save | mid"

Contro

SCORPIO (Oct.24+Novi 22)— TAURUS (Apr. 31-May 21)-- SCORPIO: (OL 24-Nov. 22) at your best energies into an around her grandfather, the late It Important job. Don't waste time John D. Sr., whose hable ot A day to let down tensions and If you have been busler than An exceptionally busy day.

non-ssentials Timing children wir cois relax, Don't plan anything too usual of late, then this is the planning a trip, this could be a on

fleeting. strenuous. This should be a day to relax tensions and get good time to set out.

penny.to GEMINE (MAY 22-June 21) spend made a deep impresión some rest. day of rest..

BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 25-Dec. GEMINI (May, 22-June 21)

SAGITTARIUS" (Nov. 53-Dec. Make u definito gain today:pon her. This was the fores 2)-A varley of interests may change of pace enn bring 223-Fortune is smiling on you: Business is good and you should rumner of his famed habit of

Store up The day aiarls well and ends up show a fina, profit in your expassing out diam. Beckon, but select some aree of pleasant relaxation, activity that will: bring: com fresh, energy for the days to in an extravagantly fine fashim. ploits.

Got what you want.

CANCER: (Juña. 22-Jnky 22}-| As a younester Abby received plète relaxatiory.

COMION

CANCER (June 22-July 21)— CAPRICORN (Doo, 25-Jan, 19), You could anttelpate a promo, an allowance of 30 cents weekly, ---If you can get outdoors, you. A good day for a trip into theIf you are planning a move tion, dok the ruifs that goon. but a dime went into the church wil and that communion with country for some fresh air and this is a good day to do it. Get with it, now. If past work has collection plets on Sunday.. Ax "to", the | khm grew, upƐ the allowance- WAN A church or club into your new home and stert vell your worth nature will bring a renewed sunshine..

organization.'

increased, of couro, but!, ETOIL mottildars outingy, perhaps? interest in life.

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"Nothing's gone wrong, dear,"

from King Solomon's mines. All thought had gone. I could Just wonder vaguely if I should ever be cool again.

I followed dialinguished com-

After five minutes in the hos pany when I chose to take

room (160 10.170. degrees) „Zlwas, Turkish bath in London

Mrs Wilfred Pickles, Mardly wondering when I should Ignite. It seemed to me that Baret Leighton, ballet dancers, spontaneous combustion would model girls, housewives and be the only outcome to all this.

By Mary Hampson

business girls had all "been there before....

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