Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1909 — Hetty Green’s Religious Views. [ARTICLE]

Hetty Green’s Religious Views.

“The meeting doesn’t begin until half past 7, and It’s not yet 7 o’clock,” she explained as she led me down the long aisle to the second pew and invited me to sit close to her in the corner of it. “My friend and I came early, in order to get good seats.” ‘ls this church your shade of belief?” I asked. “Oh, no,” she retorted In the confidential whisper which characterizes all her conversation. “No, I was bred a Quaker, but I go to every kind of a church, and I once held mortgages on twenty-eight. It doesn’t matter to me what the denomination Is; T beneve that any oT them will serve, so long as the people who attend them keep the commandments; but I am a Quaker, just the same. I believe In simplicity. It’s that, you know, that makes me what folks call ‘mean.’ The fact Is, I prefer not to be extravagant. When I went to Quaker school they used to make us eat at the next meal Whatever we had left on our plates. The directors said that If the rich girls did not learn to economize there would be no money left with which to educate the poor girls. So that was what made me like this.” —• Carol Ford In National Magazine for September.