MILLIONAIRE’S WIVES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3190, 8 April 1911, Page 3

MILLIONAIRE’S WIVES.

MR. CARNEGIE’S MOTHER

Mr. Carnegie visited a publishing firm in New York on February iOtn, and gave some excellent advice to tiie ,guls employed there. . "Most millionaires wives aren happy,” declared Mr. Carnegie after contrasting the happiness toil with the doubtrul advantage or being born rich, “they'have too many luxuries and no mental resources. Don’t retuse a man simply because he is a miLionaue. Personally I’d rather be born pool than a millionaire, and I have had some experience in both directions . ‘•I have made forty-two millionaires in my time, and I want to say that the only right a mail has to wealth lies m his’ acquiring it in some useful labor. The great trouble with wealth to-day is that the sons of millionaires _ cion t always realise this very necessity of being of use to • the comniunitry. I am glad to see you all so happy in your work. Work that one is not glad to do never amounts to' much. Smile all the time. - ’ “I shall never forget how proud I was when I got my first wages—five- shillings a week —and how- I felt when it was raised to six. To take home that Sinn to my good mother gave me a feeling of independence. I owe a great deal to my mother. She was seamstress, cook, and washladv. and; never until late in life had a servant in the house, and yet she was a cultivated woman. She possessed real charm, and kept- up her literature every day. "When I was a, little tot she used to read books to me. You young women have every opportunity cf literary culture „ and jou ought to avail yourselves of it. ’