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Qolden Spoons V .4 ,1 V ? 4 V I 1 f f4.A t Gloria. Cttaso - . Astor ft . jfl y i;A n L M J Jf Luckenback worn TudrMight 1AM0 V world's richest baby! THE Who !s he? Or nhe? Qolden Ia th bahj' American? Or English? Now that baby Valentine Mountbatten, daugh- ter of Lady Louise Mountbatten, is In direct line Spoons of the late to Inherit some day the vast fortune was a time when ther Sir Ernest Cassel, philanthropist and financier, Ywere no "million-dolla- babies," he must be considered In line tor some claim t.i And not so long ago, at that. will the title. A search through the records Many a kid of humbler circumstances has just and the work doesn't hurt me oxcept pounding reveal that If not the fathers, then But she has many American rivals. us many. pavements keeps trie rather thl. the grandfathers or great-gran- In A ecoro of babies are now living the Unitcil Wool-worth- s And as for clothes when Patricia sat for the "Baby millionaires like the Astors and fathers of the present crop of golden Stati who seme day will Inherit fabulous for- and Goelets and Carusos maybe never spoon children were born into po picture with her mother that accompanies this tunes, from ten to a hundred million will know anything about playing hookey or hav ranging she wore a suit of woollies. these ertj. story plain Only without an worked for their e dollars In each case, and perhaps even more. ing a good scrap or picking their pals They living woollies come from didn't a shop. O. K. from the nurse, or the tutor. many times didn't know where their In Detroit, Mich., however, there are some They came from a palace because distant cousin, "Maybe when they are they'll be wheeling next meal was coming from. Often children who some day may be able to sign their Queen Mary, knitted them herself for the little girl. to fashionable schools in limousines when I was the founder of the fortune arrived Dames to checks for many times the $30,000,000 old before It assumed Back in 1SS2 the founder of all her wealth, then getting my first Job delivering typewriters at $14 at a ripe age or more which It is possible for the Mountbatten a week. Pretty good for an errand boy, I thought. any sizeable proportion. plain Ernest Cassel, was born In Cologne, Ger- would not be to accu- baby to Inherit. They are the children of Edsel "When they go for a walk It's with a nurse It possible His father was a banker, but when many. Ernest, a of When I I estimate the combined poten- I'ord. son of Ford, whose ac. i!.: ed for- tnd couple pedigreed pups. go rately Henry his own he grew up, determined to make way deliver a telegram, and if it's a e job tial wealth of the children whoss tune Is conservatively estimated as n-- nd chose England to make it In. I get S!i cents for it, and Ha cents for every other pictures aro on this page, but a con- over a billion dollars. So he started out In life as a clerk in Liverpool message I'va got In the book. servative guess would be a quarter of a billion dollars. IN ENGLAND at the big salary of S4.75 per week. Before he HECOMES CTIESTV How does it feel to be born with a gold ?poon retired he had become one of the richest nun in "Say, they ma have millions in the safety estimated fortunes of the In one's mouth? England. deposit vault. But I've got $150 saved up in THE of these stupendous the bank. And I'll bet they never get the chance Well, let's take a journey to England first and GAVE LAVISHLY before started to throw out their chests the way I did when 1 fortunes, just they ce what's happening. He hud financed the Mexican State Railways, out to conquor the world, would be stepped up and deposited my first dollar. Almost any sunny afternoon these days a those of Sweden, reconstructed the about $16.45. reorganized "My uniform may have a few gravy spots on be seen In In no countries other than the baby girl may finances of the Argentine, negotiated loans for it, but that's a lot better than wearing velvet L'nlted States and England has It Hyde Park, London, being pushed about in her China and helped build up modern Egypt by get- pants and having a governess stand around with been possible for men or women to aa the folks over LKtm. a whiskbroom in her hand saying: 'Naughty, "pruin," alias "perambulator," ting back the Assuan amass such sums. That Is why, naughty!' there call a baby buggy. He was one of the closest friends of that Prince when speaking of "poor little rich "I guess I the rich kids once in a while all the appearance of the buggy and the of "Wales who afterwards became K.ng Edward envy children," it Is always necessary t but not when I think about it. Why, those kids United ' nurse and the clothes baby wears there Is nothing the Seventh. search America or the King- will even matter out have their reading picked dom for subjects. ti. her from the other hundreds of boy-en- some distinguish He gave lavishly to and years for them. I read what I want, History and the girl babies that are being promenaded in their before his death gave a large sum for educational lives of Roosevelt and Lincoln are pretty good, has developed, as a result, "prams" by their nurse-maids- . purposes, to he used for workmen and and I put my nose in the dictionary once in a THERE princijielly United States and Eng- And when this baby proceeds to howl, while whenever I can. This stuff about mes- particular their children. land a feeling that, while these chil- IN senger boys reading dime novels is the bunk; I there Is still nothing to distinguish her when Many American babi' s have hem born to great dren of wealth should be entitled to never read one, at least. niirsey says: wealth. There is, for Instance, little John Jacob a major portion of their father's an-ddb- Vsien-titi-- "Messenger boys don't all shoot craps and that noise!" Xouise ilount batten e fruits of labor, still in justice to "Patricia Edwina, stop Astor, whose father was lost when the Titanic was Lady smoke cigarets, either. I don't. If a kid Isn't common society and the children And Patricia Edwina, being a good English baby sunk; Gloria Caruso, who will inherit the bulk Chicago, wealthy parents are taking pains to teach bank what he thought of rich children. Loo nt rich he can play marbles and things like that. I themselves, they should not be en- end not an American baby or a French im- of the Caruso and children some useful work of that time was a messenger boy in New York City, guess some rich kids think marbles are some- lby. fortune probably the Benjamin their regardless titled to all of It. It should go back to anil his answer, in a way, may be taken as typical thing they decorate hotel lobbies with, mediately proceeds stop. wealth: Robert Godot Jr., sometimes referred to the inheritance which Will go to their children. into circulation, is the view that has of the majority of his group. Uono-hue- , t'or-deil- HAVEN'T EVERYTHING EDWINA as the "million dollar baby," end James Paul The two little Ltulte boys, whose mother, been taken. PATRICIA "A fellow might think rich kids have it pretty in not a of of the late V. W. Wooiwortb, Biddle Iluke, recently became Mrs. Thomas "Probably I wouldn't know how to act front This has been product the s when follows the kidic-- and grandson soft." he said, "with butlers and governesses and It only somebody of a but I meet lots men than Socialistic mind. Far from it. It builder of the rhnin of five-nn- stores. M. P.oberts, are other little rich children who of million butler, bigger home he this is may palaces and prize dogs and a couple lis nurse to their that learns butlers. And when I tell them to sign on the emanated from the brains of con- But one thing is certain: uis'.ly apply for the title of the "richest kiby." dollars in sight when they are 21. But when you a citizen of Great Britain probably dotted line do it for a I mean. servative politicians and statesmen. very special it over to admit a lot of they telegram, America can claim the "self inade babies," And so may "Bubbles" I.tn-k- nbacii. of think you got there's the the world. only daughter "Kids with a million dollars are all right but They produced a series of excess richest baby jn drawbacks to this lap of luxury business. to paraphrase a mu' h useri expression. Mrs. Edward Lucketiha. li of Long Island, who is I guess haven't got everything." profits taxes and Inheritance taxes, a this Patricia Edwina is the ulti- "I was not born with any golden spoon in my they Fr particular heir to a furtune. al- THEY M ADK And though Leo didn't know it, and probably set of laws so stringent that it is the ARE SEEK mouth like they were.
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