Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-09-07
From the Peoples Organ.
The Female Financicr,

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We extract the following from .hC
proof sheets of new work published by
Jewett & Co.; Boston. 1t is a work
that will please sundry readers. and per
haps give valuable hints TO others, bu.
will only whet the appetite for more
from la same sou-cc:
There never WGS woman whO has
lived longer on promises than have, Wr.
! Oidbuck. More than year ago, when
told you we must have new parlor car
pets, you put me of till the election
was over, because then there would be
such good times that 1 thought Cali
| fornia and our metropolis would only be
another name for the gold region. Now.
look, at it, where are my carpets?'
You speak, wife, as ifI had the whole
control of events. How could | fore
see that times would be as they are !;
money at nine and ten per cent. and
banks refusing to discount only the best
paper-stocks down. and manufacturing
interests at stand, comparatively. for
the last year, at least short dividends?'
Il wish were man, Mr.. Oldbuck,
and III warrant you would have things
different. Do you suppose would have
served on ward committees during all
the exciting campaign to eIec. Presi-
dent, attended caucusas. carried torch
lights. and given such entertainments,
and after all. be turned off without an
office? This is the worll's gratitude,
| Mr.. Oldbuck. No; when ] was in
Washington. would have kept there till
got something. if had s,eyea q hole
year 10 accomplish my purpose.
You reason very foolishly, wife. Did
| not secure all the testim onials of my
ability for az office? Did not go at a
great expense, and wait until hope de-
ferred made my heart sick as Kemble
said last night7 And did you not say
had better return and mind my own
business?
What If I did' III had been a man,
should have had more courage, III war
rant We. would have made the Pres-
dent pay for ell the champagne and time
had spent in his behalf. if had filched
it out Of his own pockets
You would. Well, well, did not.
and so let the matter rest
'But, tell you, want some new car
pets.
when my dividends warrant it, life.
you shall have them. You know, as
we'll as DO, how stocks stand now
no agitation in the market, no time to
sell. and no time TO buy.
| IN lot
your brother serve you such a game
Have you lost all confidence in your
own judgment, that you must trust TO
him when it is best to sell out or by
| in?' He'll fleece you as clean as old
lchabod Cannon was served
Cannon, Cannon. who was he?'
why. my poor Uncle Ichabod. to be
sure. Didn't he employ broker to in
vest all his money. aud didn't he keep
changing stocks, and crying up this, and
down that, until at last oil his property
got in the qrorstsd mill. till it worsted
him, poor old man, out Of all he had
And your fate will be no better Mr..
Oldbuck, if you don't turn about and do
your own business III your own way
! what would you have had me do with
the money had. wife?'
Let ii out in the street. TO be sure
lfmoney is worth twelve and twenty per
cent, take ii in State street, and when
you find man hard pinched, as you
call it, let it to him on time. with good
security
'Heighho' sighed Mr.. Oldbuck.- =
when invest again you shall certainly
be consulted, wife,
After it is all gone, and the time to
get extra is gone by, | suppose l may
take it. After stocks have gone down
twenty per cent, and you have lost five
thousand cn this, and ten thousand OH
that. | suppose you world be very glad
to have me undertake and clear up
things. jus. as | regulate disordered
house, or repair suit of old cloths; but,
MIR. Oldbuck. this is not my place nor
work. | married you to look after out
door cancerns while attend 10 the
house,
There was q house auction the next
day. A suit of Brussels carpets were to
be sold that had been down, but two
years, and the size exactly fitted Mrs.
Oldbuck's drawing rooms. She had new
er been at an auction, hut her neighbor
Grimshaw had often showed her great
bs fgains she had procured. She thought
she would ask her to accompany her, and
if she got decided bargain (as she felt
confident she should.) there would be. no