The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-08-20

she sometimes forgot what her orders
were. On more than one occasion,
when she had ordered Q broker to
close out line of stocks for her. she
forgot that she had given the ordor.
and brought suit for the difference.
The result was that in few month
she had run the gamut Of Wall and
Broad streets. and fourd nobody willing
to deal with her or To keep her nc
counts. No broker wants customer
that i. always going TO law. 1t inter
feres with business, and costs money.
The little woman-she was very small,
and used To dress in finally
disappeared from the street. leaving
behind her sulphurous orior Of law"
"Woodhull 4 Claflin drew around
them Il large female cIientase, did
did they not t."
NO, not as far as | know. They
took the office vacated by Grey, the
iorger. who is now in prison. and
began business that Was di>:inctively
masculine. believe old C"mmodore
Vanderbilt gave them some orders
and Uncle Dand Drew, then mag
nate, was kind Ia them. As to their
female clientage. know very little.
They did have a few orders from
women, but these were light in
amount. aud did not 60 far toward
paying expenses. Miss Tcnnie Clafiin
was one Of the boldest women spec
ulators | ever saw, hut she always
wanted point to work on. She
knew most of the blg men of the street.
and believe she was posted on the
movements of the market ofiener than
any woman that ever came into the
street. She was as sharp as steel
trap and never needed second hint.
just intimate a thing to her, and she
Was wide awake. Ii she had had
money she would have made a
fortune"
"Yes. Little fish can't swim with
big ones down here. | remember a
nice old lady that got bitten with the
stock mania just before the panic of
1873. She came down here rich aud
returned poor. She dropped at least
$50, 900 in one or two operations. but
kept on bravely 10 the last. She WAS
a strong bull In the rise last year
several women made Il good deal 81
money, not because they knew any
thing about the future If stocks. but
because they were constitutional, bulls.
Hotchkiss Burnham had several lady
customers, one Of whom operated
boldly and heavily" While women
have made and lost money in Wall
street and it must he remcmbeied
that the proportion who have made
money is about one in ten-therc l.
another class that have taken up with
a gambling excitement that is quite
as exciting and, "n the whole. about
as profitable as that Of the stock
market. Those are the lottery aud
policy players. They are more numer-
Gus than is generally supposed. The
main lottery is the Havana. aud To-
this thousands of women flock am
almost every draw. A Wall-streei
ticket-seller, who has been selling
tickets for many years, says that
women are among his best customers.
LAS a general thing" he says "tiey
are guided by dreams or by supcr>,i- +!
iious. Sometimes. however. a
wome.l comes to buy ticket and |
takes the top oi the heap. Generally the |
question will he; Have you got suche
or such number? Ii | say no. the
women walks out to find her number !
at another agency, but generally
manage To show her something else to
interest her. Wbmen have the most
absurd dreams ahd snpersti,ions. You
have heard. ! suppose, that Queen
Isabella and certain grandees of her
court takes Nos. l. 2. 81 and ) of
the Havana lottery. and have been
doing 50 for many years. Well, !
guess | have twenty applications a
week from women for those very num-
beers. They IRE not big prize drawers,
as YOU know and yet women uf high
society come down here ofiime, ieav-
ing their carriage in Broadway, and
apd-buy tickets. No amount of loss
will wean them from their fancy.
They want quick fortune. and are
willing to risk good money To secure
it. When they dream Of numbers have
to look through our whole stock to
accommodate them. Altogether. how
ever. they are good customers. They
are more trouble. however than men.
for the latter generally take the top
tickets and trust Ia luck. We once
paid women 81 900 ON for,ieth Of
a ticket, which cost her 81. She was
Il laundress in Troy. Since then she
has been constant patron 1T the lot
terry. but it is not recorded that she
won a second prize. We have had
several prizes drawn by women since.
but none so large as that drawn BY
the laundress."
But the majority of women who
have the gambling instinct play policy.
This is the simplest and easiest of all
gamea and it is the same whether
they bet one way or the other. Gen
orally they have dreams that regulate
their play but there are large num-
bers who play independently Of dreams
or onens, and reduce the drawing 10
what they deem science. They are
like the infatuated gamblers who used
to have what they called "mariin-
gales" ON the rouge ct noir game.
They think they can "call a turn" NOW
and then, and depend upon the odds
offered them to make good all losses.
They play from two cents up to one
dollar at play, but it is seldom in .
deed that ~oman runs into extrav-
agance in policy. Now aud then
n ,roo,au NTH mara snonov than hrasoS