The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-10-18
THE LOUNeER ON THE AVENUE.

morning, bowling as he spoke to rather pretty Q
modesiy dressed lady who was Just coming out OF
leading dry goods house on the Avenue. or course
asked what the story was and Will try to repeat as
MI. - told II 10 me. The morning OF Tuesday,
July u, said he, promised about as hot and uncom-
Portable DAY as this latitude ever sees was In
the back room Of my ONCE The hour was about 10,
ana as business was extremely dull l mad lighted a
cigar, and with my coat OF and feet propped up on
the window sill was reading the morning paper and
Idly wondering II a row In Afghanstan would help
us any commercially on this side, when the ONCE .
boy said lady to see you, SIR Pulling on my
coat and laying down my cigar with some regret
went forward. lady was standing by the counter
thalarge enveopein her hand You are abroker,
Mr.. = said she in a low, sweet voice. Yes, we
do little Of that sort Of business was my answer
She handed me note from lawyer I knew very
little money TO invest, and no had directed her to
come to me, and asked that would advise her.
HOW much western Union Telegraph stock can
buy with $lsoo,' she asked, 'and what Is II worth
now7' looked nj the quotations from New YORK
and told ner IL had closed NJ ooh or about that In
New YORK the night BEFORE
"'Well,' said she, u weht 70 buy Just as much as
ever can. ana on the iea'. possible margin
explained that while pei vent. was usually the low
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with her *looc' out 'nat sne ood chance OF losing
II all IN hat an hour u tue market toNk sudden de-
cline TINS money, saln shs, showing me niteen
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES uis''is'he saVingsof seven years
OIL naru WON III .ne " Dspartm!n t' IL is all l
nave on earth' 10 lose u wouldte dfeauIul, for
nave my mo,hcr 10 support but dt MT bel'evcItcW
lose IL why 40 you wish 10 ouy western union7'
Inquirer. 'on' oont KNOW was ser answer. u
KNOW ho'n'hg Whatever ABOUT stocks, and never
a.
ing 'he iWie nave. but nave dreamed three
nights IN succession oil western Union and TINT II
went up TO 10. and have finally determined to risk
I'll my money, anu mean 10 buy as much Of the |
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elegraphed TO New York. nnd before she left she had
i'le sllr showing she mad purchased one thousand
shares OF the Western Union at COY.
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VI have done a very good brokerage business here,
and usually do not remember much about the deals |
OF my customers. But somehow remembered this |
case In little while the stock went up 10 65x. |
sent Tor my customer and said: You can sell out |
now and get your money back, with profit OF nearly |
$1,000 after all commissions are paid That stock
Is going up to seventy-nve, said she with |
glint In ner eyes 'Why now do you KNOW asked,
with rather incrcdulous look. II can't tell you |
| hotc know; Just do. Sell ont, and buy me all |
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1t goes to seventy Ave. she said, she left the Office.
did go, aud bought three thousand shares for her
at 6s, directing the broker In New York to close 1t
all out II the stock ever got below O., as
that would have exhausted her margin am an old |
aud pretty stea. hand, but this case really |
stampeded me. Without letting my partner know |
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did II cannot tell Won but this GIRLS cain faith
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rnown in sc,en,e mr. psvc,o,ouv have on,y
to add that This Young lady ia very well known
here md much respec,ed and ina, tho circumstance
occurred preclsely M IT ia narrated who will saw
that truth Is not sometimes very much stronger
than the Widest and most Improbable ncht of fc-
ton?
Though moi soclable being az rule, there are
some people whom am always glad 10 see, and
Bolero-of the Cathayan Legation, you know
entered my four-pair back room the other morning,
as cordial as being nearly out OF breath would per-
NIT him to be- don't know Of anything more inter-
estlng than really clever man views OF cviliza-
ton that is entirely new to him. "Thls world OF
yours that monde you call civilized. one serious
fault" said he, "and that is lis deadly monotony.
on the Avenue here, on that more famous one In
New York, that called the Commonwealth In Bos-
, ton, you see nothing new In feature OF manner.
There ia none OF the vivIl gorgeous colorlng Of
the East In the Western world. Among what you
call the civilized Christian natons- Christian prob
ably on the principle OF 'ucus non iucendo-there
: is but one typo visible. The men ana women OF
| what is presumed to be the highest breeding,
whether 1t be here or in New York, Boston,
London, or Paris, present the same appear
ance. They look worn out, fatigue, bidse.
They seem TO have no emotions, for they
have squeezed dry the orange called life. Nothing
amuses, nothing astonIshes Then what you call
society, 1t only means the same people, with the
ever-present expression, whom you meet every day
at the same bad dinners and the dreary assembages
Saxon takes his pleasures sadly and why does he
wear such an expression Of gloomy despair when he
dances and ia supposed to be enjoying himself so
l much, and why are men and women so old when
! they should he In their primer"
"You omen IN an enormous field of explanation.
have not seen the NIL adDi,urt OF which you speak
to such an extentn could only say "The character
atics and tendencies in the aggregation OF people of
similar tastes and views and personal congenallty