Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-18
TRUE TO HER TRUST.
Brokers Wife Cllngs to the Bonds
 Put Aside for a Rainy Day.

A Brokers Wife Cllngs to the Bonds
 Put Aside for a Rainy Day.
 From the Providence Journall
 The tale of Boston man and the money he settled on his wife is rather interesting, it is suggestive, and it possesses that quality which to small minds seems to add to the value of any narrative-it is true. Mr. M. Boston broker who indulges in specula- tions, and consequence is of uneven for tunes, on one occasion came to his wife and said:
 "Here is fifty thousand dollars in bonds. There are ups and downs to my business, and want you to have something to fall back upon if anything happens. Now you are to draw the interest on this, and you may spent it or save it, just as you choose; only don't give it to me. If I come to you and ask for it, no matter what I say, don't you let me have it. You just hang on to it for yourself and the children, and don't let me speculate with it."
 The wife, with proper gratitude, took the bonds, and for time nothing more was said about them. MT. NJ. in time had a run of hard luck, and just at the time when he was on the edge of serious financial vexation a friend, who was on the inside, gave him 8 straight tip" by which he could have made brilliant investment. Casting about for funds which he might embark in 8 specula- tion which promised so well, MT. M. remem- bered his wife's fifty thousand dollars, and
 
 that he might deposit them as collateral se- curity. His request was met with g quiet refusal. At first he thought his wife was testing, but he soon found that she was in serious earnest. He represented the unusual advantages of the scheme in which he wished to embark; he talked of the "tip" and of the enormous returns promised.
 "But you told me when you gave me those bonds" Mrs. M. replied, "that was not to let you have them, no matter what you said. You warned me against just this sort of thing"
 MT. M. was naturally little disconcerted by having his own words brought up against him, but he set himself pluckily to demonstrate that this particular contingen- cy was entirely different from anything he had foresssn, and that he had meant noth- ing of this sort. He urged that it was madness to let a sure thing like the pres ent go by without taking advantage of it; and with all his powers of persuasion he endeavored to make Mrs. M realize that while she was undoubtedly right in holding a conservative policy toward speculation in general, this was one of those cases where she would be throwing away money by neg lecting the chance.
 And by all his eloauence he moved his wife not whit. She remained firm in her determination to hold fast to what she had rather than to risk losing it in the hope of gaining more Even when he came nearer to losing his temper than had ever before happened in the course of their welded life, Mrs. M. would not yield. She developed a frmness of character which was astonishing, and in the end he was forced to acknowledge himself utterly baf1ed by her quiet resolu- tion.
 A lucky turn in @ transaction from which he had hoped little enabled him to invest in the desired scheme 8 sum much smaller than he wished, but which was still considerable. By all laws of poetic justice he should have lost but matter of fact his gains were proportionately enormous. He had the sat isfaction of demonstrating to his wife that if she had let him have her fifty thousand del- liars he would have more than doubled it, but he had the good nature and manliness to add: "But you did perfectly right, my dear. That money is safe where it is, and it is a safe guard against want for you and the children. Don't risk it. Don't let me have it next time" And he added with comical face, q don't think you will"