St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
FAIR SPECTATORS,
Ladies of st. Paul Who Have
Made Good Ventures in
Real Estate.
Hiss Ida C. Stowell Regarded
as the Queen Among All
the Dealers.
By Profitable Dealing She Has
Accumulated a Hand
some Fortune.
School Teachers Who Have
Taken Advantage Of the
City's Growth.

The prayers of Susan B. Anthony and
the other auntS of our country have
been needed. The swish of women's
skirts as heard in every path of life.
Notice the procession of st. Paul real
estate dealers as it passes along. Petit
coats and pantaloonS march side by
side, and lamb eats lion as often as
lion eats a lamb. Men differ in
their opinion of women who
dabble in dirt. One gallant old
soul down on East Fourth street,
when he was asked if he had any women
who operated in real estate through
him, smiled beatifically and declared he
was happy to say that he had. An
agent next door to him grated his teeth
at the mention of the subject; said he
had had dealings with women in the
past, and intimated that 1t would be a
hot January when he did so in the
future. With blood in his eye he told
how they monOpOliZed his time almost
to the exclusion of everything else.
They took real estate agent for a proph-
ct, and expected shim to throw a few
miracles into every deal he had with
them. They would spend hours on a
stretch at his office trying to find out
what the prospective values of their
property was for every day of year to
come. They wanted profit on every
Investment, and ifby any turn in the
market they were left with bad piece
of property on their hands, they held
him responsible and insisted on his TAX
ing it back and paying them interest on
the amount invested. He told of
one woman who became frightened
at a decline in values and
refused to carry over her property to
the better times he saw ahead She
madelhim relieve her of the land. and
when two month later he sold it at an
advance of 100 per cent she was as mad
as a March hare, and published it
abroad that he had cheated her out of
$4,000.
The majority of women are so igno-
rant Of business methods that they are
either diSagreeably suspicious. or sui
cidally cOnfding. ''MoSt of them will
put their names to any paper you tell
them to, without any idea of what they
are signing" said one agent on Jack
son street, while another in the same
block gave a different experience.
Women he had dealt with wanted
every unimportant detail explained to
them. and if they failed to comprehend
IT, they refused to continue operations
until they had been instructed by their
attorney. Col. Davidson says he finds
ABOUT THE SAME PROPORTION
of suspicious and confiding natures
among women as among men, and that.
making due allowance for difference in
early training, special business ability
Is as common in one sex as in the
other.
The majority of women who go into
real estate are either widows, who get
the fever managing property left them
by their husbands, OF old maids, who
have set out to shape as they may the
destiny that has declined to be hewn
into man. Said one agent: 81 would
be glad if could learn to tell spinster
by sight. | am forever mocking their
single bleSSedneSS and compromising
theiJ dignity by asking them to bring
their husbands around to sign their
papers,"
Among unmarried women the most
successful spectators in real estate are
schoolma'ams. They take advantage of
the monthly payment plan and sink a
certain part of their salary in realty
every month. There is a handsome
agent--by the way,it is a fact worthy of
mention that it is the best-lOOking. best
natured men who have the widest eX-
perience with female speculators-and
IT IS this sort OF man who tells regret
fully how he everlastingly ruined his
business with one SchOOlma'am.
Il drove her out to see a piece of
property one day last winter" says he,
land in turning the horse around l
managed to upset the sleigh and send
my ambitious young woman head
first into a snowdrift. The mo-
ment she was on her feet again,
she rather Indignantly demanded to
know if | meant TO kill her, whether she
bought the lot or not. | meekly dis
claimed any such bloodthirsty inten-
ton; but, upsetting the girl, upset a
sale and lost customer. She has never
been near me since-she was pretty
girl, too" he adds, in a tone of deep
ened regret.
First among all the women who have
sp2culated successfully in st. Paul
realty comes
MISS IDA c. STOWEIL.
She is known as the Mascot" from
The wonderful luck that has attended
her i'll every deal. Miss Stowell is an
advance number of the coming woman
that, unlike most sample copies, makes
you feel that you would like to send
ahead an order for the whole edition.
Her personal appearance is very attract
lVe. She is brunette, rather below
medium height, with pretty, we'll
rounded figure. Her face is lighted by
a pair OF expressive gray eyes, and when
she smiles, dimpleS play about her
mouth i'll a way that inclines one to sing,
'1ere's my cash, o take and sink it in
some corner lot, pray''--not so much
on account Of the lot as on account OF
establishing some connection with her
Her style Of dressing every day sug.
geSts the dress Of the business man
which is purely matter of clothing
ones self well, and not of personal
adornment. Her manner is perhaps hcl
chief charm. 1t has all OF the grace
with none Of the maWkish senti
mentalism common to femininity
One OF the most prominent real estate
dealers III town says of Miss Stowell,
81 met her only few weeks ago
From all | had heard of her business ca
pacity, naturally expected to sec
woman thoroughly masculine in appear
ance, and you eau believe l was sur
prised TO find her womanly, every incl
of her. She came in here to consul
with me about the value Of certain lots
and started out to generously give hel
the benefit of my information; but bleS!
me! 1t was no time till | saw that sht
knew ten times as much about tht
whole subject us did. She is probably
the most accurately informed real estate
dealer there is in town, and there ART
none who can discount her judgmen
in buying and selling.'' This opiuio1
OF Miss Stowcll is general. Out q
twenty-five real estate men who CAV,
me their verdict of women who specu
late, not one said ANYTHING diffarent n