News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19
TRUE TO HER TRUST.
n Brokers Wife CIings to the Bonds
Put Aside for n Rainy Day.

The tale ola Boston man and the mon
ey he settled on his wife is rather inter
esting; 1T is suggertive, and 1T possesses
the quality which, TO small minds, seems
to add to the value of any narrative-it
is true. Mr.. NJ, Boston broker who
indulges in speculations, and as a conse-
quence is of uneven fortunes, on one
occasion came to his wife and said:
"Here are $4,000 in bonds. There
are ups and downs to my business, and
1 want you to have something to fall
back upon if anything happens. Now,
you are to draw the interest on this, and
you may spend 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 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. Mr.. NJ. in time
had run of hard luck, and just at the
time when he was on the edge of serious
financial vexatiou friend, who was on
the inside, gave him straight tip" by
which he could make good investment.
Casting about for funds in which he
might embark in a speculation which
promised 50 well, Mr.. NJ. remembered
his wife's $4,000, and requested loan
of them for n short time that he might
deposit them as collateral security. His
request was met with a quiet refusal.
At first he thought his wife was jesting,
but he soon found that she was in seri-
Gus earnest. He represented the un-
usual advantages of the scheme in
which he wished to embark; he talked of
the "tip" and of the enormous returns
promised by the investment.
"But you told me when you gave me
those bonds" Mrs. NJ. responded, ''that
I was not to let you have them, no mat
ter what you said. You warned me
against just this sort of thing"
Mr.. NJ was naturally little discon-
certed by having his own words brought
up against him, but he set himself
pluckily to demonstrate that this par
ticular contingency was entirely differ
ent from anything he had fOreseen, and
that he had meant nothing of this sort.
He urged that it was madness to let Il
sure thing like the present go by with
out taking advantage of it; and with all
his powers of persuasion he endeavored
to make Mrs. NJ. realize that while she
was undoubtedly right in holding con-
servative policy toward speculation in
general, this was one of those cases
where she would be throwing away
money by neglecting the chance.
And by all his eloquence he moved
his wife not q whit. She remained firm
in her determination to hold fast to what
she had rather than to risk losing it i'll
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. NJ. would not
yield She developed a firmness of char
acter which was astonishing as it was
new to him, and in the end he was
forced to acknowledge himself, utterly
baffled by her quiet resolution.
A lucky turn in n transaction from
which he had hoped little enabled him
to invest in the desired scheme q sum
much smaller than he wished, but which
was still considerable. By all laws of
poetic justice he should have lost, but
as matter of fact his gains were pro-
portiOnally enormous. He had the
satisfaction of demonstrating to his wife
that if she had let him have her $50, 900
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, aud it is safeguard against want for
you and the children. Don't risk it.
Don't let me have it next time" And,
he added, with Gomical face, 81 don't
think you will"