The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-06-26
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS,
What Women Can Do as Real Estate
Investors.

One of the safest ways for women tc
get money is for them to invest quietly
and cautiously in real estate. Then. il
course Of time, they can either rent the
property or sell it at an advance and
buy some more. / have a friend who
had by years of hard work put by a con
siderable amount of money. A few
years ago she left off the hard work and
settled in a beautiful and growing city.
She invested much of her money in
some unimproved city lots in a fashion
able and growing quarter, and then
waited. In perhaps two years the prop
erty rose in value sufficiently to enable
her to sell out at a handsome per cent. OF
increase. She took from this sum enough
to keep her for a time, bought more lots
and waited again. This venture, too,
was successful, and now my friend
makes all her current expenses by the
gains on her real estate. In a short time
she will do much better than that, fol
she is a woman with the money making
nose, and she is learning all the time
the ms and outs of buying and selling
real estate. Meantime she has her days
to herself, and spends them in recreation
and restful occupation, which she has a
good right to have, for she has worked
hard enough for many years to earn
them. When prices do not rise as fast
as she wishes she just cuts down her
wants for the time and waits till they
come to her figure. She says, 81 have
learned to do as Carlyle says, and in
stead of multiplying the numerator to
divide the denominator." 1t is well for
a woman TO get the advice of some
shrewd and successful business man
not imam who will swindle her out of all
she has, but one whom she knows she can
trust, and who could have no personal
interest in advising her. Men naturally
know better than women III fields they
have had all to themselves heretofore.
do not admit that there is anything a
woman cannot learn, however.
We are truly living in a time when
old landmarks are being swept away at
a marvellous rate. One evidence Of it
is the sudden and almost inexplicable
influence the women of the Farmers
Alliance are exercising III the politics of
that body | shall not specify too par
ticularly. for fear when the Farmers
Alliance statesmen in certain localities
find out the newspapers are talking
about this feminine influence they will
kick over the traces and refuse to be
moved by it any more. But now that
they have so strangely obtained this
power, may the mysterious thought cur
rents that sway the minds Of mortals
move the ladies to WELD it wisely,
soberly and gently, and on a plane above
all narrow and ignorant prejudice, con-
sidering the good of all classes. Amen!
A very successful business man says
he thinks women are apt to oyerreach
themselves in selling real estate or any
thing else they wish to dispose of. They
do not seem to comprehend that q trade
may be mutually beneficial to them and
to the person who wishes to buy their
property. Therefore when an offer is
made that is near their figure they i'm
mediately raise the price, and SO haggle
and hang on till they lose their sale alto
gether. They are so afraid Of being
cheated that they cheat themselves.
Caution may degenerate into suspicion,
and over-deliberation is as bad as no de-
liberation at all.
Permit me to remark for the hundredth
time that there are numerous women
who mistake conyentionality for moral
ity.
There is no use my trying in this COL
uInn to keep up with the strong, excel
lent work women are doing in nearly all
the walks of industry. A newspaper
page a day would not be equal to it.
a very dignified, conservative paper
pats our sex on the back and informs us
that the essay on the ''Origin and Devel-
opment of the Central Nervous System
in Limax Maximus, by Annie P. Hench-
man, no less than other work done by
the girls of the Harvard annex in the
museum of comparative anatomy, COM
pares favorably with the best put for
ward by the young men of the same de-
partment. Why should it not, pray?
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