Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-03-09
WOMEN GAMBLERS.
DOZENS DAILY STAKE THEIR FOR
TUNES IN WALL STREET.
Once In They Never Abandon the Game.
Story Of q Young Hciress who Was Re-
duced to Beggary Scenes In the Offices
Set Apart For Women.

do women speculatcY" IL a question
asked only by those who know very little
about speculation or women either. When
50 small capital as $40, sometimes even
less, Is all that Is necessary to establish the
possibility of making fortune, it could
not bc expected that women would long
keep out Of the game And they have not
Sometimes they patronize the same bro.
kcrs that men do ard outstriD their com.
pctitors on their own ground More often,
indeed increasingly often, they seek offices
established expressly for them and devote
Themselves 20 TIE stock ticker in absolute
scclu2ion from the curious eyes of nlascu.
limo friCndS. Some arc young women, airy
and rCCilcss In squandcring whatever
mono" thny haze; others are gray haired
mItrons Cf 30 ny -, VITO watch the fluc-
t1atiuDS of stocks with the keen eyed saga.
city born Of luit wears of experience. Some
are wealthy 1nh prosperous and show 1t;
others are shabby, haggird and hopeless
luck hns not turned their way.
They iikC to come down here said
the young woman who has charge of the
wOmcn's offices Oi ono firm Of brokers,
"hCCHuSc 10 is nearer the market and they
appreciate the advantages of getting the
news Mt the soonest possible moment.
Then all the transactions here are perfect
ly reliable. IL is very different from
bucket shop and on higher plane. Prob
ably Il still stronger reason why they like
TO have offices of their own Is because IL IL
secret Most of the women who come hero
would feel highly insultcd if any one sug-
gcstCd that they were gambling, yet they
would not have their friends know what
they do for anything In the world. Many
of them have husbands vino stcrnly forbid
thpui ia N,t titN. ,.n,,,,, b,,,,, i,,ot
the same, and no one ever knows the diff
ference. Women seem to take naturally to
runCcalmrnG. They urS particularly fond
OF concCniing tl.rir names and addresses.
1hr1C-qUurtCrs uG the HaTrcS we have on
our Looks ARE smiths and Browns
't>umgtimC'. however, continued this
ky. ..,'c,d q young person. "JhCy have cx-
cC,uiHgly good reason for keeping back
their iruo names. Last winter n woman
cam" to our Office who called herself Mrs
rrCI. II. Her first SwCu1t ION was made on
Che lSU Of Jauuary. and from then until
the ig.t of February she npVrr lost a point
That seemed wonderful to her, and il GER
tu!nly was very unusual though | under
stood tic reason for IL. All that time the
DIarkCt had gone ono way. Stocks rose
higher and higher. Mrs. Brown was tenn
pvmmcntally II 'bull'-that Is to say. she
would never sell. Consequently every dol
lar that she put in Increased tcnfold. One
day stocks began tc fall, and Mrs. Brown,
for the first time, lost. After few days
of losing she came to me one night and
said that she could not como the next day
and had no more money with her, but be-
sought me almost weeping to hold her
Southern Pacific for her In case the value
should drop. She begged me to assure the
broker that she had plenty of margin and
said that she would make the money up
when she returned.
Il liked the woman, and we had grown
into intimacy. | trusted her. so when
Southern Pacific fell told the broker that
Nrs. Brown margin was three times as
large as il was. Her stocks were held.
1.-Two days after ! tClvphOncd her and
found she had given me the wrong num-
Der ! wrote To her and found she had
given mo n wrong name She never came
to the Office again. The broker to whom |
told the whole story saw that | was young
and had been deceived and made up III,
$500 which had been lost through me"
DO yOu find II necessary to be on your
guard against such women"
Indeed we DO Women are known to
be tricky in their spcculaJiOns. They are
not us honest us men, and they are not n
good all around spCculatOrs. They jump
AT conclusions draw rash differences, and,
aS a. rule, lack caution. Yet there Is ahsO-
lutely nothing that will discourage Nyom-
an who has once felt the fascination of
handling stocks She may lose every cent
she has and she will borrow money and re-
turn. She may grow weak and old yet
she will come here day after day, year aft
or year. The most pathetic example have
ever seen of this pcrsiStcncy was u young
woman who began her career In II very
prosperous condition. She was of good
family and wealthy. Her sister, however,
had charge OF her money, and, knowing
this young spcculatOr's weakness, limited
her to u monthly allowance rather than
allowing her TO squandCr as much of her
property as she pleased. Every month,
however, the yonng woman who was the
subject of this wise arrangement came and
stakcd her entire allowance and promptly
lost II. Time after time the performance
was repeated. Finally the sister died, ne |
young girl gained control Of h,r properly,
and within u few weeks lost il all One |
day when She was reduced TO s. she asked |
II friend what she should 90 with IL. She |
was coolly advised to buy some lunch and |
go home. Instead of doing this she went |
TO bucket shop, staird the 81, won $40 |
and returned TO the brokers' office she |
felt that her luck had changed, and she |
invested the $40 in promising venture.
Before night il was lost, and she was pen
nilcss. The next time | saw that girl she
was employed in II brokers' Office TO call out
the returns OF the ticker at u salary of So
per week. Reduction 10 absolute poverty
was not sufficient 10 draw her away from
the atmosphere that held her by its fasci-
nation. New York World.