Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-27

woman WHO lldu elIeIcu AOW aohou
for a conference with the manager
and the two talked together at some
length.
"That was only q rounder," the
broker remarked, as she came back tC
her chair. "That woman hasn't the
most distant idea of leasing or buying
anything, but she has the house-hunt
ing mania. The mania generally
comes on about this time of the
year, and lasts until September; but
a week or so after the Fourth o.
July it gets to be epidemic. Womer
who have been a week or two or three
weeks at the seashore want some sort
of excitement, and they come in tOwr
( to find out what's on the market
for fall letting. A certain phase
of the society girl is great at this
means OF getting excitement and max
ing an excuse for coming to town
She wants to hire house for papa,
and she makes the rounds of all the
real estate Offices and inquiries about
locations and rents in a half-abstractet
way that shows plainly that she is moi
in earnest, or that if she is, she knows
little about values or what the family
expect to get for certain sum. Sht
does not bother us, though, as much
as the genuine FOUNDERS, because We
can see through her; but the other
make-believes want facts hunted ur
and titles looked into, and lot ol
work gone through. There is certain
actress in New York whose craze fol
house hunting is so well-known that
she can scarcely get a permit in any
reputable Office. She wants to buy q
home, she says, and she has looked al
every possible and impossible house in
and out of the city. She is really an
infliction."
Is it true that women are difficult
to deal with in the matter of exchang
ing property?"
"You can't be asking that in earnest
but merely to spur me on. I have
made great many deals in exchanges
have had great success at that branch
of the business, but have never ad-
justed an exchange between two women
yet. Nobody ever has. have COM
pared notes with the men brokers and
appraisers, and it is notorious fact
You can make an exchange between
man and a woman, or between two
men, but between two women, never.
Each with man at one end and a
woman at the other end of the line,
you get into hot water, and are sure to
hear afterward that the woman got
imposed upon in the matter because
she was woman. There is a woman
upon the west side now whom l can't
convince that her house is worth &c..
600 less than she thinks it is. 1 am
going to exchange it for an equivalent
some day, OF course, but dread to
think of the stress and turmoil that
awaits that reckoning. l think / have
got her round just to my way of think.
ng, and then she tells Mr.. So-and-So
and he gives her his amateur views
and she is off her base again, and all
at sea.
"And, l want to suggest" she added
"that if any one finds life uneventful
just let him set up for an appraiser
and undertake to appraise a woman's
furniture, either in a house to be lei
or sold. The result will give him oc.
cupation enough. There is an alter
cation over every slightest detail
Talk about women lacking energy
Why, a client of mine hired a hanson
three entire days out of a week and
went around and personally inspected
eighty-six fats before she found one te
her liking. She was so afraid she woul6
miss something, she said. She was ir
here during the flathunting sixteer
times, and / doubt if she would have
been suited by now, only certain fiat
in East Eighty-fve street that she haG
almost decided on was snapped up 6
quarter of an hour after she had left
the Office and / think that scared her
A young actor came in, asked if had
any fats on my list for such sum with
such and such conveniences, took the
one suggested, threw $40 bill down
as a guarantee, and the thing was
done, whereas this very fiat, which wa:
genuine bargain, might have beer
the woman's three or four days before
if she had not wanted to look at the
entire eighty-six. This is no exag
geration; it is a fact, and there are
plenty of women just as remarkably
unreasonable"
"Talking about women being &C
slippery in business matters" said &
woman merchant who was out house
hunting, "I echo the sentiment.
am always a little uneasy when l dc
any bushes on large scale with &
woman; that is, with the general rur
of women. I have come to the con
clusion that is lack of training more
than lack of principle that makes
them so untrustworthy. They have
not learned the fundamental rules ant
principles of business. In buying
wholesale they display very poor judg
ment; they buy things either insult
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