The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-03

loves a man she believes he knows il all.
 50, a woman guardian distrusting
 her own intelligence goes up to a man for counsel. He may be her lawyer or her family doctor, or her clergyman, or
 a fourth cousin. He may be shrewd business man or he may be a fool along business lines, The only
 essential point is that the woman must be very fond of him. There's q good ] deal said about that French proverb
 that applies to this case, Hunt for the woman. When a woman makes bad
 business ventures, say Hunt for the
 man.
 Lawyers find it hard to advise
 their woman clients, because they
 usually have more confidence in some
 other man. and because they are
 inevitably suspicious of lawyers I
 suppose it is because law is usually an
 unknown land to them that they re-
 gard everything connected with it with suspicion. They believe lawyers are a bad lot, and they haven't con-
 fidence in their own judgement, so they are distrustful and uncertain.
 "The surety companies tell me that that is their experience with women, too, that in many cases where they are associated with women guardians their chief difficulty is the womans suspicion of their integrity and her reliance upon of some man who knows little about law or business.
 An honest man, when he has charge of an estate, is usually more anxious to make safe investment than to make profitable ones It is hard to make the average woman understand that the great principle in caring for an estate is safety, not income-that 4 per cent. may be safe, but 6 per cent. means risk, and that she has no right to take risks The estate Is producing only a small income. The woman's masculine friends tell her certain more profitable investments are safe. She looks at the increased income rather than the risk The chances are she doen't know enough to understand the risk.
 ''If she Is with a surety company it will not allow her to take chances. If she stands alone, she probably takes the friends advice against anything her lawyer may say.
 There's one point where the woman guardian Is more universally liberal than the man. She is more ambitions in regard to child's education. A man who hasn't had much education himself often thinks anything more that common school education for a child's is nonsense and unwarranted expense. The woman almost always is eager for the child to have higher education If he wants it. Sometimes she makes a mistake and it would be better for boy to go to work than to use Up hls principal in going on to school. That's often puzzling prob lem for a conscientious guardian
 ''If women are so unreliable in busi- ness matters, wouldn't it usually be better to have some cool. level headed outsider appointed guardian, instead of the mother?'
 "The lawyer shock his head energetically.
 ''No; the devotion of the ordinary mother to chi,ds comfort and well fare outweighs her faults. She may injure the childs interest from ignorance, but only in most unusual case will she do so deliberately. l think I am justified in saying that, as a general rule, she is more scrupulonsly and honest in Intent than a man. You will find innumerable cases where a women guardian has made mistakes; a case of betrayal of her trust Is rare.
 "Then, too, woman uderstands, in- tuitively, certain needs and interests of the child which man doesn't grasp | at all, though he may be an excellent guardian for the childs material in- tarests. No, I'd say make the mother l guardian, but the associate with her some company that will look carefully after the business end of the affair. i Of course, if she would pvt herself in the hands of good lawyer and abide by his advice she'd be all right; but most often she, will not do that and I don't much blauae her. You see very | few of us are the real simon-pure phila nthropic article"
 'I call this a fine example of | testimony said the reporter.
 The lawyers eyes twinkled. Well, | to tell you the truth, l don't care | particularly about handling women's business and you can't harm me by soaring any of it away from me. l ad- nire all women collectively and few invidually, but I cordially dis ike being mixed up with their busi- ness interests "--New York Sun.