The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

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Madgc Haywood moodiiy rocked herself in
a chair. In the language OF Lombard
street. money was very tight and II so
CHANGED that AT this particular juncture
the significance OF tight money appealed to
her very forcibIy. The Cartwrights had
asked her TO dinner that night. aud she felt,
With all the keenness OF feminine grief In
these matters, what very poor show her
best efforts would make as against the
chic apparel OF the smart set she would
have 10 mingie with. To be sure, it was
no use repIning. Papa did the very best he
could, for a family of nine, out of
meageriy-paid incumbency. but, in spite OF
that, thought Madge, as her pretty. pen
sive face was regularly reflected = mir
ror to each forward swing of the rocking
chair, IF could only afford TO dress and to
keep maid to do my hair as the Cart
wright girls do, I think 1 could end by
making tnem feel sorry they had ever
asked the parsons daughter to dinner
after ALL"
Female philosophy finds its comfort
chiefly in the gratifed contemplation OF the
chssrin il may be possible to cause otner
aspIrants to admiration. Luckily men view
these matters in rather different nsht.
Out of the fifteen ladies' assembled in the
dining room of the great red brick manor
house that evening not one saw anything
more I'm Madge Haywood than the fact that
she was distinctly the most plainly dressed,
and with coifrure OF the simplest of them all.
But TO one man she appealed with that
subtle quite iudefnable, fascination which
forms a pretty woman's spell, from the
moment OF entering the room. And this
was no other than Paul Edmonds, the
smart young cousin of Mrs. Cartwright.
and quite the lion of that lady's house
party. lie eyed her furitively whilst he
listened, half abstractedly. TO cherry
checked lass detailing to him all the incl
dents of the last meet And when the only
fox OF the day had succeeded in getting
away, he said what a pity" then with an
apclogetic smile sailed across to the host
sss, and after about thirty preliminary
questions reeled Off In about as many Sec
onds, was introduced TO the rectors daush-
ter, with a protesting concession that since
he seemed SC very keen upon it lie might
take her into dinner.
Which explains how IL all came to pass
their sitting side by side in the first in
stance.
Paul Edmonds vivscious young
man; conversa tionally jublant, as though
no topic I'm life to be talked about
seriously. Madge, although by way OF be-
Ing a triae shy, soon came out responsive
to hsr partners persifiege. She wanted to
learn what his vocation was. having
vague cotton that he must be distin-
gulshed novelist, or a rising barrlster, or
Iuminsry of one OF the professions So
she adroitly led up TO her point by asking
him. with a laugh, whether he had ever
done a days work in his life.
He arrested himself, with his fork poised
as he turned his head to view her, and de-
manded why she asked.
Because from the way you talk-as If
everything were a matter OF indifference
IL Is difficult to believe that your attention
IL ever very seriously engrossed."
seriously engrossed; that is good! Well,
Miss Haywood, / do not know about the
seriousness or the engrossment OF my pur-
suit but when / tell you that one day last
week had a deal amounting to three hun
dred thousand pounds passing through my
hands, and that frequently / take or part
with a matter of cool hundred thousand
In an hour. you may gather that my CALI
ing is not altogether a fiippant one"
"You must be banker, then?
mo, nothing so dignified that. 1 am
only a jobber.
The girl looked puzzled, and as though
abe were not altogether sure that this
sprightly young man. with his swift-roll-
ing black eyes and slightly curled under
lip. was chatting her.
sonly a jobber," he repeated with smile
oB perceiving that the term was Quite un-
Ineligible to her. Don't you know what a
jobber Is? What does the word suggest to
You? Surely you cannot disassociate it
from the idea of hiring out hacks and fiys.
with the possibility of including riding
school"
..Oh. you mean a job-master? No surely
The rest was drowned in mutual ripple
OF laughter.
ITO rehabilitate myself, Miss Haywood.
may as we'll tell you that am upon the
stock exchange"
Then you must be very rich?'
He shrugged his shoulders. Pour quot
A jobber in the mining market may. in
deed. be able TO give points to the much
over-rated Croesus. but he may equally be
I'm such a position that the prospect of
where his next meal is to come from is
painfully vague
.O-oh. / always thought all men on
the stock exchange were rich. l have
heard papa say that there is place like
the stock exchange for making money
We'll. IN one sense l suppose he Is right
Speculation is rendering the House mere
gigantic gambling establishment nowadays
aud what the dsbbling public invariably
loses we insiders are reputed to rake in.
You may realize how true this Is when !
tell you that 1t is computed that less than
one-tenth OF the business daily done upon
the stock exchange Is rea. investment: the
rest being given over to that great scrap
ling match which is forever being waged
between the bulls and the bears
Bulls and bears. Are these another
species Of jobbers.
Paul zdnohds laughed heartily. 1T is
aid down as general principle that all
nrtmbers OF the stock exchange are bears:
or. 10 quote the pet phrase Of a financial
newspaper members or the 'tirsine fraterni-
ty," he reioineG. I'VE have found by