The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-03

EASlEH TO PAWN THAN TO COOK.
You can also keep the ticket here, for might
| lose it.
Two hours later the woman returned and
redeemed the rings.
said, after she had gone .She has been
| coming In here for several weeks. ever since
the holidays, and she paws me a visit about
once week. She acts just the same and
l pretend that never ever saw her before.
I'm too long in the business to recognize
folks like her.
Sometimes she'll leave her rings or
rule she don't leave things here more than
twenty-four hours. Of course it matters
not 20 me. for she pays months interest
just the same.
Other women have less mystery about
! them. They toll me frankly they pawn
things because their husbands won't give
them money. Many a woman living amid
luxury never handles much of her husbands
cash and gets possession Of spending money
only by, borrowing it from the merchants
she trades with.
Il know of one woman who can borrow
money from her grocer along toward the
end OF the month and he puts the amount
in his bill charging for groceries which she
month she. is liable to come around here
from her home and pledge some Of her
jewels to get spending money. Then toward
the end OF the month or whenever she
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she goes to her grocer. borrows enough to
redeem the goods pledged and gets the
grocer to charge 1t up on her grocery bill,
which her husband pays at the end Of the
month
"For instance. she had some OF her jewelry,
bracelet and a brooch here last month.
Her husband missed the articles and asked
her where they were. She told him that
they were at her jewellers undergoing
Almost daily he asked her about them
Finally she went to her grocer and borrowed
the money to redeem them, telling him to
put the amount in her bill and divide it
up in the names of articles she was in the
Then she came and got the jewelry and
took it to her jewellers. telling him she
wanted it cleaned by noon on the following
day; The next day, In the presence Of her
to 90 to the jewellers and get the bracelet
and brooch.
"Of course that made 1t look all right
But it did not stop her from borrowing
"Just what she does with the money
can't say. She is spendthrift and her
husband is stingy sort OF fellow. He
| thinks he is getting the best of her, and she
I and the grocer get what is coming to
, us, so we don't care what happens"
Two women called while the broker was
talking and asked for loan on gold watch
and chain. The broker remarked that
it was a mans watch and asked them
whether they owned it., One of them said
it belonged to her husband and that she
had his permission to pawn It.
Send him around and I'll loan the money
to him." said the broker.
He's sick in bed" replied the woman.
well. I'll send one of our young men over
to see him." remarked the broker, where
upon the women declared that he was too
i'll to talk and they hurried out.
tha <,oo 10 tho me-
ton Of the police" said the pawnbroker.
THAT STORY may be straight, but it may be
possible that the women have stolen that
watch, and we cannot take chances on it.
We have all OF the trade that we can attend
MANY women who come from out of town
to stop at the swell hotels spend more money
than their husbands allow them and, finding
themselves liable to arrest for failing to pay
their hotel bills. they. pledge their jewels
to raise money to get back to their homes
Then when they reach their homes they
raise enough cash to redeem their jewels.
They send on the ticket with the amount
OF the loan and interest and We forward
the jewels to them by express.
Sometimes woman will entertain
friends at a reception and spend more money
than her husband allows her for the pur-
pose. Women like that are among the
In another pawnshop further uptown
the proprietor and three clerks were kept
busy attending to the women who crowded
one another in an effort to get near the
counter. Some pawned jewelry, others
clocks and vases and musical Instruments,
while a few were there to pledge articles
of clothing.
In one case the broker asked woman
where she had purchased the earrings
which she come to pledge, She hesitated
and said her husband had bought them
for her birthday.
"They haven't been paid for yet" re-
marked the. broker. 1They came from
Blank l. Co.'S establishment and were sold
on the installment plan. Only few pay
ments have been made on them. You are
liable to 60 to Jail for pawning them, as