The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-15

( grattitous tips constantly.
Sugar il sale. The woman who cells
1t is going to nuke money. Take my word
for it Then she resumed rocking and
knitting faster than ever She always
/ brought her knitting in order not to waste
time.
so glad you think 50. for want to do
! something chirruped Mrs. Hill. and swept
: over TO the little window and said that
she wanted to sell short ten shares Of Sugar
real quick.
Exit MRS. HILL.
! The oblisiDg young man told her Il was
/ the custom for buyers TO make out their
/ own slips; but the widow was so helpless
! in guileless way, that he filed out the
! pink paper. and announced Immediately
that she had her stock And when he
returned the slip she folded it smilingly,
happy that she was in the market, and
! tucked it away in the bosom Of her gown for
eafekeeping
Then she went away Co finish her shop
I ping, certain that she would return To find
handful Of money awaiting her. And
whisper it softly she sold Sugar short on
a five point margin, and Sugar. that firta-
, tious maid. as II to defy anything in petit
/ coats to divine her intentions, went straight
/ up six points that day. and did nothing
! else worth noting.
! Thus was Mrs Hill out OF the market
! On the morrow Sugar was a sale all right.
When the stock begin to look shaky. Mrs
I Rafferty, sold short few minutes before
: the market closed she stood In front Of the
J circle OF women, turning her ten dollar bills
! over like leaves while she counted, and
incidentally turning the souls OF the others
green with envy.
STORY OF LAstB.
An interesting lamb got her first lesson
( on the danger Of playing the market during
/ the Lawson slump. She was striking
/ looking woman. had rich red brown hair
that shone like FURNISHED gold. and wore
street gowns and hats of golden brown to
match her superb hair.
/ She was known an Mrs. Wilson, but she
babbled overmuch to all who cared 70
listen, being a lamb. II was known TO all
in consequence that she lived in fashions
able hotel with her two little children. and
that her husband il travelling in Europe
and paying her 80 many thousands year
for her support and that Of the children,
the only stipulation being that she remain
away from him
All this she told because she wanted
sympathy. Because she was lonely she
decided TO speculate, to All the aching
void in her heart. She had plenty Of
money Why not'
And after she had won a ive dollar bill
she was wild with tho possibilities Of tho
game. Already she saw herself worth
millions, made by herself.
BoUoHr yvRRYrHHo. SOLD EVERYTHING.
So she went all over the board When
ever q stock raised its head she bought 1t.
Then somebody told her IL was a wise thing
to hedge when she was buying so many
stocks, and she sold short all over the board.
She would sit and watch the quotations
with her pile OF papers on her knee sorting
them, the pink in one pile. the white il
another. and trying TO remember the figures
at which she had bought and sold She
had no time for fancy work. with all those
stocks 10 be watched. For she had at least
! 200 shares, in ten share lots, and sometimes
as many "a 500.
Mrs. Rafferty, could knit stockings for
| her sons; could give her pet recipe for
making pickles to one; could tell another
the best method OF rearing children; could
watch the board and tell others what to
I buy. all az the same time. Lots OF others
| could and did do the same thing.
No mere man could be so versatile and
/ win. Neither could the lamb, even though
/ a woman.
/ And when heY hopes and prospects we're
brightest. Lawson began talking
, THE COLLAPSE
/ She brought money by the handful carry
ing il in her bag. When not turning money
4 over 10 the man at the little window, she
talked about her children her home. and
I her family tree, Many OF those present
/ did not have family tree, and they jeered
little, but they listened.
She did not get frightened 80 quickly
as the others when the market began to
go of. for she vas lamb and did not know
the possibilities Of the game she was play
ing
All around her women we're getting rid
OF Copper. or course she had some. and
she margined bravely at first. quoting all
the advice that mad been given her on Cop
per One unsympathetically said softly:
Faith is the evidence OF things not seen. =
For she had been envied because 40 plenti-
fully supplied with money, and so was not
pited at first. And some one laughed
naliciously at the quotation.
But II was no laughing matter for tho
lamb Soon ahe became thoroughly fright
ened. All her nerve deserted her and one
by one she let her stocks go.
lean easily buy them back lower down, :
she said Al first
But she became SO ratified that had some
one not come to her aid she would not have
been able to save anything from the wreck.
She was 70 frightened that 1t never oc-
CURED to her she could dispose Of her
shorts. And when her feelings overoame
her she walked the floor and cried and
wrung her hands and reached out TO every
one around her for sympathy
Isn't it dreadful she walled wha.
is the market going to do? When COM
menced this business l saw millions in
sight,
-of course, l have plenty Of money. she
added, loftily, but then one can always
use money. was going TO make more
The lambs lesson did not teach her the
folly Of speoulating. It has simply made
her more cautious.
sI.25 GAINS. $50 LOSSES
There was the other widow. the ono