The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-10-25
MRS. JONES AS
A FINANCTER

ClFdl JOuGSs SpSdhllS III dUSOlulG COn-
fldence to her friend, Miss Smith, 'is
his entire contentment with his own
business methods and his contempt
of my knowledge of things financial.
/ don't pretend myself to be an ex-
pert tinancier, unless to make a dollar
go twice as far as my better-half can
is to be a successful financier. How
ever, some time ago Mr.. Jones came
in and told me he was going into a
certain business deal.
1t will make us rich, my dear,
he said, exultantly. 4 will have an
automobile and you shall have trip
to Europe
what is the deal? l asked, not at
all dazed by these glories.
az hate to take the time to ex-
plain to you what you will not under
stand replied my husband, fatter-
ingly,
Perhaps / shall be able to grasp
some of it you speak very slowly and
in words of one syllable, l answered.
Being thus encouraged, he ex-
planned the details of his new project
to me. | listened attentively, Don't
go into it, l said when he had finished.
Instead of making money you will
certainly lose it If you DO
THAT is always the way ex-
claimed my husband, fretfully. "A
man never receives any encourage
ment in his own home-nothing but
solemn warnings, and portentious
prophecies of failures. Have you one,
even one, good reason to urge against
this deal?'
"'Yes, | have l replied, only it is
going to be difficult for me to put
those | have into words. | have
feeling, a sort of intuition against the
whole thing, but more than that
have these reasons for Directing to
it, and l gave them to him in my
stumbling woman's way.
We'll, he laughed my remarks to
scorn, of course, and the next day he
signed the papers. He lost $4,000 in
that project. l learned recently, and
more than that the very points which
/ had pointed out as the weak ones in
the scheme caused the failure.
"The next time that my husband
had great and glorious money-mak-
ing opportunity about the same thing
happened. He told me about it,
grudgingly and l thought it over and
advised him against it. He asked me
what sort of an investment l would
advise him to make with his savings.
Il replied I would advise something
at least little less risky than the
one he had in mind, and then I was
foolish enough, for flesh is weak, to
ask him if | had not warned him of
his previous disaster.
"He. walked up and down the floor
and besought the heavens to say if
this wasn't exactly like woman, al
ways casting in a mans teeth his fail
ures. He said, moreover, that his
own reason had always been against
the former business scheme, but that
he had been overpersuaded to enter it
by INSCRIPTIONS men.
"'Be overpersuaded now not to go
in this one by your prescriptions
wife / retorted.
He flung himself out of the room,
and ran hastily, while there was yet
time, and went into this business. He
only lost $1,000 that time, and he
doesn't like me to refer to it nor to
the fact that lost the trip to Europe
had apain henp prOnicad
But do you think all this and three
other cases of the same sort that
could cite have taught Mr.. Jones any
thing? If you do you know less than
nothing about the masculine char
acter. Mr.. Jones still laughs my ideas
I have no sense about business, still
reproaches ne with being shortsight-
ed and overprudent.
Meanwhile, right under his eyes l
am performing prodigies of financier-
ing and he is not enough of a finan-
cier to know it. l take a small sum
of money and make it last like the
WIDOWS cruise of oil. I manage to
have three nutritious and appetizing
meals a day, to dress the children and
myself, to keep the house in curtains,
rugs, tablecloths, napkins, china and
kitchen utensils on a sum so absurd
ly small that no one but a student of
finance could manage it.
But my virtues in this direction
are all lost on my better-half AS l
said before, he does not know enough
about the purchasing power of money
to know how well l do manage, and so
i don't get particle of credit, and it
is all very discouraging.
your husband must be a very I'M
man." said Miss Smith
severely.
HE is not a bit worse than the rest
of them" replied Mrs. Jones hurried
ly, mot a bit worse. Men are all like
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