The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-10
MRS. JONES AS
A FINANCIER

I ClNdi jules, speaking In absolute cOi
hdence 10 her friend, Miss Smith, "i
his entire contentment With his ow
business methods and his contemr
of my knowledge OF things fnancia
! pert financier, unless to make a dolla
/ go twice as far as my better-half ca
Is to be successful financier How
ever, some time ago Mr.. Jones cam
in and told me he was going into
| certain business deal
ut will make us rich my dear
he said, exultantly. I will have al
automobile and You shall have triI
TO Europe
What is the deal?' | asked, not a
all dazed by these glories.
i hate to take the time to ex
plain TO yon what you will not under
stand replied my husband, tiatter
lngly
Perhaps ] shall be able to grasp
some OF 1t you speak very slowly and
in words of one syllable, | answered
Being thus encouraged, he ex.
planned the details of his new project
to ME. listened attentively. Don t
go into it, 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 I replied, only it ic
going to be difficult for me to put
those | have into words. | have a
feeling, a sort of intuition against the
whole thing, but more than that |
have these reasons for Directing to
it,, and | gave them to him in my
stumbling woman's way
Well, he laughed my remarks to
scOrn, Of course, and the next day he
signed the papers. lie lost $4,000 ia
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 a great and glorious money-mak-
ing opportunity about the same thing
happened. He told me about It.
and | thought ii over and
advised him against it. He asked me
what sort of an investment | would !
advise him to make with his savings |
Il replied | would advise something |
1t least little less risky than the |
one he had In mind, and then | was
'oolish enough. for flesh is weak, to |
lsk him if I had not warned him of |
his previous disaster.
He walked up and down the floor |
md besought the heavens to say If
his wasn't exactly like woman, al
Ways casting In mans teeth his fall
Tres. He said, moreover, that his
wn reason had always been against
he former business scheme, but that
e had been oyerpersuaded to enter 1t
y INSCRIPTIONS men.
BE overpersuaded now not to go
4 this one by your prescriptions
life, | retorted.
He flung himself out of the room,
nd ran hastily, while there was yet
me, and went into this business. He
My lost $1,000 that time, and he
oesn't like me to refer to IL nor to
le fact that lost the trip 10 Europe
had again been promised.
But do you think all this and three
her cases of the same sort that |
)uld cite have taught Mr.. Jones any
ling? If You do you know less than !
)thing about the masculine char.
ter Mr., Jones still laughs my ideas
finance to seorn. stiS tells me that
have no sense about business. still
proaches me with being shortsight-
and Overprudent.
Meanwhile, right under his ewes I
II performing prodigies OF financier- ,.
g and he is not enough of a linan-
er 10 know 1t. | take small sum
money and make It last like the Il
idow's cruise OF oil | manage TO O
we three nutritious and appetizing p
eals a day, to dress the children and
yself. to keep the house In curtains. y
gs. tablecloths. napkins. china and Il
tchen utensils on sum so absurd. n
small that no one but a student OF g..
ance could manage II.
But my virtues in this direction o
2 all lost on my better-half As I I
id before. he does not know enough p
ont the purchasing power of money ID
know how well do manage, and so II
ion't get particle of credit. and It al
all very discouraging."
Your husband must be a very un.
preclatiye man" said Miss Smith
,erely.
He is not a bit worse than the rest
them" replied Mrs. Jones hurried
mot a bit worse. Men are ali like
It. He is a very. very good hus-
i'd | don't want you to think that
gthlng have said reflects upon him
any way. The only fault he has in '''
world is that he does not know
y to handle money, nor the proper
esiments to make-and he can't
p that. poor man" We
Not So Remarkable.
school teacher who was giving a
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