The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-24
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Women AS Investors


Women are. many of them. born
gamblers. and show their love for
games OF risk and chance in nothing
more clearly than I'm foolish invest
ments. Represent TO a woman that
she can get an unsafe rate of interest
or an improbable dividend, and she is
dead sure TO plunge inland lose.
1t is generally time thrown away IN
tell women that per cent is lib
eral return for the use of money.
"nen woman wants money for her
own needs she Is willing to nav an
extravagant price for the gratlfica ton
OF her whims. Consequently, IL she
has money to invest. she is anxious to
adventure 1t somewhere. anywhere
PROVIDED she gets a fancy price In the
way of interest.
Turns Deaf Ear TO Adviser
Should she be warned that the sigh
er the interest. the less safe the In
Vestment is. she will turn deaf car
TO her adviser. being attracted by. the
present lure and the element of I'M
certainty with which she is as delight
ed TO play, child IS with ME
flames that scorches and destroys.
woman's friend. IL nhe posses a
disintercstcd friend, will explain to
her the necessity of ascertaining. be-
fore she invests in securities, the
should at any time decide to sell
them. Friendly caution may be used
In vain TO prove to woman thar
stock. extravaEantly advertised. be-
longs to the class that should never be
bought by her. and that tho value OF
stock and the personal magnetism Of
seller of stocks bear no possible re-
lation, the one to the other.
InvcrtNsent n Science.
Only the shap sting OF loss cauace
woman TO realize that investment is
q science founded on the incest call
culation and practiced by professional
experts IL successful results are TO be
hoped for. SO, however her de-
sires and intuitlons incline. a woman
should me suffic.ently alive to her own
Interests to secure expert advice re-
sarding Investment and TO be willing
TO pay for Il.
When euccessful banker Is willing
10 become womans confidential ad-
wiser regarding her Investments. he
can render her excellent service She
Will need TO be hedged about by all
the safeguards a banker might recon-
mend In addition. she should get In
formation bout securities from as
many sources es possible before buy
ing. And when all else is said and
done, the woman who Is wise will find
Ihe Must not invest hurriedly.
Troubles Due TO Clothes.
Mrs. John Lane In her recently pub
lshed book Talk OF the Town" has
= chapter on The Tyranny OF Clothes"
which contains many witticisma to
amuse and entertain by their pungency
and truth. For instance. she says:
When one looks back on ones life
ones feminine lfe--it is melancholy to
realize how much of trouble Is owing
TO clothes. remember the Departing
cry OF a woman looking hopelessly
through her wardrobe: 1T should have
been a better woman II had been
born with feathers"
How we'll knew what she meant,
She was examining disconsolately a
shabby white satin dress-the kind OF
satin thta bertays It's plebcian cotton
origin-"I wish I were q guinea hen
With respectable speckled feathers"
! che cried, as she gave a discouraged
slam 10 the wardrobe door. then I
shouldn't use up three-quarters OF my
[ intellect getting the wrong things
cheap"
what dramas Turk behind an un-
! paid dressmaker's bill! What awful
temptations lie in the path OF a wo-
: man! Men have other temptations.
but they are not lured to destruction
by diamonds and sables. The French
in the presence of a mystery say. in
their subtle way, "cherchez la femme"
But 1t is her wardrobe as we'll as the
woman that will in most cases solve
the mystery.
lie not every woman In the clutches
OF a little private serpent who urges
her 10 want tho things she oughtn'r
10 have? II is all that is left TO her
OF the Garden OF Eden except Adam.
and really, the less said about Adam
the better
The oId-Fashioned shawl.
Fortunate Is the woman who .nher-
tied from her grandmother or her
great-grandmother. handsome lace
shawl, either black or white. for lace
ehawls arranged in new ways are
again the vogue. One OF the new ways
OF using an old-fsshioned lace shawl
Is in the sleeveless Jackets seen
great deal In Paris and Now York just
now. and though many of them e-e
made Of silk or satin, those OF lace
decidedly modish 1t is caught in
the high waist-line with black al
white silk cord. and It fastens in froE
with tiny black satin buttons. lace
shawl used like this would be all thu
trimming necessary for plain satin
or chiffon gown.
Bits of Philosophy.
Houses were built to be lived in.
armchairs were made to be lounged
in windows were made to let in the
light. and little shoes were made to
he stubbe ed at the toe and run down at
the heel.
The foam of the wash-tub Is as
white and soft as that OF the surf. tho
glow Of we'll made FIRE has all the
brilliancy OF an autumn sunset, and
the chirp OF the hearth cricket Is as
sweet as any song of outdoors.
That Love which files out OF the
window when Poverty comes in at the
door is only a poor imitation. True
Love is cheerful worker and fighter
WHO stands his ground and Eallantly
hods the fort against Poverty and ali
the other ills OF lifA