Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-11-04
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My Wfe's
Judgment
sv DWIGHT NORWOOD

fss ftts fts4f natrlea me III WIS Cafat
sire had nisIeh satter Judgment Than I,
.sGut il we ar9t OH l1l rtia world IL would
te owing tt, rtiis fiet.
Vow. while love nay wife dearly
and appreciate her asad qualities,
,,,,nfe,as i ttsn'r like tiii# derrytng Ut
ragyseif by comparison with her, I al.
unlf fhsr ste has 90 eerraiIs occasions
.tgiNfs.tl tg1e Az To Investments, and
her Judgment In rlie marter has t3Irne.i
,,,if ba be quite correct, But these
peisSans wtan set such store By Iadgs
aaeilt seem TO forget that there in such
q ching as Is.cg When proposed at
site ettt4s un spend sot0e money Ina I'D.
serrisinu n scheme had i'm view Mar
xysrat said TO nae, You VIII not get a
Single reply" and is turned cut thar
she wis right. &c WIS piece Ut luck.
Then. rao, when ! proposed to 90
iaga business with certain man she
fsld me he would leave nae in the
Iufeil 81 tiae fsrsr opportunity when
asked Der on what she based her state
saent ss,e said sfie didn't Hike the shape
~ Ais nose. The member WAR not
sss9DelY, admit. re WIS altogether
roo small for hts face, bu1 { do protest
agaiast any wanG:aa rondenaning man
for such reason. That the fellow
relieved nae Of $4,000 does not alter the
argument In the least.
when I submitted this ease 20 a wo-
man friend Of nay wife she laughed
and said. That IN reason enough for
~aFprfSe at such NONSENSE she claimed
Fhsa had aa business TO ask my wife
tn give a reason for such an opinion.
Margaret had such a run OF luck In
provtag nae wrong I'm certain Instances
thar she earne 90 believe she was very
maet nay sEperter, Trge. she never
said she WAS my superior and relied
on nae entirely for certain things about
whpeh she was very stupid. When
asked her one day. when nav passhook
waS returned to faa fFona the bank,
balanced. 20 See If the balance IN my
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fhe passfeook she replied that she
didn't Know hove and couldn't learn
a nbr~ persen thar 10 advise man Tn
hpstness matters PM this IL not tire
warst On one ocrasfon when was
m frge and Margaret needed money
fraFn fhes bank She wrote check, and
instead @f signing nv name by her
self ~ her own she forged my SIGMA
tHrp The check was paid bat Mar.
gnr~t's stupidity raised laugh at the
hunk MI her expense.
NV dear" said TO her when In
farrneti ~ what she had done. II hope
hereafter 7 shall hear no more Of your
superiority to- yoar husband"
Oh" she replied, with tess Of her
head indicating that sia considered
fhe matter one 81 the MOST trivial I'M
narranee, ~ naturally supposed that
In signing your name should make II
fsok line Yours. They must he very
particular NJ roar bank should not
~. Surprised " you lost everything yon
have there some day"
Very particular indeed" replied
"po gou consider forgery matter for
- banker go pass lightly? If they 80
regarded II mt nv bank should have
goad reason to believe that might
lose money by them"
Who cont! imagine such blind luck
~ followed my wife's predicffon3 Six
months after IA was made the hank
was obliged to 60 into liquidation. But
iuckiiy I Host nothing by the failure.
shorty before II occrrreti Margaret
taok II into her head to buy number
1T expensive household articles. which
md necessifated using Mp an my bal
anpe
\ told Won So she said when an.
nonnced the hanks trouble
Told ms no" retorted imtsatientiy
'no sou refer to what ron said about
my some time losing money by the
hansr''
OF course do
WIS you kindly inform me how
ven, who don't know enough to write
a check without committing forgery.
knew about the hanks weakness"
II knew that Mrs Eurton the cash.
ier's wife. was a very ambitious wo-
man
suppose she VIVA What haa Mrs
Rurton's ambition to d. with the
hanks faiIareT''
Everything. But she didn't ret any
~ our money tnok care Of that"
'Toek care OF that
YES put h into rugs and furni-
turp''
. Now. was not this the most remark.
able piece If impudence? Because she
happened to spend this money at this
time she claimed to have saved 10 In
'entinuaHy
wss telling Quigley ahout this one
dav Sonn after n occurred To nav sur
prise. hs turned upnn me md said:
"R"b, you're the biggest fool I ever
tusw
What do vou meant"
'.rn'r you know that Burton was
tire cause uf ting hanks failure and he
was ruined by hts wife,
"You don't mean IT,"
Sometimes | think IT'S pretty hard to
fnd foundation for anything In this
world IL may he that Mnraares's fore