The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-11-15
Not aWonan a
 Of Finance
By WILLIAM CHANDLER

; to woman who will never trouble me by telling me how l should manage my business. Adele knows no more of business than kitten knows about un- tangling ball of yarn.
 One evening soon after Adele and 1 were engaged l went to see her and found her in a very happy mood. She | told me that her father in order to prepare her for certain responsibilities thar she might encounter us wife, had put $500 in the bank to her credit for her trousseau and had given her a pass book and a check book. Her fla ther showed her bow 10 enter her de posits and bring down her balances In her check book. Occasionally she was to hand In her pass book, have It bal anced and see that the balance brought l down in 1t was the same as the balance in her check book.
 1 A month later, when 1 went to see | Adele, found her in tears. "What's the matter, dearest" l ask | ed. dra wing her to me and kissing away the tears
 I'm In awful trouble"
 "TeH me. Perhaps I can help you"
 "Why, you know papa put the money for my trousseau in the bank and gave me check book. When I had used up the money left my pass book in the bank to be balanced. On its re. turn to me l was delighted to see that I still had more than $200 in bank. | Several additional garments l needed made up S13T. l bought them and gave checks for them. This morning the | clerk at the bank telephoned me that my account was overdrawn $1O0, and this afternoon my milllner accused me l of giving her a check for $97 on q | bank where l had no money. She | threatened to send me to prison, but papa satisfied her by giving her an other check on his own bank. Don't you think it was very mean of my bank to treat me that way: told her she probably had not con siderel that all the checks she had given out had not been presented for payment when she received her pass | book from the bank; but. failing to make her understand the problem, l agreed with her that the bank hal l treated her shamefuily. What coull have been more refreshing than the l dear girl spending $1CO instead of $500 for her rousseau and blaming the bank 1 for refusing to stand the dine. e!ve: regretted that the knot between us had I not been tied, depriving me of the priv l ileee of turning in a couple of hundred more to meet the deficiency. Not long after this the telephone bell | called me. and Adele poured another , trouble oTer the wire.
 "Oh. Frank she moaneu. "I have lost $5O..''
 How did you do that, pet?'
 "Nhy, drew check for that amount to pay bill at Ostcrhausers Fido got hold of it and tore it into bits. i have nothing left to pay the bill and am ashamed to go to papa for any more money
 What chance for me to make a gift to my sweetheart that etiquette for badc!
 I'll tell you what to do. darling. I'll give Osterhauser's a check for your bill. We are to be married so soon that i it will be all right for ne to do so,"
 "Oh. no: couldn't do thnl.
 Well then. draw another check for the amount. and l will put my name on tie back of 1t"
 Twill that fix it all ri=ht:'' "Of course 1t will
 And you won't be paying the billT'
 Certainly not"
 This satisfied her, and she had no more trouble with her finances until few days before our wedding. when she was threatened with arrest for for::ery This is how it happened:
 She had spent over $1,2G0 for her troussp;.u. and there were still bills outstanding. Her father, being called out of town, had told her that if any amounts that must be paid came in during his absence she was to draw checks for them in his check book on his own bank. He would notify the bank that she was authorized to sign l t0I
 Money was needed during his ab sence. and Adele drew check on the bank. signing her fathers name. but not adding to the signature. By Adele. " The person who presented the check was accused of having forged the sig nature. He declared that he had re- cciyed 1t from Adele and was so indiS- nant at the fraud rerpetrated against him that he swore out n warrant for her arrest Her father being absent. was sent for posthaste. Examining the check, saw that she had initiated her fathers signature.
 "Why did you do that?" asked.
 "Why. I thought I should write 1t as near like papa would as possible"
 I settled the matter by explaining 1t and giving my own check in place of 1t
 When Adele's father came home he received an apolu " from the bank for having declined to pay the check drawn by his daughter according to his directions. The clerk had not l known that a woman existed who was