Connecticut western news., 1917-02-22
Not a Woman
 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- angling a ball of yarn.
 One evening soon after Adele and were engaged l went to sec her and found her in n very happy mood. She told me that her father, in order to prepare her for certain responsibilities that she might encounter as wife, had put $500 in the bank to her credit for her rousseau and had given her pass book and n check book. Her fa- ther showed her how to 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 anccd and see that the balance brought down in it was the same as the balance in her check book.
 A month later. when l went to see Adele, found her in tears
 Whats the matter, dearestT l ask away the tears.
 T III III hNIul tfOuDle,
 "Tell me. Perhaps l can help you"
 Why, you know papa put the money for my rousseau in the bank and gave me a check book. When l had used up the money I left my pass book in the bank to be balanced. On its re- turn to me I was delighted to see that I still had more than S200 in bank. Several additional garments I needed made up $197. I bought them and gave checks for them. This morning the clerk at the bank telephoned me that my account was overdrawn St00, and this afternoon my milliner accused me of giving her check for S97 on bank where l had no money. She threatened to send me to prison, but papa satisfied her, hy giving her an- other cheek on his own bank. Don't you think it was very mean of my bank to treat me that wayT'
 told her she probably had not con sidered 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, I | agreed with her that the bank had treated her shamefully. Wmt could have been more refreshing than the dear girl spending $T00 instead of $500 for her trousseau and blaming the banl. | for refusing to stand the difference? I l regretted that the knot between us had not been tied, depriving me of the priv ilcge 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 over the wire.
 "oh, Frank" she moaned, "I have lest $50r
 How did you do that, petT"
 "Why. drew n check for that amount to pay bill at Osterhauser's. 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 gift to my sweetheart that etiquette for bade!
 "I'll tell you what to do, darling. I'll give Osterhauser's check for your
 
 it will be all right for mo to do so."
 "Oh, no; couldn't do that!'
 Well. then, draw another check for the amount, and I will put my name on the back of It."
 "Win that fix 1t all rightT'
 "Of course it 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 forgery. This is how it happened:
 She had spent over S1,200 for her trousseau, 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 bis 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 for him.
 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- ceived it from Adele and was so indig- nant at the fraud peTpstrated against him that he swore out 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 thatT' asked.
 "Why, I thought should write 1t as near like papa would as possible"
 I settled the matter by explaining it and giving my own check in place of 1t,
 When Adele's father came home he received an apology from the bank for