The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-13
Not a Woman
OF Finance
BY WILLIAM CHANDLER

10 woman who viii never trouble m,
by telling me how | should manage my
business. Adele knows no more OF
! business than kitten knows about un
tangling bali of yarn.
One evening soon after Adele and
were engaged | went TO see her and
found her in very happy mood. She
told me that her father. in order 10
\ prepare her for certain responsibilities
4 that she might encounter as "A wife. had
! put $500 in the bank 10 her credit for
her trouSseau and had given her a
/ pass book and "A chcci, book. Her fa-
Their showed her how Ia 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
down in il WAS tile same as the balance
in her check book
month later. when | went Ia see
Adele, | found her in tears
WHAT'S the matter. drarcStg' | ask
ed, drawing her TO mo aud kissing
away the tears
I'm in awful trouble"
Tell me Perhaps can help YOU.
Why, you know papa put the money
for my rousseau ia the bank and gave
me check book When | had used
up the money left my pass book in
the bank 10 lie balanced ON its re
turn to me | was delighted 10 see that
l still had more than 500 in bank.
Several additional garments | needed
made up Sl91. | bought them and gave
checks for them. This morning the
clerk at the bank telcphoncd me that
my account WAS overdrawn 500, and
this afternoon my milliner accused me
OF giving her check for $97 on a
bank where | 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 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,
agreed with her that the bank had
treated her shamefully What could
have been more refreshing than the
dear girl spending 500 instead of $500
for her rousseau and blaming the bank
for refusing to stand the difference:
regretted that the knot between MS had
not been tied, depriNing me Of the priv
ilcee of turning in II couple Of hundred
more to meet the deficiency.
Not long after this the telephone bell
called me, ana Adele poured another
trouble over the wire.
"Oh, Frank she moancd, Il have
lost 500
How did YOU do that. pety'
why, | drew a check for that
amount 10 pay bill at Ostcrhauser's.
Fido got hold of it and tore 1t into bits
| have nothing left to pay the hill and
am ashamed to go TO papa for any
more money"
What "A chance for me to make a gift
to my sweetheart that etiquette for
hadc
"I'll tell you what to do. darling. I'll
give Ostcrhauser's check for your
bill We are to he married 50 soon that
it will be all right for me to do so"
"Oh. no. | couldn't do THAR
"Wel. then. draw another check for
the amount, and | will put my name
on the back Of II"
xviii that fix it all right"
"Of course il WILL
And you won't he paying the billT'
Certainly not"
This satisfied her, and she had no
more trouble with her finances until a
few days before our wedding, when
she was threatened with arrest for
forgery. This is how it happened:
She had spent over $1,000 for her
rousseau. and there were still bills
outstanding. Her father. being called
out Of town. had told her that II 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
for him.
Money was needed during his alb
sence. and Adele drew a 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. lie declared that he had re-
ceived it from Adele and was so indig
nant at the fraud perpetrated 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 that:' | asked
why. | thought | should write il as
near like papa would as possible"
| settled the matter by explaining 1t
and giving my own check in place Of it
When Adeies father came home he
received an apology from the bank for