South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-18
WOMEN NOW INVADE
MARKET OF GOTHAM
Exclusively Feminine Broker
age Office Enters Wall
Street Circles.

NEW YORK. Dec. 17-Women
furists may come. The women are
taking up pipeA The girls may
take over the r.uEslde seats They
say knickerbockers have come 90
stay where skirts once had a mono
poly. But 90 wall 81. a woman IS
still a widow. an orphan and a de-
pendent wife There IS one place
left where the women haven't
made a dent Woman still has a
Victorian time OF g getting a
stock broker 90 buy for her on a
margin.
The houses that do business for
women are forced 10 carry on that
business surreptltously Like boot
Logging Everybody knows that Il
goes on-but nobody IN financial So
ciety viii admit IT, on himself 80
strange feminine person can walk
In and buy cit" over the counter.
They'll tell her gravely and re-
proachfully that they only handle
investment funds for women, and
are strongly recommending some
nice safe liberties. or wouldn't she
like 20 look at some mortgages to-
day? I know. for I went the rounds.
Poor Losers.
No ma'am. sne has TO have intro
auctions and references, before they
will let her IN. Somebody has 10 as
sure. The broker that she under
stands shifting finance well enough
10 know where her money went
when it's gone. And then he'd
rather not have her For a tradi-
tlon exists on Wall st. that the wom-
en- think the broker has pocketed
t. Somebody Will have to assure
that broker that she'll prove a good
loser. A tradition exists IN Wall st.
that all women are poor losers Any
way. the men just don't want the
wOmen-unless they'll stick 20
their typewriters. their dictation
pads. and their first preferred 3 4
percents. That IS the sad state Of
facts IA this our year Of suffrage
And that's why the natty little
uptown brokerage office, IN the very
heart OF the Fitch av. shopping dis
trict. conducted entirely for wOm-
en-ticker blackboard, jargon and
all--is a noteworthy event IN the an
nails OF feminism Not only is 10 a
monument TO the assertion Of woman
that she has a right 10 any folly she
may want. but the goddess OF the
machine IS Miss Katherine Taylor
OF neutrality-suspicious. renOwn Now
phe IS getting it out OF her system BY
running the wOman's department OF
practically the only brokerage Of
fee IN New York (from New York
Stock Exchange members to bucket
shops) that IS openly out for the
woman patronage.
just like the Men.
She Is running Il with business
and feminist propaganda all mixed
up together This tall. English type
athletic girl. with her boyishly bob
bed hair and her mannish tweed
suit. Is nursing her customers
through their early stages OF
playing the market" She seems
perfectly determined that even the
conversation around the ticker shall
be on the same topics that abound
before the masculine blackboard.
Have a cigaret. We all smoke
here" she tells me flrmIy as L ap-
proach the table where the rest OF
the women are gathered, gains
raptly while the tape trails fits slow
length across the table TO Irvine in
siuuous coils into the reed basket
just as it does In perfectly good
stage set D-d-rrr-tick tick. hum.
the ticker. We SIT in n row non
chalantly putting our cigarets.
They say there's going TO be Z
consolidation i'm Mex Pete The ef
hcient looking person i'm the sternl
brimmed hat lights cigaret from