Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — Woman as a Financier. [ARTICLE]

Woman as a Financier.

This is an example of woman as a financier. Three women once came to Nbw York to do some shopping—mother, daughter and daughter in law. It was the daughter in law’s shopping, and one item of the long memorandum of “things to be bought” was a baby’s cloak which the daughter intended as a present to the daughter in law’s baby. It so happened that the daughter in law was rather short of money, so as the “things to be bought,’’ including the baby’s cloak, were all purchased at one shop, the mother paid the entire

! bill. Upo-4 their return home the daughter in law handed the mother the whole amount, including the cost of the baby’s cloak. This, including the cost of the baby's cloak, the mother calmly pocketed. Dimly aware, however, that somebody still owed somebody something, she, to settle things entirely, turned to the daughter and requested the money for said cloak. The daughter, accustomed to the waya-and means of the feminine financier, promptly complied, the mother calmly pocketed this sum likewise, and the only party to the transaction who saw the missing point was the daughter in law.