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Show A Woman Win It a Flnnrt'jr. It is frequently asserted that a woman with properly has neither pluck nor coolness cool-ness iu managing her financial affairs, granted even, as it rarely is, that sha lias llie jud juu'iit necessary. A trifling loss disconcerts her and a profitable transaction elates her, each unduly. That one wuiuan can utaud up under rather trying circumstances may, how-over, how-over, bo truthfully alleged. She is a Now Yorker, to all intents and purposes, though her home is in a New Jersey suburb. sub-urb. Her husband is a Wall street man, and her first claim to distinction i9 that notwithsuindimr this fact no dollar of her property is in that vortex. Still she Juki's investments. Three or four years ago she purchased through an agent an unimproved pieco of land in a promising western mate for slightly less than $3U0. She had grown used to holding it and gave it only an occasional lhonght,wheu one day within the past six months nh received by wire from her agent tho astounding as-tounding offer of ir,()00 for her land. It must be admitted that fcho was thrown into u statu of tremendous excitement. ex-citement. Sho sent first to the telegraph office to have tho dispatch repeated, and when it was, confirming tho first message, mes-sage, sho wired to her husband to come , home at once. Ho took tlto nejtt train, fearing some disaster, and nifihed in with breathless anxiety. Tor nnswer nhognve him tho message, and ho strongly urged her to accept the OiVef. But, fortified by hie presence, the wife became cool. She decided that a sudden rise of that sort meant Foineihiiig. and hho would await i developments, Tho offer was declined, j Three months later il was doubled, but i now this Portia in finance lias become 1 convinced that she holds property of ' permanent valuo, and tho second offer ; she declined by herself. New York I Times. |