Show PLUNGERS IN PETTICOATS Women WILD Deal on CluuiKC in Chl cage have a Shop of Their Own From the Chicago Tribune Latci keys and the platform were long since yielded to the Chicago woman wo-man Now she has a brokers shop run by another gentle creature for her especial es-pecial benefit The millenium may be said to be nearly at high noon Those women who have vainly yearned yearn-ed for years to carve out fortunes for themselves on change and have been withheld from dealing in corn lard and railroad stocks only by the publicity with which speculation has hitherto been attended may at last have the desire of their hearts fulfilled Quietly Quiet-ly decently and in order they may now make or mar their fortunes safely hidden from the prying eye of man and the scornful glance of those ol their sisters who are not blessed with the gambling instinct The new shop is in an office building that is a near neighbor to the board oi trade It is fitted up comfortably with a carpet on the floor and a rocking chair or two in addition to the usual stiffbacked office chairs Two big blackboards a desk a safe and two tickers give a businesslike aspect tc the place while their asperity is in turn softened by the appliances for making tea hidden away in one coIner and which help more than anything else in the room tb setthe seal of femInInity fem-ininity upon it The businesses in charge ofa woman who has a pleasant voice and a quietS J t < f i 1 < J < manner and who perhaps as a further aid in inspiring confidence in her patron pat-ron wears a Kings Daughter cross dangling from her watch chain The office has been established only a short time but It already has a number num-ber of regular customers at least one of whom makes her livelihood by speculation spec-ulation The hours between the opening open-ing and closing of the board of trade find them watching the tickers or the blackboard and giving their orders quietly qui-etly At noon tea is made and biscuit served with it At 230 p m the place is deserted only trampled bits of chalk pr half a wafer on a table or chair showing that the wouldbe Napoleons of finance haVe been In consultation with their broker As yet so the cheerful cheer-ful woman with the Kings Daughter badge asserts not one of them has met her Waterloo |