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Show WHO SAID "WEAKER VESSEL"? Little Incident Shows How Much Chance Mere Man Has With Real Mistress of Finance. Mrs. Norman Whitehouse, the patrician pa-trician ex-sult'rugist who has gone into in-to the leather business, said at a tea in New York: "Woman should succeed magnificently magnifi-cently in business, she is such a past grand mistress of finesse. "I know a pretty girl who once took the part of palmist in a gypsy tent at' a fair. A young man came in to have liis fortune told, and the pretty girl, holding bis hand in hers tenderly, said ; " 'You have an extraordinary character. char-acter. Your most remarkable quality is generosity. Y'ou hate skinflints, you despise the money hoarder, and yon look on avarice as a shameful vice. A large and almost reckless liberality marks your patli through life.' " 'Thank you,' said the young man. blushing and giggling. 'You are Haltering Hal-tering me, I'm afraid.' . " 'Not at all,' said the pretty girl, 'and now I'm going to wrap you up these three dozen tickets for our turkey tur-key raffle. They're only a simoleon apiece. Three tens, a five, and a one. Thank you ; that's Just right.' " |