HOW WOMEN CONCEAL MONEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 182, 31 August 1878, Page 4

HOW WOMEN CONCEAL MONEY.

Mrs Hansen put 50dols in greenbacks in the oven of her stove one night to keep it safe. Next morning, after breakfast, the national debt had been diminished exactly that much. A student of the curious would find it interesting to note the places in which women hide their money. One excellent and frugal dame used to tuck her little saviugs away under a corner of her carpet. The tiny roll of greenbacks grew fatter and fatter in the course of a year or two, when the day after it counted 2oodols. the house took fire, burned to tho grouud, aud again the national debt was diminished by a lit : le roll of woman's pin money. There was that other careful lady, too, who used sometimes to hide hea diamond rings between two tea cups iu the kitchen cupboarn, sometimes behind a ce"rtaiu brick in the cellar, and again under the lining of an old hat. She had divers other places of safety for her jewellery also, tho only trouble being that she had so many hiding she occasionally forgot where she had put her precious things, and about every three months would fancy she had been robded, oud the house would be turned inside out, and all therein made uncomfortable, until tho missing gems would be found carefully tucked away in the folds of the bottom towel of the pie in tho left hand corner of the lower draw in the clothes press, at the east end of the drawing-room, — Cincinnati Commercial.