HOW WOMEN CONCEAL MONEY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2966, 17 August 1878, Page 4

HOW WOMEN CONCEAL MONEY.

Mrs Hansen put $50 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 savings 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 $250 the house took fire, burned to the ground, and again the national debt was diminished hy a little roll of woman's pin money. There was that other careful lady, too, ■who used sometimes to hide her diamond rings between two tea cups in the kitchen cupboard, sometimes behind a certain brick in the cellar, and again under the lining of an old hat. She had divers other places of safety for her jewelry also, the only trouble being that she had so many hiding places she occasionally forgot

where she had put her precious things, I and about every three months would fancy she had been robbed, and. the house would be turned inside out and all therein made uncomfortable uniil the missing gems would be found carefully tucked away in the folds of the bottom towel of the pile in the left hand corner of the lower drawer in the clothes priss at the east end of the drawing-room.— Cincinnati Commercial.