When the man who comes to collect your washing suggests a steal] accommodation to the extent of $109, even those most lavish with their money may sit up and take notice. Yet this is exactly what happened no Jater than yesterday, when a well-known business man was presented with the request. The washerman complacently explained that he knew how to become as rich as master, and he could do it on the $100. It is hardly necessary to state that he meant to gamble in the shares of one of these new exchanges, and he explained with eagerness how #12 shares almost irimediately jumped to $95. So, it was impossible to avoid making money. The rubber boom was only as bad as this in paris, Lut it is interesting to recall the same state of mind prevailing new as then—the impossibility of losing. We believe that the business' mar in question gave the washerman t}e sound advice to stick to his tub and try to produce a collar that will not wilt in this weather.
He may possibly have added that if the washerman would keep away from this gambling business he might find it possible to wash clothes at a reasonable price. And here a point arises. If these people go and lose. what money they have, there will ultimately be an attempt to recoup themselves through higher charges# to their foreign customers.
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