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To: AugustWest who wrote (57953)	1/15/2001 2:29:48 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

<<BTW, wasn't it just prior to the crash of '29 that women's investing groups first became (popular)?>> Yes, Edward Chancellor makes a big point of this in his book, Devil Take the Hindmost.

To: AugustWest who wrote (57953)	1/15/2001 4:02:31 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I think the gals were trying to make sure there was still money left for milk after their husbands speculative excesses. There is a funny story in Reminisces of a Stock Operator how someone tried to influence Jesse Livermore to go long in a company by making a discrete suggestion to Mrs. Livermore. Only she decided to not tell him and speculate on her own. When the trade moved against her and she got a margin call she was forced to fess up to hubby, who, by the way, happened to be shorting the hell out of the same issue.