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WOMEN AS SPECULATORS WALL STREET NO PLACE FOR WOMEN.—THEY LACK THE MENTAL EQUIPMENT.—FALSE DEFENSES OF FEMININE FINANCIERS.—THE CLAFLIN SISTERS AND COMMODORE VANDERBILT.—FORTUNE AND REPUTATION ALIKE ENDANGERED. As speculators, women hitherto have been utter failures. They do not thrive in the atmosphere of Wall Street, for they do not seem to have the mental qualities required to take in the varied points of the situation upon which success in speculation depends. They are, by nature, parasites as speculato…