at 59 wall street, she entered the officers of john sisco. the banker for herself, her father before, and her husband. he made services available for her, wall street business. at this time, when stocks were being abandoned, hetty wanted to trade. i believe in getting in at the bottom and out at the top, she often said. [laughter] when i see a good thing going cheap because nobody wants it, i buy a lot of it and tuck it away. for hetty the decline at the market offered an opportunity for the future. hetty invested. her husband gambled, and at one point, he crossed the red line when he used her money as collateral for bad risks. when she had to pay for his mistakes, she sent him packing. [laughter] hetty was now a single working mother with two children. at the time, there were constant articles about how inferior women were, about how inend women were with money, about how innately impossible it was for them to invest. there were articles about hetty about how she was mean, about how she was a terrible mother. well, in true quaker and true ne