The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-12-24
eARY.s BANK ACCOUNT.

How Parents Can supply Their Children
With Solid business Foundation.
1t is not to baby-millionaire 1 wish
to call your attention. nor even to any
baby, but to the finances of your baby,
reader.
You, of course, know all about what
the little fellow has cost, and know
what he is likely to cost, not only in
dollars and cents, but in wakeful,
watchful hours and anxieties innumer-
able. But. after awhile, the now cost
ly oaby viii require not only schooling
but business education, and founda-
ton upon which to stand in the great
money-getting world.
There are so many ups and downs
with prosperous people that the child
of wealth to-day may twenty years
hence be eking out a scanty living as
clerk, and on the other hand the little
fellow whose baby wardrobe is plain
and limited, by the same time may be
on the broad road to fortune.
While you sit by the darlings cradle
is the time to thoughtfully mature
your plans for the future. There are
so many little triiles bought for baby
rs
money allowed to accumulate for/fu-
ture use. 1t is wonderful how nice
sum may TepOse in one of the/manv
savings-fund institutions by lust a lit
tie forethought and economy. A may
or insa Seuthern city gave on Saturday
evenings to his four four little laugh
ters a1i- the dimes he happened to have
in his pocket. A lady of my acquaint-
ance saved all her gold pieces for her
son, depOsiting them in bank to mis-
credit, she acting as trustee. Another
lady, having a small house renting for
eight dollars n month, put the sum to
her children's account in the savings
fund and carefully rcfrarned from
using any of it.
L know of many instances of well-tO-
do parents who are faithfully laying
up for the children, and that in a
small, matter-of-fact way which would
astOnish many with whom they mingle
in society. A pencil and paper and a
half hour or less spent in calculating
the possible accumulation of even
twenty dollars n year for twenty wears
will show what can be done.
had this winter in my employ as
nurse a widow with a little girl. She
came in-great distress of mind to me
one day in reference to her money
matters. Her husband, q coachman,
had had from his employer each year
~ gift of fifty dollars, which, with
pther earnings, had been deposited in
ank to the credit of the child. The
Der and trustee died, and tie woman,
ignorance of how to proceed, had
pr three years unable 50 use any
Interest for the child. The sum
cumulated until the interest
lOthe the little girl. I had the
e of securing a faithful guard
the child and relieving the
oman $ mind of much anxiety,
wing supposed the sum could not
ehed until the little girl was Of
This woman carries a small in
ce for the child. so in case of the
er's death the child could be COM
bly, cared for without the extreme
-ty which she would have save for
wings of few years on the Part
II father.
is wise course for a woman to
haint herself with the processes OF
law i'm regard to the money belong
TO children, also to know the rates
interest and values of property
nile money in bank sometimes accu-
ulates as fast as that invested, and
m be secured and used in emergen-
IS in less time than by other forms
Investment, there are many other
vs. of using the money saved-a
of land can be bought and put
.aby's name, or sold again and the
hey turned over and over.-BGby-