The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-29
The CONSERVATION Created in a Real
Bank When She Comes in
Sight
-a-Dimc-in-the-S Slot and Save
UP All of Five Dollars
or More.
Baskets Full of Ten Cent Pieces-Airs
of u Woman Posing As q Reni
Capitalist.

gentlemanly official at the Union Dime
Savings bank, when no saw her enter the
door, seemed quite uncalled for. In reply
to a New York Press reporters astonished
and questioning look he barely had time to
murmur "She's got one of those dime in
the slot banks in her pocket" when the
subject of his remark was at the window.
II want to open an account here" she
said, sweetly. Wont you please tell me
just what to do, go that | won't make any
mistakes"
The bewitching smile which she gave him
ms she said this might have melted a henrt
of stone, yet his face never lost for u mo-
ment the fixed look of hopelessness nor his
voice the even monotone of professional
politeness as he responded:
You must fill out this ticket, madam;
then present it and VIC will give you a bank
book and open your account"
After a few more necessary directions as
to how the slip should be filled out she
trlpped across to the writing table. and
after disposlng Of her satchel, her parasol,
snndry bundles and removing her gloves
she prepared to write. Every pen on the
table was tried and discarded in turn, until
at last, after covering her fingers and the
blotter with ink spots, she found one that
would do, and after a five minute careful
study of the calendar the date was put
down.
BY this time, however, the directions for
filling out the remainder Of the card had
slipped her memory and as the official fur
tively watched her out Of the corner of one
eye, while he kept on counting the long
rNHyo Cf oh1pJn,y nnin in fr<,p% ~ Ii,, ,u,Nl,
the other, he smiled grin.ly to himself as
though the knitted bows and evident per-
plexitylof the banks would be patron af-
folded him q sort of satirical amusement.
"Do l put my name ere?" she asked at
length, looking over at him appealingly.
Name on ruled blank space, lower right
hand corner; residence to the Left he re-
sponded, automatically, without looking
up.
At last it was completed and handed in, a
book prepared and the officials ready for
the first deposit. Fumbling down in the
depths of her utensils, the new depositor
brought forth t%riumphantly a little, shin
ing, n~ickol-plated affair that the reporter
instantly recognized as one of those popu-
lar machines known as the popular savings
bank.
There" she exclaimed, "T've got lust
f%orty-nine dimes in here, and I'm going to
put one more in and deposit the Rs. Of
course, as this ig Il dime savings bank you
won't mind them all being dimes. will you?''
she asked sweetly.
The official reached the climax of polite
mendncity as he answered that it made no
difference whatever. The dime was found
and dropped in, there was a rattle and
clink. and the whole fifty OF the little silver
pieces tumbled out on the counter The
bank book WAS filled out and the new de-
positot DEPARTED as happy as a bird, leaving
the officials to gather up the dimes and put
them away.
THAT'S the third pocket savings bank
ticnd i'll an hour" said he at last, looking
nj. This thing is getting simply unbear-
able, and shall have to resign if it contin-
ues much longer. See here,' and he pulled
ont a little drawer that was absolutely
stuffed with dimes. "All these have come
in this week, and a good ~thres-quarters of
them ut least out OF those drop-it-in-the-
slot rocket banks. / suppose every woman
in town has one of those, and | guess half
of them have come here and deposited their
contents, and the result is a deluge of
dinos.S
Tut it is a good thing for the bank?,
the reporter continued.
well. you see, it would be it they were
only half az stedfast in adhering to their
resolutions as they ara enthusiastic in
forming them. But then they are SO fickle.'
Hero the official sighed deeply and deftly
swept five stacks of dimes into a drawer
without dropping one. THE fact ia they
come in here to-day juSt full of the idea of
saving. and tomorrow or next day thew
are Just M likely as not to come in and
draw their deposit all out again. We only
count on keeping about twenty out of everv
hundred who begin to deposit in this way,
ut isn't that | mind the dimes so much.'
liz continued, FOR we have no trouble in
getting rid of them to some of the down
town banks, which supply the manufactur-
ers with small coin for paving off their en-
ployes. Its tho banks themselves that | am
angry about. Why, only yesterday a pretty
little girl came in here and wanted to de-
post her SIS from one of those banks. She
dropped in the fftieth dime, as she SUP
posed, and the bank wouldn't open. Such
a tins as there was. Finally, l suggested
that she might have made n missouri, and
that if she dropped in another it might
open. She did 80 and the bank was opened
without any Trouble.
THAT'S only one case, though, and we
have all sorts. The hardest, l suppose, il
the woman with about $3.50 in her bank.
who wants us to drop in dimes and keen
count of them until the bank is opened,
Then she will deposit the 81. 80. OF course
we can't do that, but they sometimes get it
down at the elevated ticket stations and
then come back triumphant to deposit"
do you pay back the deposits in coin,
that ia in dimes, as they were nader" was
asked.
mo generally. Sometimes when we see
What we are Detng maze the dumping ground
for these small coins we do pay back in
dimes, but this is not usual. We have no
trouble in exchanging our small eurrency
for large, and rs most of the depositors
here are poor and accumulate little by lit
tie to spend finally in n lump sum upon
some particular thing, we pay them in large
bills.
did you ever know that to pose as a real
live capitalist ia the dream of most women's
lives? Well, it ia, and they can do it to per
fiction, too. They are 20 apparently un-
conscious and do it SO nicely that ] really
like to have them come in. They will drop
in about once every two or three DAYS and
either deposit or draw ont n few dimes, chat
pleasantly, and walk out after giving eyery
other woman in the room the idea that they
are regular and wealthy customers.
II can tell You another queer fact about
women, and if you ever notice them han
ding money you will see it is true. They
all like new coin or new bills. particularly |
new coin. Nine men out of every ten
will look suspiciously at n new coin
and pocket an old one with a glance;
but with the women il ia Just
the reverse. Some of tho big houses have
become aware of this, ana take |suecial
pains to give their customers new CON ~ !
change. Take Macy,s, for instance. VIE i"
almost Everything IA marked ut IN odd
price, with odd oeuta. This firm GETS from
from the new treasury new pennies IN large
amounts, and uses them in making change.
This pleases its cnatome d, and is compara-
lively easy to do.
AT De!monico's change is almost al