The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-17
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you know, and the bank is always wrong
She has her check-book with her,and she
showed me that she o light to have several
hundred dollars to her credit according
to the balance there. l know that she
has not, but l have not been able to prove
it to her. She has probably
carried an old balance over
Quoting the amount of the checks on one
stub. ought to tell her to hunt up the
mistake for herself, but that would not
/ do. She would be offended. So l have
told her to come back later, and will
spend my evening at the Office going over
the account with her. You cannot treat
women as you would men,"
IT PAYS WELL.
The business of women with the banks
of New York pays very well indeed.
| There is one bank in the shopping
district which has on its books accounts
| with 1900 women-enough to run the
bank by themselves if there were no men
| depositors. 1t is nota '.woman's bank"
| There is only one bank exclusively for
women in New York. That was de-
scribed in recent number Of the Sunday
| Press.
But many of the banks Of New York
make speciality of catering to womens
| business, and more than one of them has
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accounts. A bank which was organized
not long ago employed Mrs. Cyrus w.
Field after her melancholy experience in
the millinery business to go among her ac-
quaintances and solicit business, and she
now draws a salary and commission for
| her work. There areladies' waiting rooms
in some banks, with cheval glasses and
Persian rugs and furniture in carved
birch and brocade. And the competition
among these banks for women's accounts
is very lively. All of these are uptown
banks, located in the shopping or resi-
dence districts. The downtown banks
and many of the uptown banks as well do
not want women's accounts. They do not
decline to take them, but they treat a
woman depositor with ordinary business
| brusqueness, and, accustomed TO special
! consideration from the other sex, she is
| quickly affronted and soon withdraws her
/ account.
FOR HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.
Women do not deposit money for the
purpose of saving it. They never increase
| their accounts by small deposits. This,
of course, excludes from consideration the
dime savings bank and the penny funds
which are established to encourage the
habit of saving. With few exceptions the
bank accounts of women are maintained
by their husbands for the purpose of pro-
| viding for household expenses. The man
! does not want to be worried with house
| hold affairs, so he let's his wife worry
! away her life over a bank account while
! he keeps his business balance down town.
| Usually the husband gives his wife a GER
tain sum each month which she deposits
| in her bank and draws upon. This Gus
! tom has become very common of late
| years.
The usual deposit is about 81 900 or
| perhaps $1,000 month, said the cashier
| of one bank which handles a great deal
! of women's business. Some accounts run
! up to $500 a month. This is intended
simply for household expenses and spend
! ing money. Nearly all of it is drawn out
| before the month is up. Does it pay to
handle these transient sums2 Oh, yes.
! If the woman starts in with 81, 500 and
draws the money out in small amounts
| her balance will average very well for the
| month. And women are no worse than
men in this. Very few men keep heavy
| balance at the bank"
rs not the woman's business a great
source of annoyancel" asked.
GOOD DEAL OF BOTHER.
every great, " he answered with sigh.
women want the most impossible and
unDusiness like things done for them.
! Nine women in ten have not the faintest
! idea of what they have right to ask Of a
bank official A woman whom / have
| known for years, the wife of a prominent
architect, came 10 me in great distress.
She had bought some goods Of a trades
man down town and paid him for them
taking his receipt. When his bill for the
next month came in he had included the
goods which she had paid for the month
before. She did not like to bother her
husband with the matter, she said.
Wouldn't 1 attend to it for herr
"Now, the settlement Of that matter
was just as far outside my business as it
would be for me to help her select new
dress. But what could l dor l said
Very well, / will write TO the man.
Leave the papers with me, and she went
away contented. l have the papers on
my desk now. / have written TO the
| tradesman stating the case and telling
him TO call on me il he has any claim TO
make. | have not heard from him and
probably l will not. But that is a sample
of what women ask US 10 do"
"And TO refuse}"
as impolitic, If it is not impossible.
have learned from a long experience with
women that you cannot tell them that
they are imposing on you. | make 10 a
rule always 10 do what woman asks OF
me If possible, and then 10 tell her that
she had no right TO ask IL. I know tina;
the woman has no idea that she is asking
what is not right. When you tell her
that what she has asked WAS not a part
OF your duties, she Is always very sorry
sometimes very unhappy about IT,
7 Women are usually open 20 reason II
you approach them IN the right way
They are no more unreasonable than
many men,