Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-27
HER EXPERIENCE IN SAVING.

Eh IN SA AYlNG.
 '.No, I'm not going to try to save anything any more,' said Henrietta,
 emphatically, jerking off her gloves and seating herself at the little table. squander thirty cents riotously and treat''
 What has caused this savage out bursf?" asked one of her companions as they gave their orders.
 Yes, what is it?" insisted the third girl.
 Well" began Henrietta, syou both know how I have been lamenting the way all my loose change seemed to trickle through my fingers. At last l got the saving mania and before I knew what had happened I had gone and bought one of those dime savings banks. You know the kind I mean l those little nickeled, cylindrical affairs with a slot at the top just big enough
 to slide a dime ill and not big enough
 to let it out. You have to put $5 worth
 of dimes into it before you can open it I you know. Of course I had all kinds of visions of what I should do with my savings, because I supposed by
 dropping dime or two in every day
 l would never miss them, and when s | had accumulated every two weeks or l sol wasn't sure how often-it would l be happy surprise. Strangely enough l the bank did not fill up in a hurry.
 After the novelty wore off I would l sometimes forget to put in my daily dime and I began calculating and dis covered that it would take nearly two
 months at dime day to get my moz- ey out. l tried shaking it to see if
 couldn't shake out my deposits, but it wasn't any use, so l was assured that my money was safe even if l couldn't get at it.
 1 Yesterday I was at home all alone
 when the bell rang, and I found it was i the delivery man with a pair of gloves l that 1 had sent out on a three-dollar
 cash delivery. I ran up to my room
 to get my pocketbook. and then I re- membered that I had given all there
 was in it-a five dollar bill-to Kath- ryn to get me some things while she
 was down town. Then ran from one room to another searching for money, but in these days of porch-climbers
 no one leaves cash at home. and I could not find a cent. I wasn't able to borrow of the cook even, because it was her day off, and I was wonder ing what to do when l thought of my dime bank. I hastened to get it. and then I realized that while the money | was in my possession I was unable to use it because there was only S4.S0 in the bank. 1 knew the amount because the side is perforated and numbered
 so that you can tell how much yon have. 1t was case of sso near and yet so far I took the bank down stairs and found the man patiently waiting where I had left him. He mentioned something about hurrying up, and got mad and told him what the tronll le was and that I was doing all could
 '.He started to say: sI would sug- gest'-but I cut him off and told him not to suggest anything You see I thought he was going to make some i'm pertinent remark about haste or my lack of money. I told him very jelly
 that I was quite capable of doing things without his help and that I would give him his money presently.
 had thought of a plan. I was to l break open my bank. I hated to at
 first. but the sight of more than the required amount made me wolfish and decided the banks fate. I went to the kitchen and after searching around found the carving knife and a hammer. | pldIcd llc pduh Ou tilC Si1lh, put lAc knife blade on it and brought the ham, mer down. Of course it missed and
 skinned my thumb At last. however.
 I succeeded in hacking off the top of the bank, besides spelling the knife; then I took the money to the man and showed him what I had done.
 'He smiled rather apologetically and said what he had intended to suggest was that he had couple of dimes he could have dropped in and thus opened
 the bank when the right amount was in. was so mortified at the simplici- ty of the plan that did not want to see the old thing again, so I threw it into l the furnace But now I'm spending what was left of the money; so that s
 not so bad, is it?''-Chicago News.