, 1905-09-13
Feminine
Snapshots
Women Are Now Liked as
DepoSitorS by Bank
Officials

More and more numerous become the
women who have bank accounts in
their own names. Woman is gradual
ly learning, too, that she cannot draw
money out of a bank unless she has
previously lodged it there to her ac-
count. In several of the New York
city banks half the depositors are wom-
en-. They are largely of the self sup
porting kind, depositing what they can
spare from their earnings. 1t is quite
common, too, for women of the wealthy
class to AVE bank accounts in their
own name. In a court case lately a
New York millionaire testified that he
knew nothing of his wife's financial af-
fairs; that she had her own bank &C.
count and conducted her own business
as she saw fit. Women who deposit
money in banks are now SO many that
some of the large financial institutions
have a special room for their accom-
mediation. 1t is handsomely fitted up
with an especial view to feminine
tastes and requirements. Bankers do
not have the horror of the woman de-
positor that they one professed to
have. They have still one fault to find
with her, however. and that is too
much talkee-talkee. h will calmly
stand by the cashiers window, they
say, and chat unconcernedly and cheer
fully about her husband and children,
society, anything and everything, while
behind her is a row of men boiling
over with Impotence on he outside of
the grating, Inc on the inside of it the
bank official on his part Is boiling over
too. The feminine depositor, unless
she be a wage Garner or business wom-
an, does not now that time is money
and every moment h takes unneces-
sarily may be costing other people dol
lars. The right kind of bank officers
are often the woman depositor's best
friends in helping her to make safe In
vestments, particularly officers of re-
liable savings banks.
Women of the British aristocracy
are beginning to bring up their daugh-
tiers in the liberal and Independent way
in which American girls are reared.
British society admits that American
girls are extremely attractive, n this
is rightly attributed to the freedom
and opportunity for developing her in
divlduality that is given to the Ameri-
can girl. Lady Algernon Gordon
Lenox, sister of the Countess of War
wick, not long ago visited the United
States and on her return home said,
1.-THE straightforward, easy and fear
less ways of the younger American
girls when they meet strangers, and
especially when they meet men, are
in charming contrast to the shy, stiff,
awkward manner which Is generally
seen on the young English girl"
A man who says he is "of good ap-
pearance and owns a pretty home ad-
v~ertises for a wife, a good looking
young woman who knows how to
cook" What noble qualifications for
matrimony on both sidesl
The society of the G.. A. r. veterans
of the civil war has one woman MEM
Der. She served regularly as a soldier
in that war, enlisting with her hus-
band, Robert L. Brownell, in the First
Rhode Island detached militia. Three
years she stood in the ranks beside
her soldier husband. She took part in
the first battle of Bull Run, where she
carried the regimental colors, where
also she was wounded In the leg. Mrs.
Brownell now lives in New York city.
She received an honorable discharge
as a soldier and has a pension.
That lively lady, Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, never speaks but she says
something. She expresses the opinion
that, reasoning from natures proc
esses, it is the male sex that should
be decked out in finery rather than
the female, and that splendor and dis
play in attire are really unfeminine.
We can all see why the other fellow
fails, but what we can't account for
is his success.
Some people play the fool, and others
attain the same result by being natu-
raj.
Whether 1t is desirable or not to