The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-09-28

IA POCKET BANK
MADE Her RICH
CHICAGO GIRL WHOSE SAVINGS
LED 10 a Rem "a 81 e RUN
She Got . Bank AS ! Joke IT ls New
epIdiaeunted and Hangs Over Her
Desk as object lesson MoraI- Get.
the Habit.
About three years ago Chicago de-
partment store placed on the market
metal pocket banks similar to those
that the West ylrgtnian Is nov gty-I
ing to such Of its readers as desire
to start a savings bank account OK
their own. One Of these was given in
a joking way to yong woman stem
ographer who was employed in an Of
flee near the store by a fellow clerk
There was some badinage about Miss
Blanks savings bank which ledltheI
girl to think over the savings bank
proposition, something that she had
never done before She made up her
mind to give her little bank trial.
She had to earn her own living and
had no money to waste. Neverthe-
less, she held out a scent bit here and
a dime there and at the end Of two
or three weeks she had her bank full
and when she came to make a deposit
found that she had 1910, to which
shea dded Is cents and opened an &C
count.
AT the end OF the first month she
had on deposit the sum of s5.75.
About that time she had a chance to
do some extra work and instead of
buying a new gown and a new hat
as she haad intended, she put the mon.
ey in the savings bank along with
such other money as she could save.
AT the end Of IS months her accunu-
latlon amounted to something over
$3.50. About this time she began to
think that the per cent. that she
was receiving from the bank while 1t
was all right for a savings account,
was nota much money as she wanted
her money to earn. A friend told her
where she could PIT the money out on
a mortgage at a higher rate Of inter.
est.
The mortgagor failed in bushes at
this time and she was left in posses.
sion of the little piece of property. For
a time this did not look like avery
good investment. Then came one Of
those shifts in the way of new bust.
ness buildings and she was enabled
to sell her holding for a little over
$4,000. Being Chicago girl, she
knew a thing of stock speculation,
and from knowledge she had picked
up in her occupation as a stenograph.
en- she had a "hunch" on certain stock
that she thought must go up in a very
short time and she invested.
The flyer was a big winner and her
earnings were pyramIded with the re-
suit that she cleaned up upwards OF
$4,000. Very senslbly she has this
invested in something more substan.
tial than stock speculation and is now
independent. The little pocket bank,
gold plated, hangs over her dask to
this day, and its story is told with evil
dent pride to her visitors.
There is no moral to- this story,
which is true all but the name, which
cannot be told for obvious reasons.
The chances are that FIVE times out Of
six the young woman who undertook
to monkey with the stock market
would have had to go back to the lit
tie dime bank for supper money at the
first attempt. That she dropped stock
gambling after she had made her little
pile and put her gains into leglti-
mate business is to her credit. Still,
the fact remains that without the lit.
tie pocket bank she would never have
saved the little nest egg which she
could use for buying the mortgage.
which, after all, was the real begin.
ming Of her business prosperity, and
shows that with ready money there
comes time to almost every one
when 1t can be greatly increased.
But whether chance for investment
comes or not, a savings bank account
is good thing to have in case rainy