The sea coast echo., 1908-09-12

every day, and q bank teller must De
a born diplomat as well as a careful
business man to be able to cope with
the situations in which he finds HIM
self placed, especially when dealing
with women" said the obliging man
behind the window grating the other
day.
All sorts, kinds and conditions OF
people follow each other in rapid sue.
cession In front of our window, and
where we have to use tact in dealing
with people whose experience in bank.
ing methods has made them careless
as to their own interests or the banks,
we have to keep a sharp lookout ell
the while to prevent any one of the
numerous sharpers from taking advan-
tage of us. Most of the well-known
sharpers, however, are carefully de-
scribed now, and their methods are
all On record, SO that Ii one of the old
ones try 1t on us it is pretty difficult
thing FOR him to make away with it.
There are new ones coming out all
the time. though, and they are the
ones that tax the shrewdness OF the
teller to the utmost, for the sharpers
know that 1t takes something pretty
smooth In these days to get by the
modern teller. But besides the occa
sional joker who comes in and asks
me to give him two tens for five,
haven't had single experience with
a sharper for the last six months-Iet
me rap on wood" he hastily said, as
he realized that his last statement had
been somewhat of boast.
''Is there any one class of people
who give you especial trouble?" asked
the interviewer, sympathetically.
mo-" said he, smiling, at isn't a
matter of class at ALL It is wholly a
matter Of sex. don't know why it is
but women are notoriously the worst
offenders against the banking rules
1t is most likely that a great many
women have had little or no expert
ence with business affairs, and they
have hard work learning them. Don't
think for minute that all of them are
that way, for some of our largest Gus
toners are women-business women
and for shrewdness they are hard to
beat. But the average woman, when
she has any money in the bank, is like
sailor on land.
mot very many days ago young
woman with the gold band still new
on the third finger of her left hand
came into the bank, looked around
carefully, went over to the desk In
the corner and began to write some
thing. Presently she finished and
made her way over to my window
then very daintily she handed me the
pink check that she had been making
out. I didn't remember having seen
her before, and SO I looked at her a
moment longer to see IL I could place
her before l looked at the check
Then l really did get shock The
name signed at the bottom OF the
check was that of a prominent bust
ness man around town whom I knew
we'll, and who had recently taken to
himself wife. The check was made
out in the right order, but the name
signed was surely never written by
him, so asked the lady, Who signed
this?'
Why, I did, answered she, with q
blush, but no signs of hesitancy. That
took me back for moment, for had
never had any experience with a per-
son quite so nervy before, but then
she went on, ingenuously:
"'You see, we were married a cou.
pie of weeks ago, and as Jack has al
ready told me that everything that is
his is mine, too, I thought l would
draw some of his money to shop with
today
This was a poser and no mistake.
I knew that she would never under
stand IL I tried to explain all the de-
tails Of the banking business. and that
Jack would be in for all sorts of trou-
BILE when he got home that evening,
SO l just went into the next room and
called up her husband, who had an Of
fee only just around the corner, and
told him all about it. He had a good
laugh about it over the phone and
then hurried around to the bank He
arrived before his wife had begun to
get impatient about the money, and,
pretending innocence, asked her what
she was doing there.
"Of course she told him all about it,
and then, after telling her that there
might sometimes be little trouble
about her getting money that way,
fixed her up with little bank account
of her own to check against as she
pleased. She went out as happy as
could be, but we might very easily
have caused them considerable trou-
Bile and lost good customer, Ii we
had not been awful careful.
mot quite SO cheerszlly did the
troubles of one girl prominent In the
younger set turn out after her father
had had to leave town on business.
He deposited the money for her allow
ance for the time he would be gone,
and showed her how to make out her
checks, and told her to be very care
full how she made them out, and also
to be sure and not overdraw her ac.
count. She promised to be careful
so far so good-but In few days her
checks began to come In with alarm
ing frequency. They were all made
out In perfect form, and there was no
doubt about her signature, so there
was onthing for us to do but paysthem.
She had run her account down pretty
low. when one day she came In her
self with q check to be cashed. 1t was
large check. and thought that 1t
wouldn't do any harm to say a few
words about how near she was to
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