The Washington times., 1910-03-09
FOND WISHES AIDED
BY TIMES BANKS
Women Tell of Projects for
Which They Will
Save.
ONE WILL ENJOY
FIRST TRAIN RIDE
Grandmother to Divert Girls
Money From Candy
to Savings.
By sELENE ARMSTRONG.

When a woman has made up her
mind very definitely what she wants
most in the world, and has determined
20 get it, the thing is going 70 happen
some day. And many things are going
10 happen as a result of the distribution
20 women this morning by The Times,
OF pocket banks and checks.
For instance, one woman Is certainly
going t. take a trip next summer.
What do 1 want most in the world?''
she repeated, when the question was
asked her why. I don't have any
trouble telling you, It's a trip. DO you
know, I've been married fifteen years,
and l never have ridden on a train once
since I married. OF course, il would be
fine to save up and buy pretty things
for my little old hOuse-Say plano, or
a set Of dining room furniture, but / m
just that hungry to go travelling that
as soon as 1 get some money saved
I'm going to buy a railroad ticket"
Bank for Granddaughter. z
Among those standing in line was a
come!y woman with silverv hair. Her
face was finely scanned with wrinkles,
bit just the same there was an air Of
youthfulness about her that would have
made impossible the suspicion that she
Sc a great-grandmOther-
The bank I'm going 10 draw" she
was gayly explaining 70 her neiShbor
1n line "is 20 start at once on a long
Journey. I intend to send Il 10 my little
Eranddaughter-I mean my little great
Eranddaughter-way out IN the Philip
pines. Her name IS Mary Bronson de
la Ware 1 wish you could see her, she $
G. dear"
So this is how # comes about that
among the deDOsltors in the Fourteenth
Street Savings Bank there VIII be a
little girl who has never even seen the
city of Washington and knows the chill
dren Of the Philippines better than she
knows those Of America.
Will Start Church Fund
Another bank given out is to contain
The nucleus of a building fund for the
proposed St Agnes Chapel, which mem
bers Of the Episcopal denomination in
tend 10 erect at Fourth street and New
York avenue.
Don't you think The Times ought TO
Ieel very proud or being the means or
starting a fund for a new chUrch?'' was
asked by +he woman who drew the bank
for St Agnes Chapel
Mrs. Martha Sullivan. Of 90 0 street,
whoR has twelve grand children. "aIl
Sullivans,' as she proudly explains.
drew out :, bank check for her thirteen
year-old granddaughter, Catherine.
Now Catherine. II seems. has a habit
which many other little girls also have.
girls as especially prone.
She spends all her money for candy
SAYS her grandmother Sullivan. So
Catherine Sullivan is going TO reform,
end the pin money whicf has been go
ing for candy will now frd its way into
the opening Of the little savings bank
which her grandmOther took home 10
her today
The long line Of waiting women. each
holding her place tenaCiOusly. was al
most disOrganized bv the late arrival
OF two quaint little Chinese girls, whom
every woman stepped ont Of line 70 take
q peep at They were Mamie and Katie
MOVE, and they were going 10 save their
money, they said, until they were
EroWn-up Chinese. and could invest in a
famous restaurant, with a sign In Chi
hese hanging outside.
Knew Her Wants.
Mamie Fox. who came with her
mother, had no trouble in telling what
she viii do after she has saved money.
IF you only knew how I want a
plano, so I can learn to play" she said
wistfully- DO you think If save uu-
Ill I am big girl. L viii have money
enough 20 buy one2'
A little boy. whose mother came for
p bank and check, sent the following
Dear Washington Times: Please give
my mamma a bank and check for me.
\ have been away from school since
February L and l cannot stay home
any more. Your loving friend"
And this IS not all. After hundreds
had received their banks and checks.
and the long line had Wedged its way
in. The Times building and out agan.
one OF the White House officers J. d
LHauZe. called with apologies for not
having been able to come earlier. and
with a request FOR bank and check. ~
was given one and a savings fund WIII
be begun in his little sons name.