Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-11-02
HOW A GIRL SAVED
MONEY on So A WEEK
This Candy Factory Employe
Has a Good Sized Bank
Account Now.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York u
How did 1 manage to lay up $500
during the 10 years in which l earned
from SO to $12 II week % repeated the
candy girl. no begin with. l earned 50
q week only for the first year. After
that my wages Increased at the rate of
so a week each year until i was
receiving $3.50 a week, when l cele-
brated my % birthday.
II Went to work in a candy factory
Immediately after the death OF my par
ents. Because / was young and without
experience L had to begin at the bot
tom at So a week. The woman with
whom I board had been our neighbor
n my mothers friend for a number
OF years. She took me first at 81 "a
week, leaving me 81 tor clothes and
luxuries.
my Sunday school teacher gave me
a little tin bank for Christmas, and l
got into the habit of putting in a nickel
each week when my mothers friend
handed me back 81. AS time passed /
learned to laundry my own shirtwaists
for the sake first or getting pretty
clothes: then once I was in the habit l
kept it up to be able to put 80 cents a
week besides the nickel in my bank.
You see. it cost 10 cents each to have
ShirtWaists laundried, and ! used to
allow myself three clean ones each
week.
when ut the end of my first year 1
had my raise of so cents q week it
really didn't mount to anything so far
always handed me back just h same
amount. 81, when l turned over my
weekly envelope to her. 1t was not I'M
til I was earning $3.50 "a week that l
really had more money for myself.
Then my mothers friend decided that
81 a week was enough for her to take
for my board.
when I first began to get $3.50 each
week all my own l really didn't know
what to do with it. Working in a candy
factory a girl doesn't have much
chance of showing off fine clothes. I'd
got in the habit of getting everything
1 needed on 65 cents q week, and to
spend S1.5o seemed -extravagant.
lit didn't take long for me to learn
how to spend it all n really to wan.
more spending money so badly that at
one time l stopped putting my So cents
q week regularly in the bank. l got to
going to picture shows, treating girls
in the factory and letting them treat
me. Then it was cheap theaters. l
don't know what walked me up made
me see how silly all these shows were,
but when finally [ did come to my
senses | hadn't put as much as a nickel
in the bank for more than six months
1 tried to go back to living on
65 cents 4 week. and my. how hard it
was! never have got back to it
again. II I had I would have been able
to save at least $500 instead of $500.
each year as my raise of SO cents q
week came to me I tried to put the ex-
ira amount In the bank, but somehow
/ could resist spending it. and be-
sides it got harder and harder to put
my 30 cents in the bank.
u don't know how it would have
ended if it hadn't been for he manage
of the factory. There was a position of
forawoman vacant and he wanted to
promote q girl from the wrapping de
partment. He asked the head Of our
department whether he should take me
or a girl who spent all her money on
clothes. l heard her tell him she
couldn't see any difference: we both
were good workers. regular, with pleas
an and reliable. Then she
added that I vas heater In appearances
That settled 1t with the manager. He
said he would take the neat one fol
fOrewoman.
That was a pretty good step. from
?6.5o q week to So. But I don't believ.
It Oul have made me save a cen,
more II 1t hadn't been for overhearin,
that manager say he wanted the nea'
one. I thought If fancy dressing didn'
count with the manager what was tn,
use OF spending money for It? Tha
made me not only put the extra 81. 81
q week in the bank, but pretty soon
made 1t 81 instead Of $1.85.
"Thts went on for about six months
Then l met the young man I'm goin.
to marry next week and I stopped sav
Ing SO much. 1t wasn't that / got fan
cy clothes or anything like that. /
was giving presents and going to
ball.
When he gave me a present. be
cause l wanted him to know I like,
MIN too ! would give him something
! couldn't be stingy about 1t either. be
cause he WASH t. His presents AWAY
cost him q couple of dollars and some
eimes more. Still that wouldn't hav
been so bad IL he hadn't asked me- I
go to q ball.
Il never had been to q ball. and
didn't care anything about going t
this one. But thinking he wanted I
go ! said I'd go with him. Then. NO
wanting to dress SO as ia make hir
ashamed Of me. I let the girl Wit
whom I had worked in the wrappin
apartment take me. to q place wner
hey hire ball costumes.
There were a lot Of costumes I coul
rave hired for as little a. q couple a
dollars. but because they didn't loo
lean to me / couldn't bring MYSELF I
wear them. The only one that en-
-lew and fresh cost 3l6 for inst IN
vening. II was lovely and lust ftta
IL NO 90 n hA~nNr ~ h4s etAg-r.