Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
Dauahters of Dixie in Business Life
LEARN HOW TO EARN YOUR LIVING
WOMAN IN BANK URGES ALL GIRLS
Mrs. Ella Wright Wilcox, Ex-
pert Teller, Says All Young
Women Should Save.

Mrs Ella Wright Wilcox, the former
teller in the savings department of the
Fourth National bank is bringing up
her little daughter so that if it ever
becomes necessary the child will be
able to run either boarding house or
a bank.
y think those two arts are things
that every woman ought to know she
explained. And, seriously, / think il
requires just as great ability to sue
cessfully conduct the boarding house
as it takes to run bank"
Mrs Wilcox has had experience in
both. When. widow she came to
Atlanta from her family home in Au-
gusta three years ago she faced the
necessity of making a livelihood fol
herself and daughter and she solved it
first by way of the boarding house
She made a success of it, but she ad-
mits that she found it far from
snap"
When the great majority OF I'M
trained women find themselves in the
position of having to make their own
living they, go in taking boarders" she
said. They seem to think as | did,
that that is a very simple way Of gar
ner-ng the pot of gold, Well, it isn't
by any manner of means I've got d
tremendous respect for woman who
has made successful landlsdy
Landlady Must Be Financier.
If she's come out even a that bust
ness it means that she is not only
competent cook. but flnancier
think 1t takes more mathematics to run
a money making boarding house than
1t takes to run a store.
That's a reason that every girl
ought to be taught the science No
girl can tell how soon she'll he thrown
upon her own resources and she'll fall
nine times out of ten unless she has
been practically taught how to make
money keeping house.
And along with that art parents
ought to teach their children to be
amateur bankers. don't mean to buy
the child toy bank made Of nickel
with little slit in the roof to put the
pennies In. I mean that girl should
be made to earn some money of her
own, bank It in a real bank keep her
own accounts, even make investments
Now, I've only been teller in the
savings department at the Fourth Ma
tional for about three weeks, but in
that little time l know it has given
me the most valuable experience and
insight into human nature ] have ever
known 1t has proved to me that won
| &c
never footed It up exactly. but know
that in our savings department the
women are giving in more money than
the men. I think they're more con
sistent savers; that they put by
greater proportion of what they earn
and that they can better resist the
temptation to spend. OF course. I'm
talking about the average woman now
Faith in Women Grows.
My faith in women as practical
Americans has bounded up tremen-
dously since I've been at the tellers
window The worst trouble is that
most Of them haven't been practically
trained"
Incidentally Mrs Wilcox, who comes
from the famous Wright family of Au-
gusta. is not the only woman of her
home to enter business. Her sister,
Annie Gregg Wright is employed at
the strong boxes Of the Mutual Benefit
Company in Augusta. Her success
equals her sisters in Atlanta. At the
Fourth National the officers say that
Mrs. Wicox's acquisition has been d
real stroke of luck for the bank. She
handles between three and five thou
sand dollars every day and she admits
pride in the fact that her row of figures.
has never shown a penny's error since
she took the place.