Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
DAUGHTERS of Dixie in Business Life
LEARN HOW TO EARN YOUR EWING
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
Augusta society girl who has become
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 a boarding house or
a bank.
Il think those two arts are things
that every woman ought to know" she
explained "And, seriously, | think it
requires just as great ability to sue
cessfully conduct the boarding house
as it takes to run a 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
cessity of making a livelihood fol-
herself and daughter and she solved it
| first by way of the boarding house.
mits that she found it far from a
snap"
When the great majority of un~
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 very simple way of gar
| ner1ng the pot of gold. Well 1t isn't
by any manner of means I've got a
tremendous respect for woman who
has made a successful landlady
Landlady Must Be Financier.
IF she's come out even at that bust
ness it means that she is not only a
competent cook, but a fnancier
think It 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 be thrown
upon her own resources and she'll fail
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 a toy bank made of nickel
with little slit in the roof to put the
pennies in | mean that girl should
be made to earn some money of her
own, bank II 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 I know it has given
me the most valuable experience and
! insight into human nature | have ever
known. 1t has proved to me that WON
an Is more thrifty than man I'VE
never footed it up exactly, but l know
! that in our savings department the
women are giving in more money than
the men, | think they're more con-
sistent savers; that they put by a
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 teller's
window. The worst trouble is that
most of them haven't been practically
trained"
incidentally, Mrs. Wilcox, who comes
| 1loHl tHS ldHhOus " IlBHl Idlnlly 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. Wilcoxs acquisition has been
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 pennys error since
she took the place.