Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
Dauahters of Dixie IN Business Life
EARN 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 formst
/ Augusta society girl VINO has become
teller in the savings department Of the
Fourth National bank. Is bringing Ut
/ 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 II
requires just as great ability to sue
/ cessfully conduct the boarding house
! as it takes to run a bank"
Mrs Wilcox has had experience IL
both When. widow. she came to
Atlanta from her family home in Au-
gusta three years ago she faced the
necessity Of making q livelihood for
Herself and daughter and she solved it
first by way Of the boarding house
She made a success Of 1t, but she adj
mits that she found 1t far from
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 a very simple way of gar
nel1ng the pot of gold Well it isn't
by any manner of means. I've got
tremendous respect for woman who
has made a successful andlady
Landlady Must Be Fnaneier.
IF she's come out even a that BUSH
ness it means that she Is not only "a
competent cook. but fnancier
think it takes more mathematics to run
a money making boarding house than
it takes to run store.
That's a reason that every girl
ought to he taught the science. No
girl can tell how soon she'll be thrown
| upon her own resources and she'H 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 10 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 a girl should
be made to earn some money of her
own, bank 1t in real bank keep ne
own accounts, even make investments
Now I've only been teller in he
savings department al the Fourth Ma
| tional for about three weeks but in
that little time | know 1t has given
me the most valuable experience and
| insight into human nature ! have ever
known 1t has proved TO me that wom
an is more thrifty than man. Tve
never footed it up exactly, but | know
hat 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
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 nov
Faith in Women Grows.
/ MY faith in women as practical
Americans has bounded up tremen-
dously since I've been a the teller's
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 Al the
Fourth National the officers say that
Mrs WilcoX's acquisition has been 4
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 heures
has never shown pennys error since
she took the place