The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-08-28
Hdvice to
Girls
Mbo Mork

II you are the wife OF a man OF af-
fairs or the daughter OF some wen paid
worker you may answer In the affirm
alive without a thought as to the de-
STABILITY OF this possession. II, on the
other hand, you are one Of the thou
sands OF working women who can de-
pend only upon their own brains to
bring In their daily portion OF bread
you may be forced 10 admit that q
bank account has been the object Of
your dreams for many a year, but that
you have never been able to make It q
realization. Try as hard as you could
Few business women know how to
save money.
But" perhaps you remOnstrate,
how can put anything away when
all my salary goes to pay my way In
the woridT
Saving Is no doubt dimcult when the
weekly stipend u small, but even I'M
der these circumstances something
should be put away II for no other rea-
son than the one OF cultivating the saw
ing habit. Hundreds-no, Thousands
OF women have enough intelligence to
make money, and good sums Of money,
too, but few have enough sense to save
even a small portion OF their earnings.
And yet a bank account Is their only
protection against sickness, old age or
loss OF position-the only means Of
giving the worker any Independence
and personal freedom
The girl who has no bank account Il
forced to put up with all sorts OF incon-
veniences; she cannot give up employ
ment which b uncongenial, because
she has nothing to draw upon while
looking for another opening. II she be
comes Ill she must call upon friends or
relatives for aid. and II she Is 50 I'M
fortunate as to be alone IN the city she
may even be forced to become the OBJ
Jet Of charity.
With this possibility In view one
would think that every feminine
worker would realize the importance OF
saving. But apparently few wage
earners do. You find the girl behind
the counter spending her nickels and
her dimes on candles and the movies
Just as you find her sister In a higher
scale Of endeavor throwing away her
hard earned dollars on lnnumerable
new hats, blouses and theater tickets.
Both have the happy optimism which
Il Characteristic Of many women who
earn their living. They live In the
present, refusing 10 look into the
future
Begin now to put away something
every week Perhaps It WIN be only
% cents II the pay envelope Is pitifully
small, but % cents every week amounts
to a fair sum at the end Of the year.
The point at the beginning Is not how
much you save. but the fact that you
save consistently. After awhile the
sum viii increase, and. having acquired
the saving habit, you win have at your
disposal a sum OF money that f. quite
respectable In its proportions
The greatest drawback to saving Is
that once a woman has a good position
she believes she win go on holding it
indefinitely. Unfortunately, prosperity
brings optimism with II, and few wom-
en- who are making more money than
usual can persuade themselves that
they may ere long make less. Then to
the prosperous woman saving Is unat-
tractive; its returns look to her TO be
50 insignificant. eve are referring now
to the wage Garner and not to the
woman who can put by a 800 at q
time) For the wage Garner saving Is
saving pure and simple