Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
Automatic Vendors Increase Popularity
Of Quarters, Nickels and 1O-C Cent Pieces

Office. All reporters are nickel hounds
because they are constantly calling the
ONCE to see IL there is any mail in the
box belonging to them.
Because of their hardness for tele-
phone calls and carfares, nickels and
dimes enjoy remarkable popularity
People viii even plan TO spend their
small change so that they will get
nickels and dimes, and it comes as hard
to spend them as to draw money out Of
the bank.
Pennies, however, are anathema---
that Is, copper--to almost every one.
Time was when pennies would buy
yeast cake, but since vitanlins A, B. G,
double x and double o were invented
cents will not buy a solitary vitamin.
People find strange things to do with
the coins they do not like. A girl in
the office puts all of her quarters and
half dollars in q shoe box every night
and starts each day fresh with bills.
Some day perhaps she will get married,
and then she will have a nice little
nest egg Of coins-better than a hope
chest. Other persons give their pennies
to the Salvation Army or put them in
the poor" box in church. Still others
give them to the youngsters to I'LL up
their banks. Others match with them
and thus pass the time away, and some
people spend their dimes for midday
coffee, which seems to be a pretty good
idea just at this writing
You would expect that women would
go contrary to men in the manner in
which they handle their coins. A sur
vey of the habits of half dozen women
shows that they get rid of All their
small coins first and prefer to have the
larger ones in their bags.
Women Prefer Half Dollar.
A woman would rather have a half
dollar in her bag or pocketbook than
Two quarters, 10 dimes or combiiia-
ton of dimes and nickels And as for
pennies, women seem to have a horror
OF them. Ten pennies in a handbag
discolor the inside of the bag and ruin
the lining. They take up more than 10
cents worth of valuable space They
get tangled up with lipsticks, powder
pun, compact, and they nick the silver
on mirrors. Ten pennies are alto
gether too bulky, and although the
mendicants who peddle pencils in the
street and who solicit aims believe that
women are more generous than men.
because. more of them drop coins into
the tin cup than men, the real object
Is not alms-giving but getting rid of the
bulky small change.
For coins women seem to prefer half
dollars but to women coins appear 10
be q necessary evil. They would rather
have bills. One woman declared that
she starts every day with only bills In
her handbag. When she gets home a
night she empties all coins from her
bag with the exception of dime for
the next mornings carfare, and she
throws all of the days leftover coins
into a box. When the box is loaded
with coins she gathers them all together
and brings them down to the corner
store to have them changed into bills
again. ~
Another woman runs an account with
the corner news agent. She gets her
paper each day and pays for It at the
end Of the week It saves weighing her
bag down with pennies and small
change. Il
Women usually have two pocketbooks
for money. Bills go into one COMPARE
ment of their handbags and coins 70
into q small, dinky extra pocketbook
which fits inside the handbag. Some
of the little change pocketbooks were
never made for utility. Three pennies,
two dimes and couple OF quarters will
NIL them to capacity and cause them
to bulge out.
A woman doesn't make very many
telephone calls, so she does not stock up
on nickels for that purpose. When she
wants to make call she usually must
breaMa bill or a larger coin.