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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1948, 3 January 1914, Page 6

Tho Anglo-American Music Store, 116 Cuba Street, advertise in this issue .a now list of favourite pieces for tho pianoforte. • The Citv Band will plnv at Lyall Bay at 3 o'clock to-morsow afternoon. Cole's Drapery Co., ■ Manners Street, havo reduced the nrice of a quantity of their high-class goods for to-day only. Tho formation of tho habit of thrift by children attending tho Victorian State schools is receiving consideration from tho Education Department. In a memorandum which ho has issued, Mr. F. Tato, tho Director of Education, has directed tho attention of teachers to tho advantages of penny savings banks. Pupils who acquire accounts lose their zest for lollies, marbles (cigarette cards aro considered an excellent substitute, and can bo cajoled out of smokers), and other luxuries, and find a pleasure in watching their pennies grow into shillings, and their shillings into pounds. In 1912 a penny savings hank was established at tho Tooronga Road State school, East Malvern, and the enterprise has been attended with buccess. Tho depositors now number 318, and their saving havo amounted to £183 3s. Other schools followed tho Malvern lead, and pennies havo been ringing into tho banks with gratifying regularity. Officers of tho Department express tho opinion that tho banking movement has "caught on," and will not ceaso until all tho schools havo their littlo banks. "Do you know where I can get a good set of teeth for nothing?" "Yes; go into some backyard and kick a strango dog." "Yes," sho said, "when I was young J was oagerly sought after." "What reward was offered?" asked tho Eweet young girli