EVE’S ACCOUNT.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1926, Page 4

EVE’S ACCOUNT.

Looking through iny hooks. 1 find that of a hundred private accounts taken ai random women and girls are responsible lor 12. whereas six years ago the percentage was Id. This does not mean that women now possess three times the wealth that was theirs in .January 11)20. hut ii does prove that they have developed the .hanking habit, says a, hanker in an English .journal. .Most of these accounts, which are fairly evenly distributed between married and single women, do not run into three figures. There was a time when the stranger who could not begin with a. throi : -ligure deposit was turned away, hut there tire- few hanks nowadays that despise small things. To her intense surprise, our modern miss has discovered that her hanker is not the dry-us-dusl old stick she mice pictured. Me now stands revealed more as a fairy godfather ulm pilots her through Ktirope with letters of credit, introductions, am! advice. 'I his is milady’s oveidralt season. ()| the 42 fair financiers referred to, a dozen have been allowed to overdraw their acounts, and another Id have reduced their deposits to within a tew pounds. JVliy is tin' hanker willing to allow Eve those generous advances:' Probably the delighted winter spurts girl neither knows nor cures; slit l is content to take it and Ik- thankful. Actually iL is all a matter of mutual confidence. Madam

has entrusted her capital to the hank lor one year, three years, five years, and has always .‘been in funds. 'Why distrust her when she requires a. little extra for her trip 1.0 Switzerland or Nice? A few .days or weeks and the balance will lit* once more on the right side, for experience has taught the hanker that women customers are holiest as the day is long. The hanker watches his customer’s account much as the meteorologist studies a thermometer. The rise and tall is rogistcivd month by month, and if Eve’s balance has been increasing steadily during eleven months oi the veal- she will scarcely he denied tile right to touch "zero" when Alpine snow - beckon her.