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responsible for any loss which may
occur in the handling o f the funds.
To the primary classes in particu­
lar the “ House of Thrift” is a source
o f continued interest. These young­
sters make their deposits during the
recess period, under the supervision
o f their class teacher, and the occa­
sion becomes more o f a game than
a business transaction to them. The
older boys, who need no supervision,
make their deposits individually dur­
ing the noon period or at any other
free time.
As interest is credited to the
school on the total sum of all ac­
counts under $5, a goodly interest
fund has accumulated. Dr. Mason
plans to use part of this fund for an
intensive thrift campaign next fall.
A drive will be made to increase the
number o f depositors from the pres­
ent 60 per cent of the school popula­
tion to the full 100 per cent.
Of course, withdrawals are made
as well as deposits. All withdrawals,
however, must pass under the super­
vision of Miss Isabelle Dennis, assis­
tant to principal, who is in direct
charge of the bank. Christmas and
Easter, as well as Mother’s Day, usu­
ally make a dent in the size of the
deposits.
Best $1.00 Ever Spent
I am an operator for 15 years and
this is the best $1.00 I have spent.
I cover about 1000 locations.
H ARVEY L. DOUNS,
510 Vamum Ave.,
Lowell, Mass.
Forty-five passengers who landed
at New York on a French liner had
no passports. A steward throwing
away waste paper had picked up the
envelop containing the passports and
by mistake dumped them overboard.
There are more telephones in New
York City than in London, Paris,
Berlin, Brussels, Vienna and Rome
combined.
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Quite So! But It Gets
Pennies
Slot machines that tell you how
much you weigh are patronized (shall
we say heavily?), by women in these
dieting days. One of the most amus­
ing of the outdoor sports is to ob­
serve the representatives of the fair
sex as they weigh in. It is done fur­
tively, almost stealthily. A woman
approaches a weighing .machine now
much in the manner of a small boy
about to purloin an apple out o f the
grocer’s basket. For women these
days are more finicky about their
poundage than they are about their
age. Some clever manufacturer of
weight machines, sensing a great op­
portunity in this situation, has de­
vised one that does not dial the age,
but instead disgorges a small card on
one side o f which is printed the date
of the weighing and the avoirdupois
achieved on the machine. This de­
vice is said to be extremely popular
with the women of our time.
So secretive have women become
in the matter of their weight that
it is said that many of them are fore­
going their trips to .Europe rather
than reveal to the immigration offi­
cials the necessary information for
their passports.
I don’t know what the correct
feminine weight is for 1926. But I
do know that if a man is as old as
he feels, a woman, by the same token,
is as old as she weighs.
The rare bird among the female of
the species is she who is fat and
doesn’t care.— Detroit News.
Will Tax Machines
Seal Beach, Calif. — Owners o f
vending machines will be required to
pay a license hereafter in Seal Beach
according to a new ordinance. Penny
machines will carry a license fee of
$1 a year and all other $12 a year.
Jamaica produces about one-third
of the world’s banana supply.
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