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Show KEEP THEIR MONEY AT HOME Many People in England Evidently Will Not Entrust Saving to the Care of Banks. A vast amount of money still lies Uninvested In the country, declares the London Mall. In a Yorkshire village there Is a fisherman who Is known to have five thousand dollars In notes In bis thirty dollar a-year cottage. He wears clothes which cost about ten dollnra before the war, and owns a ll-hing boat worth one thousand or fifteen fif-teen hundred dollars. In the same village vil-lage n short time ago a fisherman bought bis cottage, nnd whCfl the owner own-er called for a deposit he counted out fifteen hundred dollars In gold, the full purchase price. In a neighboring town there Is at least one fisherman who has five thousand dollars or more In notes in bis intle house, but he cannot can-not be Induced to Invest any of It. When he has been urgtsl to tin so ho has said that he "preferred to have It mar him us It Is safer !" A woman In a Yorkshire country town one morning walked Into a lawyer's otllce and produced pro-duced a handling containing two thousand thou-sand half-sovereigns which she had collected In thirty years. After asking advice on Investing the money sho stated that at night she took the hand bag up to her bedroom. When she traveled she took the handbag with her, and on one occasion left It on the rock lu the train. She remembered her treasure before Shs left the station and recotered IL |
