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Show I HOW CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT TO SAVE A new device encourage children to sac is described in the "Daily' Consular and Trade Reports.-' by ' George X. Ifft. our consul at Nuremberg. Nurem-berg. Germany The device is a slot machine into,1 which one may depoEi; a ten-pfennig piece almost two and a half cents Thereupon the machine delivers a gummed ten-pfennig 63vlng6 stamp ; This device had been originated by j the City Savings bank nt Nuremberg, Nurem-berg, a municipal Institution Thei bank furnishes without charge a savings sav-ings card, five inches square marked "ff info twenty squares To this card the stamps are to be attached, and when the card Is filled up it represents repre-sents a value of two marks nearly j fifty cents lpon presentation at the : bank the depositor Is credited with I that amount. One of these automatic machines was placed in the corridor of the bank office at the city hall and the! other two In the corridors of high school buildings. The success of these slot machines baa been so great that Mr. Ifft now in-' forms us of the city's purchase of five additional mcchine to be placed In Chool buildings and street car wait ; IB ing rooms. This Is an excellent suggestion for IH Ogden saving? banks. By the use of similar machines, stamps and cards, the banks might accomplish much good anions the children and draw to their resources many a nickel. |