How to Lay a Nest Egg: Financial Facts of Life for the Average Girl

xiv, 65 pp. "Charming elementary stuff about the stock market, banking, etc. with chapter titles such as "Is Your Bank as Cold and Dull as you Think?" Scott was a senior partner in New York and Philadelphia firm Montgomery, Scott and Company. (This may now be Janney Montgomery Scott.) He gave a series of well received lectures to Philadelphia women in the fall of 1949 titled "Invest in America," which became this book. Scott, former president of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, died in 1995. Great illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Richard Decker. Kimbrough is famous for her fiction and autobiographical writings, including with Cornelia Otis Skinner (Our Hearts Were Young and Gay). In her humorous introduction she discusses her experiences in check writing as a student at Bryn Mawr College. She banked with the Bryn Mawr Trust Company (very much still alive and well today) and details her experience w/ tellers. There's a great image of a woman tending her nest egg in Chapter 1. Other fun images are the front cover with a houswife with her ticker tape machine, plus a cartoon of two women in a ladies' room in which one says to the other, "I can't decide between a mutual fund and six sheer nightgowns.""