Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-12-20
a BREACH on PROMISE CASE.

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Achnming business-like young milliner
who had always been 10 the habit OF tripping
into the bank for her small change, made
her usual visit the other day. and says
Good morning. Mr. Cashier. | have cone
for five dollars worth Of your small change
again
i am sorry to say. Miss --, that we
cannot accommodate YOU was the reply
'Bathere is your promise to pay on de-
mand.'
cannot helpthat.'
Then you break your promise, do you.
Certainly
And with impunity p
To be sure. Our charter allows IL
Allows you TO make as many promises
as you please, and break them when you
please q
Ii may be so construed
All. dear me, bow wish I twas bank
and had cbanef'
Why so Q
Because have made promise-no,
promise TO pay FIVE dollar note, which |
should blush 10 break but promise OF my
very self 10 one do not love-
Why don't you break il then p
Alb. ah. Mr. Cashier. there's the rub
Unlike your bank. have no charter, and
should be sued for breach OF promise. and
heavily fined. Chicago Paper.
Sirfy dollars for a Lady's HaL-The
Philadelphia Saturday Courier says, that on
a certain occasion Joseph Bonaparie was in
the city of Philadelphia. with some members
of bis family, and one Of the young ladies' ex.
pressing desire TO purchase a fashionable
hal for the season. they entered a ton store,
on Chesnut street. and the lady selecting
Leghorn hat. which she fancied. the price
was asked. and Count Surveilers was told
sixty dollarsi He replied Il must decline
10 buy il then true, can afford Il, but
will not Sci so foolish an example"
A day or TWO afterwards. adds the above
paper the fppanl daughter Of dealer in
merchandise, dropped into the same store 10
get fashionable hat for the season. The
nne which the young lady OF the Counts
family had selected. was shown. She was
delig hlrd with Especially. .as the Bona.
psrie's had iancird il" and of course il was
sent home. and the father passed a check for
the sixty dollars. Well, il was admired and
talked about, but whose business was il.
"since her father was so very rich, and they
could aflord2" AYE. there's the rnb," for
ia less than ionr months, the fniher failed for
four or five hundred Thousand dollars, but the
daughter had previously thrown aside the
sixty dollar hat as ''out OF season."
Reading in Childhood. Reading withou,
intelligence Injuries the brain and stomach
mechanically reading with intelligence in
jures both, in the less direct manner OF ner-
vous excitement, but either way, much read
ing and robust health are Incompatible
Only let child. eager for knowledge. be read
10 instead ofallowing him to read to himself,
and the whole Of the mechanical misc hief is
avoided : and again. let him be freely CONVEX,
SEED with. in desultory manner. in the mids.
Of active engagement, and out OF doors and
then. while an equal amount of Information
IS conveyed. and 10 form more readily as
simulated by 1.-The mind. then nearly all the
mischiefs Of excitement. as springing from
study, are also avoided. In word, lei books
in the hand. except as playthings, be. ms
much as possible. held back during the early
period OF education and the later the time at
which they are freely allowed. The better
Home Education.
nr Ills said that the office-holders have
agreed very generally to give each his sal
Try for one yea: TO aid the, election of iS40. |
me half Of which is 10 pay for new spa pers 10 |
,e circulated in the boronghs and by places
# the country. Every Wing should be
,rocurer Of subscribers for Wing papers and
very Wing should be subscriber.
IN. H. Coufierl /