The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-05
A Est OF CsniciSm--How She Got tina:
Check Coshcd.
A renorter is allowed to tell the following

A reporter is allowed to tell the following
story:
First she got In front Of the discount
clerks window. and out Of an exceedingly
elegant Russia-'eather porte-monnaic she tN-
tracted a check, which she smoothed out.
looked Mt it with a remarkably buslness-Iike
air. and pushed if through the window WIN
most charming style. which mlght nave
saf,encd the heart OF any man but discount
clerk. This particular clerk was not hara'
hearted, 80 he took time, though busy. 10
say: "You must go to the payinSie!ler. ut
the same time pointing towards that ihai'
ridual.
Away went the lady, little Disconnected.
but not dismayed. Anybody mlsiit nave
made THAT little mistake she argued. 50
she walked upto the next desk win renewed
confidence. Now she must be right, ana sue
resolved to be exceedingly maniy anu bu'i-
ncs$-lise :,
.Fortv-ci2ht, tifty-four, sixty Ole h '
Oh check! Payiug-tellcr. siy.y-four and
the clerks head was bent over tue column OF
figures he was adding.
Finally, it struck the lady that possibly
the pying.teIier might he the proper person
10 see, aud after short search she found his
window with long line of persons IN front
OF II. Now. an average man would nave
tllcu his place in the rear, and waited his
turn rs patiently US might be, but nobnd.
could dream of u woman's doing that, and.
of course, TIL, one did nothing Of the sor;
not She. She marched firmly up to the WIN
dow, and in tones not more than halt Us
ducet as those she had used on entering The
'nnk. asked for the money on that check.
Now if she bad been man. she would
Lave been snubbed by the teller,
shoycd by The men, laughed at h, the
bows, and generally badly treated; but,
being a woman, she was lei alone, partly
rom poltenc>o, but more because It would
tukr more time to reason with her than to
l.. her have her own way--to say nothing
ot the chances of her having it anyhow. so
the paying-teller took the check, glanced
al i alter the manucr OF his class, and po-
IteIy inquired: Large or small bills,
lnadam;" But by this time madam had
become lost in meditation on the question OF
how she would trim that new waking suit,
and it was sometime before she could be
2r,used-in fact, the question had to be re-
peated, not quite so politely:
What Oh ye-a2, let me see. Large,
guess
Three or four of those marvellous flashes
of course she had to count them, and you
know how woman counts money. First
sac takes one bill of the pile and looks at il
su<piciously and lays 1t down little ways
vii; then she takes the next one and then
the next, counting out loud al! the time, and
then she mslays a bill, and finally she looks
up and says it ART right, and then she
cunts II back again and gue>Ses she may he
RIGHT after ul. All that this woman did,
and that payiug-tellcr aud those meu and
bows looked on anu called her bleS3ed-On!y
,!iey spelled it the other way, and then tn 1t
blessed woman rolled up that money and
!ut 1t il the Ku>sia-leather portc-monnaie,
and then she bit her lip and looked thought
ful, and then she said in "yelvct voice: y
"ccuIdnt YOU give me small bills for half
II tb,s!' The riying-telier intimated that
II was III the resources of the bank, where
Unnu she uurolled the bills and carefully
counted OIL half, which she cautiously hand
ed over, getting the small bills in return.
J ben she rolled these up and put them in
tie lrorte-mounale, but they filled it 50 full 1t
wouldn't clasp, aud Of course she couldn't 20
up Broadway with it gaping open. So, after
she bad tried TO shut il Il few times, she -ad !:
"th. dear. they're in such wad, couldn't
YOU give me about so in small bills
took those bills; his heart was too full! for
utt..ancc; mournfu!ly he made the exchange
and solelnnly he handed back the money.
lie didn't swear cut loud, but his lips We're
mGvlDg, ami if that recording angel VIC
bIotttd uncc Toby'S oath with a tear WAS
on duty that day he must have had a severe
cryius spell just then. AT last, at hafpaSt
2, sh- rolled up those bills. put them in that
por,e-ponuae, picked UP her parasol and
gloves, which she had laid OH the shelf, and
smiled sweetly and said:
There. They said couldn't get 4 check
ca~heG but told 'cm knew could; and
have"
Then that teller opened his mouth and
sid, -" Madam, you have"
Aud She bad.
As TO what all those waiting men and boys
y,jd. our reporter says he cart very well
write it down, because its mostly represent
I'd by daShes.
And that woman still! lives and blp2s uu
how easy it Is 10 get money nj a bank ii you
only know how.