Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-10-18
GETTING A CHECK cAsHED.
Banking Experiences Of an Over Confident
Young Woman.

lowed by the editor to tell the folio ling
story. or course we shall soon hear Of
the death OF the rash young man, and
equally Of course the verdict OF the jury
at tue trial of the murderess will be
"justifabie Insanity"
FIRST she got in front of the discount
clerks window, and out of an exceed
ingly elegant Russia leather portemonnale
she extracted a check, which she
smoothed out, looked at 1t with a re-
markably business-like air, and pushed
IL through the window with a most
charming smile, which might have
eoftened the heart OF any man bnt dis
count clerk. This particular clerk was
not hard-hearted, so he took time,
though busy, 10 say, You must go to
the Paying Teller" at the same time
pointing to that individual.
Away went the lady, little discon-
certed but not dlsmayed. "Anybody
might have made that little mistake"
she argued. So she walked up to the
next desk with reBewed confidence
Now she must be right, and she resolved
to be exceedingly manly and business
like.
"The money on this check, if you
please"
Foty-eight, flfty-four, sixty-one -ehl
oh Check Paying Teller, sixty -four"
and the clerks head was bent oyer the
column of figures he was adding.
Finally II struck the lady that possibly
the Paying Teller might be the proper
person to see, and after a short search
she found his window, with a long line of
persons In front of II. Now an average
man would have taken his place in the
rear, and waited his turn as patiently as
might be, but nobody could dream OF a
woman's doing that, and Of course this
one did nothing of the sort, not she. She
marched firmly up TO the window, and In
tones not more than half as dulcet as
those she had used on entering the bank,
asked for the money on that check. Now
If she had been man, she would have
been snubbed by the teller, showed by the
men, laughed at by the boys, and gener
ally badly treated but, being woman,
she was let alone, partly from politeness,
but more because II would take more time
TO reason with her than to let her have
her own way Ito say nothing of the
chances Of her having 1t anyhow. 30 the
paying teller took the check, glanced at
it after the manner of his class, and
politely inquired: Large or small
bills, madame But by this time
madame had become lost In meditation
on the question Of how she should trim
that new walking suit, and IL was
some time before she could be aroused
In fact the question had TO be repeated,
not quite 40 politely.
"whati Oh yeas, let me see. Large
l guess"
Three or four of those marvellous
a.. g Aa Ia M hu L. ha
fore her. or course she had to count
them, and you know how woman counts
money. Firet she takes one hill utf the
pile aud looks at It suspiriously, and lays
It down little ways off, then she takes
the next one and then the next, counting
out loud all the time, and then she mislays
a bill, and finally she looks up and says
II ain't right, and then she counts II back
again and guesses II may be right after
all. All that this woman did, and that
Paying Teller and those men and bows
looked on and called her blessed -only
they spelled It the other way, aud then
that blessed woman rolled up that money
and put il In the Russian leather port
monnaie, and then she bit her lip and
| looked thoughtful, ard then she said iu
''velvet voice 20 "CouldD't you give me
small bills for half of this 2" fhe Pay
ing Teller intimaLed that IL was in the re-
sources of the bank, whereupon she
unrolled the bills and carefully counted
of half, which she cautiously handed
over, getting the small bills in return
Then she rolled these up and put them IL
| the pOrtnonnais, but thsy alSd ~ ful
1t wouldn't clasp, and of course sh'
couldn't 70 up Broadway with 1t gaping
open.
SO after she had tried to shut II few
times she said "0h, dear they re II
such a wad, couldn't you give me Hbou
s25 in small bills and the rest in large 2
Silently that teller took those bills hii
heart was too full for utterance mourn
fully be made the exchange and solemnll
he handed back the money. He didn'
swear out loud, but his lips were moving
and If that recording angel who blolteC
Uncle Toby's oath with tear was oil
duty that day, he must have had severe
crying spell Just then. AT last, at half
past two, she rolled up those bills pu
them in that portemounaie. picked up he
parasol and gloves, which she had laid OF
The shelf, aud smiled sweetly and said ;
"There They said l couldn't get
check cashed, but | told them l could
and have"
Then that teller opened his month AM
said ;"Madam, you have"
And she had.
As to what all those waiting men anC
boys said, our reporter says he can't yer
well write II down because it's mos
represented by dashes.
And that woman still lives, and bra G
on how easy 1t is to get money at banl
il you only know how.