Year: 1873

How SHE GOT THAT CHECK CAsuED.-
First she 60. in front Of the discount
clerks window, and out of an exceeding.
ly elegant Russia leather portmonnaie she
extracted check, which she smoothed
out, looking at it with remarkably busi-
ness like air, and pushed it through the
window with charming smile, which
might have softened the heart Of any man
but a discount clerk. This particular
clerk was not hearted, so he took
time, though busy to say You must 60
to the paying teller at the same time
pointing to that individuil


Away went the lady, little discou.
certed but not dismayed. Anybody
might have made that mistake she ar
gued. So she walked up to the next
desk with renewed courage. Now she
must be right, and she resolved to be ex-
ceedingly manly and business-like.


The money on this check, if you
please


'Forty-eght, fity.iour, sixty. .one-eh
Oh check ? Paying teller, sixty.four-
and the clerks head was bent over the
column Of figures he was adding


Finally it struck the lady that possibly
the paying teller might be the proper
person to ee,and after short search she
found his window, with long line OF
persons in front Of it. Now. an average
man would have taken his place in the
rear, and waited his place as patiently as
might be, but nobody could dream Of a
womans 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 half so du!cet, as those she had
used Cd enteriog 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 generally badly en-
treated but being woman she was let
alone, partly from poiteness, but more
because it would take more time to reason
with her than to let her have her own
way-to say nothing Of the chances oi
her having it anyhow. So the paying
teller took the check, glanced at it after
the manner of his class, and politely IN
quired Large or small bills. madam :?
BY this time madam bad become lost in
meditation on the question Of how she
should trim that new walking suit, and
it was some time before she could be
aroused-in fact the question had to be
repeated, not quite so politely.


'WhatY Oh yeas, let me see. Large
| guess.


Three or four of those marvellous flash,
es Of the hands and the bills are before
her. OF course she had to count them
and you know how woman counts mou
ey. First she takes one bill off the pile
and looks at it suspiciously and lays il
down little ways off, then she takes the
next one and then the next, counting ou,
loud all the time, and then she mislays
a bill, and finally she looks up and say,
it amt right, and then she counts it back
again and gdesses it may be right after
all. All that this woman did, and thai
paying teller aud those men and boy,
looked on and called her bessed-only
they spelled it the other way, and ther
that blessed woman rolled up that money
and put it in III, Russia leather port
monnaie, and then she bit her lip ant
looked thoughtful, and then she said il
velvet voice Couldn't you give mt
small bills for half oe this? The payin,
teller intimated that it was in the re
sources Of the bank whereupon she un
rolled the bills and carefully counted Of
half which she cautiously handed over
getting the small bills in return. The
she rolled these up and put them 10 he
portmonnaie, but they filled it SO full
wouldn't clasp,and, of course, she couldn'
60 up Broadway with it gaping open