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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1675, 16 May 1874, Page 2

Anti - Bbeaxjh •of - Pbomise Ikk.-^ " Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink," says Thackeray, "should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries. The best, ink' for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper clean and blank, so that you might write on it to Bomebody else. One could hardly expect anybody would attempt to realise this suggestion of the great satirist; but if we may judge from an advertisement which has lately appeared, something, at any rate, hag been done in this direction. An enterprising tradesman advertises what he calls " Anti-Breach-of-Promise Ink," and he tells us that "writing with this ink disappears before one month, thus avoiding the system of ridicule to which old and young are subjected in their letter* being publicly exposed." Fancy a gentleman sitting 3ow» to write warm letters to the object of his affections, and pro--viding himself beforehand with a loophole for escape in the form of a bottle of Anti-Breach-of-Promise Ink. Imagine the feelings of the lady herself when she finds those treasures of affection she has been in the habit of poring over daily gradually fading away.