Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-16
COURTING BY TELEGRAPH.

Everybody knows that for the last few years,
telegraph companies in England have employed
females in the instrument department, Of some of
their principal stations. The work is light and
clean, and very well adapted for young ladies'
Most of them acquire the nrt of telegruphing in o
very short time, and there are now, in the service,
many who are able to send and receive messages
as we'll as the best of the male staff. Young ladies'
are much the same everywhere, and it would, of
course, be next to impossible for them to remain
any length of time in a room without desiring to
hold a fair amount of conversation. As the ma
ture of their employment demands that for the
greater part of the time they are at the office they
must sit at the instrument to which they are ap-
pointed, they cannot very well hold conversation
with their companions. So when o circuit hap
pens to be slack, the young lady who has charge of
it, finds a, great deal Of relief in speaking to the
clerks at the other end Of the wire. After / had
heen some time in the service, and was supposed
to be thoroughly acquainted with the work, | was
appointed 10 q station which l do not wish to be
known by any other name than Merton. After |
had introduced myself to those who were - be
my fellow clerks, / took possession Of the instru-
ment appropriated to me, and, as usual, inquired
the name of the lady with whom | was to work.
Quick as thought, l received for answer, "Amy
Watson, Who are you?" Having given my name
and the station from which l had come, we enter
ed into conversation upon general subjects, such as
the weather, descriptions of different towns through
which we had passed, etc. soon found that in
addition to being an excellent hand at telegraph.
ing, my fair correspondent ives verv entertaining
in conversations; and it was easy to discover from
the way in which she acted during a press of BUSH
ness, that she was of q very amiabIe disposition.
These conversations went on for some time, till at
length l was miserably dull when away from the
instrument, and always eager to discharge, as
!, quickly as possible, those duties which occasional
ly called me away, SO that l might return to speak
to Amy, l was most anxious to see the being who
exercised such an influence over me, and at length,
r after much persuasion, and having obtained the
consent of her widowed mother, we exchanged
portraits, III was in love before, | was doubly 80
now. Having obtained the likeness, / was more
eager than ever to see the original. 10 hear the
sound o. her voice-which / was sure, from the
expression of her face in the portrait, was soft and
sweet-to see her smile on me, and to gaze into
her large, bright, blue eyes, seemed TO me the OBJ,
jects most 10 be desired Of any IN the world. ]
applied for, and obtained, leave of absence for o
o fortnight, and instantly proceeded to n. We
d met; and everything that l had pictured was as
p naught compared to the beauty and amiability oil
the original. Before 1 left, " 9 were engaged to
be married; and three months afterward, having
obtained, through the kindness of my superior Of
6eer, a transfer from Merton to N, Amy Wat
= son changed her name FOR mine. Since then ",
have lived happily, for we are still lovers, and have
never had cause to regret that the principal part o
d our love making was by telegraph. u