The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-22
HELLO! HELLO!

dear, this is going TO prove Tue InoSG
convenient thing we ever had IN the
house. When [ want to talk to
anyone [ Just turn this crank and
say 'Hellol HelIop and the girl at
the Central saws FHelloi Hello!
and | tell her who l want and she
calls him up. Now, I'll ask for Mr..
.Speckle Wortle," and Mr.. Spoopen"
dyke turned the crank, utterly for
getting to press the button that
makes the connection.
What does he say? " asked MIS-
Sp03pendyke, cooking her head to
one side, as a woman always does
Wien her husband is trying to
| listen.
He don't say anything yet"
| growled Mr.. Spoopendyke. " He
amt like you. He waits until he
has something important on his
mind and then he says il. Hello!
hello!" roared Mr.. Spoopendyke,
giving the crank vicious twist and
glazing into the enunclator with a
vindictive look. Now, you keep
tn st mouth Of yours tied up, or
you're liable to lose it some day
! with which doIeful representation
| Mr.. Spoopendyke ratified away at the
crank and awaited some sign OF life
at the other end,
81 suppose it is really that glrIs
fault" murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke
Esnufing at the Instrument as though
she smelled the young ladyfrom afsr
and found she was no better than
she ought to be. Il don't suppose
she's there at all. More likely she's
gadding around somewhere"
"What'd we want to talk just then
! for?" howled Mr.. Spoopendyke.
"What's your measly object in
breaking out with the conversational
5 | smallpox at that particular juno
} | ture?s Don't you know she was
| just beginning to talk, and you
made me lose her? 1 tell you one
thing" added Mr.. Spoopendkyke
l with impressive solemity, eff you
r don't shut your mouth once IN 6
while the moths will get IN there
and maketyou trouble"
eff she's only just commenced Il
talk you haven't lost her." replied
Mrs. Spoopendyke, wrinkling he.
nose. "You'll have no trouble will
her if she's got started"
"Hellol hellol call up Mr.. Spec
kleWottlew brawled Mr.. Spoopen
dyke, apparently convinced by hi
Wife's manner or his own experience
"There, she's gone. No use for N
to try anything when you're around
Fl Another time I want to talk througl
a telephone I'll take it over in va
cant lot! Do you know anythin
that will keep you still for me
m ment ?" demanded Mr.Spoopendykt
~ his wrath rising as he contemplate
his ill-usage. "Never mind tn
pense. Just name the article! VIII
didn't you tell me, when you refer
red me to your measly old dad, tina
I was proposing marriage to dod
gasted steam dictionary"
"Say, dear, can / talk through it !:
IL cooed Mrs. SpoOpendyke, anxious
be disarm her husband.
he dis there anything you can't tai
u through? ?" squealed Mr.. Spooper
es, dyke, beginning to realize that theT
70, was something about the telephon
nc that he did not thoroughly under
stand. when I get telephone fG
at you the diaphragm will be of doubl
and twisted wrought steel, wit
~ railroad tracks for wires, and | don
believe that will last more'n a
hour and a half. Hello! hello-C
wake up and call up Specklewottl
dog blast ye!' and Mr.. Spoopendyb
ratified away at the crank until h
arm ached.
"Be patient, dear, you see he
gone, and it's long way to NJ
= Specklewottle's house. Perhaps /
isn't home, and she is waiting fl
him."
"That's the way it works, ell
shrie6ed Mr.. Spoopendyke, glarir
at his wife. ut took you to g
hold of it. When call that gi
she goes home to dinner, and aloI
in the evening she goes around
Specklewottle's house and brinI
him here in a hack. That's ysl
idea of it! Or p'raps you've G
some sort of a notion that she rul
the wire through Specklewottl
turns on the current, and slams hi
right up here, through the side
a the house? That's your idea? We
3 she don't, and she don't break h
n back trying to make a dod gastt
y idiot of herself, like some women
a 81 think 1 understand how
I'D works" faltered Mrs. Spoopendyk
4 "You say, yellow, yellow
sThere's the combination" yell,
Mr.. Spoopendyke. ''You got yo1
work in that time! Why didn't "
tell me [ was bringing this Till
home to the inventor? What'd "
let me stand up here and expla
this thing to the only comprehe
sive brain that ever tackled it fol
You've got it. With what "
G know now and what you've got
find out you only need wig and
Lawsuit to be the whole science
electricity. tell ye this is the WI
it works. and Mr.. Spoopendyl
brought the box down with XII
q that splintered it. "See it work
he demanded, pulling at the wiz
until they cut his hands. "Wat
it, while 1 convey your regards
the other lunatics." And he dane