St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-13

To the telephone girl, that mysterious
creature whose abode is on the top floor
of the city hall, whose silvery voice
and ripping laughter is heard over the
'phone, who talks as freely with the
persons on her line as if they were old
cnums. lifelong friends, but who is
never seen-to her experience, her
trials, her joys, her everyday life, this
article is devoted. The telephone girl,
mysterious creature though she be to
most of those who are called upon to
hold converse with her-for she is to
them but voice. nothing more-is
good deal of a mortal and but little diff
ferent from her sister who is seen every
day. Mere fleeting voice though
she be, she sits in the Central
office and reads you lectures on
how to use telephone, instructs you in
the sort of language to be used toward
lady, tells you how the base ball game
resulted, makes bets of chewing gum
against caramels ON almost any topic,
gets even with you by letting you ring
till you are tired if you once excite her
ill-will, and in everything conducts her.
self Just as if she were real flesh and
blood creature, instead Of tones, in
Elections and words merely. The tele-
phone girl is genuine flesh and blood,
and hence sometimes loses her temper;
but ordinarily she is as pleasant and
sweet as flowers in May.
mo wonder we get cross som etimes,"
remarked TELEPHONE girl the other day.
'MOst any one would lose his temper IL
compelled to undergo what we have to.
4 r. 1lnn
man in ten knows how to use a tele-
at it as if they were trying to
Z make their voices heard, without
{ telephone, in North Dakota. After
thine their telephones are injured, and
when some one comes in to use it who
understands how to do it, he finds that
1.-THE man at the other end OF the line
cannot hear him unless he below like
mad bull, which causes the proprietor
! of the place, who spoiled the telephone
\ by his rawlings, to turn in and roast the
Telephone girls, the company and tele-
phones in general. They haven't as
much sense when they come to use a
telephone as would answer for two
weeks old baby, and invariably make
fools of themselves when they tackleit.
The only right way to use telephone
IS TO talk TO IL LII dn OTuludiy tOliC VI
voice. 1t will carry that sort of CONVEX
sation as we'll as it will series of yells.
The exercise of little common sense
by these telephone users would end in
sweetening their tempers and in reliev-
ing us from great deal of annoyance.
s.Then we have to put up with another
nuisance in the shape of the man who Is
always mad if his call is not answered
Instantly when he gives his bell a short
ring. Sometimes a girl has her hands
full for minute and cannot answer the
very moment the bell is rung. When
such an occasion arises this-I don't like
to call him au old fool-wili ring for full
three minutes, and say something mean
/ like did you hayea good nap, Central?'
or Have you been out for a drive, Cen
tral?' or DO you always go to sleep just
that way, Central?' 1t makes me so
mad that I could break their measley
old heads. They seem to think that we
never have more than that one line and
that one telephone to attend to-"
After this trade against his sex, the
GLOBE man was a trifie chary about
pursuing the conversation, since it was
Just possible that he had been guilty of
some of those practices against which
the telephone girl exclaimed SO loudly.