Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-12-01
Lovs IN The GOOD Old WAY.
The Telephone Girl objects to Ediss n
Interfering.

tine teieRnOne eACuAuR6 az FOuEtu hho
Market streets. All day long her dreamy
eyes wandered over the numbers, or her
dainty, shell like, rosetinted ear was
pressed to the receiver in answer TO the
ring for exchange. Ever and anon her
silvery voice would fit over the wire
bringing Joy and enchantment to the
bald -hesded patrons Of the telephone,
who often gave three rings and cried
Hello exchange for the qualification
they found in hearing her bell-like voice
answer, "Heliol" Never impatient, ever
prompt to answer calls she has become
one Of the necessaries Of the Office. and
to the bald-beeded business men Of the
city she Is as necessary an adjunct to the
exchange as Is the telephone itself.
There is one peculiar call, however,
| that is as charming TO her as her charm
ing Beloi" Is to the young old men,
VINO so long to hear it, 1t consists OF
| five short, sharp and decisive rings. and
when they are given the fairy-like form
fits TO the receiver and the one who has
called can he the palpitations OF a
loving heart, as he stands at the other
end OF the line The call consists OF only
| Eve short, sharp rings now, but she
hopes, as time passes that he will add
1
solitaire or plain gold band.
He is s young drug clerk. All day
long he is grinding various compounds
with pessle and mortar, filtering or psr-
cola,ing or searching through the materie
medca In q vain endssvor to find thn
component parts Of gag prescription
some Of his young friends have sent for
him TO ell. He would barter his chance
OF Heaven itself for one hours enjoy
men. over the telephone could he have
all OF the electrical appliances he desires
| To him Paradise is one vast telephone
exchange and thess fairy like electrical
maidens the hourii who inhabit the bliss
full region.
But, see be has arranged his fitering
paper In the glass, poured the liquid into
the funnel shaped receptacle, and as II
unsteady drios, drips. drips into this
graduate below, he steps to the corner OF
the leborai ory, sees that the coast Is
clear, and fsverlshly grasps tho handle
that rings the telephone bell
ne--two-three--f our-6vel Short,
sharp and decisive The call Of love
Not the soft cooling OF a contented love,
but the impatient, fretful vail of love
that Is plunged into the depths OF uu-
certainty, aud would pull itself ont Of
the slough of despond by telephone
wire.
There is hurrying OF feet at Fourth
and Market A palpitation OF the pure
young heart A eoftening OF the dove
like eve. a roseate flush upon the fair
young cheek, and the next moment th,
alabaster neck Is arched gracefully, anC
the she'll like ear is pressed to the re-
ceiver.
Hello exchange
BE resolves his answer. Not the plair
"hello" but
well. dearest"
Here | am"
Il have been listening for your ring
for almost an hour
well, dearest, this is the first oppor
tunity nave had to-day. We have beel
very busy Let us make hay while tn,
sun shines. love, and make electricit,
the transmitter of our mutual affection
, For several days have been engaged ii
! studying books pertaining to the practi
cal application OF electricity as a mean
OF long distance courtship. From wha
can ascertain there is no limit to tn
electrical possibilities In this line. No'
. for instance, II | had squeezsophone
. you might take hold Of IL Rt your end o
/ the line, and might grasp it here, an,
l could squeeze your hand softly, an,
whisper loving words into your ca
and
"0h dearest hush"
Eyes, love, and then ! could have 9
hugsphone Pass my arm around you
slender waist and press you closely {
my beating heart"
NOW, love, II You don't hush will
leave the 'phone-I will indeed Suppose
someone should hear you
II cannot hush, love. The beatings O
my heart are stronger than reason, AL
! then-oh blissful bliss-lf could bu
have an osculatlonaphone and press no
d lips unto your rosebud mouth, the joy
! of heaven would seem, but dross an
/ Dearest, you are an incorrigble tease
must leave the phone now as Inspecto
Cotton has just rung to ask me II | hsv
heard Joseph l.. Carpenter. Jr., sayir
, anything over the wire to-day concern
r ing a third arrest for election fraud T.
Stay yet one moment, love. And /
/ | could have . miIrorphone. aud look in
4 TO thy loving eyes as | asked the momen
Z tions question that is TO settle my futur
: fate would it,"
Dearest, it would never do. Tn
o now who wins a woman must stand nea
4 30 ber--face to face, eye TO eye, lip {
4 lip, and not rely upon any other appii
4 ances than those that have been 10 vogu
4 since the creation OF mankind Ediso
4 may revolutionize business methods b
( electricity, but never, with my consent
I will be trespsss nj on he sacred rights {
! womaLkind by any OF his long dstans
electrical appliances. But"
a Ring-Ring-Rin
n There ia the call for exchange love
u will see you this evening and then tai
2 to me, love, in the sweet old way
!. She fits from the phone. With a sig
n he rings on to exchange and slow
walks around the corner Of the labors
/. tory to hnd that his second best girl hs
a quietly entered during the foregoin
% conversation and with flashing eyes an
q trembling lips savagely asks for ecu
"a worth Of sachet powder. He then rea
N isss that what Josh Billings says Is on
" too true: Tho hardest thing / ev,
Be tried to do in my life was to court tv
Ii girls at once
"A Right Arm Amputatea.
y EphrAim w. Frazier, Of No. $40 Was
is iRgton street, freight conductor on d
be p, W. & B. railroad had his right ar
/ cAught hetUean tho humpnr9 - ..