The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-01
rHE TYPEWRITER GIRL.
Queer Customers She Meets in tho Hotels
of Large cities

1 Queer Customers She Meets In tho HoteIs
of Large cities.
81 don't know" said the typewriter
efyl at one of the big hotels, "whether I
ought to soll reporter any thing about
tho letters / sometimes get The men
who dictate thom always seem to think
there arc reporters lurking about, and
so they insist on my not telling about
them. But get some funny things
sometimes" and she smiled as she
thought of them."
"Do you ever have any love letters
dictated to youp"
"Yes, / have had three or four OF
them. / have often wondered how the
young lady who receives type-written
letter feels about 1t. / should send 1t
back, IL l were in her place. 1t seems
60 cold, and the idea OF a third party
intervening! There was one man die
tated one twenty pages long one day.
In places it grew so very gushing that
he said: Just leave " few lines there;
I'll write it in While he was gushing
away l sat very demuro 7, quite uncon-
scious to all outward appearances, Of
what he was saying. Finally, he couldn't
bear it any longer, and said: 'Er-er.
you don't seem to know any thing of
what am saying said, No, l DON'T
and went on with the work, although /
was laughing in my sleeve all the time.
''Then, have had some experience
with men who are slightly intoxicated.
There was one man here one day who
wrote three letters to his wife at inter-
walls of fifteen minutes. He said he had
not written for three days, and 50 he
owed her these three. The first one
read: My dear wife-I have beer hero
two days, and been drunk all the time.
You know what that means That was
all he said. The next began: My
Dearest Wife, and the third, My Dar-
ling All three wouldn't have made an
ordinary letter. l put them all on ono
piece of paper, and put 1t in an envelope
and sent it to his wife. The morning Of
the third day he came to dictate an
other, which began, Thursday morning
finds me right sioe up with care and it
did, for he was in good condition, and
completely recovered. He insisted on
telling me that he loved his wife and
she loved him, and that the Cincinnati
atmosphere SO affected him that he had
to drink to bear up under 1t.
another time there was gentleman
who dictated seven or eight letters to
different ladies and had to leave them
to me to address. He was very much
worried for fear would send the wrong
letters to the wrong people. was very
much tempted to mix them up, but / re-
Trained.
"Do the men who dictate to you, as a
general thing, seem to think that you
know what they are talking about?"
"No, they seem to look on me as ma
chine. Very often representative Of
one firm will come in and dictate about
some business matter, giving a rival
firm terrible raking over the GOALS;
very often my next customer is repre-
sentative of the rival firm, and he, Of
course, returns the compliment A
typewriter gets the inside of many
business deal. But never say any
thing that will go to show that l know
these things. There was gentleman
told me the other day that typewriter
in one of the Chicago hotels unwittingly
lost him contract worth thousands of
dollars by talking about it to one OF his
rivals. So I always keep very quiet
when any thing of that kind comes
along. ."-Cincinnati Times Star.