The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-13
LoVEMAKING BY TELEPHONE.
Pleasant Experiences That Are Some
times Fraught With Danger.

Pleasant Experiences That Are Some
times Fraught With Danger.
She had a dainty, delicately nurtured
little lisp, and he imagined she was pretty.
Their friendship, which had its birthday
quite recently, was commenced under cir
cumstanccs conducive to a display of all
the phases of human nature ranging from
intense disgust to perfect bliss
He had been nagging away at central for
half an hour, trying to get 400. Failing
in the attempt, he had allowed his temper
to get the best of him. and from the depths
of a perturbed soul he had uttered words
so objectionable that the wire fairly sized
it transmitted them to the hello girl
at the other end.
She was a new girl then, and she did not
get mad-hewished afterward she had-but
answered in voice that his guilty con-
science told him was all a-tremble with the
throbbing of lacerated heartstrings:
''Oh, now, 1 thay, that it'll too bad. I
can't help it, you know"
The lisp told on him, and in subdued tones
and modified fo>m of speech he ventured to
suggest that it might not be amiss for her
to tell her name. To his surprise she
patched up her wounded feelings enough to
answer. "Alith," and then he succum bed
completely to the charm of that musical
''th.' y
From that time he has had no cause to
complain of the girl at the central Office.
Every morning he has asked her how he
looks; every morning she has answered, Il
can't thee over the 'phone," and every
morning he has breathed forth volumes of
alteration, TO all of which she has lisped
back sentences fraught with similar SEN
timent.
On the anniversary of their acquaintance
he told that he had been blindfolded wor-
shipper at the shrine of beauty long enough
and that he intended to put stop to that
haphazard leaping in the dark that was
bound to land him sooner or later either in
a gulf of despair or on the Elysian plains of
hope realized. He wanted to see her.
She chirruped out few remonstrances,
but he overruled them, and she arranged
the details of the meeting, which was to
take place at jackson and La Sale streets
at IL o'clock They were to wear white
roses as a sign of recognition. He was there
on schedule time. She failed to appear. At
the end of Is minutes his brow was bathed
in perspiration produced by the pillows of
doubt and impatience that surged DER his
heart.
At half past 10 some one tapped him on
the shoulder, and a heavy bass voice in
quired:
rs this John Smith?''
He had never bad cause to be ashamed of
his cognomen, and he said he was that in
dividual The owner of the voice was a
tall, muscular man, dressed in a cycling
suit and russell shoes. He wore q white rose
Intuitively the anxious watcher connect
ed his interlocutor with ''Alith,'' and the
very marrow in his bones took on frigid
temperature
You are the man who has been making
love to Alice over the telephone, aren't
you?" asked the bicycle rider, edging nearer
He said he was.
I've heard of you often. Indeed you
about all l have heard of for the last
six months, and / am getting tired of it,
When she told me about this escapade, /
couldn't stand it any longer. Ed have you
know Pm engaged to that young lady my
self. and it's my bOunden duty to see that
she isn't subjected to any more annoyances
from you over that telephone, and if you
dare to appoint another place of meeting,
by JOve, Pip
He paused to consider Just what course of
action he would pursue in such thing
should come to pass The young man ex-
ercised his Imagination the same line,
and the picture he conjured up was far
from reassuring.
81 guess you understand me-" his foe
added significantly.
The young man was too badly frightened
to understand much of anything just then,
but the look of warning in the others eyes
could not be misconstrued, and he signifed
his willingness to let the whole matter drop
if every body else connected with the affair
was
His dream is ended. This morning he
pasted four new rules in the notebook which
is his constant companion They are:
Avoid all hello girls.
Avoid girl that lisps.
Avoid girls named ''Alith."
Avoid bicycle riders.-Chicago News.