Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-07-06
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lOVEMAt<iNG BY TELEPHONE.
faeasant Experiences That Are Some.
times Fraught With Danger.


times Fraught With Danger.
she had dainty, delicately nurtured
little lisp, and he imagined she was pretty.
Ihelr friendship, which had it's birthday
quite recently, was commenced under cir
cnmstances conducive to q display of all
the phases of human nature ranging from
intense disgust to perfect bliss. F..
ne had been nagging away at central for
nalt an hour, trying to get 400. Failing
N 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
as it transmitted them to the hello" girl
at the other end.
She was g. new girl then, and she did not
get mad-he wished 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, I thay, that it'll too bad. l
can't help it, you know"
The lisp told on him, and in subdue1 tones
and modified form 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 succumbed
! ill.,"
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, II
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 blindfoltled 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
| gulf of despair or on the Elysian plains of
hope realized. He wanted to see Der.
She chirruped out few circumstances.
| but he overruled them, and she arranged
! the details of the meeting, which was to
| at 10 o'clock. They were to wear white
roses as 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 heavy bass voice in
| quired:
us this John Smith?"
He had never had 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 cycling
suit and russell shoes He wore white rose.
| Intuitively the anxious watchersconnect-
| ed his interlocutor with ''Alith," and the
| very marrow in his bones took on a 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.
1--WE heard of you often. Indeed you
are about all I 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. I'd have you
know I'm 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 case such thing
should come to pass. The young man ex-
ercised his imagination on the same line
and the picture he conjured up was fa1
from reassuring.
II 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 everybody 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 Chicago News