Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-10-06
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siddy Partisan Hello Girls Played Prank.

Giddy Partisan Hello Girls Played Franks
Upon Subscribers.
Oh, ladies, ladies', Will not even
the solemn responsibilities of official
life-of sharing in the burdens and
glories of public administration-re-
deem your breasts from frivolity
Two of that sex from which we are
wont to derive, or at least to seek,
examples of propriety being post
Office, Geographic or telephone
transmitters in Paris have been
playing 'Meg's diversion" with the
sacred wires of the state and plung-
ing distracted and inftriated Gus
toners Of the service into fits of an
guish.
1t seems that in the intervals of
duties not severe enough to engross
their attention they had amused
themselves by listening to conversa-
lions of an amorous character be-
tween a certain gentleman and the
object of his affections, and then the
idea occurred to them that it would
be great fun to personate the un-
seen charmer and to star1e their
victim with sensational announce
ments supposed to emanate from
her. So, ringing him up at all hours
of the day a1sl initiating her voice,
they acquainted him that all was
lost, as cher husband had discov-
cred the intrigue; made appoint
ments, which of course were not
kept and then reproached him with
having failed to put IN an appear
ance at the rendezvous.
At last the hewildered maid dis
covered the plot and lodged form
al complaint with the postofice
authorities. An investigation was
set on foot, and the culprits. being
detected in the act, were summarily
dismissed. Alas, those playful
mattresses only too richly deserved
their fate. They have done worse
than trife with feelings of the ten
derest kind They have done darker
deeds than merely to embroil two
modern specimens of Pyramus and
Thisbe, speaking through the wires
instead of chink in the wall It
may be that they heard and learned
sufficient through their transmitting
service to gather that the tormented
and beguiled lovers deserved no bet
ter than to be set at cross purposes
and that touch of feminine moral
ity mingled with their illicit
"larks. . But the point is that they
have helped to damage general faith
in the impersonality and indiffer
ence of the telegraphic wire and the
telephone. When the pensive pub
lie confdes it's innermost desires and
anxiety to the Ariel of electricity, it
expects her to be mute, unobservant,
faithful and secret. 1t does not
count upon running the gantlet of
sharp eyes, mischievous spirits and
giggling lips. If profound mysteries
and momentous communications are
to be switched off, with the laugh
ing consciousness of idle girls and
turned into fun and deviltry, the
trust which we all repose or wish to
repose in the magic wires of mod
ern civilization will be rudely shak-
en-. Never more be officer Of
mine. That stern sentence was in
evitable after such an offense from
the authorities of the French post
Office.
The fair culprits would be nice
girls no doubt at picnic or dane
ing party, but they are too skittish
for state employment, and star eyed
science did not descend to earth for
such as these to teach them how to
play the lool. -London Telegraph.
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