The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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There are more selfish women in
this world, remarked woman in the
street car yesterday. "Freuucntly
you find out their trials by telephone,
that is, the way they conduct their
telephone relations. No, don't
mean their irritable manner with the
operators at the exchange. That's
often complete edition of bad tenn
per | refer to pure selfishness. Why
| know women VINO will actually keep
& line engaged for half an hour and
even longer in gossip with a friend
a few doors away. Everybody IN
that circuit has 10 wait until they have
finished, no matter how urgent the
necessity to use the telephone. The
other morning ! was at friends
house and while there she actually
stood at the telephone for forty min
utes by the clock while she and
woman in the next block discussed
the new hats seen at the various OPEN
ings They went through the entire
list-the blue one, the violet, the big
white hat with white roses. the yell
low tulle and the whole outfit in gen.
eral. Dear me- she remarked when
at last she stopped and threw herself
into a chair, my left arm is paralyEod
holding that trumpet and the eX-
change girl kept asking every minute
if / was through. She made me tired
We'll, you made me tired | remarked.
why Mary Annie Brown! l should
think the telephone people would
charge you time rates, just the same
as they do for long distance. don
see how on earth you dare deep line
so long. Don't you suppose anybody
else wants to use it?' What if they
do?' she exclaimed, hippantly. 'Th4y
do the same thing to me when they
get a chance I'm glad you're not
on my circuit I retorted. ia de-
mand a new number.
Now that's nothing but selfshness,"
she continued II don't think any
woman has right to constitute har-
self monopoly like that. Why 1
know mothers who tell their children
to use the telephone as much as pos
siVle, so that the family may get the
worth of the rental. Consequently,
those youngsters engage in neighbOr-
hood conversation from the time they
are up in the morning until they go
to school, beginning straightway when
they return ut night. They're the
same kind of people who are Disagree
able to would-be tenants of the house
they are about to lease, refusing COM
mon cOurtCsies because they are rot
legally compelled to extend any faV-
ors." She got off at the next corner
and a woman who sat next glared
after her savagely. My" she remark e.
ed, II suppose she means me because
I've kept the keys to the house I've
been living in and wouldn't let theln
come i'm and see the rooms. OF course,
we'd moved out, but I've paid lne
rent till April l and ! wasn't going
to let anybody in till then. | know
my rights, and she shifted in lofty
manner.
Now aren't there queer people in
this world. Dear me, if we all in
sisted upon our rights and gave no
favor to any one, simply because no
one could compel us to do so, what a
horrld world it would be. I, for one,
should want to get out of it. 1t is
the kind deeds, the gentle little couc-
tesies that go out toward each other,
toward the friend or the stranger who
may come in our way that makes lie
worth living. tt Is the friendly, con-
siderate things we do which no one
could demand or even has the right to
expect that keeps our souls from
shriveling up and our hearts from
hardening. Consideration for the
comfort and the happiness of others
must go beyond what is merely de-
manded, 1t is a blessed thing that
the majority of the people do not