The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-21
OVER THE TELEPHONE
MANY AND VARIED ARE THE MES.
SAGES SENT.
II Rescues Girls from Undesirable
Callers, Aids in Reuniting Parted
Lovers, and Has Numberless Other
Recommendations

Recommendations.
We have become so used to includ.
ing the telephone among the comforts
of home that 1t Is doubtful now If we
really appreciate ali of its advantages.
The telephone is more than an instru-
ment over which to talk to the butcher
and baker, it is Medium sometimes
for furthering treason and strategem
and acquiring spells.
Does a young woman receive a call
from a masculine friend who bores
her to extinction and she be ingenj.
GUS, she gives her brother or sister, or,
as legal documents say, her next
friend, look of entreaty, and directly
he disappears, and almost immediate
ly the telephone rings and the young
woman is summoned, and comes back
to say that her grandmother is i'll in
the next block and she must go to her
at once.
When the visitor has departed the
rescued one thanks her rescuer warm.
ly and adds a blessing for the tele.
phone itself, such is the intensity of
her gratitude.
Sometimes the telephone saves the
self-respect of young men who have
quarreled with their sweethearts. To
go back to pay visit, after he has
flung himself out of house declaring
he will never darken it's doors again,
would not be consistent with any mas
culine's dignity, but it cannot be con.
sidered as confession that he was in
error In his premises if he call up the
young woman who has insulted him
by telephone the next day but one, and
asks her in voice made carefully
frigid any one of the following ques-
tons:
Have I any books of yours which
you wish me to return?
How shall I send your letters back,
by mail or by messenger?
Will 1t incommode you at all II
send to your house tonight for my
copy of Omar?
Did injure the glass in your front
door when l shut it night before last?
l am afraid | used almost too much
emphasis.
Do you still wish me to take you to
the theater, or shall | send you the
tickets and allow you to select your
own escort?
II the young woman replies with
proper tact, diplomatic relations will
be resumed in shorter time than II
takes to write all this, for it is ten to
one the young man Is in the drug
store on the nearest corner, although
his voice sounds as far away as the
polar icebergs.
II Is a mighty good thing. by-the-by
that that invention has never been
perfected that was once talked of and
that was designed to permit the users
of telephones to see each other while
conversing, for not only would this be
inconvenient to the men who declare
they are in their Offices, when in real
| ity they are at the club engaging in
the great American game, but also
would it be exceedingly disagreeable
to the young woman who holds con
versations over the wire with the mar
who admires her most with her COLDER
hair hanging down her back and wear
ing her bathrobe, for such things are
Imagine the feelings of the youth
who expects to take girl into dinner
at 1880 o'clock, when she is clad like
the lilies of the field, calling her up ar
hour before this time, only to behold
her with an aureole of curl papers
around her head and dab Of powder
on her sweet nose!
This Is purely fancy picture, To-
curl papers are as much out of date a!
crinoline. and powder went out will
the fashion of wearing the hair IL
queues; but, just for arguments sake
try to imagine such a contretemps
Would It not break up many a prom
Using affair OF the heart?
To return to our mutton. the tele
phone is most valuable invention. |
reunites loving hearts and it furnishes
reasons for jealousy to lovers whit
need prodding, and excuses to thos,
who wish to get away from bores-bu
1t is great enough as it is, and we d,
not want any improvements with 1t II
the line Of machines to see arount
corners. We have troubles enough
already, and too much knowledge
doesn't add to any ones happiness
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