The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-04-10
OVER THE TELEPHONE
MANY AND VARIED ARE THE MES.
sAoEs SENT.
II Rescues Girls from Undesirable
Callers, Aids In Reunltins Parted
Lovers, and Has Numberless Other
Recommendation.

Callers, Aids In Reuntng Parted
Lovers, and Has Numberless Other
Recommendation.
We have become so used to includ.
ing the telephone among the comforts
OF home that it is doubtful now If we
really appreciate all of its advantages.
The telephone is more than an instru-
ment over which to talk to the butcher
end baker, II is a medium sometimes
for furthering treason and strategem
and acquiring spOils
Does a young woman receive a call
from a masculine friend who bores
her to extinction and she be ingeni
Gus, She gives her brother or sister. or.
as legal documents say her next
friend, a look of entreaty, and directly
he disappears, and almost immediate
" the telephone rings and the youne
woman Is summoned, and comes bach
TO say that her grandmother is IN II
the next block and she must go 70 hei
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 o.
her gratitude.
Sometimes the telephone saves the
self-respect Of young men who have
quaneled with their sweethearts. Tt
go back TO pay a visit. after he hm
flung himself out of a house declarini
be VIII never darken its doors again
would not be consistent with any mas
culines dignity, but It cannot be con
sidercd as a confession thst hs was II
error in his premises If he call up the
young woman who has Insulted hin
by telephone the next day but one. ant
asks her In a voice made carefully
frigid any one Of the following ques
tons
Have l any books OF yours which
you wish me to return2
How shall ! send your letters back
by mail or by messenger?
Win it incommode you at all II
send 10 your house tonight for my
copy Of Omar?
DID iniure the glass In your from
door when ! shut it night before last;
! am afraid ! used almost too much
emphasis
DO you still wish me TO take you tt
tho theater. or shall send you the
tickets and allow you to select yom
own escort?
II the young woman replies with
proper tact diplomatic relations viii
.be resumed in q shorter time than &
takes to write an this. for it is ten q
one the young man Is IN the drus
store on the nearest corner. although
his voice sounds as far away as ths
polar icebcrgs.
II Is a mighty good thing. by-the-by
that that invention has never beer
perfected that was once talked OF ant
that was designed 20 permit the user
0f telephones 10 see each other Will,
convcrsing. for not only would this 81
inconvenient 10 the men who declare
they are in their Offices. when in real
ity they are al the club engaging il
tha great American game. but also
would IL be exceedingly disagreeabl,
10 the young woman who holds con
versations over the wire with the mar
who admires her most with her colder
hair hszging down her back and wear
Ing her bathrobe. for such things ara
imagine the feelings Of the youtt
who expects 10 take a girl into dinner
al 1880 o'clock. when she IS clad like
the lilies Of the feld. calling her up az
hour before this time. only to behold
her with an aureole of curl papers
around her head and a dab OF powder
on her sweet nOsel
This Is purely a fancy picture. fol
curl papers are as much out OF date AZ
crinoline. and powder went out with
the fashion OF wearing the hair ir
queues; but. just for arguments sake
try 70 imagine such a contretemps
Would 1t not break up many prom
Using affair OF tho heart7
To return to our mutton. the tele
phone Is a most valuable invention. II
reunites loving hearts and Il furnishes
reasons for jealousy to lovers who
need prodding. and excuses to those
who wish TO get away from bores-bui
Il Is great enough as II is. and we Dc
not want any improvements with Il II
the line Of machines to see aroune
corners. We have troubles enougt
already. and too much knowledge
doesn't add TO any ones happiness
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