Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-23

president, or secretary, or the *Cnair-
man of an important committee, get
| on and manage hey work and COM
municate with her fellow membe,s If
there were not the telephone? Every
body knows that club, however small,
finds opportunity for endless discussion
and arrangement and Encouragement,
at other times than when in session
The telephone makes this conference
possible and easy; i! is boon of boons
to the club woman. ~.
Once in personal experience. cncc
only, and the incident lives in mem
ory as startling, the telephone was
found successful in reducing the
amount of an exoroitant gas bill!
Householders know how difficult an
enterprise this is, how seldom accom-
plished. On previous occasions letters
had proved abol tive. and interviews
had found officials adamant, but the
talk over the telephone. a party wire
at that, proved Immediately reassur-
ing. The percentages asked for was
granted; the obnoxious bill was re-
duced to it's rightful proportions.
If you want doctc: IN the dead OF
night, it is, not now needful for: the
man Of the house to dress and go hasti-
ly out in the cold and darkness; the
telephone will ring a signal at tn,
Doctors head, and he will rise from
his bed, tell you what to do, or come
himself in half the time it used t.
take to get him to t.,S patient. When
there Is sudden illness in the home,
you cry blessings on the telephone,
| and they are heartfelt ..-. ..se
And yet. it has it's drawbacks. There
Is tyranny of the telephone that has
done something to make life less sim
pie than it used to be. There are
moods in which one wishes she had
never seen, never heard, never touched
| or handled the little affair which has
done more than any other single agent
to rob life of privacy and independ-
eIce. -. e:~
We have often heard that a mans
house is his castle. It is, ana it isn't.
1t depends on whether he has a tele-
phone.
You may bolt. you may bar, you may
lock at your will.
But the telephone demon will bounce
on you still. ~
No shutters exclude him, no key keeps
him back,
At the sound of the bell, he is here on
your track.
To cut of the service is the only
| way to exercise the invisible imp who
disturbs you at y0rr meals. breaks in
on your prayers, and demands an in.
Etant answer to his summons with q
pcremptory haste, not unlike the old
challenge of the footpad on Hounslow
Heath: ''Your money or your life!''
For instance: ;..f .*~
You have decided to spend q day in
quiet retirement. withdrawn from The
world and its cares. You have planned
to admit nobody; you wish to rest
to relax, to let life's food-tide refresh
you, since too much work, too much
talk, too much distraction of business
has brought your powers to the ebb.
In vain is your planning and precau:
tion. The telephone rings and you
take down your. receiver. ~~'5.f -:
| Aunt Frances, Uncle Jonathan and
the children are on their way to spend
the day with you. They have Just de-
cided that they can come to-day. and
will be with you about noon. Now
you love your kinsfolk. and Johns,
too. You like Aunt Frances better
thai: any other of Johns aunts. and
Uncle Jonathan is an odd DEAR The
children are Objectionable when YOU
have q headache and are tired thew
are stirring children, always on The
rampage; always meddling; not well.
trained. or we'll bred and you would
willingly omit them from the Dro-
gramme, but Aunt Frances is devoted
mother, who never leaves her brood
at home. :5 @ II ':.. *=s, : " Z.
] To put { them of for day would
give 0fense, be misunderstood. and
hurt John, who Is most loyal to mis-
own people, and always delighted to
have them under his roof Therefore
you fly around, dust chairs and tables
! get out the best china. make q salad
order ice cream, and slip into I fresh
and dainty frock. No time to rela,
till Jonathan and Frances shall depart
But for the telephone they would hav.
notified you via Uncle Sans mail, ant
you would have had your rest day al
you meant to have It without
i hindrance or interruption. Il.
Here is Johns side Of 1t. l address
I. John. John Is good citizen, I hope
Perhaps you belong to the publ.
In some detail Of your life. Most q
us do. Very few Of us escape who'll,
from some obligation to: the communtt!
4: In which we live, and We are con
i stantly reminded that the FISHES q