Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1905-06-02
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ILLINOIS FARMERS CAUGHT ny
TELEPHONE GIRLa.
Young Men Get the Matrimonial No
tion Through Listening to
Gentle Tones Over az.
the Wire.

Why does prosperous young farm
er so into telephone ONCE to get a
wife?
Down In Aurora recently, reports tho
Chicago Tribune, wealthy young soil
tiller OF Bureau county went into the
office OF the Interstate Telephone and
Telegraph company 10 transact some
BUSH .cs over the wire He was alone
With the night operator. and before he
had left he had proposed to her, offered
tc Give her everything she cared to have.
lud would take her to one Of the finest
farms in his county. lie didn't want
her TO be farm slave, but TO be the
wife q country gentleman. This girl
tcld him to call the next day ard when
ne did so he found the day operator on
duty. He made up his mind that II The
Night girl would not be his wife. he
you'd ask the pretty young day worker,
besides. there were whole lot more
upstairs that he would try to see.
1T was ascertained that this young
man owned In his own right half sec
ton OF land that was worth 800 an
acre, that he was an up-to-date farm
er, came from good family OF farmers,
and was possessed In all Of property
that would enable him to retire In
ten years. During the time that he
was In the telephone Office he asked
he kind OF questions that showed he
had good ideas about picking out
wife.
The Aurora incident is but a single
one OF hundreds OF the same kind.
Farmer boys are falling In love with
the sweet-voiced creatures who are
continually singing the same song over
the wires. Some people think they
10 not have much more time than TO
say hello" and busy" but many OF
them talk themselves into wedding.
Talk is the right word In this connec-
tion, for 1t Is the sound OF their voices
that infatuates young man at the other
end Of the wire.
Manager Clapp. OF the Aurora office.
ono III Ntfi1s 5lsesc aiSd' most e2pefiaHGedr
telephone men In the middle west, says
there Is something about the sound az
The voice OF girl on the wire that sets
a young man into wooing mood. He
Gays that a girl who has lived through
her teenG without a proposal will en-
ter n telephone Office and before she
has besn at the board a week some
Young man will want to marry her"
il Is claimed that the country telephone
exchange is yeritable recruiting Of
fec for Dlarriageable young women.
The great web OF wires that belongs to
every station OF this kind seems to have
been spun by Cupid himself, ard he lib
crates any who have been caught only
when he finds some one to take care OF
/ good wife
Within the last five years thousands
II girls have found employment In the
ountry or tho independent telephone
filce. There are lines that connect
p score or more OF small towns with
he larger towns. Then there are hun
reds OF lines that are operated by
armers almost entirely. The lines Of
ne company connect with another so
hat one may talk clear across the state.
he exchange OF a country town some
mes has all the way from 200 to 500
lbscrlbers. single independent line
lay have 1900 subscribers. Within
ne last two months the director Of the
innate and crop service, Of the de-
irtment az agriculture at Springfield.
'gan agitating project to send wealth
reports to these telephone companies.
} that they could relay them to a large
'mher ~ people trcc {. c,a4s..sS. Ia
short time he had favorable responses
ON telephone lines that represented
$500 telephones In 440 towns, and on
ousands OF farms.
This shows the wonderful scope of
untry over which a pretty girl may
the tender little things that sound
the sweeter on the wire, and which
EN- to have occasioned 80 many wed.
lgs from real love matches.
Tats for Children.
Children have long been unwelcome
lants In apartment houses, But
ere is always some one TO turn a pre-
.lips idea upside down. especially If
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