The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

cut Mrs. Jones likes best. and just what brand of canned peas she would want in the land of fresh vegetables. and just what proportion of caramels and nougatines she always has in her two-pound box of best mixture"
 Then. down in the village there is the livery stable, from which the ex- pectant hostess must get a carriage to meet the train: and old man Gale. on his farm seven miles away, would be sure not to have any cream with him in the morning for the berries and cof- fee unless she telephoned him the day before. Inside of half an hour, spent in a cool corner of the sitting room, all her errands are done and she can go back to her book and hammock on the piazza with a comfortable feeling that even the ice cream for tomorrow's din ner will arrive on time, and that the girls" will go back and tell their friends they do not see how Marguer- ite has everything so lovely away off there a hundred miles from civiliza- tion.'
 Tradesmen in the cities can tell you strange stories of things that are done by telephone nowadays Grocers, mar ket men, confectioners, department store managers-everybod who has a share in supplying our numerous daily wants-have found their business rev olutionized in the last ten years, par ticularly their summer business. by the mail order and telephone method CT doing things Folk who used to go to their summer cottages. or hotels, or boarding houses, and put up as best they could with the inconvenience and discomforts of living away from met ropolitan surroundings for the sake of fresh air and restfulness, have learned that the rural free delivery man and Dr. Bells little invention can add to country life pretty nearly everything that 1t formerly lacked. Many of them send their orders to their city trades man by mail three times a week. and use the telephone when they need something on short notice; many oth- CTS prefer to use the telephone alto gether since 1t gives them a chance to ask prices, to find out whether what they want Is to be had, and often to get those little suggestions for which a woman depends on the skilful sales man.
 There is one queer emergency use to which Rrocers in the seaboard cities put the telephone in the season of heavy European travel. Every now and then Central tells the telephone or- der clerk in a Boston store. for in- stance, that Chicago. or New York, or Providence. or some other distant city 1t may be Pittsburg. Philadelphia or Cincinnati-wants to talk with him. Then comes a distraught voice. saying something like this:
 What time does the Arabic sailf What's that-tomorrow morning? Well ] wish you'd send a basket of fruit. or couple of bottles of wine, or some- thing of that sort-whatever you think would be a good thing to stow away in state-room-to Mrs. John Smith of my city. Forgot all about her going till this minute, and wouldn't miss sending her something for a hundred dollars. You'll be sure to get some thing over to the ship in time. won't you?"
 Then a name and address. a couple of references. and the thing is done.
 There are some people who seem, for one reason or another, to prefer to give their daily orders by telephone, even whsn they are at homa whara tha or-