Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02

In New York, and all are graduates
OF q telephone school. The girl who
wishes to become an operator must di-
rect her steps to the traffic depart
ment OF the New York telephone sys-
tenn. Good eyesight, good hearing, dis
tinct enunciation, fair penmanship and
general neatness are requisite qualities
The company maintains a large school
where embryo hello girls are always
in training. They are taught telephone
geography In order that they may ac-
curately locate the point to which a
call should be sent and start the call
without a minutes loss of time. While
attending school the operators are paid
salary of S. a week, which Is In
creased as they progress I'm the regular
force, the average pay OF the operat-
ors being about $40 week.
Free and Private Libraries
The librarian at the Astor library,
who had been dilating on the benefl-
cial effects of the public library, sud-
denly frowned "But there is one evil
resulting from the prevalence of free
public libraries" he said, "and that 10
the disappearance of the private
library. Just notice the plans for
modern dwellings. There is provision
for almost everything except a place
for books. There is a den where q man
may smoke and indulge all sorts of
tastes in pictures and wall paper there
is the sewing room, where q woman
may riot i'm sewing IL she wishes to;
there is the music room and the biz
lard room, but almost no thought is
given to the library. In the reception
room there may be two or three books
on the table, but there is no room
where one may give himself up to the
delights of browsing around among
shelves of books. 1t is so easy and SO
much less expensive TO go to the pub
lie library for reading matter that peo-
pie are gradually coming to the point
where they will have no thought of
owning any books themselves. Where
once to get together a library for their
new home used to be one of the am
bitions of young married couple, to-
day there is almost no thought of it.
But those who have tried it know that
there is no pleasure more delightful
than having private library; buying
the books slowly as their worth has
been demonstrated or as one feels sure
they are productions to which he will
be charmed to turn again. And it
seems to me that the public library
would be eXerting a good influence il
it would strive to encourage patrons to
establish private libraries
An Aid to Memory
If man had a job of naming the
streets and numbering the houses in
New York he would try to give every
house the name of the street. l would
be almost impossible for a person to
manage it, but If he could there would
be fortune in it for him. There is
tremendous demand for double ad-
dresses of this kind. Professional men,
especially physicians, are crying for
them. A renting agent said the other
day that he had a stack of letters
foot high from persons who want such
number, and who ask to be put on
the waiting list. II doubt" said he,
whether those at the foot of the list
will live long enough to get the desired
address, because such numbers are
seldom vacated except on account of
death or some other dire calamity.
From Eighth street to Sixty-eighth
could rent the houses bearing a COR
responding number of the streets, such
as 10 West Tenth street, Is East
Eighteenth street, 80 West Thirtieth
street, and son on, at a particularly
fancy figure. The occupants could well
affordS to pay it too, because such q
number would increase their income
enormously. The memory of man is
not long at the best but he would
have a poor mind, indeed, who could
not remember that kind of an address
and so know just where to find a good
doctor or lawyer in case of emergency"