Evening star., 1909-01-24

doing it more and more ever since they handed her
a prize something other in a figure form and
shape contest at the last ball given by the Polish
societies.
L. Obermueller gave two fdgety jumps of impa-
tience in her chair and cried right out loud Hon
est to Pete, that thing the main one is givin
out trunks like old Dutch windmill"
Blow inta your transmltter and send her a
breeze! Grabbed that ]. O'Brien
Number Please?" ! heard from K. Madden's
direction. Harrison three eight double o."
Fipping her thumb back on the pivot of her
bridged fingers she pressed down the Harrison cir
cult button and gave it over incisivey as, 'Three
eight double O."
Of course all this skilled labor gossip doesn't
mean anything to anybody; but I'm just telling
And by the way when it comes to water bearing,
air cooled, oil flushed, frictioness mechanisms or
any inventions like that, let me tell you this: X.
Madden has everything beat that steerage
from the mineral kingdom.
But that O Brien!
OBERMUELLER was sore, and 1 don't blame
- her But as l looked at her again | had to
laugh. There she was, holding her hand over
permanent Chats light that won't go ou0 and
her thumb over the pilot lamp, SO that the chief
operator who was passing by behind us wouldn't
it.
for first which enables the girls to handle two
nections at once.-not allowed and old day
girl get away with it nicely, Miss Farrell OBJ
served the trick
Miss O Brien only good operators do that
she said and walked on She didn't need to say any
more. Miss Farrell whttles her tongue at night to
keep it sharp.
K Madden was bending over the intertwined
cords which wedged in thickly about the
swerng jacks else reared themselves in verticals
and sweeping diagonals and arched into the multi
pie of the upper section like the heads of SO many
snakes She traced disconnect by easing the cord
Imply, and then picked it carefully out of the
swerng jack, precaution against cutoff She
smiling bandly. She doesn't like O'Brien any
than do.
Just then l picked up call myself. 1t the
Perfectly Adorable making her first call of the day.
How love to hear that Southern woman use her
voice!
Number, please?"
Good mawneen my deah.
Good morning.
That was all; but it was So so cheering
Moth eight three six.
She hates to call North numbers; I'm pretty sure;
and it's awfully cute, the way she drawls out,
"One eight" and then, quick flash, three
six
l love to handle her calls, She makes me dream
of sweet magnolias l wish she. l wish l
had lived befo' the wah, too. | wish But who
doesn't wish? Come out of it! I'm working for
living and I'm glad of it. l know for one thing
how to land on my feet in any fall That helps a
whole lot, for girl I've learned too that life's
busy beehive and also that for most of us it's not
so much how to get the honey as how to keep from
getting stung.
lust the same love to handle her calls She does
bring back the dreams L never listened on single
connection she ever made through my board. SIM
ply can't.
SAW K Madden stick her toe into the hoop of
her chair and kick it closer into the board. She
picked up a call on which she didn't seem able to
understand the order.
O'Brien snickered She'd do anything, that girl
would, to be dsagreeable None of her business
either
Please come closer to your telephone" coaxed
K. sweety, at the time pressing her receiver
tightly against her with her finger She knew