The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
Telephone Girls Do Not Remain
Single Very Long.
Dozens of Weddings From Ranks
of COncordia List.
THEY HANDLE BOARD.
The Charm Lies in Her Low,
Sweet Voice.
With Patience, Acquires Ex-
perience in Central Office.

Concordia, Kan, March 9.-Did you
ever stop to think that a telephone girl
does not remain single many months
As an advocate of Dan Cupid the CEN
trail office holds the prize and dozens
of weddings have resulted from the
ranks of the Concordia telephone girls,
says the Concordia Blade. Evidently
the central girl makes a good wife, and
who shall say whether the charm lies
patience she acquires with experience
in any central office.
Certain it is that the telephone girl
could get along with the meanest man
who ever lived, in fact, she gets along
with all the meaneSt men while DIT
work in the exchange. But the men
are not the mean ones when it comes
to telephoning. There the women are
to blame and to the credit of the men
it can be said that the experienced
new girls get the visiting boards. which
are very unpleasant to handle.
Concordia has an exchange with 1000
subscribers and the Is young ladies
who handle the business do it in
prompt and quiet manner. Any fair
minded patron will acknowledge this.
It's a queer fact, but the public will
wait for half or three-quarters of an
h 0ur in store for a clerk to wait on
them, but two seconds to wait for CEN
trail to answer seems a century And
the clerk waits upon one customer at
a time while the central girls have 20
or so to wait on at one time.
There are always applicants for posi-
tons in the telephone office, for the
work. while trying, is not disagreeable,
and when girl reaches the top she is
able to command good wages, without
the expense and preliminary of book
keepers. The beginners have the worst
hours. and much of the night work and
all the girls have some Sunday work.
The people may say that the central
girls ought to have Sunday for resting,
but everybody wants to use their
phones on Sunday, even the preachers.
One girl in the Concordia exchange
sits up all night and while the rush is
over before the other girls leave the
board, she is comparatively busy all
night and the rush work begins as
early as O'Clock I'm the morning. The
farmers are the greatest takers and do
most of their talking from to in the
before going to the field. The
girl who attends to the farm lines is
kept busy at this time and
later the town people begin their or
dering for the day and the steady
work is on until along in the afternoon,
when there is a huh, only to be followed
by q mad rush between 3 and Z. go
The women arenthe- most inconsider-
ate patrons of the telephone. They
often use the telephone for visiting and
two Concordia women who call each
other every day, often talk for 40 min
utes without stopping. The business
board. while hard to work, is consid-
cred the best board to handle and very
seldom do the girls have trouble with
the business men.
The central girls have no time to
visit, much less to hear their patrons
talk. Their conversation is limited to
'Number?'' Talking waiting" or
'Tll ring them again." and when any
one asks questions the central girl
gives them the chief operator, whose
business it is to answer them.
You might wonder where Dan Cupid
finds time to get in his work with such
busy young ladies'. but he is a smart
little elf, and it is said that three or
Jour of the present force are seriously
matrimony.