Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
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Y r 0w many servants have your y
Just as many as you have wants to satisfy There is
somebody to do everything. Each days round brings up
panorama Of these familiar faces. Thereis the waitress
who serves your breakfast. the whitetacketed man who
gives you your mornings breakfast, the hurrying bell hop who inter-
rupts that last cup of coffee with a summons to the telephone. the
hello girl who hunted, perhaps over half the state. to All your call:
the preparation for the days work has called to your service half a
dozen Others-the bootblack, the barber, the manicure g1rl-for
there is no end to the servtOrs whom you may beckon.
Before the day is over there will be a veritable stream of them
the stenO girl, the flower girl. the shop girl, the candy girl-grls it
seems without end. Each of these, your servants, are specialists
Even the lowy shine" who cares for your shoes can lay claim to
special skin.
In your daily round you will find that the stan of those who wait
on you b pretty clearly defined by the paths through which activities
lead one. At your favorte cafe it has long ago become a fixed habit
to drop into the same chair at the same table to be waited on by the
same waiter. The same regularity win follow your rounds to the
barber and 81 through the day you are continually familiarizing your
self with the same series of faces.
Those familiar faces. They are as much d part of life as the
closer relationships The man-abouttown has numerous acquafnt-
anCes whom he cannot call by name and whom he knows well, but,
only as faces and nameless personalities.
Now there's that little blonde at the candy store, for instance.
She makes an impression because she is pretty and hippant, spicly
saucy. She has packed that matinee box of chocolates for you every
Sunday through the winter and SO comes to have a friendly personal
interest in the affair. The waiter girl, she, too, has her part She
learned long ago that you want two Jumps Of sugar in your coffee,
and also that you don't like sauces with onion in them. These every
day servants know you. better than you know yourself. especially
when 1t comes to the little fancies and foibles; If you are a regular"
Try 1t on the telephone girl. Hers is a medium of acquaintance
ship that amounts to nothing more than a voice. II you are in the
habit as many a business man is. of calling a certain number at some
set time each day, try the experiment of making a slight mistake of
a single figure. The chances are that the girl on the job will catch
you.
Eightblanke ighttwo." ~
you mean eightblank eightone, don't you?" the query will
come.
That is, IL you and your central girl are on good terms and it pays
to be that way. When central" gets peeved she has a petulant way
Of letting you work out your own salvation unassisted.
Right here you pay rise up and remark that the wise phone girl
is a myth, sarcasdeally adding that you can't get any number at all
half the time. Figuring the average out, however, win demonstrate
that the busy phone girl makes a high average of accuracy. II she
did not she wouldn't be in the exchange. Two hundred telephones
in the humming central ONCE that serves a downtown district will
keep her sufficiently occupied.
1t is a fact that she is usually SO unfaihng that makes yn \
peevsh when the balk comes. Your personality has to filter through
a maze Of wires TO reach the central girl. There on the switchboard
lust a fash OF light from one Of the hundreds of pearly little FlobuIes
NotSS ssaal lamps is all that tells the operator that you are waiting
to give a command. But she knows you marvelously well. consider