The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-26
THESE GIRLS
CAN OUTF|b
OLD ANAN|As
That's How They Hold Tels-
phone Jobs In New York
Hotels
Special 70 Daily Leader.

Special 70 Daily Leader.
New York, Oct. 26-Nellie, oi
! Mayme. or maybe it was Yyonne
/ plugged in on the trunk line of the
hotel telephone board. snaggled tbs
+ receiving cap a little closer TO hel
blond fuzzy hair, put her mouth into
the transmitter and said Aldo"
Then her eyes frightened. sh,
leaned slightly forward in the straigh
backed chair ana a look OF expectancy
flashed into her face.
Mrs. smitn?'' she queried I'll
see Who is this, please Then al
Ter second; Oh. aold the wire
", or Al, or maybe il was Y.
snapped down The cam on the line
which had just called, plugged in
with anoGaer line To Mrs Smith !
room upstairs, and said Aldo. il
that you, Mrs. Smith2 WeI, there's a
a woman calling You Won't give her
name. Shall put her on?'
A moments pause, while Mayme
tlet's call her that nodded to her
self Then: Yes. Mrs Smitl. |
think il is-the same one that's been
calling you all day TeIl her you've
gone 10 the country YES All right
AnI Mayme cut of Mrs Smiths
room and turned To the reporter,
who was waiting for a number, with a
wink and CYCLE.
II" To Her
Gee she gurgled, now watcn me
hand it to this one
Then she opened the cam on the
calling trunk line and said fAddn.
Mrs. Smith has gone to the country
When she be baek2 Not tor a wees,
anyway No hasn't been here ali
day. Where is she? No. haven t
any idea-no idea at all Goodby
'Humph. laughed M4yme TO the re
porter. That's the sixteenth time
that woman's called Mrs. Smith to-
day. ana I've given her a different
string eacn time Guess she's got
BIN or somethiIs Mrs smith told
me to tell her Xt time she's gone
10 Europe
How many Of these tales do YOU
have to spin week." asked the re-
porter
I'D like to nave q dollar for every
one I've told NO more hello girl ior
me then lid buy out Rockefeller.
But how about the black mariIa In
the good book? You must have 4
bunch of them2"
Mayme tossed her fuzzy head
Lies That Don't Count
Nothing like that, she announced
They don't count"
Then they're not really lies.
then3'
Mayme laughed. They're busi-
ness. Then after a moment: "Oh.
they're lies, all right But they don !
count as lies, Anyway. they ougat
not to. we got TO tell EN- anyhow
hats what were here for II we
didn't make good, we'd lose our jobs,
and Jobs aren't too plenty
'sAll girls do it2 Why. sure taey
do. What do you think-why. sup
nose some man don't want to see an
other chap. and tells US to tell tiila
other chap that he's out And then
we 20 and be a crowd Of Babbling
Besses and say tae frstm an told us
to say he was out? Why, we'd have
to beat it without bonnets III a min
ute.
And suppose the clerk forgets to
send up ice water to SD, and the fel-
low In SIS calls Up and wants to know
where his ice water is. We tell him
that the clerk forgot it2 Well |
guess not What 40 we say We say
that it's on the way up OF course.
Goes To Church on Sunday
what do you do on sunday.
asked the reporter
Church in the morning and sun
day school class in the afternoon,
and then go for a walk with--some
body. What do you suppose?
"BBut now about these strings, as
you call EN-, that you give to peo-
pie? Don't they ever worry your
Far be it They're only white lies
and don't count. All the girls have
got 10 tell them. Now, suppose il
was YOU"
But here the buzzer on the switch |
board buzzed and Mayme cut in, put |
her mouth into the transmitter and |
said ~Adio."
Then her eyes Frightened, and she |
shot quick glance over her should |
sr toward a fat man who was sit |
ing on a lounge nearby
you want Mr.. Addison? I'll see.
Hold the wire.
She closed tae cam and called to
he fat man
Mr.. Foley on the wire for you. Mr.
addison Want him ??
The fat man erinned I'm not
eeistered here, he said.
eve haven't any MI Addison,
aid Mayme into the transmitter, and
ulied out the plug