The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
 WOMEN AND SOCIETY
Miss Monte Donico of Memphis Weeds Mr Lawrence of Boston Signs of the Times-Notes of Prominent People-Debu tantes and Others-Mr and Mrs. Abbott and Miss Ab- bolt to be Hosts at University Club-A Young
 Birmingham Musician
BY MYRTLE MILES Peoples Telephones; Office 231; Home 2eo

How often one hears a sigh of gratitude for the luxury of the telephone! What did we do before we had the telephone? :? is the query, and something of the am swer is being borne in upon Birmingham women just now-the methods Of whose grandmothers are to the fore. Being without recalls the many lax methods and indolent habits of which it inculcated.
 Doesn't this sound familiar?
 Really, if I didn't think Ann needed me to fill her tables l certainly wouldn't | go to the whist club in this weather And the fire looks so cosy"
 Well, why don't you telephone Ann that you can't come, and ask if she will not get someone to take your placer comes 8 prompt suggestion.
 Its rather late-I don't know that should ask it now. She might take a hand herself" hesitatingly, and then. after the manner of him who hesitates, she is lost. "Oh, I'll just call her up and see,' she cspitulates.
 And to the telephone plea of an ineiplent cold, the hostess is the victim, while Ann placidly returns to her cosy fire and spends the afternoon day dreaming.
 "Oh, dear I promised to go to a meet ing of our executive committee. sighs the clubwoman, "but I did want to finish this bodice. There are only few flowers to embroider If put it down it will nos be ready to wear tomorrow, and I did so want to-
 "Why don't you telephone the chairman ( | tion. and in a moment it is done. "So sorry, but some unexpected work came up. You will forgive me, won't you? rele- phone me what you decide. Thank you ever so much Goodbye"
 And there is the long-sufferng hostess l whose servants spend more of their time, on the day of her party, answering tele phone queries as to the hour it will take | place than they do in preparing for the party. q mislaid my invitation and have forgotten the hour. What time shall come? o. thanks. remember now | And so it is. If there had not been a | telephone in the house everyone of those engagements would have been kept The little black and nickel instrument proves a temptation to shirl1 at times, toe strong to be resisted. one can but won der whether there will not be more per sonal calls between friends rather than | telephone calls; whether the housekeepers of the city will not be converted to the plan of doing their own marketing, and whether engagements willano be kept l where before they were postponed or al 1 together abandoned. Verify this lack Of a telephone may prove a fine thing for a little while-a very little while, everybody hopes-for strength of discipline will alto
 gether make up for lengthl
 | The real sufferer from the lack of 2
 telephone is the society editor, whose flei,
 is broad and whose limitations, by wa,
 of automobile or airship, are many. It i' l impossible for her to in person gather
 news from East Lake to West End, rrofr l Norwood to South Highland, and iron
 the Country club to the Southern; but sht | is thanking a kind Providence and { l watchful government for the United State.
 mail system. Through this means an6 1 with what energy and persistence that ar' | at her command she expectssto supply tht necessary knowledge of social movement: | to those who read. It is hoped that thosf | whose Bell telephones are temporarily ou l of service will communicate with this de
 partment either by mail or in person, ant
 that those who are the happy possessor:
 of a Peoples telephone will use thi'
 medium to give all possible information
 of a social nature to it's grateful editor.