The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-06-06
By Telephone
By OSCAR cox

~N' 40 thdt yOu. MOL. eS {.
Feeling well this morning? I'm glad
to hear 1t. I've called you up to ask If
you think I'd better trim my new pink
sifk. with lace or some other material.
Satin? Think that would look well:
Lighter or darker shade? oh, q con.
trasting color. Maybe you're right.
Yes, l can cali around and talk il over
with you. Four O'Clock? | can't do
that I'm engaged"-
Interruption in a mans voice: "Drat
these party wires! Girls. can't you
settle the matter and have done with
1t? There's a man here met with an
accident and bleeding to DEATH"
Miss Mary Arnold gets the wire:
"Did you hear that horrid man who in
terrupted you just at the moment when
you were telling me Of your engage.
ment? Robinson? What Robinson ?
oh! He's connected with Robinson's
department store. You haven't given
me the name of your fiance. Speak a
little louder. Everything you say is
twisted in with everything else you
say, and | can't hear any Of it on ac-
count Of that horrid buzzing Louden ?
oh, his names Louden. is itT'
Interruption in a mans voice: La.
dies, permit me to announce to you
that the man for whom | wished to
call doctor is dead. While you were
INDUCING in your stupid talk he bled
to deathw
A voice: Who's bled to deathr
Another voice: 81 wish It were that
COMPOUNDED Louden those two gossip
ing girls were talking about"
Miss Mary Arnold speaks with Doro
thy Twinkle.
is that you. Doll? Yes? Palmer?
Can you hear me now? All right
Have you heard Of the dreadful trouble
that has come upon poor Helen Sping-
Ter? No? It's perfectly dreadful She
recently became engaged to a Mr..
Louden or Louding or some such
name, and they hadn't been engaged
but short time when he met with an
accident. Cut an artery or something
and
Central! Central, Central! Can't
you call of those long winded women?
I'm due to catch a train at o'clock
and must get cab and reach the sta
ton all within twenty minutes"
Miss Dorothy Twinkle to Sadie Good
rich. "Oh. Sadie. Have you heard
what has happened to Eliot Louden?
No? He is dead? Not red-dead. Bled?
Yes; he bled to death. And just after
his engagement to that pretty Helen
Spingler. Isn't it awful? Yes. the
one your brother George has been at
tentive to. | supposed it would be
match. Is George very much cut up?
Hasn't heard what-the engagement
or the ACCIDENT Well. never
A cutoff.
George Goodrich is called by his SIS
ter and comes to the phone. please
give me 1854 W-yes. 1854 w. Twin
kle is the name. No. not Wrinkle
Twinkle. Neither Wrinkle nor Wrinkle.
but Twinkle. Oh. never mind the
name. Give me the number.
els that you Miss Twinkle? Yes?
Sadie was talking with you about
something dreadful that has happened
when she was cut off. Would you
mind telling me the particulars? Thank
you" Listens for some time intently.
you say that Louden bled to death
before a doctor could reach him? Two
brutal men monopolized the wire?
Wouldn't they give it up to save
life? The monsters! How does Helen
Spingler take It? Inconsolable? Umph!
I wouldn't trust her. She'll have an
other fellow before the years out.
She's tickle as the wind"
Helen Spingler speaks to Mary Ar
mold: "Mary. why didn't you meet me
yesterday at Robinson's? I was there
promptly and waited an hour by the
glove counter. Didn't expect me?
You mean you didn't hear the time
and place Of the appointment? What
Louden? Who's he? My
fance bled to death? What are you
giving me?" Listens for some min
utes. "Merciful goodness! And all
this grew out Of my asking you to
speak louder and that horrid man
butting in. Just think of 1t! All over
town? Do try to stop it. By the bye.
I've settled on the trimming for my
dress. I've decided on lace. What
kind? oh. some mother brought from
Brussels, Very expensive. She brought
1t in when they used to pay the in
spectors IS and get all the trunks pass
ed free Goodby. Be sure to correct
that ridiculous story about my engage
ment and the rest of it."
"Of course ! will. What miserable
things these party wires are. Just as
one settles for a nice little morning
chat with a friend some one who has
q toothache must telephone his dentist
he gets the wire; sometimes
be doesn't Then another person will
wildly call on his butcher for dinner
that has been delivered at the wrong
house and a party of guests waiting.
How unreasonable people are. When
any one else has the phone | am per-
fectly willing to wait till he gets
through. Not she gets through-he."
George Goodrich calls up Helen
Spingler: Helen? Yes. I'm George
Who perpetrated that COMPOUNDED
story about your having been engaged