The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-15
By telephone
BY OSCAR cox

Miss Helen Spingler calls up Mary
Arnold: rs that you. Moll? Yes !?
TO hear it. I've called you up to ask II
you think I'd better trim my new pink
silk with lace or some other material
Satin? Think that would look well
trasting color. Maybe you're right
Yes. can call around and talk it over
with you. Four o'clock? l can't do
that. I'm engaged
interruption in a mans voice: "Drat
these party wiresl Girls can't you
settle the matter and have done with
it? 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 tiance. Speak a
little louder Everything you say is
twisted in with everything else you
say, and | can't hear any of it on &c
count of that horrid bu2zing Loudeni
Oh, his names Louden, is it?'
Interruption in mans voice: La
dies. permit me to announce 70 you
that the man for whom | wished to
call a doctor is dead While you were
INDUCING in your stupid talk he bled
to death'
a voice: who's bled to death?'
Another voice: II wish ii were that
COMPOUNDED Louder 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 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
"Centrall Central! Central! Can't
you call off those long winded women?
I'm due TO catch train at 3 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 Bed?
Yes: he hled 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 1t would be a |
match Is George very much cut up?
Hasn't heard what-the engagement |
or the accident? Well, never
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
IdIUP. SlNe Ile Iue IluIuDeE.
rs that you Miss Twinkle? Yesf
Sadie was talking with you about /
dreadful that has happened /
when she was cut off. Would you I
mind telling me the particulars? Thank
you" Listens for some time intently. /
"You say that Louden bled to death |
before doctor could reach him? Two
brutal men monopolized the wire?
Wouldn't they give it up to save
life? The monstersi How does Helen
Spingler take it? Inconsolable7 Umph!
/ wouldn't trust her. She'll have an
other fellow before the years out
She's fickle as the wind
Helen Spingler speaks to Mary Ar
mold: MARY, why didn't you meet me
yesterday at Robinson's? | was there
and waited an hour by the
glove counter. Didn't expect me?
You mean you didn't hear the time
and place of the appointments What
Louden? Who's he? My
lance bled to death? What are you
giving me?" Listens for some min.
ltes. 'Merciful goodness! And all
this grew out Of my asking you to
speak louder and that horrid man
putting in. Just think of it! All over
own? Do try to stop It. By the bye.
I've settled on the trimming for my
lress. I've decided on lace. What
Kind? Oh, some mother brought from
Brussels! Very expensive. She brought
Z in when they used to pay the in
ipectors SIS and get all the trunks pass I
d free. Goodby. Be sure to correct J
hat ridiculous story about my engage
nent and the rest of it."
"Of course | will. What miserable
hings these party wires are. Just as
me settles for nice little morning
hat with friend some one who has .
toothache must telephone bis dentist ,
he gets the wire; sometimes /
lie doesn't Then another person will
wildly call on his butcher for a dinner I
hat has been delivered at the wrong :
louse and a party of guests waiting.
low unreasonable people are. When
ny one else has the phone | am per
ectly willing to wait till be gets !
through Not she gets through he
George Goodrich calls up Helen
pingler: "Helen7 Yes. I'm George.
yho perpetrated that confounded
tory about your having been engaged
D Eliot Louden? It's nothing to laugh
z was scared ont of my boOts / !;