Lower coast gazette., 1913-07-26
No Woman Ever Really Loved a Man
Because He Was Coed"

Of irony, 81 asked If you are going 10
marry me O. not"
mo" she answered, unrutded. Tam
not. That's the answer. Same as
when you asked me before. And the
time before that. And SO on back to
the beginning. And then some-untll
you can learn to take NO for an an
swer."
81 cant take It." he returned glumly.
.and / won't take it. Maybe you think
/ get a lot Of fun being thrown doWn
like this. 1t means more to me than
you've got patience to hear. I'm going
all to smash. Oh. you needn't laugh.
It isn't so funny to me
I'm sorry" she said. dian
know 1t meant 80 much to you"
DO you suppose I enjoy percning
M ON this rail like q googleeyed Poll.
parrot and squealing Wanda, Will
Won marry me?' and getting a lemon
each time instead Of a cracker"
To turn the talk away from Its old
trend. She broke in, almost at random:
aYou don't realize the power o. q
phone girls job. No outsider does.
/. People from q thousand difieren,
: points call up people at a Thousand
other points. Every pair OF peopls
! thinks they are talking unheard by the
wor,d az large and that Just they two
can hear each other. Each OF thos'
thousands thinks that. But the tele
phone girl hears them all. ! read u
\ nm old book once about a demol
4 named Asmodeus who used to NJ
: about by night and lift the roofs OF Q
houses to see what people were dolne
q II he were living now he could save
- lot OF time and work and bother Q
Il getting a job at central. We
II Buzz! !.
- "Hlo!" droned Wanda. mo. N
:. Blake hasn't come in yet. Any me
L. sage? Arr"
i eyes" she went on in her ON
voice; what the telephone girl doesr
:. hear isn't worth the hearing
- "The whole world under your "
q. little. little he lds!" he said soft
a reaching for one Of them as he spoi
But the buzzer rushed to the resc
I'd Of its high priestess with q sud-
nd noisy purr.
Mrs. Robertson!" droned Wan
.o to the transmitter. Nom. Mrs. n
ertson is not at the Keswick. Did y
i'm wish to be connected with Govern
,re Robertson's suite? Nom. ! don't KIN
lor whether she's expected IN Wasning'
ted soon or not. A'ri."
Gu. "Friend Of your sisters she
planned, turning from the transmit
ous .she said Mrs. Robertson wrote J
her she was coming down from New q
the some day this week"
.er Grace spends more time on
pre- trains during the session than
me does at home" laughed the 70.
Jim "she wanted to close the New =
the house and come down here to stay
er's winter. But Mark won't let her. J
) Of Wanda, you've simply got 70 lister
all me-" he went On with return OF
Iher boyish im%pulsiveness. love !!
And II"
INKS "Mr. Blake!" she protested,
rner laughing, half distressed, =
lad "Mr. Blake!!" he echoed ruef'
hen .How long since I've been MT. 81
rom to you? Haven't begged you 70
wife. me .Tom?' ! always call 9 wa
ften why can't you call me-
ran Il am q telephone operator.
! In said with mischievous demurrer
y or .and you are Mr.. Thomas Blake. pr
+ at nent on the district attorneys {
only son Of the great Jim Blake.
Ights brother TO q woman the Sunday pa
i the call a society queen
was "Lord." he growled, ARE you u
lghts to ring social standing n on mt
bert his stage Of the game
his ~If you care to put it that way,