Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-13
THE TELEPHONE PEST
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Wort"'s EIghes. Pad Woman
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is lore aradIy than tAc naI". Also,
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i, iIoportonat"Iv create" m'na"e
o. INC r+ace and harrin"s~ # 'A"
Community.
Says TIM, >oInc man. Il know
wy nee girl OF whom ! used to think
a good deal In fact, was on the
vcryc Of falling IN love with her until
discovered that she as victim OF
the telephone maitland, believe me,
I'd about a5 soon mare a woman with
the morphine habit
Il am beginning to dislike and dread
this girl because she makes my life
a burden 10 me by telephOning me.
There is never a minute OF the day
or night that am safe from her.
She calls me up at my business Office
and she insists that every evening al
eight O'Clock | shall call her up, no
matter where | am It's a contounded
nuisance see this girl two or three
times a week and we've got nothing
on earth to say to each other over the
telephone. but there I am held up on
the end OF a wire to chatter like an
idiotic monkey about nothing.
Why, oh, why, do girls annoy men
bv ceaselessly calling them up on the
phone? Why haven't they got enough
sense to know that nothing gets on
mans nerves so quickly as to be inter
rupted in business hours, and that
there is absolutely no other one thlng
on earth that girl could possibly 90
that so surely makes him feel that
she is an old woman Of the sea ueo
around his neck with a wire that he
can't break, as. for her to always be
on his track with the phone"
That's what one young man says
girls. and take 1t from me, he's no
neculiar old crouch. 1t is what every
Young man would like to say to every
girl he knows. If he had the courage.
Indeed. so great have been their sur
ferings in the matter that l nave
heard more than one youth express
the fervent wish that Mr.. Bell mao
died with his great invention unln- !
vented.
whom the DDS would destroy they
first make mad" says the old adage'
a modern feminine version Of this an
Gent bit Of wisdom might be, the girl
who would make herself unpopular
with men gets busy with the tele-
phone"
Certainly there is no way in which
q Young woman can queer herse1
quicker or more completely. IL ols-
pels every scrap OF illusion about ner'
It shows her up, BADLY and colby as
a huntress stalking her prey, instead
of a timid dear that the man must
pursue at the risk of his life to cap
ture. It puts her in the light OF a
sleuth forever logging his steps. And
II drives a man to frenzy by interrupt
ing him in the great game OF business.
Try to look at the subject from the
mans point Of view, girls, and you
will see how idiotic thing you 90
every time you' take up a telephone
receiver and call up man.
Suppose the man is in business Tor
himself. He is a merchant or broker
or lawyer or doctor. 1t Is in business
hours. He has customer that he mas
been working over for a couple OF
hours to get him to the buying point.
Another minute and the trade would
he clinched. Ting-a-ling-ling, goes the
talephone. He picks it up. A voice
at the other end of the wire says:
This is Mabel. Didn't we have a per
fectly lovely time last night at the
marty? Wasn't Sally Jones dress just
perfectly sweet, and wasn't Tom
Smith mad" etc, etc, and so on, and
so on.
The man grinds his teeth in help
less rage. He can't beat a girl over
the telephone, though he would like
to, and by the time he has choked
Mabel off the customer has had
sober second thought and backs out
Of the bargain.
Or. if the man is a lawyer. he may
be just on the point Of catching