Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29

people Wnen lAey are hungry,
and it's the perpetual cross that
dealers in food have 10 bear
their public is always hungry.
Otherwise they wouldn't be
there.
Laura remarked, in passing,
that tho customers from tho
Bell Telephone Building are.
with few exceptions, the easiest
10 get along with.
Somebody I'm the telephone
company was a wise man. Tele-
phone employees and attendants
at filling stations are, In gem
eral, the best of any groups In
getting along with the public.
1t wasn't always that way.
When the phone company was
young, boys used TO work on
the switchboards. Some wise
executive fired them all.
This was because the male
does not, generally speaking,
make as food telephone opera
tor as the opposite sex. When
q customer wsxed hot under the
collar because OF getting q
wrong number, the boy on the
central switchboard was too
quick to flare up and tell him
90 20 10 the devil.
That's how girls came to be
hired. The female of the spe-
cies may be more deadly than
the male, but IL is also more
tactful, more subtle. and more
adroit in its conversation.
If you ask a boy a question
and he doesn't know, he will
say, II dunno. You'll have TO
ask somebody else"
A girl can be trained TO say,
I'm sorry, sir, but we do not
have that information. / will
connect you with the super
visor"
A boy will say to a customer
who's in a hurry, I'm going as
fast as I can, so keep your
shirt on. A girl will say, "One
moment. plee-uz. am ringing
your number"
But It's a funny thing. While
the girls are better on the re-
ceNing end. they are worse when
they are dishing II out.
The female makes better
clerk or telephone girl or re-
ceptionist, but a much worse
customer.
Watch the salesgirls In a
store. They will wait on a man
In preference to q woman be-
cause a man Is less fussy and
doesn't enjoy shopping around"
When he goes into store, he
wants TO buy something and get
the process over with
A woman win hok things over
and, after she decides she likes
something. hand it back and de-
eide she'll look In the store next
door.
Laura admitted, That's the
WAY women are. i even do IL
myself-but L don't know why"
From her place back Of the
counter in the restaurant,
Laura has come TO the conclu-
sion that men are men and
women are women, no matter
where they are.
In the restaurant It's the
women who insist on having this,
that or the other thing. If you
tell a man that you're out of
frankfurters, he says okay. what
else have you got? But woman
tends to be put out about it.
She wants to know IL you are
sure there isn't just one little
frankfurter left, and If there
isn't then why didn't you order
more of them?
And ash trays! You might as
wen IlOL IldNC dSil IdyS WICu
women are around. Invariably
they will put the ashes and the
cigaret stubs in a coffee cup or
saucer. A man generally reaches
for an ash tray.
In view of the fuss that women
make at home about using ash
trays. this seems funny. Al
though, come to think of II, it
isn't any funnier than the way
men studiously use ash trays
when they are away from home.
and as studiously ignore them
at home.
We don't pretend to know
why. but II you can figure IL out,
let us know.
And when you've got that
figured out, then cell us why n
woman will geet her most hated
enemy with, Darling! How
lovely TO see you! I've ALWAYS
adored your hat, ever since you
bought IL In 1885,"
A . vnan mill opnaf HE hat