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Show GOOD DEAL OF A NUISANCE I Soma of the Inconveniences Rural Patrons Pa-trons of the Telephone Are Subjected To. In the American Magazine an indignant indig-nant writer objects to supplying free telephone facilities to the entire countryside. coun-tryside. This letter gives a good example ex-ample of the outrageous demands that thousands of country people make upon up-on their neighbors every day. "We don't object to paying for our neighbor's telephone convenience," remarks re-marks the wriier. "It's being roused out of our first sound sleep at night or, worse yet. the last delicicus snooze in the morning that we seriously object ob-ject to. "It's putting on our goloshes and raincoat and wading a quarter of a mile through slush just to ask Mrs. X. to please step to the phone. It's coming com-ing back and finding Jack, Jr., stuffing Baby Betty with popcorn to tell Mrs. Y. that Mrs. X. is not at home. "Briefly, then, to cut short a tragic story, I never put baby in her tub, pie in the oven or lather my scalp with tar soap that I do not have to entertain enter-tain a neighbor who just ran in to phone and who remained hours to gossip. gos-sip. "But the proverbial 'last straw' was added when a newcomer, a comparative compara-tive stranger to us. asked if I would mind putting the key under the mat when we went out so she could telephone tele-phone her husband. The part that rankles is that I did! "Matters have come to a crisis and but one of two courses is open to us. The fitst is to sell our home, since a telephone is a business necessity with us, and mcve to a telephone-equipped neighborhood. The second and practically prac-tically decided upon course of action Is to inclose with glass a small square porch opening off the dining room and turn it into a telephone booth for the use of our neighbors." |