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Show ROBUST TONES. "You have heard of the man who telephoned tel-ephoned in such a loud voice that he might have been heard by the man at the other end of the wire had he let tho phone g- and stuck his head out the window? A real case of that kind happened hap-pened in the Commerce building the other day. A stranger entered an at-tornev at-tornev s office and asked permission t- u,se the telephone. Presently the stenographer sten-ographer heard him say: "Moved, eh? Where to? Twelve hundred hun-dred and three Commerce budding, ch?" The stenographer smiled. That was tho number of the next office. Then, through the parftion. she heard, faintly faint-ly but distinctly, the voice of the person per-son who was answcilns the telephone! For some minutes the conversation continued, neither talker having any Idea that they could have dispensed with the telephone., |