Show COURTESY IN BUSINESS ii 13 hbert hubbard we ve are ruled b our habits birst we form oui habits and then our habits form us we are what we ne are on oil account of what ve lime hae thought said or done after having done a thing ono once there is a tendency in the brain to to do it again if continued we get the habit that Is id we do the thing Nit without bout thinking just as a matter of thus does habit become second nature what kind of people will avill we be in elysium Eli they risked asked socrates Socia tes four hundred years before chilst and his answer was lou ou will lali be the same saine kind of people you are ara to day because this life is a tion for the n nut nt t just as today is a preparation tor for tomorrow tomorio N any man with ith tile the grouch habit the I 1 piker habit the frown habit the habit the lope dopp hab habit it the booze habit Is on the greased chote and he hi ahlm elf Is swabbing the slide also there is a bart of general disposition on the part of to ghe him a rush push down the road to day daly tones jones locker in the heart of all of us is the tendency to pass bak back everything that is handed us if a smiles his hand at you as you walk down the street in the morning ou wae ane dour our hand back and smile in return unconsciously ly and often one little experience like this will ill key for you the lay day joyously courtesy Courtes 3 kin kindness driess goodwill generosity ero sity liberality are all catching nothing is so contagious as a smile try arv it on f ie e llast man vou see the advantage and benefit of telephone courtesy are beyond corn com put atlon aut the use of the telephone re quires a certain amount of patience you must hale hae faith that the man inan at the other end of the line has haa something to tell sou that is worth morth saying in the big central telephone of flees operators are selected with especial care as to their voices clotees A girl may have brains all right but it if she has a voice that screams screeches or purrs to that degree she ahe is incompetent either as aa a telephone operator or as a saleswoman abone am one who uses the telephone be he operator or patron aristocrat or plebeian should practice telephone couite courtesy coin tosy sy lie should speak neither too loud nor too low but should endeavor eiK leavor to put a wilile into his voice and not tears doubt or ax meation chii atlon many on oil taking lon don tile the receiver will nill shout chos this chist 1 I dpn not ettling ettl ng au an answer will say who are vou ou anyway I 1 this is follow pd p d up with what do you want all of which Is quite discourteous absurd and inopportune anyone taking down the rec receiver should announce who he is it if you are a salesman on entering an office you should not shout at the first man mail you met I 1 who is this I 1 or who are you when ou on call on a person you diac liac levei before met you certainly do not demand that he be should reveal ills his twenty until you ou have first reif revealed aled yours ours on oil taking down the receiver either to answer a call or to put one in III when rhen ou get your party say this is air alron brown ii who is just assume a pleasant attitude of mind and your voice will follow I 1 have noticed that trainmen on ceitlin roads for the most part have pleasant voices they call the bratiotis in a way so they are understood and they do not appear to be bawling bad names nernes at their ene enemies niles rhey are the voices of men who are 1 well ell nourished who get eight hours sleep who think well of themi who nilo are proud of their jobs and proud of the road for which they NN 01 ic thus are they placed on good beims with their colleagues and with the public |