Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-24 | Page 39 | Phone Girls, Read This

Phone Girls Read This l Your 81 Sisters Slaters ten In n Know Inow Several SC L Languages es Paris Parla S Ept pt 23 That That the telephone operators of ot Paris arc are well Wll versed in foreign languages is 16 a thing which many miny visitors to this city havo hao found Cound occasion occa ion to discover but a most striking strikIng striking ing proof of ot their versatility is 15 told by bya byS a no Swedish h Catholic priest now visiting S here hero Tim The priest who ho does not speak a at t t. wor woid of French was received at the station by br a French colleague ue who did didI not know Swedish but who was to be his guide here so the two priests arranged ar nr- mtr- mtr I ranged to can carry on their conversation In Latin The following th the thC visitor who lives at a 0 hotel was called up on the telephone by his colleague r Ho HG had barely t started speaking when whon h he e was Interrupted b by the operator at nt nto atI I o th s exchange who told him that be beau because because be- be cause au of or the war ho lie must not us use a Ot l l language The French priest explained tho circumstances to her and an l sh she hp assured M him that matters might h huran bo 10 arranged uran ed In a moment the Iho two priests I fit aril a I. I now young voice in the tho phone them in the tho most perfect Latin UI What she said sold translated into J in meant that although It was sas to use uso a foreign ue the time operator should be bo vcr very pleased if It the J I Iro o fathers would speak lt in Latin and antI andS Rould then be her dut duty to listen to tot toi S 1 U t tir r i t conversation I L I