Show I Tel Telephone phon Most Helpful and nd Also 1 Most Annoying of All Conveniences i s By CYNTHIA GREY The of ot the telephone is pro probably ably less ess generally observed than any other of ot the so-called so BOdal so social social so- so cial dal amenities Those poised persons who can maintain a smile throughout the II most terrific boredom who select the right fork by Instinct and can I face a wooden butler with equa- equa I equa-I these these very persons pe sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times revert to savagery wh when n they i take up the telephone I Nothing can be more annoying than a telephone ne We can readily understand un- un understand understand un un- how a person zealously trying to get a certain number and finding his ardor unreciprocated by bythe bythe bythe the telephone operator Is tempted to hurl the instrument out the window window win win- dow or attack it with an ax But the point Is that however f fu furious furious fu- fu Urious U- U rious you may get at the phone you really shouldn't visit your rage on the Innocent victim at the other end of the line I am b busy sy at my desk The phone rings and I answer it Is this John Smith bawls bawl'S a masculine voice at atthe atthe atthe the other end of the line Im I'm not John Smith and there is no sense In n Impersonating him so I reply in the negative substantiating my ne negation negation ne- ne gation by my feminine voice Promptly the man who desired John Smith explodes In wrath and then bangs up the phone It was irritating Ip enough to be disturbed when working but to be bawled out for tor something something- that I am not responsible for tor adds to the matter matterand matterand matterand and puts put me In an edgy mood nood Doubtless the man man- who wanted Mr Smith wanted him urgently and did not want me b but t the fact re remains remains remains re- re mains that had he had bad proper co con consideration for the person whom he got by mistake he would have concealed concealed concealed con con- his bis feelings to th the extent of saying Tm Im sorry and have taken up the matter again with central There are so many annoyances caused by telephone bores who are not bores in any other way and at any ther time There Is the woman who has nothing to do so she calls you up for a nice long visit Just when you OU are the busiest There is the one who calls up her herI friend frend at the office and holds up I the business phone while she rhapsodizes rhapsodizes on her latest beau There Is the woman with the In Ingratiating Ingratiating ingratiating In- In I voice who wonders If It It would be too much trouble for you to run across the street and call Sally Jones who hasn't a telephone lucky soul There is the Imbecile who greets you with Guess who this Is or orthe orthe orthe the one who infuriates you at atthe the start by demanding Say who Is this tris anyway vay There is the telephone jollier who always has to telephone when out in company and makes this sort of ofa ofa ofa a monologue designed purely to en entertain entertain en- en the people who cant can't get getaway awa away There Is the woman who enters your our home and Immediately starts toward the phone with Dear Dear you rou dont don't mind if it- itI I use your phone do you 1 then proceeds to make half halt a dozen calls alls when you have already exceeded your limit We should learn this about the telephone Most people dont don't enjoy enjo talking over it so we should make our messages brief We shouldn't hold Up busy wires or expect the telephone operator to be tent We Ve should be as courteous to unknown persons over the telephone as we would be if It we met them And ye we shouldn't borrow bortow telephones or ask others to act as recruiting agents for the demand is la urgent |