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Show HUMAN VOICE TESTS. Philadelphia Record. Many persons Imagine that the human hu-man voice is as easily recognizable as the human countenance; they think that they could never be mistaken in the voices of their friends, but in the : branch telephone exchange of a big business bus-iness house the other day an experiment experi-ment proved that this was not altogether alto-gether true. One of the employees of the house took his place at the exchange, ex-change, and, as various persons called for various numbers, he guessed who was speaking. Out of ten guesses six were wrong. He erred in the case of his own brother's voice, mistaking it for that of the proprietor. He was sure that he had detected a fellow clerk on account of the pronunciation of coffee "cawfee" that he believed to be peculiar pecu-liar to this person, but the event proved that there were others in the bulldlrtg who also: pronounced coffee In that odd way. The girl at the exchange said that she never attempted to tell people by their voices, especially over the phone. "When you make a mistake it is so embarrassing," she murmured. "A roguish voice says: 'Do you know who it iar Yon answer: 'Ye: it's Harry.' Whereupon the disappointed reply comesi 'No; it Is Jack.' That makes you feel small." |