Show peculiarities peculiar ties of male tel evgraph operators tile other night at the new york bureau of 1 a I western newspaper the telegraph operator was busily engaged in transmitting the news it was noticed that while lie manipulated the key with his right hand fingers lie he kept drumming on the table with a lead pencil held in his left hand when his right i hand stopped so did the left after af ter watching the knight of the key several moments a reporter ventured to remark that he seemed very nervous tile the operator smiled and said that such was not the case but that eliat 99 per cent of the male telegraphers accompany the transmitting mittin 1 movements of their light 0 hands ili in various various ways sonic some operators drum on the table while others tap the flot with one of thou their feet liko like a musician keeping keepin time to music an operator cm employed by the baltimore arid and ohio company in this city cannot transmit without holding his left hand band a across cr liis his face and gently patting it another operator duplicates the dots and dashes which his right light liand hand forms by wiggling tile lobs lobes of his ears with the idle hand these peculiarities are not noticeable among amon women tele telegraphers ra pliers new york sim |