| Show WOES OF TELEPHONE GIRLS work at high pressure robs them of vital ty nervous persons need not apply is an admonition which should be heeded by all girls who are seeking positions as telephone operators the biblical phrase many are called but few are chosen Is especially ap to those who are ambitious to respond to the hello of the tele phone subscriber not one applicant in five Is able to stand the strain and no class of women who earn their living has the record for fainting that has been won by the phone girls the girls work at high pressure and this robs them of vitality but the thel 1 blustering male subscriber or more frequently the chance pa tron is responsible tor for most of tide tha hysterics at the switchboard the girls take a complaint seriously it is a reflection on the service they render and they cannot always pass it by as a joke in spite of the num her of telephones in use in new york there Is hardly an irascible patron who is not I 1 to the whole force A girl answers the call of such a man with misgiving and more than one operator has been taken away from her post pot unconscious while the brute at the other end of the line was pouring his spleen into the phone |
