Show H 01 ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL Dy By THOMAS THOMASA A. A CLARK CLARKI I bean lIn ran or of t I of Dt Oo ob tk 12 Ii im It N wp pir Union TELEPHONE TE-EPHONE COURTESY ii TY LY ILLO ELLO Central CUe Cave me tw two o o- o l ti l two-eight two plea please e. e Is uta this two o There was vas a sound lIo of confusion at the other end of ot the wire as the tell telephone receiver receiver re re- n n mixture of piano and riot and rough house c com in combined mn blaed d out of which a harsh h voice oleo sounded W e 7 This Tads Is h Mr Clark Who 1101 o 7 I Mr I. I Clark Clork I I- I Well Weil what In the h l h 1 do you rou want It out I finally succeeded In making my ray Identity cl clear nr and the voIce softened perceptibly What I really dill was to deliver n a n very NY Important lr telegram tele tote gram to an nn undergraduate student There Therl Is little doubt that the telephone telephone tele tole phone tins has helped to facilitate business bust busi ness and nOli that lint It hn hits brought nH Cite country country coun coun- try people nearer bearer to each other and amI nearer r to town When I Iwas w is a boy by wanted to as ask a n girl to go out ut with me Inc to school I 1 ha had l to saddle a hOl horse e and ride th three ee or t four ur miles to see her that Is necessary tury ton sary ry for forn fora 0 young fellow Is to cn call 11 her herup herup up on the telephone telephony and ask If she tins lias n II date for night Whatever What that ever r tin the telephone has lias done to enc encourage ur age matrimony and ond to put the punch Into hu bu hunt nt u s It has hai not lad nn an Im Improving proving influence upon out our courtesy or orI OUT eul I manners II II ners We employ language III and tines wh when n u lg l the telephone which we never never dream of doIn doIng do- do In lag Ing or dare to to todo do It If speaking face face uce to face with an Individual We Insult helpless telephone girls and and grocer boys lios and ond en engage In altercations with officials In n a way that would not have be been n possible before the the days of the telephone We ask the most unnecessary unnecessary sary and In Insane and personal ques ques- questions nt lit times tines most Inopportune We babble and p putter and retail gossIp and carry on flirtations to a n shocking extent I have be been n rung out of bed at midnight midnight mid mid- night to give ghe someone the name name of the president of society old mId I h have t e been cI a away way from a dinner party to settle settie a dispute between he- he tween t two women whose names I had lind never ne heard beard before ns S to whether or not n son Ion of the kaiser hind hE been n killed during the recent Teutonic unpleasant nes ness One Is not likely l to find n a man In bed or at meals If f one times his calls properly and though we would never think of culling calling at nt a II tams mans house nt at lunch time lime or at nt night to settle our I trifling business we do not hesitate to him on the telephone A A friend of mine nine whose family was seriously III last year eor remarked that she could have managed everything quite comfortably ly If It It had not been Inc for the telephone It rang from daylight h t to In dark rk until It w wore her tier out drove droe her tier half mud mad Finally she hail It taken out and ond went to the neighbors when she needed to I telephone The worst of It Is II that most of us thou though h we complain of them nt at one onetime onetime onetime time or another are ure ourselves guilty of these discourtesies Perhaps if we would think we would not be he |