Show HEROIC TELEPHONE GIRLS S. In Chicago a few feT e evening ago fire lire broke out In a atall tall building adjoining the tho telephone exchange where The Tho manager man man- more than a hundred girls were cro working f- f ager agel closed the iron shutters shutters' to the tho windows s and asked 1 for foi volunteers to remain at nt the stations Every Even girl re re- re 2 1 It was wan at one of or the busy hours of tho the I and the business of the tha company compan would have been badly affected if Ie the they had abandoned their posts Also the Q public would have been greatly inconvenienced The girls simply sat there and answered calls cals until the tho place got ot so hot they could not breathe and then they were called away Tho The place was full of smoke and the they scampered through it to a place of safety I That is rather a pretty stor story but It is not surprising surprising Or ing when one comes to consider that it was telephone girls who did It H. If It there Is an any class of creature that po possesses the tho qualities of which heroes are made it Is the tho girl at tho telephone exchange No one else has so soman else elso does docs so much to man many trials of patience No ono one facilitate business and I keep eop men in a fairly decent t I humor No one else docs does so much in tho the course of the I 1 da day to bless the tho community with cas easy intercourse And Anel Andi opportunities so so generally accepted accepted- none has so man many i i. i to correct the asperities of human temper and keep the whole world in a good humor 1 Nearly every girl in the telephone exchange gets dally daily I experiences Irritable men and unreasonable women They arc treated a good deal as if the they were but a part of at the tho mechanism of tho the telephone and had no human In Instincts In- In f or human feelings Often the tho voice at the telephone j- j Is that of a man In a rage or a 3 woman blinded with anger The cool steady voice of the telephone girl recalls both to tc the normal level of self feU control The town would beas be bo ft i twice iC as M fU full 1 of ill ill temper If the telephone girl were what to think she is simply is-simply simply a piece of or people s seem em L thO tho mechanism There is another phase of or her usefulness and It has no not been properly re recognized As a rule the voice of 14 the girl at central central is soft and gentle Sho She may have trained it to a cadence that does not grato grate on the M ear car or the sensitiveness of the tho patron All An that may L simply be a part of her business you will sa say It really Is a part of the girl first If it were not she could never t r put it into the business for business for an any price the company compan may intent on his trading or orthe pay PY her And tho the busy man the conflict which he must carry forward every day with witha hundred of opposing forces or tho the woman with a lot ot of k a t from home hears that thal gentle genUe distractions at and awa away voice almost as affecting in intonation level respectful I as if sho she were a familiar acquaintance interested in Sn 4 l' l ones one's aspirations and ready with the everlasting help of to tho the better part of or ort woman brings one back to earth earth to t 1 earth and starts tarts one ono fair fairly for the tho conversation with the man at the end o of the line The girl doesn't know to whom she sho is speaking when she asks for the desired number Down in her heart she probably doesn't care a penny beyond the fact that being a woman she sho gives that gentle guardianship S 'S Y t to all tho the world which has kept the world good and is making It better beUer But the effect on the man or the their L is i It If sho she were ivere a close ir woman weighted with cares as 4 friend And there Is an Instant corrective of temper Instant reforming of or resolve an Instant betterment an 1 1 i of or plan f Doing these services d dally daily to a thousand or thousand or ten teni i t thousand thousand-It It is no wonder the telephone girl has tho the r qualities of heroism 0 Of f course they thoy remained at f q 1 their thell posts in spite of ot the Of course 1 T r f they an answered calls with the same level lovel tone and the connection that would have been heen of I same sarno promptness t r the rule If there had he-d not been a fire within twenty j miles No o wonder they worked till un they strangled and It k r. r then left only because they thc were ordered to It is good to know they escaped without loss of life lifer or The telephone Girl doesn't get half hat the credit creditt r f or Injury t that is coming carnine to her And Anel in this caso case she has simply I. I evidenced a a. continuance of or the admirable nature that Is Isa Isa ift JJ a part of her heri May Heaven reward her with as many joys jOs as there I J are calls to be he answered I T |