Logan Nation | 1901-10-12 | Page 5 | Test of Telephone Girls

Test for Telephone Girls. When girls are being chosen for the new government telephone service in London the educational examination sinks into insignificance before the physiological test. No girl will be employed if she is below 5 feet 2 inches high in her stocking feet She must possess good hearing, have no defect of speech, and must be tested by viva voce examination, in which particular attention is to be paid to articulation, pitch of voice and general gen-eral self-possessibn. Any candidate showing any Indication of nervousness, nervous-ness, hysteria, want of self-possession or a strongly-marked twang is rejected.