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Show GET SANTA CLAUSE OVER TELEPHONE Children Makes Things Busy for Operators. i Some Very Amusing Experiences Ex-periences Told. The poilmaslers, mail clerks, business busi-ness men and newspapers are. not the onl) people who hae some worries Incident In-cident to the coming of Santa Claris. The telephone people comu In for a a share of it all right and their troubles are probably the moio dlill-cult dlill-cult because the return Is less In their case than In most of tho others. Children Telephone. While It used to be the pleasure of the children to write letters to Santa Claris, it Is now their elfort to get In direct connectjon with him over the 'phone, and If one will but stand behind be-hind the young ladles who sit at the local switchboards stabbing at it as IKhclr lives depended on It. wonderful wonder-ful conversations arc heard. Tho little lit-tle tots climb up on a chair to reach the 'phone, take down the receiver and of course central answers "number "num-ber please," and the Inquiry comes: "Are you Santa Clans?" "Yes, what do you want?" goes the reply. "Well, If yon AUK Santa Clans, 1 want a doll, one with clothes on It, and a set of dishes. Hrother wants to know If you will send him a sled." "Yes, yes, I'll send you all you want. You lust write a letter telling what you want, put In the stove and I'll get it," says Central and then tells the little inquirer "good-bye" - Numerous Inquiries. These Inquiries during tho past two weeks havo becomo so numerous that In both 'phone olllces It lias been necessary to detail the "long distance girl" to answer. When the "local girl" gets a Call of the kind, It is switched over to toll, and in each office of-fice "tolI'Ms such an altogether charming charm-ing and klndly-heaited personage that as much consideration as possible is given tho little people. Their Inquiries In-quiries are patiently answered and always al-ways In a satisfactory way of course. A Good One. Once in a wlillcayoungstcris pretty smart and refuses to believe that Santa Claus Is on the other end of tho line. The other day as 'toll" of the Independent was answering a Santa Claus call, the little tot said: "Arc you really Santa Claus? "Why yes, sure 1 am. Don't jou believe UV "Well, your olce sounds llko a woman's. wo-man's. Maybe jou are Santa Claus's niother.y l'hls cieatcd a great laugh of course, but one can always llnd a good laugh In listening to one end of telephone conversations. The local operators will bo-glad when the big rush Is over and Santa Cans oiders are all tilled. |