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Show LONG RANGE TELEPHONING Tho rate of $21 for threo minutes talk over tho now tolephona line from lloston to San Francisco, will bo prohibitive for ordinary conversation. Yot It will bo used mow for buulnooH than most pcoplo rcalUo. Tlio growing uso of tho iolophono over distances of a thousand miles or moro is a featuro nt medo'n lifu. It Is so much moro satisfactory than letters. Tho most essential point of jour letter may bo passed over almost al-most unnoticed by a correspondent. It is remarkablo how many good business bus-iness men fall to oxpress themselves definitely when It comes to putting It In black uud whlto. Thoy leave out somo essential point, and tho tor-tuspondonco tor-tuspondonco has to begin all over again. To many pooplo who do not havo largo business Interests, a conversation conversa-tion over a hundred miles acorns a rather flustering oxperlenco. Quito frequently they ask somo ono to talk for them, though tholr hearing may bo perfectly good. Tholr ordinary faculties nro bewildered by tho won-dor won-dor of a scientific marvel that Is tho raorest coiumonplaco to tho buslnoss man. Long distance tolophony depends on complete perfection of connection. Patrons may submit to tho struggle to mako tholr voices hoard nbovo u buzzing wlro on a short dlstnnco connection, repeating and spelling out t words over and over again to guard against mistake. But at 17 por ml- nutc, thero tan not bo a slnglo link I of noisy lino. It is qulto an art to uso costly tel-I tel-I ephouo conversation with a mlnlaium ' oxpenso. A grcnt deal can ho said 1 In threo mlnutos. Tho points of tho conversation and tho questions to bo asked, should bo wrltton out ns enro-fully enro-fully as If you woro delivering a formal for-mal address. Every tlmo you say or-er-or, as you Jolt along In oidln-nry oidln-nry talk, costs high. |