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Show FRIENDS FOR YBAnS. Hut They Nater Mat or Naan rath oili.r. The telephone girl Is not tho only ono who Incidentally haa a good time along with work, speaking her mind when alio pleases, becauso her identity la unknown She. as a rule, la very local and her volco la frequently the mcana of disclosing who sho Is, to aho la obliged at tlmta to bo aomewbat re-aerved, re-aerved, but only "nt times " With the telegraph operator It Is different. He or aha may express tho mind fully If It ran be douo In two or thrco minutes, for that la tho limit of tho time the operator dare monopollte Ho clicks the most daring things orer the wlro to tho operator nt the other end, and the same la clicked back Frequently they will make desperato love to each other, neither knowing tho sex ot the other, and will continue II for months or years, and If one ot them la changed lo another poet the acquaintance win go with tho new operator where thi old ono toft off At tlmca they will tell each other their aex nt parting, and If they both happen to be men or girls It Is put down and told aa n good Jokt of tho business They nlwnya say "good morning" to ench other oi regularly reg-ularly as If they worked In the aame room and hated each other cordially At the telegrapher' convention, held recently In Chicago, anya tho Chronicle, Chron-icle, n lull, handsome KnglUhman wu noticed to look over tho registry book overy hour or so of tho first two days nt tho convention At length aomo one asked him why he did It "I am looking look-ing for tho namo ot an old friend," U replied "Wouldn't you sea him If It enmo in and registered T" was asked. "Yea, but I would not know him. Ill has been a warm friend of mine for twenty years, still I have never seta him Wo have never met at a convention, con-vention, which la about tha only place operators over meet. When I could gtt off ho could not, but thla time I expected ex-pected to ace hla name on tho register sure." Soon a abort, heavy act nun ot Kinlul appearanco walked to the book and wrote hla name with a flourish flour-ish The Englishman watched him, and aa ho turned away he looked at tbe book. "There he la," ho said, and a moment later the two frlenda of twenty yeara wero clasping bands and gatlag Into each other's eyea for the first time. |
