Salt Lake Democrat | 1885-05-08 | Page 1 | The Force of Habit

The Force of Habit I I One of the dry goods stores lost a customer cus-tomer one of the handsome clerks hap lost his situation and all through his miserable education at the telephone The lady in question is deaf and carries a little tube with the usual mouthpiece to speak into The other day she came up to the counter and as a preliminary to the conversation touching her proposed purchase she put the tube to her ear and handed the mouthpiece to the clerk He immediately put his mouth to it and called out Hello and before he could recollect himself the customer had I flounced out of the establishment San Francisco Chronicle