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Please: Tell Me The Time ? What Is The Weather Forecast For Today? Where Can I Get Some Corn Licker ? Are But Few Of The Questions "Hello" Girls Are Requested To Answer-
There are twelve telephone exchanges in Baltimore county, and there's not a day that goes by hut that numerous foolish questions are asked the operators.
What is the weather forecast For today? Please tell me the time. Where can T get some corn liquor? are but a few of the questions "hello girls" are requested to answer.
At one of the exchanges the other day the operator opened connections with a subscriber who inquired what statue had but one eye. The operator repeated the inquiry to herself over and over again in a poetic, yet resentful way answered: " Cleopatra's needle, of course" at the same time jamming in the plug that closed off the connection.
The question, however, incited
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her to speech, and she addressed to the innocent "loafer" who for one reason or other stuck pretty close to the vicinity of her unusually brunette good looks a few observations on the vicissitudes of life at the switchboard.
"What's wrong with this picture? Here's a guy fixing up a speech he's going to make at a firemen's convention and asking me for his facts. It certainly is a good thing my parents gave me an education. I often wonder how these girls who quit school about the first year high ever get along.
'' There ain 't 'anything a girl at a switchboard don't have to know,'' she went on. '' Of course, you get one of the jobs at a country exchange and the questions is all pretty much alike, the reason being that they's mostly women at home during the day. Some of 'em has got husbands and some is bachelor girls of 50 or so; but those that's got husbands are 'em so dispirited that they don't ask many questions. They let their wives do the talking and
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then they do what their wives decide.
"In an exchange like this the questions mostly is something like this: "Why can't I get any connection to Fork? If the line happens to be undergoing repairs, or 'Can you tell me Jthe name of a good movie to go to see? I want something nice and sweet and wholesome.'
"By that I know she means something without pep, and so I think up the dullest thing around and send he to that. They usually go, but they come back looking sort of disappointed. Sometimes I feel like doing 'em a real good turn and recommending Pola Negri in one of her hot sketches, but just now I waul to hold on to my job, so I never do. It is an awful temptation sometimes, though.
Here at Cockeysville it's different. This is a growing community. We got a lot of yaps here as well as good folks, and the questions they sometimes ask would give you a permanent wave if Heaven hadn't already attended to that for you and saved you a lot of time and the expense of getting a new one every six months.
Yesterday we got a Englishman. He didn't look so awfully 'stro'rd'n'ry, but he wore a cane like an Englishman always does, and he spoke with a little accent and the proprietor told me he had tea for breakfast, so I was ready for most anything.
And, believe me, I got it. I spent most of the morning getting it. First off he wanted to know if Druid Hill Park was open to the public and what was the admission. I fixed him up on that, and then he had hardly rung off before he was on the line again.
"I say," he said, "I cawn't get-out of this beastly town. What has become of your boots?"
I told him that nobody could say this was a hick town to me and get away with it. "The girls here wear galoshes when the weather's bad," I Isays. "The only people that wear boots is farmers. I can tell you the name of a good store if you want to buy a pair of shoes.
"No, no," he says. "No, no, I don't want to buy anything. 1 put my boots outside my door lawst night to be done and they are still here. They haven't been touched. Where is the boy who tends the boots? I want to go out."
Can you imagine it?
The telephone girl pulled out one set of plugs, stuck in another and said she was trying to com-' plete the call six times in rapid succession. Then she varied her remarks a bit.
Yes, ma'am. I think it's going to rain. The paper said it was going to and it looks dark outside. Yes, ma'am, I think you'd better take your umbrella along.
What relation is William B. Cockey, supervisor of assessments, to William H. Cockey, chief clerk in the Clerkte Office?
I'm sure I don't know. Do you want me to connect you with the Court House?
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