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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0069 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| 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- EXCHANGES There are twelve telephone exchanges in Baltimore county, and there's not a day that goes by but that numerous foolish questions are asked the operators. What is the weather forecast for today? Please tell me the time. Where can I 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 Special Offer while they last No. 2 Eastman Hawkeyc Camera and four rolls of films all for $2.50 Atlantic Photo Supply Co. 216 W.Saratoga St. BALTIMORE, MD. Send for catalogue. U ^.VV«X^V>!«MX«MhVWhVm!hVV. 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* L.HAKLEINI FLORIST WOODBINE AVE. Towson.Md. Funeral designs blooming plants cut flowers Phonc-Towson £59] »j»*J»*J..}».J».J».JmJ».J..J».J..^ i I On the Old Pimlico Road at Smith Avenue NOW Baltimore's Most Fashionable Palace DINE DANCE 1 % 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 the 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 want 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, 1 don't want to buy anything. I 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. Coekey, supervisor of assessments, to William H. Coekey. chief clerk in the Clerkte Office? I'm sure I don't know. Do you want me to connect you with the Court House? No, there isn't any Mormon ONLY 20 FOR THIS SALE Lou Becker, Jr. and The Summit Orchestra i |frl}i^ilj»lfr«{»lfr«frifrfrfr 4^ff, ty1fpljpty$f)fy1fr4fcfy$tfyty%^^^ church in Baltimore county that I ever heard of. The switchoard became calm again and the young manipulator of its works picked up the thread of her story as if it had been a stitch dropped in a potential sweater. "Last night some men had a party in a room up at the hotel and one of the tricks was to see how many different kinds of questions they could ask. The first was did I know where they could get any hooch. 1 told him 'No,' but that was the third question and the fifth and seventh, and so on until 1 finally got tired of it and told them they ought to know because it looked like they'd had some and plenty. They wasn't, the mean kind, and they just wanted to see when I'd get mad and that was all. "One of them who didn't ask me about the hooch asked me how he could get to the Towson jail. Another one with a real girlish kind of voice wanted to know if ladies could smoke in the Court House Park. T told him he could, and that was all there was to that. "A lot of the questions we get is mostly about business. "We operators has got to be awfully well posted about local conditions. Not long ago a feller called in and wanted to know whether Tincan stock was going up or down and how much. I guess he was afraid he was going to be the goat, for he talked like he had to swallow a big loss. "You have to be able to tell 'em where they can place bets on the races when the ponies is in town and who owns the street railways, and why they put the fare up, and why you pay eight cents straight for two people when you got three nickles and no checks. The bystanders murmured words of admiration, but most of them were lost on the object of erudition. She was in action again and spoke in this wise: "No, you can't get your trous-1 ers mended while you wait in the J town tailor shop. You'll have toj send them out and let the old man j take his time. "How do you get to Buzzard's Roost?" "You can't. There isn't any such place. You tell me where you want to go and I'll tell you how to get there. "No, ma'am. I'm sorry, hul there isn't any hotel at Loch Raven, so I couldn't recommend (Continued on Back Page) 3Pr hew Upright Pianos ?> Mahogany Cases, ?!? Fully Gt Hisrh Grade, ully Guaranteed. Our Price $315 30 months to pay. No interest. Sanders & Stayman Co. 319 N. 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