Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — Our Telephone Girl. [ARTICLE]

Our Telephone Girl.

All Bloomington, including the telephone girl, was soundly sleeping, when the alarm bell she had set to wake her went off at a terrible p&oe, and effectually did its work. The girl was not in the beßt of humor, any wav, and when she put her ear to the telephone and heard that somebody wanted to know the hour, she was mad enough to bite a caramel. The voice was that of a female, and ahe conjectured that the young lady at No. 47 was sitting up with a young man, so she switched on a woman who was talking to a saloon, and the answer was as follows: “It’s time you opened £he door and let my husband come home. You have had him there with you long enough, and if you don’t get him home inside of ten minutes, I am going to send a policeman down there to get him. I am not going to stand this much longer. I’ve been peeping in at the window several times to-night, and I’ve seen him setting ’em up to jou, and I don’t intend to put up with it any more. Now, you get George home in ten minutes, or I’U be down there and pull every hair out of your head!” George was the name of the young lady’s beau, and when the latter hung up the receiver and cried, “Oh, Geowdgel” the telephone girl knew she had spoiled the match, and was so gratified that she went to sleep, and slept so soundly that a house burned down while the owner was trying to give a fire alarm. —Through Mail.