Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1891 — She Can Read Clicks. [ARTICLE]

She Can Read Clicks.

Perhaps the only society woman in New York, who has any practical knowledge of telegraphy is Mrs. Collis, wife of General Charles H. T. Collis, ex-General, ex-banker, and at present insurance magnate. Mrs. Collis, who is a strikingly handsome woman, unusually accomplished, may really be considered an expert in the art of telegraphing. She learned when General Collis, then a banker, had a private wire connecting his New York and Philadelphia offices with his handsome Fifth Avenue residence. Mrs. Collis learned to telegraph that she might have little snatches of conversation with her husband durirg business hours or his occasional alsences in Philadelphia, and so thoroughly did she acquire a knowledge that General Collis declares no telegraphic expert can click a message over the wiie with greater skill and firmness than his pretty wife can wire “Please send me a check.”