Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — What She Said. [ARTICLE]

What She Said.

He was a small boy and he was very much interested in the telephone. The pretty telephone girl at the Fifth Avenue Hotel put him on a tall chair, and calling up a chum on the long distance wire, placed the receiver in his ear. He was so delighted that the first thing that he told his mamma was that he had talked with a lady in Boston. “And what did you tell her, dear?” “I told her ‘hello,’ and then I told her my name.” “What did she say?” “She said ‘sput, sput, sput, sput’.’ " New York Herald.