Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — LEFT AND BIGHT TELEPHONES. [ARTICLE]

LEFT AND BIGHT TELEPHONES.

“Hello'’ GArt’m Little Hiat May Prare of Value to Yoa ia Future. "Right-handed people invariably-put a telephone receiver up to their--left ear and left-handed people to their right,” said one of the telephone 1‘hello” girls. “We girls get to bo psychologists in a small way by,talking over the telephone every day. It is impossible to keep from sizing <kp and classifying the people on the other end of the wire, simply on a "basis of what they say and how they say it. There are almost as many ways of talking Into a telephone as there are kinds of people who, use the telephone. But it is, nevertheless, rather easy to classify them. .One thing I have noticed is that"the vast majority ts people, being right-handed, hold th? receiver in their left hapd. The left ear, by long distance, thus becomes mord acute and well trained. Consequently, when for any reason, a manor woman takes the receiver in his her right hand, it is comparatively easy to sense it at my end. The man is apt to speak nervously and dlsjolntedly, to talk too loud and to ask me to frequently repeat, showing th.'it; his ear—his wrong ear—is not serving him with such fidelity and accuracy as his more accustomed left.' I had great difficulty in hearing a woman once, and so I asked: ‘You are lefthanded, aren’t you?’ ‘Yes,’ she gasped. ‘Then don’t hold the telephone quite so close to your mouth and put the receive? against your other ear.’ She did, and we were able to hear each other perfectly."