Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1910 — LEFT AND RIGHT TELEPHONES. [ARTICLE]

LEFT AND RIGHT TELEPHONES.

“Hello” Ctrl’, little Hint May Prove ®t X'nine to Yon In Pntnre. “Right-handed people invariably pufca telephone receiver up to their left ear and’ left-handed people .to their right,” fold one of the ,telephone “hello” girlß. “We girls get to be" psychologists In a small way by talking over the telephone every day. It Is impossible to keep-from sizing upand classifying the people on the other end of the x$ ire, 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, ratller easy to -classify them. One thing I have noticed Is that the vast majority cf people, being right-handed, hold the receiver in their left hand. The left ear, by long distance, thus becomes more acute and well trained. Consequently, when for reason, a man or woman takes the receiver in his r-r her right hand, -It is comparatively easy to sense It at my end. The man is apt to speak nervously and dis- x jolntedly, to talk too loud and to ask mb to frequently repeat, showing th.'tt his ear—his wrong ear—is not serving him with such fidelity and accuracy as hia 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 reoeiver against your other ear.’ She dlcT, and we were able to hear eaeh other perfectly.”