Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — When Lovely Woman ’Phones. [ARTICLE]

When Lovely Woman ’Phones.

“Business will be held up ,Ixl this drug store for the next ten minutes," growled the impatient man. “Even the prescription clerk is holding his breath. Two good-looking women are getting ready to use the (otophone. That is why. When a handsome woman talks over an open-telephone everybody within earshot takes a vacation and listens. A plain woman might talk half a day and" nobody would pay any attention, but a goodlooking woman at a public telephone draws a bigger crowd than the president of the United States. Everybody takes it for granted that she is going to say something worth hearing and they become vitally interested.” "If you are In such a big hurry* said the impatient man’s companion, “why don’t you go down street and attend to that other errand while they are putting up your prescription here?” “Oh, no,” said he, "I want to hear, too.”