Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1911 — “HELLO” GIRL HAD LISTENED [ARTICLE]

“HELLO” GIRL HAD LISTENED

Charming Army Woman, With Apart* menta in Fashionable House, Loses Woman FrlsncL •—r New York. —Until recently a charming army woman, who lives in one of the fashionable apartment houses not far from the Army and Nkvy dub, was the best of friends with the operator at the telephone switchboard downstairs. Now all this Is changed. Over the telephone an acquaintance was telling the army woman of some recent Washington happenlhgs. “Better leave the rest of the story until I see you," she suggests when the conversation drifted Into detaila “1 am afraid the telephone girl Is listening to what you say," she cautioned a little later in the sfbry. “You had better be careful.” Still the conversation was unbroken. “Really," broke In the army vr man a little later, “I feel that I must tell you that f am sure the girl at the telephone board Is listening and you must stop.” When the army woman next went down stairs the young woman at the telephone desk declined to answer the cheerful “good evening.”