Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER [ARTICLE]

SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER

Absent-Minded Woman’s Peculiar Reason for Wanting to Be Rung Up on the ’Phone. Absent-minded persons sorely try the patience of girls in the New Rochelle telephone office. Not loiig ago a woman confessed herself subject to extreme forgetfulness and requested the day operator on her exchange to ring her up every morning at 9 o’clock. A week later she said: “Central, what was it I wanted you to call mp for at 9 o’clock?” “I don’t know,” said the girl. “You didn’t tell me. You just asked me to call at 9 o’clock.” y “Too bad,” said the woman. ‘1 know there was something I wanted to do every morning at 9 o’clock, but I can’t for the life of me think what It was.” The 9 o’clock calls continued, however, and several days later the woman took central into her confidence again. “I have found out why I wanted to be called,” she said. “A friend had given me a canary and I wanted to make sure of remembering to fepd it. The poor little thing is nearly starved. Hereafter when you ring won't im just say, ‘Feed the bird,' and I'll S° straight and do it?” Central promised, and the neglected canary Is now a plump and contented bird.—New York Times.