Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — NOBODY WANTS THIS DEVICE [ARTICLE]

NOBODY WANTS THIS DEVICE

Rumor of a New Telephone Invention Gives the World a Chill—Conditions Bsd Enough. < Once more that Insidious rumor,bobs up. We refer to the statement a device has been perfected whereby we can see each other over the [telephone. L But isn’t this; about the last thing we desire to do? Imagine the cake of 'the woman who sits down at the party -

line phone Monday morning to have a nice visit with the woman three houses up the street. Would she want even her dearest friend to see her In her uncombed dishabille? Not perceptibly. Think of the fussy little man who rips and hints at the phone because he can’t get a discontinued number. Would he want even a telephone girt to giggle at his inflamed face, his popping eyes, his sandy wisps of whiskers? Surely not. * Would it add to the comfort of a nagging wife to glance through the

tell-tale wire and get a look at the powdery peachiness of hubby’s stenographer? Don’t think it. And when the sentimental man hears the beautiful voice over the phone and builds romantic bungalows around it, and paints, in fancy, the charms that-might be supposed to go with it, would it do him any good to discover the exquisite voice was in close company with a squint and ex-tra-sise freckles? If mental Ignorance is bliss, optical Ignorance is no less so.