Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — MERELY HAD TO RESPOND [ARTICLE]

MERELY HAD TO RESPOND

Manufacturer's Wife on the Telephone Could Be ♦Trusted'to Do AB , Tctfcfng. “Take this letter, please. Miss Mushy,” said Adam Adamsonny, head of the famous Adamsonny vinegar .foundry. “ ‘Seattle Wicks, Wicksburg, Wick County, Va.—Dear Sir: Yours of the 23d instant received and contents noted, and would say—” ’ ’ “Wanted on the telephone, Mr. Adanisonny,” said Ariovlstus, the office boy. “It’s Mrs. Adamsonny, Mr.” “Tut, tut,” tutted Mr. Adamsonny. “This is my busy day. Ariovlstus. follow me with the talkapbone. Put In Record No. 33436.” And he went to the telephone and said into It: “Hello, Rhnbarba. Yes, my dear. Yes. my dear. Yes, my dear.” Rather quickly for an office boy, Ariovlstus appeared with the talkaphone. Mr. Adamsonny adjusted it to the telephone, and, returning to bis desk, resumed his dictation. Three times a minute the talkapbone said “Yes, my dear,” in Mr. Adamsonny’s voice, and Ariovlstus stood by to start the record over each time it ran down. • At the end of twenty minutes Mr. Adamsonny rose again, went to the telephone, and said: “Really, my dear, I’m afraid I’ll have to return to work now. Yes, my dear, good-by.” And he hung up and winked at the talkaphone' and Miss Mushy, who giggled two or three giggles.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.