TELEPHONES
Some people are hard to please; and the. arrival of London’s millionth telephone Has evoked a grumble against an instrument'which “exhausts our adjectives f.and deranges our thought! ” Od the other hand, it improves our articulation; and we learn daily from the young, ladies, of-. Central that .they can roll as good.-an'“r” as any Aberdonian. A course of telephone exchange would be, a good' discipline jf of all who mumble, and. slur, and mispronounce. And does.not the-telephone also encourage habits of Conciseness and promptitude and decision, to say nothing of the higher moral quality:of patience?— ‘ Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 2
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96TELEPHONES Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 2
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