Cupid Uses the Wire and Blocks Business.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 20, 19 May 1909, Page 43

Cupid Uses the Wire and Blocks Business.

To come to a still lighter side of telephony. There was once a Chicago •subscriber who complained to the company that he was being annoyed by being called to the telephone and then informed that a mistake had been made in the number. He declared that it occurred too often to be accidental. An investigation was made, and it was discovered that Cupid was in fault again. A certain young man had become smitten with the charms of the subscriber's stenographer. Whenever he had a spare moment he used to ring her up and murmur a few soft nothings over the wire. If the girl waa busy, however, her employer was accustomed to answer the call", whereupon the enamoured swain •would at once say it was a mistake and hang up his receiver. It is hardly necessary to add that poor Cupid got a black eye again.

A woman called up her husband an.! told by i was busy. With the utmost iniigna ion the woman announced t it her I'lelunl Hirer was too busy t-. talk to her. and subs . . ■ got ii > commu t her spouse sh tiled that he immediat- ‘v se-e tin: that impertinent ’phone girl lie dis harg-d.