Fell in Love With Her Voice.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 54

Fell in Love With Her Voice.

That a voice, soft, gentle, and low, is an excellent thing in woman lias been accepted as a truth ever since King Lear first made the remark; and if Mr. William McCalpin. of St. Louis, is the latest to illustrate the opinion, he will most certainly not be the last. He fell in love with the voice of a telephone girl, and he was very soon imploring its unseen owner to let him know her name and to favour him with her acquaintance. For two years the damsel resisted, but at last she allowed Mr. McCalpin to call on "Poppa,” and now trie couple are married. .She was Viola Kortkemp. He is said to be on the road to enormous wealth. The story—which is given at length in the London "Daily Chronicle"— has. of course, a moral, which is, however. too obvious to ne drawn in this column. We shall, therefore, content ourselves with bidding Rie unseen young ladies of the Exchange who respond so musically to our occasional appeals, to remember Mr. William McCalpin and be of good cheer. We would further exhort those other maidens, who occasionally snap us up so testily, also to bear this St. Louis idyll in mind, and to mend their voices before it is too late. Who can tell how many William McCalpin* there may not be at this very moment in town, sighing for just some such vox Humana as that which ' has fascinated that gallant knight-errant of St. Louis?