The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1920, Page 17

a ay hey eyesi,ht perfect, her hearing Al, What Makes a Pertect “Hello” Girl! | Weavers of Speech’ Must Be “Okeh” -Physically and Mentally; No Left- Handers Can Say “Number, Please” + he ‘‘Regular’’ Girl Must Be Able to Absorb a Little of the Character of the Party at the Other End of the Wire, By Fay Stevenson. OULD the Venus de Medici have made a good telephone operator? Perhaps she would before she lost her arms, that is provided ‘ they were the right length to reach all the buttons and taps con- nected with an operator's desk, provided her hands were not all thumbs, and her enunciation perfect. At any & PERFECT TELEPHONE. GIRL~ RHINELANDERTS certain “Venus” standard. “You have no idea how difficult it is to get the right kind of young girls for our positions," Mr, J, 8. Mo- Culloh, the Vice President of the company, told me at the Dey Street olfices, “Not every young lady who applies to be an operator is accepted, because there are so many qualifi fons for her to possess. The tel }phone operators’ or ‘weavers of speech,’ must be perfect physically as ‘well as mentally. begirf with,” continued Mr. Me- They’re Making ’Em Higher In Paris CARNEGIE > PAT Trem $3 HATTIE CARNEGIE of M New York, arriving here from Europe yesterday on the ania, wore—take it from an eure shoriest skirt that hao yet been imporied from Paris, Miss Carnegie was abroad looking over the latest creations of the Paris modisto ‘They're going higher and higher, eaye f " rate it takes a perfect Vers of New York to work for the Bell Telephone Company, and every girl who is a telephone operator has to come up to a | ‘womanly Culloh, “of course no girl to be a telephone operator could tbe left- handed, She must not have too short an arm, and while there is no exact measurement required I know that she must have at least a normally long reach. Every girl should have & well-developed hand which is not all thumbs, Her eyesight must be normal if not keen, her hearing of course must be excellent and she must speak distinctly and clearly. Be- sdies having a perfect’ enunciation she must have a thorough knowledge or ds that all that the perfect telephone operator must possess be- sides being exceptionally bright, en- ergetic and quick; a good operator must haye common sense, poise, and at the same time a certain amount of temperament. By temperament [ mean she must be able to absorb a dittle of the character of the party at the other end of her wire, That is one reason why I think women make such excellent operators, Wom- #0 much of what we call ihtuition,’ they seam ta things instinctively which we know men never think of, I can't im- aging the average man taking the part of the little operator for two hours without saying—well, mind just what he would say. “But woman !s8 patient, quick to understand and quick to act,” con- cluded Mr, McCulloh. “Her voice is ally gentle and she seems to be ticularly fitted for that position. We have had a number of extraordi- hary woman in our employ and T would [ke to say right here that I do not belleve the public realizes che number of qualifications it takes to be a perfect telephone operator, * Mins Mary Manz, manager of the school for young girls learning to be operators at No. 104 Broad Stree:, > enlarged upon the essential qual- ations for the telephone girl ach girls from sixteen to twenty-five to become operators,” Miss Manz told me, “and while we never turn a competent girl away, be- cause we can always find a place for her, nevertheless an éxpert telephone never operator must really be a certain of Venus "During the period while they are here we pay them $18 a week, With- in thre average girl Is ad- vanced t 0 a week, and from there her sa to her own progress and ability, The students at the Broad Street School have a cozy rest room fitted up with easy chairs, a phonograph and ull the comforts of home, besides a they thelr t price. weavers of speech” are well trained and weil cared for, but don't can get et that the girl who responds to r “hella, hello, HELLO" is a Venus New York. She ja perfect physi- ad,mentally er be there at all, she woulan’t — The Wise Young Lady. he successful man," said Viscount Wrey at a farewell dinner, “goes straight to the heart of every ques- tion, He ces all its features: chap, roposing to this lady, wound up with the you refuse me I shall never © another wom ’ bald she, ; 8 that promise hold good if T accept you? "—W ington Star, i agh- |Can You Beat It! — xwittzia. hlowsewitfer OOK Consriast. 1920, by The Prom iubiishing Co. (The New York Breuiug World.) EXT time you make a beef loaf use rolled oats in place of bread or cracker crumbs, It will be a change and you will like it Here is a vegetable chowder that would make a savory and substantial hot day meal: Cut four potatoes and three carrots in small pieces. Add enough water to cover and cook twenty minutes. Do not drain oft water. Ohop three onions and brown them In two tablespoonfuls of fat or @ piece of aalt pork five minutes, Add this and one pint canned tomatoes to the vegetables. Heat to boiling. Add two cups of skim milk and thicken with flour (about three level table- spoonfuls), A bunch of soup greens give a good flavor; 80 do green pep- pers or finely chapped chives, Some cooks use rice instead of potatoes, Some housewives are finding the empty oatmeal cartons yery con- venient for holding jars of canned fruits and vegetables. The glass jare fit in snugly and are protected both from light and dust. Of course, labels are attached on outside of cartons before they are oked away. Have you ever tried bolling two or three stalks of celery in with the cab- bage? It improves the flavor and cooks say it reduces the unpleasant odor of cooking cabbage. Eat kidney, Iver, brains and tongue during the warm days rather than the heat-producing meats, Calves’ tongues are much cheaper than beef tongue and quite as palatable if prop- erly prepared. Cut a small piece off one end of the potato before baking. It will allow the steam to escape in cooking and the potatoes will come out of oven dry and mealy, Before going camping dip the burning ends of matches in melted paraffin, Thia will make them water- proof and you will be able to light them on the durmpest of days or even in the rain A freshly frosted ¢ ly conveyed to the picnic if you stick u few toothpicks in top of cake before wrapping the waxed p: r around it. ean be safe- When going into the country put a bottle of lime water tn the luggage. You will find it most efficacious in cage of bee, wasp or hornet stings. us \ | DIDN'T BRING AN EVENING GOWN WHATS THE DIFFERENCE ? ORLY ACR SWELL BALL HERE AT THE HOTEL HE MUST Be A RUBE ! |! NIGHT. Servants at $15 a Month! No, of Course, Not in New York—But in Tampico, Mex.’ Where the Servitors Demand the Simplest Food. By Roger Batchelder. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), AVE you a servant problem? If you have servants that in a needless question. One lady now in New York, however, has six servants, yet she has absolutely no trouble with them, and finds that their cost is next to nothing. One New York Servant Co But, un- NEw YoRw ‘6 as Much as Six in Mexico—But Who in Thunder Wants to Live in Mexico, fortunately, that lady Is not speaking in terms of New York, but of her present home in Tampico, Mexico, ¢ no servant problem,” sc ‘Mexico {s a land where we have declared Mra. 4 Dunlop, the wife of an Ameri- can engineer who 1s now at the q pico oll fields, when interviewed ¢ at the Hotel Pennsylvania, “Wages cf servants have gone up terribly in the past ten years; in fact, they now charge $15 a month, in place of the rs ago. monthly §% of ten For that high price, however, I can get a descendant of the Incas, not a peon, or common servant, but a true and faithful friend, who attaches herself , to a houschold for life, of servant is as his a and for the old Southern ‘mamm Mra Mexican the plainest Dunlop servant was of tood, solicitous for her ils aa devoted asx asserted content and did not make the ravages on the cellar and This type , ta as that with & jarder which dian her diet. So are commonly attrib- uted to those of New York Now, if you give your native In- tortillas frijoles (beans), she continued, “she is perfectly sat- isfled and scorns a more elaborate you see you do not to feed your help on humming-trds’ wings in the country I cone from,” (Mexican servants, certain rules which must be regard- (cakes) and her th plenty of chill, have however, have d. A cook will do no work except n the price of kitchen, consequently, demands five or nix servants concluded Mrs. “when the entire the th, the average one servant in Yonk City, | can hardly complain. for instance, and household But Dunlop with o smile, lot coaty me only New “Mexico is truly the Utopia for the housewife.” a Courtwhip andl Marri s@ B iv Betty Vincam Ls hi 20, " nc Ma Jo. EGT\EAR. Miss Vincent: | am nineteen years old, and not 80 long ago | met a young man whom | like very much and of | can't whom I tly think. da d_me to go out with him. | con- sented, but two days before the ointed date he wrote m wa very sorry but he could not keep th agement, He said he later and explain this fellow very often, as the clique of fellows and girls | know fre- quently invite him out. Do you think ' should forget this act or rather ri treatin, gizes, although it never will? H [ft is perte young man does another engage ch of etiquette or shall | go on him coolly until coms he apalo- s though he nt that the ntend to make t with you; t fore, a8 @ matter of personal dignity ik you are justified in remaining Apparently there 1s nothing yi to do but toe ignore him, rr Miss Vincent: | was in s and doing very well at the beginning of the war, then | was drafted and found to be ‘physically unfit because of flat feet, and since | wanted to be patriotic | ‘went out on my brother's farm and thought | was doing ‘my bit’ in that way, Now, 1 am atill on the farm, since | find the work a think o condition, rees with me, and | cannot city life with its cramped 1 was very much in love with a ly city inclined girl. This girl was then only in high school, but now she is a business woman and frequently | pass her when | am driving. a farm wagon in regular Harm hand's clothes’ and she of course all dolled up waiting for the train to take her off. | still love this irl but | rather imagine she looks pHi upon me although she piwaye smiles very sweetly at me. | make more money at my present job and am healthier than a fi do you think such but hi a farmer's w! If she smiles in h I think your future to settling down ¢ the average girl ow In a hot office quite apprecia old sweet way mks serene. As a farm T think > apends her day the cool and quiet of famn life the hard work of a farmer's wife will not seem difficult to the girl wh has earned her own money and has to please a “bows.” But, of course, you must state your own case to her and see what that smile realy menns. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31,1820 ¢ \ GDEATEST NEW VODK Take Riverside Drive! A Swell Barrage of Six-Room Anterooms. Flat Facing the New For $4,500 You Can Get a De Luxe York Central Cinders and the New Jersey Odors. an By Neal R. O'Hara. Copyright. 0. by The Drees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). oy ‘EW YORK is different from all other cities except it has the same-kind of telephone service. Try to get a number and it's the same old place it was sixty years ago. That was before the phone was inverted. But old Gotham has sure stepped along fast otherwise. Maybe it's cot Teas culture than Boston, less climate than Los Angeles and less conceit, than Chicago, but it’s still the Nation's pienic grounds. So long as foiks trade stock certificates for legal tender New York will be the big dimplq on He Got His Number—All the Wrong Ones Were Busy. Mother Barth's favorite continent, You said {t, neighbor, that burg is growing. Hendrik York and headed for Albany, He pai in the world to discover a water route for the honeymooners, It's always full of strangers. , Hudson was sure some sucker when he sailed past New dup the greatest skyscraper Batch Hendrik would have done better to walt for the night boat. Not every guy caif'flis- cover New Y¢« sithough lots of Western buyers don’t seem to think, 90. And honeynioon folks have a knack of discovering routes for themselver. New York to-day has a great future. Any town where they pay $20 a quart for stuff that the jays use to drown their pigs in necessarily has a great future, It means there's enough gold in the village to refill Jack Johnson's teeth. From Ellis Island, where they get you coming, to Coney Island, where they get you coming and go Ing, N. Y. is a zippy settlement. We leave that to the visiting Elks. Take «look at the Great White Ribbon Way. Theoretically parched, but still full of fe. There's a broken heart for every light on Broadway—and two ticket scalpers. A show has got to run six months on the Main Aisle to run one night out In the sticks. Why, a play with- out a Broadway rep can't run for more than eight reels in the movies, That's how Broadw got ‘em tled up. Take a look at the Beoadway res- taurants. They've had the same cant on the quick lunch menus for twenty-five years, but they're still playing to standing room only. In the automatic joints you drop In two nickels and get connected with an eight-patty piece of pie, For the price of a runabout you can get a square meal in practically any New York eaterle. There's class to ree taurant life in Manhattan, Take Riverside Drive. A swell barrage of six-room anterooms. ‘For $4,500 a year you get a de luxe’flat facing the New York Central cinders and the New Jersey odors. No apart tent is complete without a rates tn rent. The janitor attends to athe dirty work, especially the evictions. Take Fifth Avenue. The avetvle is a two-way street, but there’s onlg-one way to cross it. That's by taking the subway. The avenue art shops cater only to fastidious tastes, A Fifth Avenue label on your negligee’#oats you $20 extra. There is nothing-like it except on Broadway, A Canadian Club tabel on your night éap’ ¢psts you $30 extra there. Thirty bucks extra and the funeral expenses, From oyaters to nuts in a Fifth Avenue hot) cots you $50 or $60,\0with pearls not Inclued in the oysterd}! That's a nut's eye view of New York in a bird shell, A wise town? You guessed it, Mame! New York is so wise the natives think two and two are three. They got thateidea from the guys that are short chiing- Ing thein. Za The fare Family * Copyrtaht 66 POOR Mrs. angle,” sald Mrs. P Jarr, sympathetioally, “That husband of hers a just breaking her heart! How can a man act like a brute, ax he does, when he has a quiet, loving, home-abiding woman like she js “Don't ask me; I've troubles of my own," said Mrs, Jar, “Well, it Just goes. to show that @ good woman isn't appreciated these a!" sighed Mrs, Jarr. “Phe kind of wives the men seem to care for the most ure those that powder and paint and dye their halr and are run- ning to matinees and lunching at the hetela and never are in their own homes or have any love for thelr ch dren, if they have any children “You were speaking about John Range,” Mr. Jarr interrupted. “I saw Rangle come running out of the house this morning like a scared rabbit, and Mra, Rangle threw his hat out In the street after him and screamed at the top of her voice that If ahe could get her hands on bim"—~ “Maythe he tried the poor thing's patience,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “and she just had to give way to her feelings for a moment.” “No; he told me he didn't keep aa appointment with her,” sald Mr. Jarr, “Well, he could have; he hadn't anything else to dot” said Mra. Jarr, “He was there and he waited over an hour for her, he told me,” said Mr. why shouldn't he?" asked “Is Uhat any reason that Mrs, Jur he should come home and ereate a s‘oene and tear out of the house like @ madman, without his hat?" “Mrs, Rangle chased him out, threw his hat after him and dared him to come back," suid Mr, Jarr, “She had good cause if she did,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “He had no right to say anything simply because she forgot she had an appointment to meet him or maybe was delayed on the surface cars.” “Oh, ahe was there," sald Mr, Jarr. “But her clock Was an hour slow, Rangle told me," « 1920, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York Rventag World) ta man would do ed M dares Mr “You might expe Just that!” rema “Do what?” aske Not set the hous r ck right,” re plied Mrs. Jarr, “Hur that’ man Rangle always was a fool, AnyWay, he was to blan “He was not,” caid Mr. Jarr. o “Why wasn't bh asked Mo “Recume Mra. Rangle would him touch the clook when saving:ay~ light went into effect carly laothe summe oby “Why should he be permitted to touch the clock—it was a wedding present to Mrs, Rangte,” concluded Mrs. Jarr emphatically. “And Idon't diame her!" ua _————- Ww MISS” MARION WicEes CAM News Bem, This twelve-year-old society nse shattered 1 ve Wick: Railay io race for in the first leg of the 100 yards. I H i