Telephone Trouble

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1916, Page 3

Telephone Trouble

A champion !■■'! London'* iiiiK-ijiiiiili-i----uoii telephone nti'uo' lias be.-u lound in ii.t Anici.caii uocior iuiri.v vi-iu:.-; Ln^iiuiij. li. is not eras: stupii t.\, in,.sinaaa moment . in an u<| Ma i i'il ;m i 111. if: s which aci. am I'M' liic oiifjiu iii'icii> note;! hy i I'Nphoiii' iisci.N. hut a naiura! delect: nf the users t h<■: r Vllifl s! "aicra.-an- have nut piett\. i voices, hut their Vocal cords arc tuned ciHTis-tl.v lor tcleplioti:llLi. ' said tJt»* doctor. "lii■:ti<ll voice.-; arc not. They seem to lack the tiinhic necessary for currying over the wires. "It i.s oft on remarked that American women arc jiiven to ta!kitil: loudly in restaurants anil other places. ,\.> a matter of fact they do not talk any louder than their English sisters, but tlieir voices have a carrying ipiality 1 which is somotimps rathe?- tryintr. llowever it renders trdophono-usinp: a pleastile for Americans, whereas for Hilton,s tin- "plione is nlwnvM more or less an mstrniiiptif of torture."