Having preached to others on the evils of "hot weather temper" we must be doubly careful of not incurring the same damnation. But with all due allowance on this score, surely the telephone is very and needlessly trying. It ought not to be necessary to have to ring twice, thrice or even more times in order to attract the operator's attention. The connecting up, again, seems often very careless, even allowing for the greater number of wires in operation nowadays, with the result that it is impossible to hear properly and one must ring off and try to get a new connexion, much te the annoyance, it would seem, of the operator; at least he appears most reluctant to grant it. Finally, the number of times when one is cut off in the middle of a conversation with no shadow of cuse, is infuriating, as is the time wasted in trying to get attention from the operator, who no doubt is fully conscious of his guilt. Every business has its own special difficulties which outsiders cannot appreciate: and we are willing to believe that the Telephone Ca. is no exception. But if they can manage improvement on the points indicated, they will save much bad language.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.