Life — March 18, 1915 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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Modern CALLED upon Millicent precisely at five o'clock, knowing how necessary it was to be prompt with her. I was filled with curiosity to understand why she should have sent for me. She began at once. “With regard to that wedding of ours,” she said, “I have been over the whole matter very carefully. We have a meeting of the Psychic Society to- morrow, a Red Cross meeting the fol- lowing day, and, without going into details, a meeting every afternoon and evening for the next three months.” “You mean, I suppose, to something that you belong?” Is “Yes.” “You cannot resign from anything. can you?” I asked. “Tt wouldn't do any good if I did, hecause I am on the waiting list of so many others.” She tapped her pencil thoughtfully as she went over the list again. “Every afternoon and evening for three months,” she mused. “ Now, let's see; here is the twenty-third, from two until two-thirty, I might possibly work you in there. Wait a minute.” She got the clergyman on the tele- phone, the only one that we both agreed upon. “He says that if we will send a car for him he can spare us fifteen min- utes, You know, it will only take seven minutes to get married.” ie “Is it worth while?” [ said? don’t want to interfere with system.” “You are not interfering with ‘my system. I consider it one of my duties to get married.” T consulted my calendar. “Vm awfully sorry,” I said, your “but 1 YjpsUtt.s.U.s.Wl 1. Wh. NEW YORK America’s Latest and Most Refined, and New York's Centermost Hotel “ Qnly hotel occupying an, entire city . Vanderbilt | a dis poe 43d and 44th Sts. ing Grand Central Terminal rooms. 950 with bath— 3 per day. rooms for Large I ball, Panquet and d d suites pe reerally arranged for public or private functions. John Mck, Rowman Vice-Pres. — Gi At the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, the exhibit of the Bell System consisted of two telephones capable of talking from one part of the room to another. Faint as the transmission of speech then was, it became at once the marvel of all the world, causing stientists, as well as laymen, to exe claim with wonder. Starting with only these feeble in- struments, the Bell Company, by persistent study, incessant experimen- | tation and the expenditure of immense sums of money, has created a new art, | inventing, developing and perfecting; | making improvements great and small in telephones, transmitter, lines,cables, switchboards and every other piece of apparatus and plant required for the transmission of speech. ;.° golf that afternoon. 1 made this date three months back. It means a good déal’to me.” Millicent got up. An alarm-clock went off on the mantelpiece. “Sorry I can ve you any more time,” Glad to have met you.” 83 Don’t mention it,” I said. “If 1 can ever arrange my time for six or ight months ahead perhaps I may see you again.” she said: PETER J. CAREY, PRINTER As the culmination of all this, the Bell exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition marks the completion of a Trans-continental Telephone line three thousand four hundred miles long, joining the Atlantic and the Pacific and carrying the human voice instantly and distinctly between New York and San Francisco. This telephone line is part of the Bell System of twenty-one million miles of wire connecting nine million telephone stations located everywhere throughout the United States. Composing this System, are the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Associated Companies, and connecting companies, giving to one hundred million people Universal Service unparalleled among the na- tions of the earth. | AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND ‘TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One System Universal Service calm Mosquito: LOCA ortion, BY THUNDER!