*** Source: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, San Francisco Telephone Directory, February 1893. *** ---page 182--- TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. 182 HOW TO USE THE TELEPHONE. From the Chicago News. Some practical hints as to how to use the telephone have recently been published, and some of them are well worth repeating. One man will get right up to the telephone and say what he has to say loud enough to be heard a square away. The next one stands away back and does the same thing, while a third will almost whisper into the instrument. There is only one way to talk through a telephone, and the "Central" might be saved a world of trouble and undeserved abuse if all users would carefully learn and follow it. That way is to stand just a little back and talk in an ordinary tone, as if you were talking to a man a couple of feet away, instead of one two or more miles away over a wire. Don't yell, don't whisper; simply speak in an ordinary tone, and distinctly. The words are carried by electricity, not by the force of your enunciation. The instrument is not like a deaf man, but, on the other hand, it is extremely sensitive. --------------------------------------------------------------- TELEPHONE MESSAGES DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF THE CITY--CALL 910. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- The Mail is Quick, the Telegraph is Quicker but the LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE is Instantaneous, and you Don't Have to Wait for an Answer. --------------------------------------------------------------- ---end---