A Study In Touching The Button

To recognize a person's voice over a telephone is not regarded as at all strange, and there are times wheu one eau identify a voiee conveyed even from a long distance positively as to be able to swear to the Identification in a court of law and have the testiinony accepted. But to be able to recognize a person's "ring" is quite another thing. An elevator boy in one of the offica buildings declares that he can almost invariably teil by the marmer in which a person rings the electric bell connect■ed with the elevator by touching the button whether that person is a man or a woman. He can also teil in the same manner many times jnst who the person is if one who frequently rides with him. The practiced ear of the telephone girl Y?ill aJso teil her at times who it is that rings up "Central. '