Ringing Door Bells

"In the days when knockers graced the house door," said Mr. Stoggleton, reports the New York Sun, "the small boy found sport in banging the kiiocker and running. When bells came in he yanked on the bell pull and then fled. Nowadajs he mysteriously presses the button; but the sport of calling people to the door for nothing is not wliat it was; and it seems probable that with the general introduction of the push button, it will finally fall into deeadence. "There was sorne fun in pounding with the door knocker, whose thunder reverberated through the hall and filled the house, all of which jou eould hear yourself . And you eould yank the bell pull out to the limit, causing the bell to fly almost off the spring; there was fun in this. But there is no such fun in pushing in a push button. You can press that in perhaps a quarter of an inch, and that is all you can do with it. Say you are in the vestibule of a flat. Very likely you don't hear the bell ring at all; it inay be that it is up three or f our flights of stairs; you hear no sound. Nobody comes to the door; you don't have to run. Possibly the people whose bell you have rung may press a button up there in the air somewhere and you may hear the click of the door-opener at your side, or they may not do even that. "It is dry fun; not like the old slambang knocker on the outside of the door or the bell pull with the jingle bell right in the hall."