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its creation of the call-girl. To the blind, all things are
unexpected. The form and character of the telephone, as of all
electric technology, appear fully in this spectacular
development. The prostitute was a specialist, and the call-girl is
not. A “house” was not a home; but the call-girl not only lives
at home, she may be a matron. The power of the telephone to
decentralize every operation and to end positional warfare, as
well as localized prostitution, has been felt but not understood
by every business in the land.
The telephone, in the case of the call-girl, is like the
typewriter that fuses the functions of composition and
publication. The call-girl dispenses with the procurer and the
madam. She has to be an articulate person of varied
conversation and social accomplishments since she is expected
to be able to join any company on a basis of social equality. If