interesting old documents

here's something from an old phone book:

this is my favorite part, about the "rowdy boys" being replaced with "soft-spoken" girls:

i never would have lasted long in this era.......... although as a child i did want to be a phone operator like lily tomlin's ernestine!
one ringy-dingy.....

here's a post card from dan's great aunt ruth's perfume business:

i want to order the lemon verbana and join "the jet age"! we still have some of her bottling supplies in the house & barn, and i'd love to be able to smell "black locust" or "clove pink". if i made my own perfume i'd use lily of the valley.....