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The Peace that Penni"es tsory I I' t J Eaeh day, after breakfast, you bicl good-bye to your husband and he is gone. Miles of dis- tance and hours of traveling may separate him from you, yet you do not fear. You have no feeling of his being far away- no sense of loneliness or isolation. For there, within reach of your hand, is your contact with all the the guardian of your home . . . your u'orld telephone. - All you see is the telephone instrument itself and a few feet of wire. Through the familiarity of use, you are likely to take it for granted in much the same manner as air and water and sunshine. Rarely do you think of the complicated exchanges, the almost endless stretches of rvire and the hundreds of thousands of trained employees that are needed to interconnect, through the Bell System, of which the Illinois Bell Telephone Company is a part' nearly twenty million telephones in this country and twelve million in foreign lands. I r I I ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY ffi 11 L : .r