Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-23
HD1sovs PHoNooEAPa AT CHICAGO
And the Uses The Pretty Typswriters
Employ lt For.
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And the Usos The Pretty TyPewriters
Employ L. For.
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Edison's photograph has magni6-
cent setting forth, and you eau inves-
tigate and enjoy this fascinating in
strument 70 your hearts content utter
/ ly free Of the annoy ng nicke. Beau
/ tiful young lad eS will very 0olgiugly
/ explain the wonderful Instrument 70
/ your perfect understanding, and treat
/ you as nicely as though they thought
/ youwas gOing TO buy one one OF them
one Of the machines, 1 mean. You
will be interested 20 learn how the
phonograph Is being used for teaching
/ languages, also In commercial life. The
man of business talks mis- communica-
/ tiOns into the Instruments mouth piece.
| Later, tue typewriter, at her leisure,
which is a thing typewriter is usually
very fond Of, hangs the tubes In her
dainty ears. the denied wax gives back
the words Of the man OF business, and
the typewriter puts the matter into a
letter. Or the wax cylinder is talked
full, sent of by mail. and the words re-
produced al the most distant point. II
seems like witchcrait
"Perhaps you would like to talk into
it yourself?" the pretty girl asked, 10
the sweetest tones, after she had trea
ed me TO cylinder after cylinder OF
songs and brass bands and exercises in
the German language.
/ said l thought il would be nice. So
she put a brand-new wax cylinder or
the machine, nicely ajusted the mechan-
Ism, aud babe me speak into the mouth
piece. / never felt so bashiul in my
life.
II don't know what to say" l STAN
mered, after looking vacantly into the
mouth-piece and then around the
building and then into the bright eyes
Of the attendant. suppose you be-
GIN"
So she uttered a few remarks, and
one or two other people took hold OF
the thing and said something, looking
foolish all the while. Then 1 likewise
took hold again.
''Say. what you think Of the phono-
graph" suggested the young woman,
seeing that felt my position keenly.
"The photograph iS-the-the pho
nograph SD" began, 10 fright
ened tone.
"You must speak louder" she e1-
planned.
So I spoke louder, but didn't know
what said, and even sang a feet g
little verse, till people who had been
listening began 70 move away with
wearled look on taeir faces, and the
young lady shut of the power.
',Now, II you will listen through the
tubes, she continued, ''you will hear
repeated all that has been spoken into
t."
So I hsarkened. The little machine
buried and whizzsd and then began
talking. recognized the young lady's
remarks. and what the other people
had said, every note and syllable exactly
reproduced, aud then the thing began
TO stammer and halt and give forth
what seemed TO be the remarks Of a
Young man with red hair aud n blue
necktie, who, never having been in
public life, is Unexpectedly elected 10
preside az a parish meeting and has to
return thanks for the honor conferred
upon him. There we're some hemmings
and Rawlings, aud number OF whis-
Ting noises, interspersed with eloquent
pauses, and 1 could hear the instru-
ment break forth into a cold perspir-
atlon as Il finished the remarks. Then
/ put the tubes carefully down.
II am TO understand, am 1, that
those concluding stanzas represent
what I spoke into the machine?" /
asked in a mild and iooffensive tone.
Just the same," the young lady re-
piled. with a far-away look in her eye.
"My tones, my wordS-eVerYthing|
Everything, she said.
So that explains it. know now why
people do not ask me to sing oftener.
1 understand why they do not ask me
70 sing 80 Promise Me-" and Daddy
Won't Buy Ne Bow-wow" and such
things, at concerts, and why nobody
ever comes 10 me to take his place for
Sunday 10 the choir. l have felt hurt
about these things. and thought was
kept down by jealousy, but now my
mind Is cleared OF misunderstanding
that might have lain upon It forever,
had not Mr. Edison invented this pho
nogrsph. How greattul l am to him.
Aud do ! understand" / said to the
young lady, 'that this cylinder, upon
which / have imprinted these remarks,
can be preservedP"
"For centuries" she answered.
"And my voice, with the information
It fails to convey, reproduced indean-
tely?"
"While the world lasts" she said.
''But," pursued, getting anxious,
II understand you can pare of that
wax CYL der, destroying the evidence,
and use Il for more vital purposes. Am
I right?"
"Qulte right" she observed.
"Miss Edison" said, in a tremb-
ling voice, II an not rich, as men
call riches, but here is dollar and q
half"
"Glve yourself no uneasinesS," the
Young lady rejolned. Il shall destroy
the cylinder, We always do"
And so / came away. You will never
know what 3 weird, uneaRny thing is
lour own voice uotil il comes ous Of a
Bhonograph. You think you know its
sound. but what YoRhear when you
speak Is Aot what you bore other people
With. 81 all try not toN talk so much
W.0. FVlLER, JR. u