The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-07
GROWING mas pHoNoeaApn.


Man Very Sober Lesson.
Edisof's photograph has a magnificent
setting forth, and you can Investigate and
enjoy this fascinating instrument to your
hearts content utterly free of the annoy
ing nickel Beautiful young ladies' will
very obligingly explain the instrument to
your perfect understanding and treat you
as nicely as though they thought you were
going to buy one of them-one Of the ma
chimes, l mean. You will be interested to
learn how the phonograph Is being used
for teaching languages, also In commercial
life. The man of business talks his com
lmunications into the Instruments mouth
piece. Later, the typewriter, at her leisure,
hangs the tubes in her dainty ears, and
denied wax gives back the words of the
man of business, and the typewriter puts
the matter into letter. Or the wax cyln-
der Is talked full, sent Off by mail and the
words reproduced at the most distant point.
1t seems like witchcraft.
perhaps you would like to talk into II
YOURSELF" the pretty girl asked in the
sweetest tones after she had treated me to
cylinder after cylinder Of songs and brass
bands and exercises in the German Ian
guage.
/ said thought it would be nice. So she
put brand new wax cylinder on the ma,
chine, nicely adjusted the mechanism and
babe me speak into the mouthpiece.
neverfelt SO bashful in my life.
~ don't know what to say" l STAN
mered after looking vacantly into the
mouthpiece and then around the building
and then into the bright eyes Of the at.
tendant. Suppose you begin"
So she uttered II few remarks, and one OF
two other people took hold of the thing
and said something, looking foolish all the
while. Then likewise took hold again.
Say what you think Of the phono
graph" suggested the young woman, see
ing that felt my position keenly.
THE monograph is-the-the phono
graph is-a''-I began in a frightened tone
you must speak louder" she explained
So spoke louder, but didn't know what
/ said, and even sang feeble little verst
till people who had been listening began tt
move away, with a wearied look on theii
faces, and the young lady shut off tn,
power.
Now, II you will listen through til,
tubes" she continued, you will hear re
peated all that has been spoken into it."
So l hearkened. The little machine
buried and whizzed and then began talk
ing. / recognized the young lady's re
marks, and what the other people had said
every note and syllable exactly repro
duced, and then the thing began to STAN
mer and halt and give forth what seemed
to be the remarks of a young man with rec
hair and a blue necktie, who, never having
been In public life, is unexpectedly elected
to preside at parish meeting and has +,
return thanks for the honor conferred upoi
him. There were some hemmings an,
hawings, and n number of whistling noise
Iinterspersed with eloquent pauses, and
could hear the instrument break forth int
n cold perspiration as it finished the re
/ marks. Then put the tubes CAREFUL,
down.
~ am to understand, am /, that thos
! concluding stanzas represent what spok
into the machines" asked III .. mild an,
Iinoffensive tone.
II Just the same" the young lady replied
with faraway look in her eye.
MY tones, my words-everythingis
II "Everything," she said.
n So that explains it. / know now VIII
1 people do not aspire to sing oftener. ! un
derstand why they do not ask me to sin
"Oh, Promise Me" and Daddy Won't Blu
Me Bowwow,n and such things at cor
4 certs, and why nobody ever comes to m
when the regular tenor is away and ask
| me to take his place for Sunday in tn
z choir. / have felt hurt about these thing
, and thought / was kept down by jealousy
> but now my mind is cleared of misunder
standing that might have lain upon, it for
ever had not Mr.. Edison invented his pho
!, nograph. How grateful / am to him.
4 And do | understand" | said to tn
young lady, that this cylinder upon whicl
have imprinted these remarks can be pre-
/, served"
FOR centuries" she answered.
"And my voice, with the information /
a fails to convey, reproduced indolinitelyp
:. while the world lasts, she said.
q "I3ut," l pursued, getting anxious a
L understand you can pare off that wax cy
: Under, destroying the evidence, and use
! for more vital purposes. Am righta
T. quite right" she observed.
J, Miss Edison" said in tremblin
!, voice, II am not rich, as men count richie
r but here is 81 .50"-
Give yourself no uncasiness," the yonn
= lady reioined. Il shall destroy the cylir
der. We always do"
u And so | came away. 9ou will nevt
! know what weird, uncanny thing is you
own voice until it comes out of phone
n graph. You think you know its sount
4 but the sound you hear when you speak
not what you bore other people with.
shall try not to talk SO much hereafte
Nv. o. Fuller, Jr., in Rockland IN. Y
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