The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-05-09

Dear Children: l am going to tell you
something that will seem so wonderful. L
an, afraid You will almost lose faith IN me
and say. Il don't believe Aunt Susie TINS
fine" NV little Clayton has been away
from, me nearly Il month on a visit to one
of his graudfatherS who lives at Grimm,
inst forty miles from here. Now If L
were TO tell you he called me the othef
morning and spoke to me. and 1 heard MS
little voice inst as plain as If he were III
the room with me. what would you think!
Well. | must first ask you II you ever saw
q TELEPHONE? Some of you have: Il great
many | know never did. so | will try and
fell Won what it is. You know we live III
a very advanced age. and there is always
something new being invented l think the
telenhone is one of the greatest Inventions
Of the age. 1t is an instrument by WHICH
sound is conveyed by means OF electricity
There is an office down town, theS nave
there a battery and thousands OF wires
mass from it to the houses where lhere iil t
ta1orbouas and the sound is reproduced
fhrolIgh these wires. n man comes ana
nuts I'D what looks like little square Don
z-irh i hole III the center covered WIN
glass. on one SHE is II leyer--on the other
something that looks like an ear trumpet
attached to a cord, then there are three
small wires that pass through the wall ana
fasten to your telephone. These wires are
fastened to tall poles like telegraph "res'
and pass all through the streets ana con-
meet with the battery (Which Is ii me Vi
electric jarsl at the NUN oiiice'
Now. when YOU want to talk TO any one YOU
null down your lever and Gust i'll an ordinary
zone of voiccl ask the person III
,he central office TO connect your
tplanbone with the number you
vyant-thev are all numbered. FOR
instance | want TO order some groceries,
I will say to the central office, Please con
meet 1920, (which is my telephone number)
with 6.S (Which is my grocer.sl In a MN
ME little bell will ring and then | hear
through the trumpet. which L am holding
10 nv ear. some one say Hello. ask is
that 62S?" and they say It Is. | then say
.Send me a sack of -four, or ten pounds OF
sugar. or whatever | want. This saves me
sending a half mile to the store. Now, the
other morning my telephone rang and went
toit and some one said. is that 1E20?' and
I said Yes" and they said, walt IL MN
ute, some one wants to speak to you.
That was all-did not say who 1t was. In
half Il minute came the sweetest little voice,
Hello. sweet mamma, how are you! l
want to see YOU 50 bad, and am coming
home next week | could not tell YOU
children how sweet it sounded to me, and
if | could | would have gone right through
the telephone To my little darling. He
talked to me some time. and then said,
"Goodby. sweet mamma" Now, think of
that. Forty miles away talking 10 me as
if he had been right by me. Don't You
think it very wonderful? The little voice
was with me all day. and was as sweetest
music 10 nv heart. It viii only be a few
DAYS now before | hope TO have my boy at
home. but ] thought It would interest you
u hear of the telephone, and Of his talking
through it 10 me forty miles away. I wish
you could all soc one and talk through it
Yours. AUNT SUSIE"