Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-12-20

With the approach of the holidays,
with their traditional opportunities for
making presents, the thought comes to
mind, what can be selected so certain
to be acceptable as the fascinating ma
chine that talks?' Graphophones
come In many sizes, and at prices vary
ing from IS to $3.50, while a toy ma
chine, costing only 81 90, which Is de-
signed especially for children, is the
most bewitching entertainer, for the
money, that this age OF wonders has
yet produced. 1t never fails TO amuse
and Is so simple in operation that the
smallest child can manage 1t.
The winter is the season when rain
and wind and snow brings TO our minds
the thought that there is no place like
home, and the brighter and more in
teresting the home is, the better for
mankind. The long winter evenings,
with music and congenial friends, TO
beguile them, are the ones TO which
we look back with the greatest pleas
ure. And the Graphphone, the most
versatile OF all devices for making
home attract tive, has made its way fast
er than all other mechanical entertain
ers, added together, and has taken
permanent place in the affections OF all
| classes.
And the reason for this is not far TO
seek, for the GraphophoDe sings, IL
| plays the music OF band, orchestra aud
single instruments. it tells stories,
gives recitations, teaches foreign Lam
guages, and is especially calculated to
drive dull care away. In the parlor,
| in the nursery, ia the sick room-the
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variety of things it does, enables ii 10
meet the requirements OF every taste
and adapt itself TO the moods of all
When IL plays a march your spirits are
stirred by the martial strain, if it rem
ders song, the naturalness with which
the selection is given brings smiles or
tears, accordingly az the song is humor-
Gus or pathetic, and by numberless
means IL wins its way to our hearts and
when it is silent we feel "a II living,
! breathing member of the household
| had ceased to speak.
And besides being an entertainer OF
the first magnitude, the Graphophone
| is tireless educator. 1t teaches the
children the newest and brightest mu-
sic, and In that way brings not only
them bnt their parents up to date. 1t
is source OF never ending satisfaction
TO know a piece Of music when one
hears ito have some knowledge OF
where it came from and who wrote it.
The Graphophone facilitates this very
laudable ambition. A popular air
from new opera, before the GRAPHIC
phone was invented, or a new song, a
dashing march or an enhancing waltz
became familiar by degrees, TO every
body outside OF the musical few Now
the Graphophone has the world for an
audience and is the greatest medium
extant, for the dssemin alton OF all
that is new and lively and desirable in
the feeting music OF yesterday and OF
all that is grand and exalting in the
classical music OF all the centuries, in
GLIDING our own.
Nothing can be more interesting
than the making of records at home.
Those who have never INDUCED in this
captivatin0 nastimc have many pleas
ant evenings before them. To perma-
nently imprison the words Of the chill
dren and to store up the songs Of your
friends-that is what record making at
home means and it is always a delight
full occupation.