Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17

and shown right along, every once IN
while, on great occasions.
1t would be queer thing, one mag
ines. to come back say three thousand
years from now and watch the express
sions on the faces of the Cooks, BIN
wumps and other great nations of that
remotely-to-be period. when records with
the voices of William Jennings Bryan
and Theodore Roosevelt are clapped on
the machines, side by side with screens
showing the gesticulations land the
clothes-oh most particularly the clothes)
of those two distinguished personages OF
this coarse-fbered period. Will the
Cooks and the BimwumDs be able to
understand the speech proceeding from
the records?
The thing really has it's points, if 1t
works out for posterity just as these
earnest people confidently expect that it
will. The folks living a good many thou
sands of years from now, if the strife
and struggle won't have wholly eradi-
Gated their sense of humor, ought to have
d good deal of fun in listening to and
watching these famous folks of our poor
little piffiing time going through their
stunts. We can better appreciate that
fact by taking bark back ourselves,
Surprising, for example, that kind of an
interesting game had been worked on j.
plush chairs and watch that bald, bland
Roman person in the act of hesitating
before crossing the Rubicon? Wouldn t
il be a bit of scream TO have records
and moving pictures of Socrates lounging
in his Athenian garden. teaching the
youngsters OF the town what's what. and
then TO see his acrid spouse, Xantippe
we think the lady's name was, sailing out
OF the Socratean doTnicile with an up
raised broom, loudly accusing Soc of
being 100 lazy to get a job. and lighting
into the bunch with the broom-handle
Thered be class" and no mistake, to
monograph records and moving picture
films of Marc Antony in the act of being
made q chimpanZee of by the gypsyish.
although somewhat elderly Egyptian lady
by the name of Cleopatra.
1t would be a distinctly kapoo thing
to be able to lounge back in a comfort
able chair and watch the browning of
Charlemagne At Aix-ie-Chapele, and lis
ten to the warlike old boys coronation
address, read from parchment carefully
r,repared for him by some low hind of a
ecrivener or clark Il few hours before.
II would be-but there are so many things
Of this antique sort that we'd like to see
that We might very easily turn this into
a eonpendium of history by going over
them. The association of folks doing all
of this for posterity deserves lot OF
credit: ali the more when 1t Is considered
how little fun they themselves are going
To get out of il. If they could be sitting
pictures and listening to the conversation
from the machine few thousand years
from now il would be different; but, as il
is We are compelled, however, much
against our suspicious WILL to acknoWl-
edge that after all there may be such q
thing as unselfish philanthropy: it car
be nothing else when II Is philanthropy
solely for posterlty
XVyiLKING about the cement storag q
w plants wherein these records ant
things are to be housed, fetches mt
around to Mr.. Edison's declaration, JUS
made that wooden furniture is going tt
be a thing of the past very shortly.
It's going To be all cement furniture
and Thomas ~, he already has the
models of the cement furniture on view
for his friends at his laboratory. TIL
cement furniture is to be placed on tn
market within Il few months.
I've met a man who has sean a who'll
lot of this cement furniture at the Edison
laboratory He described il as ..th
candy" and then considerable bonbons
absolutely splendid furniture, no heavie
than II whole lot of this mission stuff tina
we break our shins over when we polk
around the 6XS library in the middi
OF the night, and thoroughly handsom
in all ways. The beauty of the cemen
furniture is that ii can be made accordin
to all sorts of models. antique and mod
ern All that has to be done is to fix u
the mold. pour the cement in, and you'v
got models of lounges and chairs an
prie-dieus and things that the dealers
(maybel antiques ask fabulous prices FOL