The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-02-17

volumes and said: Are folks reall!
going to read all of that?'"
Gwen at the age of 49," continued
Mr.. Meadowcroft, "Mr. Edison is a:
energetic as ever and there seems te
be no dimunition of his mental activ
ity. He comes down to his labora
tory every morning and plunges right
into the activities Of the day with his
accustomed vim. While he does not
work late into the night at the labora
tory as regularly as he used to, he
works every night until II or II
o'clock at home and comes down tc
the laboratory primed for the days
work, frequently bringing a lot OF
memoranda he has written to numer-
Gus officials and heads of departments
the night before. He has an intimate
and exact knowledge of everything
that is going on in the entire plant,
and is in the habit of asking pointed
questions as to the progress of mat
tiers, showing that he is conversant
with what has gone on the day before.
The mental activity and intimate
knowledge of affairs frequently
amazes our people whose efforts are
along certain definite lines, while his
knowledge covers the entire plant in
all it's varied activities.
"Besides this, when he comes down
in the mornings he is fully posted on
the important news of the world and
the state of the markets. His knowl'
edge of all these things is an actual
working knowledge, marvellous in its
comprehensiveness.
When Edison Chats.
"Sometimes he will sit down and
chat with me for few minutes, and
these are always interesting moments.
These chats cover great variety OF
subjects. Yesterday he came to my
desk and I showed him photograph
of himself, snapshot which someone
had taken of him one day when ne
was in New York. We rather thought
that that photograph was good, but
he didn't. He said:
sit is almost impossible to get a
really good photograph Of a person.
A difference of a thousandth of an
inch in lens will produce different
expression in a persons face. If you
will take this photograph and COM
pare it with a half dozen others taken
at different times, you Will scarcely
realize it is the same person. We got
out a few photographs and compared
them and the difference was, indeed,
striking.
"The other day." continued the
biographer of Edison, "a boy came If
with memorandum from one OF the
heads of the departments. Mr.. Edl-
son read it and then gave the boy
verbal message. The boy went out
and Mr.. Edison turned to me with g
humorous twinkle in his eye and said
when that boy has gone SO feet ne
will be absolutely unable to remenl-
ber that message correctly. There Is
one boy around here who can carry
a message about 200 feet, and an
other about 300 feet, and I have only
seen one lately that could carry 2
message all the way to the other
building down the yard. So very
rarely send an oral message, but l
write it.
Edison on Food.
"Some time ago, Mr.. Edison was
chatting with me about food. He be-
lieves that most of US eat too mucF
and load our systems with lot O
impurities which tend to produce DIS
ease and shorten LIE. He, himseF
is a small eater. I have seen hin
many times finish eating j: 'rh2'
most of us wou7A call The nl.Gdi, {
a meal, ard light up his cis@". : h
ever has ary Il ounic VIA his :t2rsas'
he will either stop Getting ai;c"eth"
fo,, t,,o or -: -: &C lr:s or e @ Z, y
fa,.o boilo:, r,::7l: and Tin: Try foa-t.