CORRESPONDENCE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2182, 11 September 1907, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

ABOUT A GRAMOPHONE. To the Editor. Sir, —I am a patient in a private ’ hospital where the comforts are all that could be desired, there is only one thing that could possibly add to my own comfort and the comfort of the other patients, that is, we have not a gramophone belonging to the hospital. To make up for this drawback, a private boarding bouse across the street has kindly lent its gramophone for our pleasure and the pi< sure of the neighbors. So as to give us as little trouble as possible, and , that we may enjoy the privilege to ■'* tho utmost, the owners kindly keep the machine in their own house, so that we may not have any anxiety as to its care and treatment, and at an early hour in the morning tho machine is placed at the open window and set ' going. They have an excellent assortment of four or five records which aro played over at least twelve times each, daily. Tho records which we like best arc two in which we can sometimes distinguish the words, “Nelly Dear . and “Good-bye My Sweetheart, quite i plainly, we (the patients) —e so rond of this tinned music that we always give the night nurse instructions not to lot us go to sleep at nights until the row has stopped, and to wake us very early in the morning so that wo may not miss any of the beautiful melody. When I have anything good I like to share it 'with others, so I heartily invite lovers, of tinned music to take a walk in tho morning and ten night and hear this beautiful conglomeration of sound.—Yours respectfully, HERBERT INGRAM. Gisborne, September 10.