ADVANTAGE OF DEAFNESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1927, 28 February 1885, Page 2

ADVANTAGE OF DEAFNESS.

The following anecdote, of Edison is put forward by an Amerjcan exchange, ventor who had made the cure of deafness his special study has broughtVout an.alleged electrical device for that purpose, which ha conceals in a cane, ancj which is said to effect a permanent cure. Having forwarded his new invention to. Mr Edison, whose partial deafnessis/generally * known, he was surprised not 'to' receive* any reply. A reporter of the New York '■Sp' feeing pent to % t Edison' to asifro his Qginioij'on the gubject."vva3. BWpl&e"a to ascertain that the distinguished jnye.ntor had not found insure to give it itijk. that he had no desire to : be deafness; in faot that he would not permit himself to be cured .for lO.OOOdols. The reasons he gave for thia unexpected statement should satisfy every;;busy man that congratulations rather,than*yrapatjiy should be extended to the deaf.' "There are," said Mr Edison, 'Slots 'of things I don't want to hear; cars and -cjirts; ;and licensed vendors in the morning, boros, political speakers, cats, telephones, and jmpecunjpus borrowers qf mqpr,!! are, of equip, qertajn tendanfc'iipoh such an bijtiiliM probably been the wish" of nearly every individual that he might occasionally be deaf. Possibly there mightrbe a demand for a machine to produce a temporary deafness, and no doubt a fair market could be worked up for it by the-'persk-tint efforts, say, of a few canvassers, ~