THE GRAPHOPHONE.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 5, 1 March 1907, Page 195

THE GRAPHOPHONE.

We all know the difficulties of getting right away with the correspondence. It is bad enough for the methodical man of business who has to wait for his stenographer and sometimes to postpone his duty to let the stenographer deal with the press of other work. When the letter m reply has to be written quickly and there are so many points that in writing some of them may get dropped out, the reflection is disturbing enough to produce that very consummation. In each of these cases how pleasant to have a graphophone at your elbow. You just sit down and talk into the machine : result — your typist comes when the other work is done to find a voice ready made and in possession of the subject, to type or take down whichever is most convenient. Now take the lawyer, the journalist, and the prime minister. The first has to jot down the telling points for his briefs, the sceond wants to transcribe a long and important document, full of information to be used, and the third must issue a complete set of instructions. If the Graphophone is the friend of any of these once, it is their friend for life : never apart .never far off Have you ever watched a typist reeling off copy stopping every now and then to find the place, stopping the click clack of the machine and the flow of good temper to find it ? Watch one typing from the Graphophone and it will take you a long time to see any stoppage from that cause. Have you ever remarked how men differ about a thing they have all heard ? Have you ever noted that there are differences of meaning in shades of expression which one hearer may miss and another make much of ? A Graphophone settles such doubts very simply. Do you remember your horror when reaching your friend's house in full fig with that gorgeous button hole, and the most perfect dancing pumps in the world on a certain memorable Tuesday evening ? His house was m darkness, all but his study and the nursery He received you in his comfortable old coat, and he eyed you over a cigar cocked up at the angle of ridicule, and you heard him announce m the voice of a Chief Justice settling a law point for ever that he had said "Wednesday my dear fellow". What were your feelings then ? What were they when on tendering Mr. Coper the dealer five and twenty for the little horse with the curby hocks, price so low because of those very cur by hocks-he said '"ocks" the villam-he scornfully asked if you propose 1 to give a " P Hen, for the balance of the fifty quid you agreed for don't you know " How much more were you disgusted when he calmly added " You know dear boy "-yes-dear-boy and to you-" you said that the little nag was dirt cheap at the money." Remembering all these things buy a Graphophone and secure lifelong happiness which as the privileged people of the world know, consists of accuracy punctuality and right understanding, besides music bottled up for daily life use. — Advt.