All by Wireless

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 27, 17 January 1930, Page 11

All by Wireless

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Morning Post

e If everyone lived wireless lives, . Parents and. children, husbands, wives, Right from the cradle to the grave, Think, how much trouble it would save! Right on the hour a wave would warn The sleeper to arise at morn, Turn on his bath upon the spot, And make his shaving water hot, And while he bathed and dressed prepare His ‘breakfast \with punctilious care, When, having fed, he would depart, Wireless would tell him when to start, Remarking, "Fog out Croydon way, Eight-five ten minutes late to-day." And so through all his day of toil By potent valve and thoughtful coil He would be shepherded till he Returned to domesticity. And as the hour of rest drew nigh Wireless would sing him lullaby, And when his earthly course was finished Wireless, with ardour undiminished, Would speak the last appropriate word, By sympathetic listeners heard, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Well, if such things must be, they must.