weather reports and lectures from the U.S.A. Oliver's set is a small one, one tube, but he got messages from as far a way as Denver. There were just two pair of earphones so we took turns in listening and took them apart so that two could listen with one set by just using one ear.

We clapped it on Harry B's ear once or twice an d he seemed very much impressed. Charlie Shand came down for awhile and seemed to enjoy some candy that Marj. nad made more than thr radio which was not so new to him as it was to the rest of us, he having heard George Duncan's the other night.The music through it sounded very much like that of aphonograph to me and while the announcements were very distinct I couldn't understand any recitations I heard at all. I was glad to hear it for the novelty andmarvel of it, for it truly is marvelous to have concrerte oroof that the voic eof a man soeaking a thousand miles away is acarried here through the air and a simple little contrivance like this can kick it up. It makes a person realize that the laws of Nature are incomprehensible and unlimited and wonder what next the accumulating knowledge of