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Show A TALKING ALARM CLOCK. It Is Guaranteed to Get Any Man Out of Bed. "Ring-a-ding-a-ding-a-ding! Get up, you lazy loafer! It's 7 oclock!" Those strenuous words, preceded by the tinkle of a brisk little bell, caused a visitor in a West Philadelphia house to hop out of bed the other morning with immense suddenness. The words were so authoritative that he had the same feeling of submission he had had when a schoolboy and his father called him. So he jumped up now without question. What had awakened him was a phonographic pho-nographic clock, an ingenious arrangement arrange-ment devised by his host, which was so set that the same spring which started the alarm started, a moment I later, a phonographic attachment. The maker of the phonographic clock said he thought of patenting it. "You see," he said, "the phonograph, speaking to you after the alarm awakes you, can be made to say different things can ue made, for instance, if you have an Important engagement, to tell you of it can be made to state emphatically to you, don't you know, the reason why you should arise. Usually my phonograph says to me: 'Get up. It's 7 o'clock. Get up, or the boss will dock you for being late.' " Philadelphia Philadel-phia Record. v |