Show HOW EDISON LEARXED TO TELL STORIES It seemed like a waste of time said a gentleman who passed an evening even-ing with Mr Edison in Norwalk 0 recently to hear Mr Edison rolling off story after story and demanding of all his acquaintances to tell him more when he knew how much information we might have received from him 1 finally asked him how he got to be such a story teller Well he replied when I was quite a young man I was I a telegraph operator during the war I I I I was stationed at St Louis which was i a sort of distributing point for a large district and when we would get our batch of stuff off and we still had several hours to put in I used to get pretty tired Then we would begin to call up the operator at the other end of the line and gossip with him I always al-ways liked stories and if Chicago had a good one he would wire it to me Then I would send that off to Louisville Louis-ville and New York and Cincinnati and hear them laugh over it by wiring wir-ing back Ha ha over the wire In this way we would get all the best stories there were going and we would always write them out for the day men It got to be a sort of passion after awhile a-while and has stuck to me ever since Cleveland Plain Dealer 1 |