Show DADDYS EVENING FA FAIRYTALE I 1 RY TAU t mary graham donne bennei r 01 sr ummi amir WONDER OF WIRELESS do you know bald douglas one day to uncle john ive never been in a big telegraph office find id love to go all right agreed undo john weve elve seen telegraph b boys ci y 8 hu crying r ry 1 ng with messages that later I 1 suppose are carried over the telegraph wires so uncle john took douglas and dorothy too to a big telegraph it was a hurrying with very very one line messages and enormous one and there were a great many men and girls sitting at desks and tallies tables and all the time there was a constant clicking clicking clicking here Is a telegram said uncle john and it happens to be an answer to one I 1 sent out west just a little over tin an hour ago I 1 you have an answer to a message from way way off in so short a time asked dorothy uncle john showed them the few words on the telegram oil oh exclaimed dorothy 1 I should think the messages would be longer when hen they can ann go so quickly but uncle john explained to them all tile the ways of sending an and d receiving telegrams and they watched the messages coming in and going out clicking eliciting clicking over the wires 1 I never thought before when ive seen telegraph poles and wires said douglas of all the messages that were being constantly sent over them but of course I 1 know now that there Is hardly anything too am amazing zang to be real uncle john sent another me message csage and douglas and dorothy heard hear the words being made into little signal clicks so they could rench a person far away on the telegraph blank 1 I think ill show you another invention ven tion or the result of another indention before the diy day Is over uncle john jan said 1 I 1 think it would be nice to see a message sent by wireless oil yes shouted douglas that would be exciting its a great invention assuredly answered uncle john and when you see it working you will think it Is even more strange there are no wires upon which the message can tran grael ea no wires ires shouted both the children at once it always seems wonderful il to send a telegram but a message to 10 be sent on nothing I 1 well I 1 it Is sent on something explained uncle jolin john but not on wires come and we shall see so the children went with uncle john down to a wireless station by the battery they went into the little office from where the messages were sent all around were strange look ing wires and lights and great steel backgrounds A man was sitting by a small desk dek and was pressing on stops and keys with ith ills his fingers lie ile looked up as uncle john and the children came to in and took f from rom off his head a steel band and a small instrument at one ear such as telephone operators often wear 1 I would like to send a message said uncle john to where here is it going asked the man to a ship out at sea answered uncle john for lie wanted to send fl a few words of greeting to a great friend of lila its who was sailing across tile the ocean the man took the message ine fig ge down on paper then he began to start the machinery at first douglas and dorothy heard such spluttering splutter 1 ing ng and sparking that they were ere rather frightened it almost seemed as if the machine had grown wild find and ins ns going to explode but no nothing uncle john like that happened showed them tile was as simply getting connected with tile the ship upon which was uncle jolin johns s eriv friend lid and nd then lie he sent the message pressing with lih ills his lingers fingers upon various letters and signs hile bile all the time thile the noise from the excited machinery kela keit up 1 11 I can understand now that tile the name wireless jirele s means these messages ore lire sent without wires said douglas nut but just liow how are they sent lie he ended looking very much puzzled led they are sent on waves of electricity shot cliot through the hie air enid the loan the messages really travel on these waves wares and with lilt the aid of the machinery reach a definite spot this seems almost more than a wonder remarked douglas in a very grave voice y |