Show NEW of tb speaking tinn AW vora thomas edison the phenomenal inventor has reached a critical stage in hia career and it would be a strange sarcasm of late if hia latest invention should make him positively abhorrent to the growing generation over in his laboratory at llewellyn park is thu invention it has been tried and found perfect and it ia a phonograph clock which instead of the hours calls them out at every quarter in a voice full of clearness it may befitted with any eel to suit the purpose fur which it may be intended to a reporter it was exhibited recently the iu waa as cheery and playful aa h always is the clock said he ia an improvement aud if it were only on the market now it might save you reporters a good deal of worriment por instance say you are at B political meeting with a dozen speakers carded they are to have each a half hour you know what a fiction that is but now if you had a clock like this ie how it would work and here air edidon placed a set within it he pointed the hand to the quarter of an hour and a voice came ringing out this aker is half through at the half hour the clock blurted out ahe audience will please not encore the gentleman now gevea way to another ano the only fear I 1 have continued air edison is that the young unmarried folka may not relish it you are married ko well I 1 don t give this out as a bribe but you get entangled in the preliminaries come to me and I 1 will give you one that you may present to the family into which you aspire to be admitted it will be a fibber im a little in doubt about the popularity of the parlor clock with the younger people mr edison edis on ha rood reason to fear A more tantalizing ornament to a pair of ardent lovers thau a parlor phonographic clock cannot he imagined fancy for instance u sunday evening in a cosy parlor with two hearty beating as one startled by the nice from the mantel good night a fond goodnight in another hour it will be midnight then dole fully at a quarter past aud each quarter comes out ita hoaeae cro akings until 1155 when it blurts out in five minutes more it will be tomorrow to morrow aud every ten the air is fillad with its such as abl auw the hour afable AI able I 1 am watching thee ba hal methinks I 1 hear the spirit of thy mamma upon the stairs please dont heed me it Is my misfortune that I 1 must warn you that the hour la half past 12 did I 1 hear you ask roe to get that hat will you kindly remember me in your brayere pr ayere look I 1 hear footsteps ha bal I 1 was only fooling ill baah to call father to go to his office and so the clock jambers jabbers on roost exasperatingly of course the words set to suit the circumstances if the wooer be a favored person of course the language will be nuch n uch different dit ferent the tone of the clock will be sweet and simmering simpering sim and the words coy and captivating |