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Show TO CHOK : A BORE Device ArrartflDd tp Protect Nc Yorker and Family. J. Montgomary Oubblna Maktk Co' trlnnct to Abaorb Silly Chattsr of Ntlghbor and Throw It Back at Her. New York "Heo this funnel?" sal J. Mniiiaomi ry Oiilitilns the other in temrain. Iln held up an nrdlnnry ti funnel the kind aroeery nwn koi near thn vlni-aar barrel. "Thia funnel," cuntlnuod J. Mor Komnry Oubblna. without wnltlna fi a reply, "eontslns my own arrana nent of violin atrlnga and syphon and alona thia snout you see thera I a Utile keybnard. It will find any pet son's 'note' and I call It 'the Uubbln silencer' aod word catcher t "I was forced by clreumstancea Invent this contrivance (or the prote tlnn of my family and my own petes of mind. It happened this way: "The wife of our nest door nelakbo no the left of our Omaha home Is I bore. - It was her habit before this," and he waved the fnnnel, "to call oi js several times a week juat at dla ner time. Bhe always canio to borroe somet blue: -a cupful of auaar, a pint of milk or an e. " "Oh, I niuatn't keop you from ynt dinner!' aho would eiclalm with snlir. After decltnlna an Invltatka -I dinner alio would take a few ps toward the door, tln-n atop and Ik and talk and talk, and every few r.la sIih would riiuinrk Uiat sbo Juat tst go homo. "Courteny forred my wife and mo to tnd and listen tn her. On these oc-vdons't oc-vdons't could always hear the dinner 1 off. "Thlnaa came to a dt-aperate pais no night, when we had a dlatln-ilahed dlatln-ilahed peraon frnm Clam flulf. dining Kb ua. The nelghtHir was there ami ilked so long our dinner frose. Then ...re came a loud snap from the din-g din-g room. Willie, my youngest son. as surreptitiously breaking an Icicle ,m the chicken s wing. And the dla-iiigutshed dla-iiigutshed person gut mad because wanted to do the talking himself. "Hang! An Idea auddenly kicked e Into action. I ruahed to the kltch-enatchetl kltch-enatchetl this funnel from the Itads of the conk and ran to my worktop. work-top. Presently I emerged triumphal triumph-al "Walking nonchalantly toward that tlklng female with the funnel held areleasly In my hand, I planted my-If my-If directly In front of hor and iraaaed one of these keys. The result iaa Juat aa I had planned. Tho wo-stn'a wo-stn'a Jaw kept on moving, but ahe Mike aoundleea words, at leant the nly sound heard waa the thuMhiid t' her words dropping like pebbles tato this funnel. , ; fl pressed another key. The woman . 4 "iri lcheil her Jnwa at wide open as I the ..could, then her words beaan to I roll from the funnel back In lu h.-r i mouth. When her'iuoulh wee full of worde I' pressud a third key. Then li" ate h,er own wiir.U. "I k.'l't this up iiiiIII ahe Rot a vto-l. vto-l. nt attack uf In.lliteatlon and we ha t to H'lid for the doctor. The medical man anld -but hero'a my train." |