Tub Uses of the Pho n-og r apit. —la Sylvia's Iconic Journal the following story is told as a " valuable lesson to bad-tempered girls." In Chicago a mother was ao disgusted with the bid temper displayed by her daughter when asked to assist in household duties, that she resolved upon teaching the rtfraotory young female a lesson. She hid a phonograph behind tin door, audttien requested the grumbler to " make up own room. That evening, when tac J ove appeared, the girl's mother brought down Edison's winird invention, aud deliberately churned off her offspring's vixenish remarks, much to the latter's mortification -L™ vounc man thanked the old lady, wuh tears in hiß eyes, and, with a grateful, heart i£ th* timely deliverance, hastily left the hons and entered a monastery that verj' El S h £. t The. ocean is the only power on earth tßi can make a woman indifferent to her p sonai appearance. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5336, 23 December 1878, Page 2
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