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MARCH 1901 A COMM A-CAL MISTAKE. A lady >n Massachusetts had a husband who was about to make a sea voyage, and she wrote a note and gave it to her minister to read next Sunday, in which she meant to say: “A member of this congregation, going to sea, his wife desires prayers for his safety.” But instead, the minister read it in this manner: “A member of this congregation, going to see his wife, desires prayers for his safety.” AS OTHERS SEE AND HEAR US. “One of the strangest things in life,” said an amateur philosopher of Camp street, “ is the fact that we never really become acquainted with our physical selves. Here I have been living in this body of mine for nearly fifty years, yet I have no idea how I look, how I hear myself, what sort of an impression I make on the minds of others when they meet me in daily intercourse. I don’t even know how my own voice sounds, although I’ve been listening to it since I can remember. Did you ever hear yourself talk in a Phonograph ? No ? Well, try it the next time you have a chance, and you will not only be astonished, but, what is still stranger, you will be disappointed—prob- ably a little shocked. Everybody has that experience. “ I supposed that I was perfectly familiar with my own voice and thought, privately, that it was rather agreeable. I had been told so plenty of times by other people, and never knew that they were only ‘jollying’ me until I made a Phonographic ‘record’ and set it grinding. At the first word I jumped back in dismay. ‘Merciful heavens!* I said to myself, ‘is it possible I talk like that!” I thought there must be something the matter with the cylinder and v