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MARCH 1902 67 NOTES. If I was talking to a dealer in Phonographs last week and he told me the following funny little story which I think will interest my readers. A lady came into his store the other day and whispered to him very mysteriously “I want to buy a talking machine, one that will take down and repeat conversation.” So he showed her an Edison Phonograph and explained to her how to make the rec- ords. She was somewhat surprised by his explanation and said that she had always understood one could stand in the middle of the room and the Phonograph would catch even the slightest whisper and then she went on to tell my dealer friend why she wanted a machine. She supposed that she could put the horn over the key hole of the door and make a record of the proceedings in the next room. My dealer friend told her she would have to find some other way to catch her husband at it. Editor Phonogram:— Enclosed please find the price of a year’s subscription to the Phonogram. I have been constantly in the Phonograph business for seven years, and without a doubt the Phonogram is the best publication we have ever had in this line. Let the good work go on. It’s worth $1 .00 a year; make it larger and charge us more for it. I have had pointers from the Phonogram that have been worth ten times the subscription price to me. There’s nothing like it; it fills a long felt want; it’s just what was needed. Every one should become a member of The Order of the Phonogram. Thos. H. Leonard.