The Edison phonograph monthly (Jan-Dec 1916)

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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, DECEMBER, 1916 What shall I give this Christmas 9 > NEW EDISON DIAMOND AMBEROIA ofcourse\ tfBBBZt+jr»Yt«hu Vl1 rv^^m?7m^ a MASTER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT The New Edison Diamond Amberola will brighten your home 365 days in the year. It will be your most treasured possession. As a gift it will delight your friends for years. Real music in your home is vitally necessary. Why not a New Diamond Amberola for Christmas? OBEY THAT IMPULSE! Come in and spend the next, half hour with us and let us tell you all about this wonderful product of Mr. Edison's genius PRICES TO SUIT EVERYONE If everybody in the world was too busy fighting, making munitions, or settling election bets, to remember that Christmas is coming, they would be very forcibly and effectively reminded of the advent of the holiday by this striking New Diamond Amberola hanger. It is twenty-two by twenty-eight inches in size, printed in real Christmassy red and green, and is as pretty and seasonable as a Christmas tree in full bloom. Hang it in vour window and it will attract no end of attention. Musical Merriment EVERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. "Dad," said the 8-year-old of the family, "here's a book that says that Orpheus was such a fine musician that he made trees and stones move." "Son," said father, solemnly, "your sister Bess has Orpheus beaten. Her piano-playing has made twenty families move out of this building in the last three months." — Musical America. ALSO LIABLE. Jim — I see by the papers that a man has just been arrested for a crime committed in 1870. Sim — That kind of news makes me nervous. When I was a little boy I played the cornet. — Music Trades. SOLID APPRECIATION. American Singer (in Ireland, to another singer) — The first time I sang in public the audience showered me with bouquets, enough to start a flower-shop. Irish Singer — I beat ye ! The first time I sang was at an open-air concert, and, begorra, the audience were so delighted they presented me with a house. American Singer — A house ! You must be off your head ! Irish Singer — Not at all. I tell yer they gave me a house — but it was a brick at a time !