The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1908)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. 11 R. S. WILLIAMS & SONS CO.'S OUTING. Picnic Given by the Members of This Firm to Their Employes a IVlost Enjoyable Event — Games of All Kinds Indulged in Followed by a Good Dinner — An Unique Menu. The annual picnic of the employes of the R. S. Williams & Sons' Co., Ltd., Toronto, Canada, which was held at Centre Island recently, was one of the most successful outings in the history of that institution, and numbered among the which an elaborate dinner was served at Island Park, the unique menu provided reading as follows: ME'N YOU. 7 p.m. Only One Call for Supper. going to be fine. Chilly Races (Kold Meets) Full grown calf — scolded A (Roast Beef) Prefix of Hammer (Ham) Katsup a la Tomato Perlez vou mustard Love-lorn cucumbers (Sweet pickles) Salads The Irishman's delight Policeman's place of rest Wade in for it's waggin' necessity (Tongue) (Potato) ■ BASEBAtl. TEAMS OF li. S. WILLIAMS & SONS CO. guests, E. A. Hawthorne, president of the Hawthorne & Sheble Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pa. The R. S. Williams & Sons' Co. are among the large talking machine houses in Canada, and it is said that 65 per cent, of the talking machines entering Ca.nada last year were for this concern. A series of races and contests participated in by the employes, their wives and sweethearts, followed by an exciting ball game, tended to make the afternoon a most enjoyable one, after (Beet) What most of us need the dough for (Bread) Creamery Goat (Butter) Caque Produkshun (Fruit) Void of beauty (Plain) Fruit of the genus juglans (Walnut) What we will do before the ball game (Peel) Frozen or cogealed milk (I Scream) (Frozen) Cause of original sin (Apples) Depressed circumferences containing a vesicular pulp obtained from the Citrus (Oranges) Fruit of the genus must.-a-tropical treat, or Italian specialty (Bananas) A decoction or infusion of hyson in boiling water. It minus I (Tea) Sour help, or what we often get without the suffix ( Lemon-ade) Eat to live, but do not Live to eat (All necessities, including ambulance, etc., in attendance) 8 p.m. Moonlight sail (moon permitting) to Scarboro Beach in private launch. Music to be furnished by the World's greatest operatic, comic and popular artists, including Robinson Caruso, Emma Screams, Madame Yelba, Paul Pantson, Eduard de Restcuro and others. GOD SAVE THE KING. Mr. Williams is a connoisseur of old musical instruments and has the most valuable collec It's So Easy Yes, it is not only easy to learn a foreign language by the I. C. S. system — the easiest and most perfect way in the world — but it is also easy to sell I. C. S. language outfits. It is easy to sell them to people who are tired of their machines as an amusement device and will be glad to turn them into a source of profit. It is easy to sell them to persons going abroad and who otherwise desire to learn a language for the sake of the knowledge of it alone. It is easy to sell it to men and women who desire to qualify for positions as translators and foreign correspondents. It is easy to sell it to foreigners, in order that they may learn to speak English. In fact there are a great many sound reasons why it is easy to sell the LC.S. LANGUAGESYSTEM PHONOGRAPH Do you sell I. C. S. Language outfits? If not, why are you thus neglecting such an important and profitable field of your work? Why are yoti thus absolutely throwing away at least one-third of your business? The Phonograph system of language instruction is now recognized as an educational factor of great importance and the demand for this sort of language instruction is growing by leaps and bounds. The I. C. S. system is undoubtedly the one of the greatest merit obtainable today. Write us a postal now for further particulars. International Correspondence Schools Box 918, SCRA.NTON, PA. J!. S. WILLIAMS, ME. ML'REAY, E. A. HAWTHOENB AND H. G. STANTON. tion of old musical instruments in Canada, having many that are three and four hundred years old. He has an instrument in his possession, of which there is not a duplicate in North America, LADIES WHO PAETICIPATED IN THE SPOETS. and the only duplicate is in the Kensington Museum in Great Britain. Every year Mr. Williams visits Great Britain in search of old musical instruments. He is now in Germany on his yearly quest. TRIBUTE TO THE "TALKER." The World Says It Is Fast Becoming the Great Mechanical Friend of IVIan. In an editorial the other day the New York World had this to say: "The Chicago suggestion of sermons by phonograph should solve the vexed question of ministers' vacations and summer church-closing. Clergymen leaving the requisite number of sermoncharged cylinders behind on their departure may climb the Alps or explore the catacombs in the serene consciousness that their voices are continuing to ring from the pulpit under the direction of an efficient operator. Satan will not And even a constructive recess in church work of which to take advantage. "The phonograph, as elaborated, is fast becoming the great mechanical friend of man and automatic home companion. It teaches him languages like a professor. It brings to his ear the voice of the prima donna or of the end man as he desires. He will probably soon be able to hear in the privacy of his home the ten orations of the Peerless Leader which Mr. Bryan recently talked into a phonograph. In course of time he may need only to open a cabinet drawer to get a wax cylinder of a Roosevelt special message or a Loeb denial." Among the interesting relics of Oriental explorers and pioneers displayed at the "Orient in London" Exhibition, held in London last month, was a phonographic record, just received from Australia, of the voice of James Chalmers "Tamante," who was killed by savag^g on Goaribari Island seven years age