Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—FEBRUARY 15, 1925. THE NEW RADIO. By W. E. HILL Copyright, 1025, by the Chicago Tribune The radio joke promises to be as big a pest as the flivver joke used to be. Meet the man who h;s just told about the wife who got up at 2 a.m,, turned on the radio and got Chile! (Chilly.) What'll we do to him, boys? = The homemade radio. “So far,” the man who as- The jay music. The old folks hope it may keep sembled his own will tell you, “we've only been the. young folks home. It will—for an evening able to get one of the local broadcasting stations, but or two. in a short time I expect to get London easily.” The sermon over the radio is a great boon to mankind. The hardened radio fan can now do a cross-word puzzle and listen in, all at the same time. . o Left: The beginner. He. has no aerial, and the battery is weak, but you can tell by the look in his eye that it's Aberdeen he’s trying for. Beginners are always “hushing” every- body when the radio is turn- on. Right : The killjoy fan loves to go you one better. When you tell her how clearly you heard Keokuk, Iowa, last evening, she replies: “Really? We hear Japan and China every evening, with our radio.” Left: “Just what make is your radio?” asks Mrs. Bangs of Mrs. Wilks. “Well,” says Mrs. Wilks, the original rad.o dumb Dora, “I'm not surc what Will said it was called, but I think it's onz of the new static radios.” Beautiful lady, who has just purchased a radio, listening spellbound to an “entertainer” : “I don’t know what makes it act up this way—it’s never done this before!” Radios-are tem- broa‘a;slting zn imitation )of u& and dog noises. Almost as real as the cat noises on the peramental. The very first evening the people across the way drop in to hear the evenng's back fence. Isn't science wonderful? program, the new radio just naturally gets static and won’t do a thing. - <~ ]