Odd Jobs for Your Phonograph


WHAT will put you to sleep, wake you up, improve your hearing, and teach you card tricks, foreign languages, or duck calls? Simple enough—your phonograph. New disks make it a jack-of-all-trades to serve your need or fancy. An innovation for curing insomnia is a twelve-inch record, recently placed on the market. Start it going and you will hear a soft, soothing voice telling you how to relax your muscles and free your mind of cares. Selected words and phrases, whose power of suggestion has been proved by experiment, are said to make you drowsy and finally lull you into deep, restful slumber. According to the psychologist who made the recording, a leading broadcasting company considered adopting his idea as a regular bedtime radio feature, but turned it down because of the danger that motorists with car radios would fall asleep at the wheel!