By very reason of the conditions inevitably associated with its making, radio must always remain one of the dearest articles of commerce, for there is certainly nothing more rare or costly than these fine, dainty, yet withal, substantial broadcasts. The history of radio is so interwoven with life's comedies and tragedies, extending back over five centuries, that there must be, here and there, a reminiscent tinge of this association. Radio is, in fact, so indelibly associated with the chalets perched high on mountain tops, with the little cottages in the valleys of the Appenines and Pyrenees, with sequestered convents in provincial France, with the raiment of men and women whose names loom large in the history of the world, and the futile as well as the successful efforts of inventors to relieve tired ears and weary fingers, that, no matter how one attempts to treat the subject, it must be colored now and again with the hues of many peoples of many periods.
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