You gotta start someplace, and here's how Americans in the 1930s were instructed to use a then cutting-edge piece of technology....their new rotary phones:
(Via Execupundit; phone-blogging from a more recent past here.)
Related: Check out the moderne table and chair that Ann Althouse photographed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art--that's one of the swankier tables those 1930s phones would have rested on.
"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know."--Groucho Marx