The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-10
DISREGARD OF THE TRACH
ING OF EXPERIENCE.


n You rise in the morning, and, Will
y, dressing, take up vial containing
y tonic, OF which a little has been pre-
K scribed for you but after the first few
= drops have been counted, succeeding
" drops run down the side of the via
all because the lip is shaped withou
. regard to the requirement. Yet mill
= ions OF such walls are annually made
= iby glass-makers, and sent out by
: thousands of druggists so small be-
ing tthe amount of sense brought to
bear on business. Now, turning to
; the lookinz y-gIass, you find that,l not
of the best m axe; it fails to preserve
the attitude in which you put it or,
if what is called a BOX" looking glass,
you see that the ma >intenance of its
position is insured by an expensive
appliance that would ha We been SUI
perhuous had a little re-, son been
used. Were the adjustme Ut such
that the center of gravity of tn, glass
came IN 90 Tine loi ipi l!:g the points Of
e;5nnort (which would be quite as
easy an adjustment, the glass X9a'0
remain steady in whatever attitude
you gave it. Yet year after year tens
of thousands of looking-glasses are
made without regard to this need.
Presently you go down to breakfast,
and, taking some Harvey or other
sauce with your fish, find the bottle
has a defect like that which YOU found |
in che vial; it is sticky from the
Idrops thlch trlcL..e down, and occa
slona.ll,.!y stain the table-cloth. Here
are other groups of traders, similarly
so economical of thought that they
do nothing to rectify this obvious in
convenience. Having breakfasted,
you take up the paper, and, before
sitting down, wish to put some coal
on the fire. But the lump you seize
with the tongs slips out of them, and,
, if large, you make several attempts
before you succeed in lifting it-all
, because the ends of the tongs are
smooth. Makers and vendors of fire
irons go on, generation after genera
ton, without meeting this evil by the
simple remedy of giving to these
smooth ends some projecting points,
or even roughening them by a few
f burrs with a chisel. Having at
length grasped the lump and put it on
the fire,you begin to read but before
YOU have got through the first column
Won are reminded, by the changes Of
positi, IN which your sensations
prompt. that men still fail to make
|
easv-chairs. And yet the guiding
principle is sil. pple enough. Just thai
advantage secu. ed by using a sof
; seat instead of a h.rd one-the ad
vantage, namely, of spl 'eadlng over I
large area the pr assure 0
the weight to be borne, ana 81
making the pressure less Al
tense at any one points an adva. y
tage to be sought in the form of the
chair. Ease is to be gained by max
y ing the shapes and relative inclina-
tions of seat and back such as will
evenly distribute the weight of the
trunk and limbs over the widest pos
sible supporting surface, and with the
least straining of the parts out O.
. their natural attitudes. And ye
- only now, after these thousands O
% years of civilization, are there beinG
r reached land that not nationally, blu
- empirically) approximations to tn
:" structure required.-Her6ert Spence
- IN Popular Science Monthly for JaG
is 'y.
When trade grew slack and bills fell du
ID. the mercant's face grew long and blue. A
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