Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-15
HINTS TO INVENTORS.



Really Comfortable Seat.
Thousands OF models of perfectly
comfortably seat win be made this win
ter in the Northern States by healthy
boys playing in the snow banks. They
will cast themselves backward against
the slope Of the drifts and sink and
wriggle themselves into position OF
heavenly rest in which the absolute
content OF the head, shoulders. back,
and legs allures body and soul to slum-
Der, even in temperature of zero.
And there is not chair-malxer In this
smartest Of nations smart enough thus
Tar to have made chair on the lines
left in the snow bank by the boy .
body.
| For forty-fivo years the male Ameri-
! cans experience of chairs and other
furniture to sit on has been a martyr
| dom to ignorance and fashion Their
convex surfaces may be the deserved
punishment OF our national sin Of per-
hitting unrestricted immigration.
They came from Germany, and were
the treacherous gift Of German uphol-
sterers TO the confiding Republic that
welcomed and fo5tered them. BY rea-
son of the convexity OF the seats there
is not in any well-furnished parior in
this city comfortable chair or sofa
To sit on them is to sit on globe or a
cannon ball. The seat should always
| be hollow.
But the palm OF reckless cruelty and
unthinking stupidity in the manufact-
ure OF furniture for domestic life is
easily carried off by our American swift
money makers. Consider the rocking
chair which curses our places of sum-
| mer resort, seaside and mountain.
! Look at the aboIninable thing later
ally! 1t is the continuance of an idiot
or devil. The seat slopes steeply
backward. The rockers short and ex-
cessively curved, serve additionally to
! throw the front edge of the seat up into
| the air. This lifts the sitters feet from
the floor and brings the weight of the
| legs on the sharp edge of the seat front,
and accomplishes torture which no
! human being can endure for over fif-
| teen minutes without an outcry or an
oath. Regard the things back. A re-
cess, too deep by half. invites the
! shoulders to repose. Below this re-
cess malicious bulge in the structure
| jams the tender small OF the back,
| forces the lower part OF the spine to
! sustain the entire weight of the reclin-
ing trunk, and defeats possibility OF
rest to the shoulders. 1t must have
the line of beauty that established a
curvature of the American rocking
chairs back. which from the shoulders
| up recedes into space and mockingly
| refuses the weary head.
Certainly, there is great fortune
for somebody in a perfectly restful seat
| on chair, sofa and rocker for American
use. The nation is in state of mao
revolt and in a mood to be reckless
| about the price of relief. The mechanic
who starts for this gold mine must
carry in his ha nd and hold before his
eyes the convex" utterly smashed
hated. despised, and spit on. The es-
tablished model of our rocking-chair
back must be felt by him to be the un-
pardonable sin and the browning shame
! of American household art. This me
chanics soul must be filled with rev.
erence for curled horse hair. and his
gorge must rise chronically against
moss. excelsior. tow, shoddy and rags
as material for a seat for an honest
man to make for good man to sit on.
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