The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-04-06
HINTS 70 INVENTORS


HINTS TO INVENTORS
Let Them Try Their skfu ny Designins
= Really Comfortable Seat.
Thousands OF models of a perfectly
comfortably seat will 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 oil
heavenly rest in which the absolute
content of the head, shoulders. back,
and legs allures body and soul to slum-
Der, even in q temperature of zero.
And there is not -chair-maker in this
smartest of nations smart enough thus
far to have made chair on the lines
left in the snow bank by the boys
body.
For forty-ffvo 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 wore
the treacherour gift of German uphol-
sterers to the confiding Republic that
welcomed and fostered them. BY rea-
son OF the convexity of the seats there
: not in any well-furnished parlor in
this city comfortable chair or sofa.
To sit on them is to sit on globe or a
s.nuon bill. The seat should always
be hollow.
But the bslm of reckless cruelty and
t,nthiuking stupidity in the manufact-
tre Of furniture for 4. 'mestic life is
easily carried OIL by our A. merican swift
money makers. Consider .the rocking
chair which curses our plaN IS OF sum-
mer resort, seaside sud m. 'untain-
Look at the abominxAe thing iaser-
ally! 1t is the contriva;tce OF an i.'io'
or a devil. The seat slopes steepis
backward. The rockers short and ex-
cessively curved. serve additionai.v to
throw the front edge of the seat up int !
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 cutlery 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. It must have
been Puritan cabinetmaker's idea OF
the line of beauty that established
of the American rocking.
chairs back, which from the shoulders
up recedes into space and mockingly
refuses the weary head
Certainly, there is a great fortune
for somebody in perfectly restful seat
on chair, sofa and rocker for American
use. The nation is in state of mad
revolt and in 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-
abolished model of our rocking chairs
back must be felt by him to be the un-
pardonable sin and the browning shame
Of American household art. This me-
,hanics soul must be filled with a rev.
srence for curled horse hair, and his
gorge must rise chronically against
moss, excelsior. tow, shoddy and rags
vs. material for seat for an honest
nan to make for a good Iran to sit on.
IN. Y. Sun.