The Red Cloud chief., 1889-02-08
HINTS TO
1ot Then Try ThelP sksll ~ DesiS1asG
Really ~Coslsortabls Seat.

Let Then Try Their SKIN - Dssig.s.O
Really Ceasortabls 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 VI the drifts and sink and
wriggle themselves into . position OF
heavenly rest In which the absolute
content OF the head. shoulders. back.
Ind legs allures body and soul to slum-
Der. oven in . temperature OF zero.
| And there Is not q chair-maker in this
smartest Of nations smArt enough thus
far TO have made q chair on the lines
left in the sno bank by the boys
body.
For f0rty-fvo years the male Ameri.
cans experience OF chairs and other
furniture TO sit ON has been q 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 fOstered them. BY rea-
son Of the cOnvexity Of the seats there
Is not in any wcll-furnished parlor in
this city a comfortable chair or sofa.
To Sit on them Is to sit on a globe or y
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 OF by IL American swift
money makers. Consider the rocking
chair which curses Our places OF sum.
mer resort, seaside and mountain.
Look at the abominable thing later
ally! 1t is the contrivancc OF an idiot
or q devil. The seat slopes steeply
backward. The rockers short and ex.
cessively curved. serve additionally I
throw the front edge of the seat up into
the air. This lifts the sitters feet from
the floor and brings The weight Of tho
legs o. the sharp edge Of the seat front.
and accOmplishes a torture which no
human being a endure for over ff-
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 q 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 rcclin-
ing trunk. and defeats possibility OF
rest TO the shoulders. 1t must have
been a Puritan cabinetmaker's idea Of
the line Of beauty that established a
curvature OF the American rocking.
chairs back. which from the shoulders
up reccdes into space and mOckingly
refuses the weary head.
Certainly. there is a great fortune
for somebody in a perfectly restful seat
on chair. sofa and rocker for American
use. The nation is in a state Of mad
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 tho convex" utterly smashed,
hated. despised. and spit on. The es-
tablished model of our rOck;ng-chair's
back must be felt by him to be the un-
pardonablc sin and hccrowning shame
OF American Du.chold art. This me-
chanics soul must be filled with "A rev.
Tor curled horse hair. and his
gorge must rise chemically against
moss. excel sior. tow. shoddy and rags
rs material for u eat for an honest
nan to make for a good man to sit On.
N. 7. Sun.