The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-09
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HINTS TO INVENTORS
Let Thcm Try Their Skill by Designing
n Really Comfortable Seat.


, Really Comfortable Seat.
Thousands OF models of perfectl
comfortably seat will be made this win
ter in the Northern States by health
boys playing in the snow banks. The,
will cast themselves backward agains
the slope of the drifts and sink ant
wriggle themselves into q position o
heavenly rest in which the absolute
content OF the head, shoulders, back
and legs ailures body and soul to slum
Der, even in u temperature OF zero
And there is not chair-maller in thi
smartest of nations smart enough thu!
far to have made chair on the line
left in the snow bank by the boy'
body.
For forty-fvo years the male Ameri
cans experience of chairs and other
furniture to sit on has been u martyr.
dom to ignorance and fashion. Theil
convex surfaces may be the deserved
punishment of our national sin of per.
mitting 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 well-furnished parlor in
this city comfortable chair or sofa.
To sit on them is to sit on a globe or q
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 abominable thing later
ally! 1t is the contrivance of an idiot
or a 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 a 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
been Puritan cabinetmaker's idea of
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 perfectly restful seat
on chair, sofa and rocker for American
Use. The nation is in 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 the convex" utterly smashed,
mated, despis ed, and spit on. The es-
,ablished model of our rocking-chair
pack must be felt by him to be the un-
oardonable sin and the crowning shame
If American household art. This me-
,hanics soul must be filled with rev.
,rence for curled horse hair, and his
yorge must rise chronically against
moss, excel sior, tow, shoddy and rags
Is material for seat for an honest
nan to make for good man to sit on.
N. Y. Sun.