The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-14
PLAN TO LENGTHEN LIFE.
Inventive Chicagoan Figures
 Standardization SohaY7aa


 Capitalization Scheme.
 A benefactor to the race of busy business men has come to light with new standardization system, which, he says, will enable the average over worked person to accomplish four or five times as much in day as now is possible and that when his scheme is worked out fully the span of life will, in effect, be quadrupled.
 This man, Chicagoan, quoted by 'The Evening Post" has been im- pressed by the spirit of merger and amalgamation which peryades finan- cial and corporation circles, and he aims to apply the same principle to new fields. His plan is madest in its simple beginnings.
 T is possible" argues the inventor, to-day to procure a shine and a save simultaneously, and it will carry the process only a bit further to have a man pass his coat to an attendant to be cleaned, and then while he is resting in the barber's chair have his trousers pressed by new mechanical appliance without it being necessary to remove the garments. Then what is to prevent a shampoo or hair curl being administered during the same fifteen minutes? Only the failure of the barber to avail himself of my system.
 Economy of time? Well, rather; but the potentialities are by no means ex- hausted yet. It requires no stroke of genius to suggest that the stock re- ports or the baseball news, or news of the world, coming in by telegraph can be announced by megaphone contri- vance, SC that one need not fall behind the times in order to get a haircut. l Of course there would be manicure, and, if desired. pedicure, in attend ance, and meanwhile the customers clothes could be undergoing the va cuum cleaning process, just the same as carpets are cleaned without taking them off the floor. Simple, isn't it?"
 The inventor does not pretend to be a philanthropist. On the contrary, he believes his plans, when put into prac- tical operation will prove a lucrative success to the pioneers in the business He will open an establishment, he says, in some convenient location in the croweded district, where men who always are on the rusr-and that in- cludes about every one-ean drop in and sample the beneficent results of his process.
 The overburdened office man of af- fairs will find stenographers in atten- dance, so that he can dictate his cor respondence while thoughtfully masti- eating his noon luncheon. If it is a Turkish bath he desires, there is telephone ath and, so that he need not neglect either friends or business.
 There is nothing theoretical in all this" argues the originator of the scheme. Study conditions within the loop few minutes and you will real- ize that my service soon will be re- cignized not only as a convenience, but as a necessity. Here every man is trying to squeeze a weeks activity in- to a brief twenty-four hours, and the result is that men are worn out at forty-five When the science of econ omizing time is fully understood these same persons won't know what, it is to be all in and at the same time they will be accomplishing three and four times as much.
 T myself am only at the threshold. While I am confining my operation to the opening of an establishment where busy men can save time over minor affairs, I already can see how the same principles can be applied to the daily work of the average man and to the working of big industrial estab- lishments.
 For example, take the structural iron worker. He sits astride a ten ton beam and is hoisted 140 feet into the air, where he rivets it in place. For the course of two or three minutes say, he is dangling like a spider and doing nothing. If he should stop to figure up how much time he wastes in this way during a month or a year, he would be staggered. Why not utilize that time? He might be composing poetry or writing a popular novel. Bryan, you know, composed his greatest works while dressing and undressing for entertainments.
 T repeat, the possibilities in the science of doing several things at once are boundless. A man purposes to go out for the evening, drop into the restaurant, drop in at the club, drop in at the theatre. Instead, he comes to my place sits down in an easy chair, and lets the restaurant, the club and the theatre drop in on him!"