Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
THIS AND THAT
by CHARLES f. TRACEWELL.

stead OF standing. And 1t may be said
that many business men today 60 out
for a cup of coffee at various times OF
the day, 50 that they sit once more.
Automobiling. the favorite sport OF
the Nation, gets q great deal OF us
popularity from the simple fact that
it is done In sitting position.
Many men have no chair in their
home half so comfortable as the seat
In their car. neither so we'll padded nor
so scientifically designed. With their
accustomed astuteness. the American
business men who manufacture auto
mobiles have quietly given the American
public seats of an absolutely luxurious
character.
Sometimes one is forced to smile,
when listening to the merits of the au-
tomobile being touted for its health
giving qualities, when he mentally
visions the large fat man reared back
at the wheel. Cars have done great
deal for the health OF the people, by
getting them out into the air OF the
great open spaces" so that there Is no
need of claiming merits for them "nlcn
they scarcely possess.
The truth is that man likes to sit, and
automohiling would never have made
the strides It has unless 1t had, through
the exigencies of the case, catered TO
this preference.
TRANSPORTATION OF all kinds is all sit
ting for passengers. In trains, street
cars and buses, passengers sit. even
timid ones. who are afraid OF getting
left. refuse to unkink their legs at stop
ping points.
What about the sport loving" public?
Mostly they sit.
Great base ball parks throughout the
country daily see thousands sitting to
watch 10 men engage in activity.
The members of the two mines hit,
run. throw, catch, even slide, while
40 900 men and women sit and watch
them. The activity of the Watchers
sitters-is restricted mostly to their eyes
and Threats.
Readers. either of newspaper, maya
zine or book, must sit. There are still
millions of readers in the land-men,
women and children--who must sit rs
they read. This country happily has
not yet got to the state where pictures
have taken the place of type.
Radio the modern home entertainer
par excellence, gets great deal OF It's
vogue because 1t makes so little de-
mands. If you ask almost any one
why he likes his radio better than his
phonograph, he will almost invariably
reply, Because I don't have to hop up
to put records on"
With the radio to entertain him end
lessly while at home, the tired bust
ness man" has one more inducement to
lust set" The theater, the standard
amusement for the T. B. M, Is all
sitting. The chorus girls may kick
around lively. but the business man
scarcely dares to.
The club, too. takes its quota Of sit
tiers. Go into any club and you will
find that there is one thing that al
mos every man there Is doing-sitting.
Thus we see that Shakespeare was
somewhat optimistic when he portrayed
his famous seven ages" of man. He
would have been nearer the truth II he
had pictured his man sitting In chair
and let 1t 60 at that.
Man has been glorified as the stand
ing animal. but It would be nearer the
truth to call him the big sitter OF the
universe. OF all the men who ever
lived. the Indian chief. Sitting Bull, had
the only honest name.