Evening star., 1933-01-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

satisfaction of doing what he wants
to Go.
No. we do not mean anything so COM
moDp.ace Is the suppressed desires" of
the old-time psychologists. All that is
meant here Is the small deed Of the
everyday, which some authority or
other, for some reason often known
best to himself, declares is not pre-
cisely the thing which he thinks ought
to be done.
One of these heinous sins Is the ele-
vation Of feet after one is seated. Yet
there Is no more natural act in the
world Of acts. And hitherto man has
been restricted to the rocker on the
Summer hotel porch. and this mostly
after the sun goes down.
The rocker in the home, II permitted
there, has allowed for a natural back.
ward inclination, and scme relief to the
large muscles of the legs.
The great popularity Of the desk
chair In modern Offices has been due
largely to the fact, not that 1t SUD-
ported the back. but n rostly to the plain
fact that 1t Is really q rocking chair in
disguise.
Its fourfold rockers do not rock, but
exactly the same motion may be i'm
parted to the chair by the very strong
and capable spring or springs.
Indeed, the true backward tilt Of the
genuine rocker. SO beloved by human
beings when untrammeled, Is given by
the American Office chair.
Too often the only place a business
man is allowed to enjoy this seated
ease is at his place Of business.
The old comfortable rockers had been
barred from the living quarters Of the
modern homes for many years.
And now they are coming back!
1t Is always a pleasure for a man to
arrive at an expert conclusion independ-
ent Of the experts.
Mostly such wisdom is nothing more
pretentious than an ordinary share of
common sense mixed with one part of
bravery In the smaller affairs of life.
1t Is satisfying for such a man to
realize as he goes along that he comes
to much lauded conclusions years before
the experts finally decide to risk their
regulations on q change.
He finds that his unexpert expert
ness, his perfectly unpretentious author
ity. runs into as many fields as he uses
his mind in. This happy state comes
about because common sense operates
everywhere.
All one has to do is to be brave
enough to experiment, to try something
new when the old fails. or when for
some reason or other the old does not
leave him satisfied
He experiments. he keeps his eyes
open, he draws his own conclusions
| and then he acts up to them. If his
actions agree with the generally ac-
cepted opinion, all well and good. II
they do not-all we'll and good, lust
the same
Thus every man with any claim at
all to common sense is his own au-
thority, just so long as he possesses q
medium amount of taste.
In the humble matter Of the rocking
chair he has defied the so-called laws
Of interior decoration for the past Is
years or so. ever since household fur
nishings became q bore instead Of a
delight.
He has kept 4 fine old rocker in his
living room. a capacious old rocker,
with rockers upon which one OCCASION
ally stubbed ones precious big toe.
All these years he has enjoyed the
comfort of it. while at the same time
it has fitted in very well with the rest
OF his furniture because he used some
common sense in the selection of its
position, its coloration and its covering.
II his old rocker is to be "in style
once more, it has been in style all these
years. although the experts hadn't
quite caught up to it, isn't that It?