Evening star., 1942-06-12

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to be sat around as it hasn't been
sat around since the turn OF the
century.
The WPB knows that staying
around home is considered a hard
ship by majority of Americans. In
picturing further changes in Amer
lean life because of the war, it does
its best to prepare us for afternoons
and evenings that must be spent in
side our own four walls. To any
one who can read between the lines
it is apparent that this is what the
WPB would really like to say:
"Chins up, Americans! Let's face
it like men. From here on our faml-
lies are going to have to find a
great deal of their pleasures and
relaxations at home. We know that
this will be considered by many as
a sentence to concentration camp.
but let's make the most Of it. From
now on, home must be home, and
not just a refueling point for take
offs to other spots"
EE
In looking about our home today.
just as tens of thousands of other
citizens must be doing in prepara-
ton for domestic confinement, We
came to the conclusion that homes
greatest drawback is lack Of COM
Portable chairs. We are firmly con-
vinced that the average American
stays away from home as much as
he does in the hope of being Of
fered a chair that doesn't work a
hardship on his bones.
Count the comfortable chairs in
your house right now. Sure,
there's one, but do you ever sit in
it? No, the comfortable chair in
the American home is always re-
served for some one else. Most Of
us spend our siting-down time on
contrivance Of legs. back and seat
that needs only few wires and a
battery to qualify for the Sing Sing
sitting room
American hosts and hostesses- de-
vote a great deal of their time to
switching their guests from chair to
chair in the hope that by accident
every one will find a resting place
that doesn't bring on mild attack
of rigor mortis. How many times
have you heard and used this
sort of conversation:
/ Don't sit there, that chair is so
uncomfortable. =. Try this one it's
/ much better. Don't sit there.
Charlie, that's Susie's antique. Shed
never get over it if it were broken.
. Here. put cushion back Of
you. That1l make it all right. {.
Is this your chair? I didn't mean
to take 1t. .. No, III sit right here
on the floor, like the floor. :"
Just why chairs should be built
to be uncomfortable is a question
We can't answer. 1t would seem
that the chief object in building
one would be to build something
that brought ease and comfort TO
the sitter. But the average chair
tests a mans stamina almost as
much as riding a mule bareback
The lowest form of chair is the
dining room chair. We have eaten
at many table, but We can count
on the fingers of one hand the din
ing room chairs that didn't have a
back as straight as schoolmarm's,
seat as unyielding as that of a
tractor, and wasn't of a size that
put crease in your legs just above
the knees. Dining room chairs actu-
ally look mean. They give the i'm
preston Of sentinels guarding the
table, determined to make their
users get the hell out of the dining
room as soon as possible. Occa-
sionally there is one comfortable
dining room chair, with arms and a
decent center of gravity. But it
always belongs to the host.
The chair we are sitting on right
now is of the type known as an
Office or typewriter chair. 1t was
patented. We believe, by the same
man who invented the thumb
screw and the rack. We only put
up with it in the hope that We can
sell it to the Metropolitan as a
genuine inquisition piece.
And what about the chair you're
sitting on Cor in) as you read this?
One will get you five If its COM
Portable
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