Comfort has become a necessity. The desire for it grows with each succeeding generation. A backward glance is sufficient to prove this. "The really easy chair, with its excellent springs and. endless padding, into which we sink with relief after the fatigue of the day, is the product of our own luxury-loving age. It has only comparatively recently ousted the backed horsehair variety which, in turn, replaced a still less comfort able' type. Searcely 400 years ago four ancestors sat down to dinner fon benches and stools, while a chair with wooden seat and arms was the nearest approach to an easy chair, The sofa was the invention of a later age. Compare this with the standard "of comfort to-day, and it is than possible to realize in some measure the advance which has been made. The smothered with soft cushions, the well-upholstered arm-chairs, floor cushions, and footatools.
What would our ancestors have thought of these?
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