Bot before classify noise nuisance, they are putting certain tin fortunate human beings to. un-sual strain to ascertain what Tuman being can and cannot stand, For example, Mr. H. M. Johnson (the writer of the article 1 quote above) refers to a report of an experiment at Colgate University in regard to the effects of the intensity of a group of noises on the rate "at which the bodily fuel burned by typists. It appears that four subjects were required to spend two hours a day for four weeks copying the same letter over and over again. "While they worked," says Mr. Johnson, "they were exposed to the noise generated by machine that made sounds like on electric. motor: ball bearings rotated in a hexagonal sheet iron drum; an auto siren and a telephone bell went off intermittently] and automatically." During the first and Inst weeks this machine was left uncovered; during the tecond and third weeks it war {aeed with panels of a meritorious Luilding material, which," according} to the estimates of certain architcets, probably reduced the sound intensity in the room by about one-half, For analysis of the. exhaled air, according to the "Harper's" oracle, it appeared that on the average the bodily fuels were burned about twelve per cent. more rapidly during work while the machine was uncovered than while it was covered. Well, this is all very into: esting, but I doubt whether 21 experiments will have any effect ination of noises from the average!
's point. of view who is condemned to pass his life in the mad whirl, The: Happy Coolie Scientists and insomiasts should take note. The Chinese coolie has you "all licked." He can go to sleep anywhere and at any time. Why? "Because he knows how, and that is the difference between you and-him. "He knows the way, you not. He has so. unconsciously} trained his subconscious mind: that he is the master. Because you have not, you worry around half} the night wondering when on earth] you.can get to sleep.
How does he do it? you ask. Well, that is another story. But can be done, -and this writer truthfully confirm state-vent by experience, for he now sleeps-when he wants, to sleep and keeps awake -and alert when he wants fo—and this is the way nature intended. The sleepless ones make sleep, the most natural thing for all animals, a profound study; yet the downtrodden Chinese coolie "cin Jam em" all about All the same, city noises are an infernal nuisance, if the Editor will Jet such a strong word pass into Frint. But it seems that the more progress the more noise. In youth the night-worker was an.oxjeeptional being—in every large city today he is quite a la mode Banks Keep open for him—an restaurants, and theatres, and in New York one can see signs in all sorts of up-to-date shops "Open. all ight." With life going on-at night just as it does' during the day, how can we prevent city noises? Better raster the way to get to sleep despite the noises, for them wel shall always shave' with us asa lervifically unpleasant penalty. of
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