Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer

Rocking Chairs.—What is there the average American woman in search of bodily comfort or rest likes better than the rocking chair? No home is so humble but has this article of furniture: and if temporarily occupied by a male visitor or member of the family, it is as a matter of course instantly surrendered on the entrance of the mother, wife, daughter, sister or sweetheart. Rocking chairs must have been an American invention, for in the hundreds of hotels and houses I have visited in Europe I have not seen a dozen all told. I scarcely think I would have noticed this, as men in America are regarded as having no rights so far as rocking chairs are concerned, but for the fact that every woman I meet is lamenting and complaining about it. In the hotel at Milan where I stopped there was a perpetual squabble as to who should be in them. There were two rocking chairs, and —[Boston Traveler.