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Show Motor Armchair, Anybody who has had a good caso of seasickness must havo felt that he would welcome tho electric chair as a relief, Now nn electric chair for seasickness has been tested In nn English channel steamer and an ocean liner. You sit In a snug arm-chatr. arm-chatr. A motor under the seat Is conneoted with the ship's electric current. cur-rent. You sit and' take vibratory treatment. Up and down and crosswise cross-wise you nre shaken. Most sitters need but ono treatment Their tendency ten-dency to seasickness Is vibrated out of them. Some need a second sitting. sit-ting. A few are seasick as soon as their treatment ends. It is a preventive, pre-ventive, mark you, not a cure. The theory Is that seasickness Is essentially essential-ly a nervous malady and that vibration vibra-tion reduces the nervousness. Certainly Cer-tainly Imagination and expectation have much to do with the disorder. Blessings on the uew armchair if It can block quick-coming seasickness. But many believe and many doubt. Everybody's Magazine. |