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Show PREVENTS SEASICKNESS. Tho dlsagrecablo affliction of seasickness sea-sickness often robs an ocean voiago of half Its pleasure and fills the traveler with dread of a return of the malady on his next trip and mars tho pleasure of anticipation. With tho Idea of eliminating, elim-inating, to some extent at least, this dlsagrecablo feature of crossing tho , ocean, two Englishmen havo designed , a self-leveling chair, which wo lllus- SEI.r-I.UVEI.I.NO CHAIH. trate herewith, the Inventors claiming that It will counteract the rolling and pitching motion of tho boat In auy direction. di-rection. The method of suspension of tho chair will certainly maintain Hit. seat In a horizontal position and If this docs not have the desired effect In extremely ex-tremely rough weather, or If tho passenger pas-senger desire to sit on deck, suitable, screens nro arranged to prevent the orcupant from suffering tho optical effect ef-fect of motion nt sea. It will bo noticed no-ticed thut two rings are placed abnvo tho chair and by piloting theso rings nt right angles to each other they will tilt It In such a manner as to hold tho chair motionless In tho roughest sen Tho Idea Is also applied to berths un rhlpboard and by drawing tho curtains and shutting out the vlow of tho Interior Inte-rior of tho cabin the passenger may Imagine himself wifely on land again |