Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1913 — NOISELESS HOUSE IS SOUGHT [ARTICLE]

NOISELESS HOUSE IS SOUGHT

America Expected to Lead the World In Thia aa In So Many Other Things. Anticreak shutters, rubber-soled shoes, soft rugs, cultivated modulation, suppression of all emotional excitement and retralnt upon children tn the leash of a perpetual •’hush" are some of the features of the noiseless home that 1b recommended by the MW organisation for the suppression

of the sources of American noise. It is recommended by this society that builders use the noiseless method of construction of houses so that muffled hammers shall install mufflers for noise features in all edifices. A soft, sepulchral silence in every home is recommended for the relief of the nerve-wear and that the modern hurly-burly conduct of homes is said to have upon those growing up in them. In addition to all other devices for the noiseless home has been recommended the antlsnore appll-

ances, in the form of a halter to strap around the snoring organs of those thus afflicted, so that they will be prevented from somnolent pastime. The noiseless home, says the Baltimore American, is said to be the coming necessity, and upon this is contingent the suppression of unnecessary noises on the streets. The time is coming—of course, it must come — when all the activities of life will be conducted as noiselessly as the use of a battery of noiseless rifles in warfare