HOOTON TO LOOK FOR PERFECT SEAT

Railroad seats styled to fit your anatomy will be the product of investigations to be conducted starting March 22 by the Boston and Maine Railroad under the Direction of Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, head of the department of Anthropology. An adjustable chair designed for measuring purposes will be set up in the concourse of North Station and 3,000 passengers, equally divided as to sex, will be given a four minute test to determine the height, length and breadth of the seat, and its distance from the floor which is most desired by the traveler. The long and short of it will then be averaged to determine what best fits Mr. and Mrs. Average American Railroad Passenger.

The tests will be discreetly conducted in a booth in the concourse and the answers to 23 pertinent questions tabulated on cards for use in a card sorting machine. Dr. Hooton's assistants will conduct the research, one tabulating and one giving the passengers the chair.