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Their Swiss chalet style home featured noise-proof rooms which were not surprising considering Julia’s distaste for all the noises in the large city.
The onset of the machine age with all its inventions brought with it a din such as Julia could never have imagined in her childhood.
She wasn’t going to sit back and do nothing to try to curb it, so she founded The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, and even organized a children’s branch of the society.
Those confined to hospital beds and needing peace and quiet to recover appreciated her efforts to create a quiet zone near them.
The tugboat operators no doubt didn’t appreciate her efforts to silence them by getting her congressman to push a bill through Congress to regulate their unnecessary whistles to one another that disrupted people’s sleep.
Julia Barnett Rice saw a need where she lived in New York City, and her decision to do something started to spread across the nation long before the term noise pollution was commonly used.
Sounds like she made a lot of noise! Interesting six!
ReplyDeleteYes, she certainly did.
DeleteThe onset of videos everywhere - blogs, social media, online learning creates a lot of noise IMO. I would prefer reading anytime, but there is no choice.
ReplyDeleteI kind of miss how people used to look forward to listening to the nightly news. Now one can found channels and links, etc. where the news is constantly being replayed over and over again. I know where the on/off switch is and I use it.
Delete(tell me this is based in reality... it would be so cool)
ReplyDeleteNoise is surely the original pollution.
Yep. Julia Barnett Rice was quite an impressive woman.
DeleteIt's funny, we live in the burbs and there is noise; fireworks, traffic, children playing. When we lived in the country, the crickets and night sounds were so loud it was deafening. Ms Rice was on to something, but I'm not sure of the solution. Good six. I like ones based in reality.
ReplyDeleteLiving in the country does have its own sets of sounds. I agree that the crickets and night sounds can almost be deafening, but those sounds I much prefer to the man-made sounds.
DeleteHere at SSS I like throwing in a bit of reality every once in a while.
It's often so hard to find a quiet place, i cherish the few i do know.
ReplyDeleteIt can be a challenge to find a quiet place sometimes, and especially so at different times in ones life. There is a time and a season for just about everything.🙂
DeleteThank you for an educational and interesting! Ms. Rice was clearly ahead of her time. Wonder if her having a medical degree influenced her drive to reduce unnecessary noise.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome.
DeleteI am almost certain having the medical degree had something to do with her decision.