BED COMFORT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 20

BED COMFORT

TROUBLES OP STANDARDISATION.

To-day beds are standardised, but 20 or 30 ye -rs ago quite a number of people had their beds built to order —bigj capacious beds (writes W. BedpathScott in tti* "Daily Mail"). A commercial traveller was lamenting to me the other day about the smallness of the beds in modern hotels. He is not | a big man, but he likes a big, roomy bed, and the only places now where he can rely on finding beds to his liking, he said, are the old-fashioned hotels in remote places. A bedstead manufacturer with whom I discussed the subject agreed that big beds are no longer in demand. At one time, he said, it was common to get orders for •' out-size'' beds, but people to-day did not bother much about comfort. In this era of smaller I/ids big' men are at a disad: vantage when they go away from home. I know a man about 6ft 3in in height who seldom takes a holiday because of the discomfort he suffers in trying to sleep. Here and there we come across people who are fadd • about their beds. There are the hard-bed men, unable to j slebp in any bed that is not as unyielding as a piece of pavement. And there is the opposite school—-"ao softbed enthusiasts, who insist on a soft, billowy feather bed in which they can sink deeply. But the most extreme bed faddist,l have.heard of is a man who can sleep only by compass. He has his bed fixed due north and south and goes to considerable trouble'to see that it is in exact line with the Poles. At'home he has north and south marked on the bedroom walls so that he cau sleep secure in the knowledge that his bed has not been shifted a point or two during the day. .