Strange Sleeping Places
"The Swiss beds are good and so are the, Swedish, but that, I daresay, is because they are often no different from English ■ ones," states an overseas ivriter. v "At The Hague my old-fashioned bed ■was in a'recess in the wall; and though I seemed very near to the man next door, nevertheless the recess was very snug and protective. I felt: 'Now I have truly retired and can in no circumstances be disturbed.' "I was told. that this 'bed in the x wail'1 idea is a fashion in Holland and that, indeed, families go to sleep in, as it were, drawers pulled out from the wall, and that they He in tiers, father Ert.the bottom add baby at the top; which must be most awkward, I should think, when baby cries, and mother has to1 climb'up over the rest of the family. "In Madeira I was offered a mosquito net but rejected it and was bitten for my folly.' Of beds I detest (though I-don't detest.any of them much) are those which make tho bottom sheet serve' also as,pillow slip for the bottom so that, if you essay to put your watch underntath (as I do), you are apt to dream you are sleeping on Stonehengo."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 19
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210Strange Sleeping Places Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 19
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