STRANGE SLEEPING PLACES

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 13

STRANGE SLEEPING PLACES

WALL RECESSES AND TIERS. OVERSEA WRITER’S EXPERIENCES. “Tlie 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 over-i seas writer. ! “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 his ‘bed in the wall' idea is a fashion in Holland and that, indeed, families go to sleep ni, as it were, drawers pulled out from the wall, and that they lie in tiers, father at the bottom and baby at the top; which must be most awkward, I should think, when baby cries, and mother has to climb up over the rest of the family. “In Madiera 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 the bottom sheet serve as a pillow slip for the bottom so that, if you essay to put your watch underneath (as I do) you are apt to dream you are sleeping on Stonehenge.”