BEDS AND BED-ROOMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 572, 28 August 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)

BEDS AND BED-ROOMS.

The-ibesfc- kind : of- bed,' taking -everything' fill to consideration; is one. of two/kinds:;?::A fairly: soft feather bed laid-upona "soft, horser:; hair mattrass., or a thin: mattrass'laid ijpon ; ■.o.de ! of the elastic, ;steel,-spring Jjeds ri whichhave lately been so: ingeni6uijly, ) constructecl; of small., connected .springs ; .that*,yield .in . wave-like ' manner 'to : .every V It;.is .against my inclination tc».try.fibop§ ; the time-honoured old : feather' bed and" mattrass, but I new steefcspring bed isj of heWessityi' tho r 'of the futnre. It -fulfils' 'every; r bf •" -flexibility.; it is' durable ;■ it bedstead," as auj.aptual part of it, anditr. can 1 never be a nest or receptacl.e of, contagion-.or, impurity.' . ; i , 'On the subject Vol ;bed-clbthes, the poinjts that.have most to .be. enforced a'e .that hea,vy fcedcl'othing is always; a and that weight in no true sense: means warmth. : The light down guilts or coverliSs wliich are how coming into general use are -the greatest' improvement that have been 'made in our time in regard to bed-clothes. One cf these quilts'takes well the place' of two blankets, • and they cause much less fatigue f-oin weightthan layer upon layer of blanket covering. ] 'As. to the actual, quantity ..oi-jclothes: . which should be on the sleeper. f l ; can..lay :dpwn,; np . rule of :mimbers : or: cjiiantities,;. because; , ' people require.; such different' amounts. I can,' nevertheless, , offer 'One very gopd practice which every" .person can ie'arn tb apply. It should be the' 'rule'to learn so 'to' adapt the clothing that '.the body while under the clothes^ f< ! Tiie first'rule is usually: -followed, -and nee&no't-'be dwelt on ; the ■last'sis' too altMsUa; i nractice too easily!; under, so | much;; t clothing ..that. the;rbody.; becomes, heated,, fMyemshly, jieated; \ .ccnd itipn. giyes rise.to exhaustion", taclisturb.ipg dreams, to £ead&che,'. jip .bptter'tolea^n with'7even"t(io than/witk'tbo inricfi'clothing' ov§r'thi obocl'y.;-f----g5 and r :t ! he ; vigo'rbiis.-''' l-tf l true -for; ; fli<y pld ? but' r^ Q r bdMß : good-in-a'-'inodifietP•'decree.' - - The position' ; of thebefl-- : in -t-hgi''bedroom- is. : of i moment. doithe : . is It-he Jbest arrangement.? iwhen? it, -'daii,:, be carried Puts The :l*edj.-3.h'QU-ld.-i be:- ; not,,open uppjvifc, and" it shpuld f Cau.ljeihelped, -be, between, the, ; idoor and. the fire.j "If-the headpTthe,b, d can be; "placed tp' the east, s'6 that'the bofJy 'lie's in the line of ; the' Garth's moti'bn, I 1 thihli it'is'ih tlio 'bWi . position for the sleeper. , ThS-fufbittire, 6f* the' 1 bed i-opm, other than' thb- be'd, v 'shbiild' be of' 0 the; simplest 'kind." : TlieS(bhairß''shlTuldj'be uncoVered;i-'and' free from!stuffing of * woollen': or:f other."material;the -, wardrobe should have ; closely fitting doors; -the: utensils should have closely.fitting: covers; and every thing/that /can in any way gather dust should be carefully, excluded. : "". Vp In a word, the bedroom—the room for third of this mortal life, and that, third' the, most helpless—should be a aanctuaryof cleanliness and order, in which no,, injurious exhalation' oan remain for a moment, and no .trace of uncleanliness offend a single sense.— ' Good Words.' p .- r