BEDS IN GERMANY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 58, 28 June 1876, Page 2

BEDS IN GERMANY.

In his last letter from Germany to tin \ "Hartford Courant," Charles Dudler Warne thus relates his experience aU hotel in Wittenberg : I had supposed tlak the beds which Tom Hood seemed to caricature, but only described, had been exchanged for something more in accordance with the needs of the modern traveller. But I find that North Germany adheres to its down. Even in the city of Berlin, at one of the best hotels, the beds were» relic of the barbarous social period out« which the Germans are slowly and witi reluctance emerging. I found my bed at Wittenberg to consist of a mattress one sheet spread on it, and on top of tliat a short, fat down bed. Previous experience of the like told me tliat with thu sort of bed, several things would happen in the night—the bed wo.uld not cover uijj feet; it would not cover my shoulders; would become intolerably hot if 1 could curl under it, and it could not any skill of mine be long kept op. In order to keep this incumbrance ® place you must lie awake all night. c ' cordingly I summoned the waiter, waiter called the chamber-maid. I them that, if I could have no other cover. I must at least have another sheet, so tliat my feet might not be left naked and defenceless in the world. They consulted and finally came to a conclusion. W l ® I returned I found that the sheet had been taken off and another one put on, the maid explained was longer than tlf orher ; otherwise the situation was iW" changed. I insisted that I desired two sheets, in order to have one over This was too much for the experience the chambermaid, who exclaimed, <f WJ® two sheets ! Mein Gott !" "Yes," IsM "two sheets, one above the other." great reluctance my order was but the sheets were tucked in together a manner to show that their strange J 156 was not comprehended ; and I h.'?^/ flo doubt I am talked of at that inn as the & centric stranger who desired to sleep 011 t.vo sheets.