UNUSUAL 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 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 this ‘bed in the wall’ 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 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 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 the bottom sheet serve also as pillow slip for the bottom so that, is you essay to put your watch underneath (as I do) you are apt to dream you are sleeping on Stonehenge.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19751, 19 March 1934, Page 10
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214UNUSUAL SLEEPING PLACES. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19751, 19 March 1934, Page 10
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