Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-01
ALL SORTS OF BEDS.
Exciting Experiences of an Accomplished
Traveller with tho COuches of the Outer
Barbarians.

Exciting Experiences Of an Accomplished
Traveller with the COuches OF IA Outer
BarbRrians.
Letter IN Caiea0O Inter Ocean.
At the very top of this clean sheet Of
paper, before l have dulled by indignation
by any discussion of side issues, l desire to
placaEd my protest against the European
bed.
The Continental bed is good enough,
what there is OF it, such as it is. There is
not enough OF it, such a. it ought to be,
however. In other words, it ends too
quisL. After thoroughly testing several
score ofthem l am convinced that, as q
rule, there ought to be a few more inches
put on the average bed. To be sure, l a
Just manage to wedge myselfin between the
headboard and the footboard, but always
think when ! commit myself to the arms Of
Morpheus what il l should swell Up during
the night like a soaked codgsh under the
influence of this lachrYmal weather. And
l am nyt q Titan to stature, either.
But the chief feature of the Continental
bed against which l wish to launch the in.
v~ectives of my outraged manhood is its
Quilt. There ia a sheet, a thin Counterpart,
and then Q slender, puffy quilt, filed with
feathers, a little larger than a pillow. 1t is
sufficiently warm aud light, but so small
that the least motion may joStle it over
board. You carefully poise this curiosity
upon the pit Of your stomach, and then lie
perfectly quiet for a few moments. The re-
suit is most gratifying. But presently you
tire of this lying-still process, and discover
that you are uncomfortable. This is an
alarming discovery. fir now you cannot be
content until you have shifted your posi-
ton, and the moment you do so that dump
ing of q feather quilt loses its equilibrium.
Perhaps you get to sleep before any such
accident occurs, which isa remarkable
stroke of luck, but toward midnight you
awake to find that the aforesaid quilt has
sauntered off into one corner Of the room.
There is one remedy. You a get a die
tionary and put it on top Of the quilt but
this renders it impossible for you to breathe,
and though it may be some satisfaction to
you to have this circumvented the obSti-
nate Quilt, it is quite announcement TO be an
able to breathe. Besides, the doctors say
that il is not conducive to longevity TO be
deprived Of the capacity 10 breathe. / be
lieve many fellow-sufferers viii bear me out
in these statements; many who have twned
their feet around the lower dashboard and
clutched in wild desperation al an Elusive
quilt.
But, really, the round-the world traveller
might Eli 6 book with his experience in the
line of beds and then have said nothing
about the novel tussels with native beds.
In some parts Of India travellers are ex-
pected to carry their own beds, cOunterpane
and pillov-case. Just as you must always DO
in q railway carriage there IL you propose
to sleep en- route on n of the hanging
shelves or cushioned seats. This Is literally
taking up you bed and riding. In Japan
/ had screens ornamented with painted
storks around my couch while stop
ping at the civilized European hotel.
In the interior two feainfested blankets OF
buttons spread OF the aoor constituted
my bed, while / usually rolled up a third 10
to put under my head rather than use a
of the native wooden pillows, shaped hke q
doubIeend 6atiron. with q paper curve
adApsed for 70 support The neck The
wooden pillow was suggestive Of che guillo-
tine 10 my mind. and. on the whole SCARF
preferable 10 the guillotine Beside tie
bed wa the andon. 5 square paper Aantern
on 4 frame tNo feet high With = saucer q
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