The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-28
ART OF GOING TO HED.



Ordered KfonaehoIda.
Ernest Hart, d. c. T., of London
thinks that at the end of 5000 years
very few of rs understand the ele-
mentary principles of comfort and
health, and then treats what seems
the not too complicated subject OF
going to bed. The management of
tho bedroom and the art of going TO
bed would seem to be very simple
matters, as to which some rational
principles and comfortable and
healthy customs might be expected
to prevail Let us see if this is SO.
Take the case of the ordinary we'll
to do Englishman. He leaves in the
winter q warm, we'll lighted and per-
haps sumptuously furnished room
and he ascends through cold STAIR
case to a room of which the temper
ature is not determined and is very
apt to be below 60 degrees In how
few of our homes are the passages
and staircases warmed by q base
ment stove or base burner. If he
is thoughtful and what is called self
indulgent, he will have the room
warmed by coal fire or gas stove.
This is, however, by no means q
universal rule and is frequently re-
served only for the heads of the es-
tablishment or for what are called
delicate people. The room is rarely
we'll or conveniently lighted, and
the fittings commonly used are Gen.
turies behind our modern knowl-
edge. 1t is only here and there that
hot and cold water are laid on or
that the lighting can be without eff
fort shifted from the dressing table
to the bed head and controlled from
a convenient place near the bed. The
clothing is then removed, and the
unhappy person then puts OH some.
thing which is called 'nightgown, "
a sort of linen or cotton sack with
sleeves, which leaves the lower
limbs and feet more or less uncover
ed and at once makes a man an un-
comfortable and ridiculous object.
1t is the clothing of the primeyal
savage. If a ridiculous situation is
needed for a farce, it is commonly
created by night alarm at which
the sleepers appear in this ridiculous
guise at the bedroom door.
The bed is a ridiculous contriv
ance, having the worst of all cover
ings, linen sheets, the foster moth
ers of rheumatism and the worst O.
all material for contact with tht
skin. To counterbalance its defect
and increase the miseries a heav,
superintendent mass of blankets anC
quilts is imposed, and to prevent an.
comfortable or free movement o
the limbs these are tucked in
around the edges, constituting
huge set of swaddling clothes sucl
as only savages now employ eve
for children. The fire now is geneI
ally allowed to become extinct, j
ever hted, and those who hav
passed their day in warm rooms OF
ten spend the night in a chamber j
which the temperature is not muc
above freezing point and TO mitigat
which a complete reclothing of tn
body is required. The reasonabl
practice would require first tina
for the present hideous and rider
lous nightgown pyjamas of variou
degrees of warmth or thinnes
should be provided. The preser
bedstead and bedclothing should
altogether discarded, and two ligI
elder downs like the Indian resai c
the Japanese futon should be wor
of texture suited to the occasion
The room should be kept at ten
perature which never falls below G
degrees, and in another part of
should be placed long deck chair
with cushions, to which, if the sleel
or grows restless, he can easil
transfer himself and repose at an
angle. That is how to go to be
nationally, healthily, prepared fc
the emergencies of the night whetI
er of sleeplessness or household acc
dent. Journal.