The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-09-30
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Ernest Hart ID. @. L., of London
thinks that at the end Of s. 900 years
very few of us 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
the bedroom and the art of going 20
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 MS see IL this is 30. /
Take the case of the ordinary well
to do Englishman. BE leaves in the
winter a warm, we'll lighted and per-
haps sumptuously furnished room
and he ascends through a 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. III he
is thoughtful and what is called self
indulgent, he will have the room
warmed by coal fire or q gas stove.
This is, however. by no means
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 CEN
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 Of.
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 on some
thing which is called a "nightgowD,
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.
II is the clothing of the primeval
savage. If a ridiculous situation ia
needed for a farce, it is commonly
created by a night alarm at which
the sleepers appear in this ridiculous
guise at the bedroom door.
The bed is a ridiculous oontriv.
ance, having the worst of all cover
ings, linen sheets, the foster moth
, ers of rheumatism and the worst OF
all material for contact with the
skin. To counterbalanoe its defects
and increase the miseries a heavy
superabundant mass of blankets and
: quilts is imposed. and TO prevent any
comfortable or free movement Of
the limbs these are tucked in"
: around the edges, constituting q
huge set of swaddling clothes such
as only savages now employ even
for children. The fire now is gener-
ally allowed to become extinct, il
ever lighted, and those who have
passed their day in warm rooms Of.
ten spend the night in a chamber in
which the temperature is not much
above freezing point and to mitigate
which a complete reoleshing of the
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practice would require first that
for the present hideous and ridicu.
) lous nightgown pyjamas of various
degrees of warmth or thinness
, should bo provided. The present
! bedstead and bedclothing should be
t altogether discarded, and two light
: elder downs like the Indian resai OF
j the Japanese futon should be worn
of texture suited to the occasion.
The room should be kept at a tenn.
: perature which never falls below sc
5 degrees, and in another part of il
3 should be placed long deck chair
3 with cushions, to'which, if the sleep
or grows restless, he can easily
{ transfer himself and repose at any
Q angle. That is how to go to bed
nationally, healthily, prepared fol
, the emergencies Of the night wbeth.
: er of sleeplessness or household acci
d dent. Journal.