The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-10-13
ART OF GOING TO BED.


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Ordered HORsaholda.
Ernest Hart d. G. l., of London
thinks that at the end of 1000 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
the 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 a warm, well 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 a 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 a 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 ef-
: 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 ''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.
It is the clothing of the primeval
r savage. If a ridiculous situation ii
! needed for a farce, it is commonly
g created by a night alarm at which
the sleepers appear in this ridiculous
guise at the bedroom door.
y The bed is a ridiculous oontriv
Ii ance, having the worst of all cover
ings, linen sheets, the foster moth
ers of rheumatism and the worst o
Is all material for contact with tn
m skin. To counterbalance its defect
and increase the miseries heav.
superabundant mass of blankets an
:. quilts is imposed, and TO prevent an
in comfortable or free movement @
IL the limbs these are tucked in
around the edges, constituting
huge set of swaddling clothes sue
nj as only savages now employ eve
lin for children. The fire now is genel
~ ally allowed to become extinct,
ever lighted, and those who bay
. passed their day in warm rooms o
ten spend the night in a chamber
81 which the temperature is not muo
" above freezing point and to nlitigat
10 which a complete reolothing of II
Tp DOdy Is required Inc reaSOnhD
i'm practice would require first thu
rlr for the present hideous and ridiol
o. lous nightgown pyjamas of varioJ
degrees of warmth or thinne
70 should be provided. The presei
~ bedstead and bedclothing should
altogether discarded, and two ligl
elder downs like the Indian resai
the Japanese futon should be wol
of a texture suited to the occasio
mt The room should be kept at a ter
ba perature which never falls below
degrees, and in another part of
III should be placed long deck char
he with cushions, to which, if the slee
ed or grows restless, he can easi
We transfer himself and repose at N
,s+ angle. That is how to go TO b
- nationally, healthily, prepared (
ue the emergencies of the night whet
er of sleeplessness or household ac
les dent.-Providence Journal