The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-12

The country idea of bed is strange
=. g. .,yavs taken for granted that you
49, Gloon anywhere and that what the
nod or its trappings are like makes no
difference TO YOU. That anybody may De
rast,ess find it difficult to close one 5
.os ona 90 TO dreamland never enters
tho heads of the wives of the sons OF lhe
soil. -, I'D largo
Sometimes Won have steps by which TO
roach it. but oftener, unless you d..
Iono of limb YOU run from one sue Oh
the room. make jump when you reach
tbe bed and chance getting on IL. IL uh-
fortunate. enough to miss 1t you scrape
vour knees and bump your mead ana Ineh
trv getting on by means of chair, wnlch
Won realize was what you ought to nave
done in the first place.
THE most luxurious of country beds be-
gins by having a mattress made or husks.
ON ton of this comes the feather bed that
smother gave me when l was married
and which belonged to her grandmother.
r. smells like it. 1t has the odor peculiar
to musty feathers and makes you THINK
~ the dead and gone grandmother IN her
tomb. On this come new cotton sheets,
.nuiIts. and-great magnificence!one OIL
those horrible heavy marsellles counter
panes. Everything on this bed Is calcu-
lated to keep out the air.
THE yaIue of a blanket is not apprecl-
ated in the country mat piahhe,
Rhould be at once light and warm anu
Alou circulation of the air is not under.
T.od So. unless you want to feel as Il
g. weight of ages were resting upon
- Won throw off the quits anu .iie
sverlid and sleep under your travehns
After a little while you realize now
s.that he'd is. You didn't know that
my nens were so warm You get up, near
1T the house on fire trying to hght d
that's out of order, and then you
III the feather bed off and rest your
Weary homes on the husks. Beiore an,
other hour has elapsed you wish you hau
the feathers back. The husks have mas
tv way of getting into punches, ana t,e
lunches feel as if they were nara SUCKS
ne wood while each one shoyes aSaiiis.
vour most sensitive bone.
COMFORT IN THE COUNTRY.
Taka the advice of one who knows, ana
when YOU go to the country pack IN WIN
+be In fhtuh a decent lamp and rev ON
or necessaries of life-that Is, OF coinioie
ohla life-two pillows, summer plahhel
IA either heavy but soft travelling rug.
rrha rur can be laid over the husks, ana
!. fairly decent bed will be the result.
lam told that in some parts OF the
Ill .xan in summer, there are people
,vbn s,een between feather beds. won
dor what those people look like. Probapiy
tho+ was the way Queen Elizabeth slept.
yvbonaver think of her l remember tnat
~. fauor;ta nightgown was of purple vel
ro+ with cold lace! How, in case or nre:
+bo ladies would guy her in these days.
Tbank goodness, the sensible bed IS a.
+ha fore nowadays! 1t is commanded tnat
.our bod must be of brass for health, ana
= mnst he properly draped with Whatever
Won can afford, though the inexpensive Is
+ba most costly. That sounds like
.sbnll" but it's the truth. The reason IS
that 4 Young girl has her bed draped with
white musIin-this pretty white dotteu
muslin If doesn't cost much by the yard,
hnt Il takes an immense quantity to
make the draperies, and as they must be
1,ont as immaculate as lilies the laundry
adds to their expense SO that in the END
they cost more than brocade curtains.
One is always curious to know how the
ghedrooms Of well known women look.
Gossip says that fashionable dlvorcee
who has remarked has bed that looks
lilo . hinge hearse. 1t is Of some won
.aarful wood and stands in the center OF
the room on a raised platform, and you
walk ND four steps to get into 1T. When
this was bought in Paris, the interior
was entirely lined with enormous plate
glass mirrors. The purchaser dld not
Enow and had not been told that Frencn
ladies did not use that style of bed, that
r. was dedicated to the ladies of the lake.
Int her mistake was discovered, and rose
.colored satin took the place OF the VAR
ous refectors. This room is SAID TO DC
,9are and cold-lookng notwithstanding It's
costly furniture, all that it suggests pc
INC the opinion given by Carlyle'smald OF
RaphaePs Madonna" It's expensive.
SOME FASHIONABLE BEDS.
Mrs. Frederick yanderbilt's bed IS SAID
70 be of dainty whitewood, with draperies
Of fine real lace and faint rose brocades
about ii until it looks like a great PINK
rosa inviting you to slumber IN Its heart.
Her room has a delightful lndiViduallty'
+ha fayor;te pictures, the loved BOOKS,
and the thousand and one little belong
NOS that a woman likes being here, there
and everywhere about 1T. Inc room teiis
of the popularity of the woman, Tor MRS.
Frederick Vanderbilt is undoubtedly the
best liked of any of the women OF the
Vanderbilt family. ~.
A beautiful bed of most artlsuc wn WI
rattan. swan-shaped, is that Of Lillian
Russell. Its coverlid is magnificent po.nl
lace over blue satin, while pale blue satin
draperies are at each side of the heaa.
The room itself is in blue and white, with
here and there touch of pink, looking
like the proper abode for beautlful
woman who is as delicate in her tnts as
any Dresden statuette.
Mrs. Langtry's bed is wonderful one
The draperies, which were made in New
York by a famous woman decorator, are
Of pale aove-colored brocade. The upper
curtains are Of fine blue boiling cloth'
those at the top being embroidered IN