The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-05

anybody may be restless ma u uiiii~ut'
to close ones eyes and so to dreamland
never enters the heads of the wives OF
the sons of the soil.
The country bed is high and large.
Sometimes you have steps by which TO
reach IT, but oftener. unless you are long
of limb, you run from one side of the
room. make a jump when you reach the
bed and chance getting on it. II unlor-
tunate enough to miss it, you scrape your
knees and bump your head and then Try
getting on by means Of chair, when
you realize was what you ought to have
done in the first place.
The most luxurious of country beds be-
gins by having mattress made of husks.
On top of this comes the feather bed that
mother gave me when l was married
and which belonged TO her grandmother
1t smells like it, 1t has the odor peculiar
10 musty feathers and makes you think
OF the dead aud gone grandmother IN her
tomb on this come new cotton sheets
quilts and-great Neutrality-suspicious. OF
those horrible heavy marseilles counter
panes. Everything on this bed is caleu-
lated to keep out the air.
The value of a blanket is not apprecla-
ted in the country. That blanket should
be at once light and warm and allow cir
culation of the air is not understood. 20,
unless you want to feel as II the weight
OF ages were resting upon you, you throw
off the quilts and the cOverlid and sleep
under your traveing rug Ai1er a little
while you realize how hot that bed is. You
didn't know that feathers We're so warm.
You get up, nearly set the house on nre
trying TO light lamp that's out OF order,
and then you pun the feather bed off and
rest your weary bones on the husks. BE
fore another hour has elapsed you wish
you had the feathers back The husks
have nasty way Of getting into punches,
and the punches feel as if they were hard
sticks of wood, while each one shoves
against your most sensitive bone.
Take the advice of one who knows, and
when you go to the country pack in with
the bathtub a decent lamp and few 9TH
er necessaries of life-that is, of COMFORT
able nfe-two pillows, a summer blanket
and rather heavy but soft travelling rug.
The rug can be laid over the husks, ana a
fairly decent bed will be the result.
l am told that in some parts of the
world, even in summer, there are people
who sleep between feather beds. l won
der what those people look like. Prob
ably that was the way Queen Elizabeth
slept. Whenever | think of her ! remem-
Der that her favorite nightgown was of
purple velvet with gold lacel How, in
case of fire, the laddies would guy her
in these days Thank goodness, the sem
sible bed is at the fore nowadays! 1t is
commanded that your bed must be of brass
for health, and il must be properly draped
with whatever you can afford, though the
inexpensive is the most costly. That
sounds like a bull" but it's the truth
The reason is that a young girl has her
bed draped with white muslin-this pretty
white dotted muslin. 1t doesn't cost
much by the yard, but il takes an immense
quantity to make the dTaperies, and as
they must be kept as immaculate as lilies
the laundry adds TO their expense. so that
In the end they cost more than broeade
curtains.
One is always curious to know how the
bed rooms of well known women look.
Gossip says that a fashionable Divorce
who has remarked has bed that looks
like huge hearse. 1t is of some Won
derful wood and stands in the center of
the room on a raised platform, and you
walk up four steps TO get into ii. When
this was bought in Paris, the interior
was entirely lined with enormous plate
glass mirrors. The purchaser did not
know and had not been told that French
ladies did not use this style of bed, that
II was dedicated 90 the ladies of the
lake, but her mistake was discovered
and rose colored satin took the place Of
the various refiectors. This room is said
to be bare and cold looking notwith-
standing its costly furniture, all that il
suggests being the opinion given by Car
lyles maid of Raphael's Madonna" IT'S
expensive"
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt's bed is said
TO be of dainty whitewood, with draperies
of hne real lace and faint rose brocades
about II until it looks like
great pink rose inviting you to slumber
in its heart. Her room has a delightful
individuality, the favorite pictures, the
loved books and the thousand and one
little belongings that a woman likes be-
ing here, there and everywhere about It.
The room tells of the popularity of the
woman, for Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt is
undoubtedly the best liked of any of the
women of the Vanderbilt family
beautiful bed of most artistic white
rattan. swan shaped, is that of Lillian
Russell. Its coverlid is magnificent point
lace over blue satin, while pale blue satin
draperies are at each side of the head.
The room itself is in blue and white, with
here and there a touch of pink. looking
like the proper abode for a beautiful wo-
man who is as delicate in her tints as any
Dresden statuette.
Mrs. Langtry's bed is a wonderful one.
The draperies. which were made in New
York by a famous woman decorator, are
of pale dove colored brocade. The upper
curtains are of fine boiling cloth, those at
the top being embroidered in poppies as
If to induce sleep, and those at the foot in
morning glories, as if TO welcome wakeful-
ness. The dressing table is draped with
boiling cloth, embroidered in many deli
cate hued flowers, and the curtains on
each side of the mirror have, after the
French fashion, a trailing vine Of arti-
fetal lilies, so that when the beauty looks
into her mirror she sees one Lily framed
by many more.
have never been able to understand
the type of woman who didn't care how
her bedroom looked, who was satisfied
to have a bare, cold. uninviting room,
lacking any individuality. Most women,
certainly all nice women, long to have
their bedrooms look as pretty as posi-
bic, and now, when so many dainty
things can be made by oneself, so many
good results achieves by oneself she is
to blame who does not arrange her room
so that It is a bower of beauty IL may
be taken for granted that either in the
winter or the summer one cannot have
too many fancy cushions or too many fur
rugs.
A most artistic effect is achieved by
having he al n