The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-18
YOUR OWN LUMPY BED.
Invitation to the Average Hostess
Who Is BEGINNING The summers
Entertainment of Friends to Sleep
Over Night in Her own spare

| Who Is BEGINNING The summers
Entertainment of Friends to Sleep
over Night in Her own spare
Room"
New York, June 16-The average guest
chamber is about the most drearily uncom-
Portable corner of an often pretty country
home. If the mistress doubts this state
mept, just pack her handbag with the
things she needs for a one-night visit,
desert her own cosy nest and go across
the hall 10 pass twenty-four hours in that
cage of glded misery TO which her long
suffering guests are consigned That's
the only way to truly find out what I'M
easy nights and unsettled days your
friends endure for your dear sake in the
spare bedroom
You will learn all about ii by lying awake
half the night. rising stiff and rather tired
in the morning. tuning over your toilet
and coming down to breakfast a saddee
and wiser woman. This being the case,
| it is the. duty of every individual who
| has pertaining to do this summer to dis
miss AL that rubb.shy poetry talked and
written about flowers and dainty devices
| in the guest chamber and find out first
! II the bed is truly dpWny couch of ease
! Don't make 1t habit, when guest
| leaves, to have it .redressed Immediately
! in clean sheets. ready for the next visitor
| VINO may moi come along for a month. A
! bed grows chill and dampish and musty
! II left .opg in the folds, so to speak. The
1 old-fashioned plan of airing fresh sheets
! and putting them on only the day guest
arrives is the proper rule, for then the
| bed Is somewhere near the tempera ture Of
| the body. Don't forget TO keep, even in
! summer, an extra pair of blankets in the
/ closet of this room, and always have one
i pillow hard stuffed and one quite soft,
/ for you never know just what may be The
! little notions and vagories of friend.
All season through keep your spare
room windows as open to sun and air as
your own room, for nothing is more de-
! structive 10 sleep than the dead atmos-
| phere behind blinds always closed up.
! When a friend leaves order all the water
/ poured out Of jugs and tins and don't let
! the maids fill them until an hour before
! th.' newcomer is expected. for how often
! shut into his or her apartment in battle
with water a week old, on top of which
4 floats a heavy coat of dust, also to dry
/ off on dank towels and lay away be-
! lodgings in drawers and cupboards reek-
1 ing with the smell of moth balls. Also
how often have timid individuals been
shown into a room where some essential
! such as soap or a pitcher of warm water
was lacking, and for want of any means
! of communicating with servant has
been driven to desperate measures
IL your guest chamber does not COM
municate with bath room, then be heed
! full of abundant dry towels, a perfectly
! fresh cake of soap. and never forget the
pitcher of hot water. Also, strain a point
to provide a bell in this room, that will
! communicate with the servants and let
| your visitor understand its workings
| Don't fail 10 provide plenty of rack room
! for towels and wash cloths, sponges and
| brushes. See carefully to ID that, if you
! have outside green shutters, they are in
! perfect working order; il you have them
| not, then show the guest that there are
I perfectly opaque dark green shades, which
! will keep out the morning light. Simply
| because you can sleep with the suns glare
| full in your eyes, don't for mercy's sake
/ think all the world can do the same, and
as you are a considerate human being,
don't fill up the guest chamber with flow
ers. Few persons sleep with flowers in
4 their bedroom, and sometimes a bowlfu
! of sweet-scented roses will keep a delicate
individual wide awake.
Stop to think a moment, and you will
! refrain from loading the dressing table
with toilet articles. If silver Irifles, they
/ are usually The caStoffs from your own
bureau, and of no genuine service to any
/ guest. since women carry about their own
/ precious little instruments with them
! and men cordially detest these feminine
| playthings. Leave the cushion bare and
/ the shelf of the bureaufree for the guest
own pins. brushes COMBS. etc, and then
1 try to provide a waste basket where a
woman can throw her combings and a
man his shaving papers. Provide the room
/ with a staud or table that can be placed
by The bed TO- hold candle, matches and
! a pitcher of water, aud then take thought
| beforehand as 70 the placing of the furni-
! ture. Put the bureau where a good light
! will fall day and night on the individual
! before the mirror, not on the mirror itself;
! set the little escritoire in front of the
! window. and furnish one easy chair at
! least. Every guest room ought to have a
/ lounge, not a dvan, at the foot of the
/ bed, and a light coVerlit folded at one end
| of II; an ample shoe bag on the inside of
4 the closet door few wooden or wire coat
racks in the closet, and thus given the
/ essentials of true comfort, the hostess can
| be sure that her visitors are moi enduring
| more for her sake than true friendship
/ demands.
A very well fitted guest chamber is al
! ways provided nowadays with two single
| beds, in place of the double couch, for a
| hostess ought never to ask two women
! who are not related or in the habit or
| sleeping together. or Two men. even II
| they are brothers, to occupy one bed
| Health and comfort now demand the sep
arate bexs, and a hostess is simply outrag-
| ing the laws of hospitality If she invites
| condemns them to share one mattress.
When you fure a friend in 10 stop over
/ few days, try to call TO mind all their
! peculiarities and Dander to their little
| weakneSses as far as possible. If Miss
| Jones. for instance. is a tjmid old maid
| be sure 20 tell her. on retiring. how near
| her room is to those occupied by the fam
! ny; assure her as to the nature of any
| probable noises she may hear during the
! night, and offer TO have your own door
| ajar or pat her room into icommunica ton
! with your daughters. or the nuFse mails
| in order that her faintest alarm may be
| SOOthed. She Will call down blessings
| on your head for this. So also viii Bach
| elor Brown, If you win keep the children
out of The upper hail and from his win
| dows In the morning, and give him a
| peace All these are mere mole hills Of
| precaution thai can grow into mountains
| OF nnpiedSantneSs 10 your guests If YOU
unkindly ignore or stupidity FORGET them.