Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-07

MOT many years ago bed made OF
- feathers on a corded bedstead
was thought to be the perfection of COM
fort. Then the curled hair mattress came
in and is thought how by many to be only
good enough for an under bed. But for all
that the curled hair mattress upon its
merits, has supplanted feathers because it
is better bed.
One third of the life being spent in bed
the inventive genius Of man is continually
at work to supply more comfortable beds
and has evolved not only improvements in
hair mattresses, but has discovered pro-
cesses by which other materials may be
converted into mattresses that are better
than the best hair.
Our Royal Elastic Felt Mattress will
supersede the hair mattress, as the hair
mattress superseded the feather bed To
great extent it has already done so. The
great difference in softness between the
feather bed and hair mattress does not
exist between the hair and our Royal
elastic felt, nor between the feather bed
and our Royal Elastic Felt Mattress. The
Royal Elastic Felt Mattress to the user is
finer and softer than the best hair mattress,
and has the springy softness which does
not exist in feathers. A person who would
like better hair mattress than he has in
use, will secure the desired results by the
use of the Royal Elastic Felt
What is Royal Plastic Felt !?
Briefly: Royal Elastic Felt is amattress
filling which many years of use has proven
to be superior to the best hair or any
other kind of mattress filing. The fibre
is cotton, which by chemical and mechani-
cal processes, is rendered in high degree
imperyious to moisture, then made into
elastic sheets of even thickness and re
sistance. In making the mattress of these
sheets they are made the size required,
laid one on the other, until the desired
thickness is obtained and then enclosed in
ticking and tufted. The dryness, soft
ness and elasticity of this material is not
approached by any other mattress filling.
Freshly picked cotton is softer than
freshly picked hair. A new, well made
cotton mattress is a soft, agreeable bed.
The one fact, however, that after short
period of use it becomes hard and lumpy,
renders it inferior to hair of good quality.
The processes used in making cotton into
Royal Elastic Felt entirely remove these
objections by giving to the soft cotton
fibre the important quality of elasticity
and durability. We not only secure these
results, but add to the natural softness,
and give Important quality Of dryness.
These are distinctive merits of our Royal
Elastic Felt.
Without these qualities the cotton fill
ing of the mattress would be cotton and
nothing more.
VIII it Remain Elastic j?
Yes. Our Royal Elastic Felt mattress
retains it's elasticity and softness until
worn out With ordinary care and use,
it will remain in excellent condition from
10 to Is years without losing it's shape or
becoming appreciably less comfortable
than when purchased.
Is it a CIeanIy Material
Yes. It is thoroughly clean material.
Hair being porous and full of cells. alb
serbs unclean moisture. The foul matter
is not only upon the outside Of the hair,
but penetrates and is held in these minute
cells and is not to be gotten rid of by
picking it up again. Steaming and scald-
ing is the only way of sterilizing the hair
and this makes it hard, brittle, and less
elastic. Our Royal Elastic Felt being non
absorbent and having no cell construction
to the fibre does not become saturated,
and rain of perspiration is readily
evaporated from the surface of the mattress
as if it was on polished glass.
Is Royal Elastic Felt Healthy?
Yes. On account of it's being perfectly
dry and non-absorbent, it is the ideally
perfect mattress for the sick. Those