The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07
FEATHER BEDS FOR BEAUTY.
QUEEN VICTORIA USES ONE FOR
HER HEALTH'S SAKE.

| 4tE tlCIOhia USES ONE II Ot
HER HEALTH'S SAKE.
1t Preserves Human Heat and Con-
serves That Priceless Force, HUI
man EIectricity-These Mattresses
Are Necessary for Huge Georgian
Bedsteads Now So Popular with
Furniture CoIIectOrs-Many Amer
lean Women Follow Her British
Majesty's Rule and Travel With
Their own Bed Belongings.
The science and practice of bed making
| has undergone a radical change in the
past few years. In the newly done-over
and decorated houses, no throne of state
could be more impressive, more luxurious
and more radical in its departure from
the hitherto accepted laws of hygiene than
the bed a lucky guest is invited TO sleep in.
The model just now in the houses where
the antique mahogany era sweeps every
thing before 1t is the Georgian bed. Three
could sleep, with an abundance of stretch
ing ROOM in the area iuclosed by the four
massive carven posts of one of these big
couches and three mattresses are required
to bring the sleeping platform up to the re-
quired hight One is of hair. one of cot
ton and in winter on top of these reposes
a mighty tick stuffed full of the best
white goose feathers. When these require
ments are fulfilled the full-hedged Geor-
gan bed is dressed with an attention to
detail and elegance that gives it an APP
pearance hardly less sumptuous than the
tent of an Indian rajah. Old brocade
edged with bullion fringe forming the
hangings and counterpart that sweeps the
floor is what is utilized on a bed of the
type in Mrs. George Crocker's new house
and the coat of arms of the owner Is
carved on the head board of the couch.
The Feather-FiIIed Tick.
1t is not everybody, however. who can
lay possessive hands on really truly
carved Georgian bed or dress it in antique
brocade, but even with the modern brass
and iron bed ii is true that curtains about
the head and big feather stuffed mat
tresses for winter use are no longer
fashion but a general custom.
For half a century the feather bed has
been looked upon very coldly by our
leaders in hygiene but recently both with
regard to me hangings and the feather
mattress, a change of heart has come and
delicate, nervous neuralgia, rheumatic
women and particularly elderly persons
and those afflicted with insomnia have
been recommended to the feather bed cure
in the winter. Queen Victoria is one of
the shining proofs of the efficacy of the
feathe bed for where Her Majesty goes
her big tick full of feathers in its leather
travelling jacket goes, too, and always the
curtains are drawn about the head of her
bed to shut off any treacherous little
draughts.
Hygienic Sleep.
Queen Victoria and her doctors believe
that the proper way to sleep in winter Is
in a cold room luxuriously Tapped in n
nest of feathers that preserves all the
heat of the body and necessitates in the
coolest weather a covering of but one pair
of blankets and a down quilt The mod
ern bed, so-called hygienic, requires more
heavy covering than pair of tired Shout
ders can stand, and the hair mattress con-
stantly dissipates the human heat instead
of conserving 1t, beside drawing away that
priceless force, human electricity.
All this drain the feathers prevent, the
easily yielding surface they present per-
mits perfect relaxation of the muscles.
that can never be gained on a bed Of
even the best hair. With the coming of
| the eighteenth-century type of English
bed the feather mattress was successfully
introduced and now there are numbers of
women who have not only learned their
virtue, but, like the Queen of England,
travel about with their beds done IN in
leather cases. Some of the rheumatics
and sufferers from cold extremities have
pronounced themselves immune from their
grievious Affections when luxuriatng
among the feathers
Gay Bedsteads for the Nursery.
Feather beds are as well coming into use
in nurseries and though for children the
Georgian four-poster is not vet the FASH
ion, the gayest beds are made to chime in
with the schemes of nursery decoration
Charmingly carved and painted wooden
beds are newly introduced, else they have
grass or sometimes silver let into the da k
wood in appropriate scenes and inscrip-
tons. On the headboard of light ma
pie bed WILL for example, be painted \
night scene of clouds across the moon and
flight of owls; on the foot board a long
line of caroling cocks greeting the sun
typefies morning.
An exquisite mahogany bed made for A
Boston millionaire's child, showed in sill
yer inlay on the head board a moon AMI
tiny sails with q quotation in silver LET
ters beneath from Tennyson's lullaby in
the Princess.
Rich Bed Clothing
So prominently are the beds featured IN
handsome sleeping rooms nowadays that
ii is no wonder their clothing shows all
the art and lavish beauty and lace of a
fashionable womans wearing appare'
Sheets of any fineness are always made
with broad bands of drawn work running
about the four sides and linen lace whip-
ped on the edges The costly California
blankets are sent to a needle woman be-
fore they are ready for use to have their
edges lightly scalloped and buttonhola-
stitched with silk and a MONOGRAM work.
ed in the corners. Duvets covered with
china silk show fluff of valenciennes
frills and pinked hounces about their
edges. and the huge sham pillows used by
day are upholstered to exactly accord with
the duvet. Added to this luxuriousne -
there are beds with big sachet pillows that
lie all day between the sheets and when
taken out at night surround the sleeper
with a sleep inviting fragrance OF violets
or rose leaves. Millicent Arrowhead.
INGRATITUDE OF THE RESCUED.