The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-28
THE GEORGIAN BED.
Radical Changes in the Science OF
Bed Making.
(San Francisco Examiner.)


(San Francisco Examiner)
The science and the practice of bed
/ making have undergone a radical
change in the past few days. In the
| newly renovated and decorated houses
no throne of state could be more i'm
pressive, more luxurious and more rad
Il al 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 everything before il is the
Georgian bed. Three could sleep, with
an abundance of stretching room, in
the arena enclosed by the four mas
Slve carven post of one of these big
beds. and three mattresses are required
| to bring the sleeping platform up to the
required hight. One is of hair one of
cotton, and in winter. on top of these.
reposes mighty tick stuffed full of
the best white goose feathers.
When these requirements are full
filled the Georgian bed is dressed with
an attention to detail and elegance that
gives 1t an appearance hardly less
sumptious than the tent of an Indian
raJah- Old brocades edged with. bull
lion fringe forming the hangings and
counterpart is one style of dressing a
bed.
For half a century the feather bed
has been looked upon very coldly by
our leaders in hygiene but recently,
both with regard to the hangings and
the feather mattresses, a change of
mind has come, and delicate, nervous,
neuralgia, rheumatic women, and par
tlcularly elderly persons and those af-
Illcted with insomnia, have been rec
commended t. tlla feather bed cure.
The queen is one of the best proofs
OF the efficacy Of the feather bed. for
where her majesty goes her big tick
Tuli OF feathers in its leather travelling
case goes too. and the curtains are
always drawn about the head of her
bed to shut off any treacherous little
draughts.
The queen and her doctors believe
that the proper way to sleep in winter
is IN a cold room luxuriously Tapped
IN nest of feathers which preserves
all the heat of the Cody and necessi
tateS in the coolest uVeather q. covering
! OF but one pair offblankets and an
elderdown quilt
With the coming of the eighteenth
century type of wooden bed into fash
ion again the feather mattress was sue
cessfully introduced, and now there are
numbers of women who have not only
learned their virtues, but like the
queen, travel about with their beds
done up in leather cases, and some OF
the rheumatics and sufferers from cold
extremities have pronounced them
selves immune from their grivous Attic
lions when luxuriating among the
feathers
Feather beds are also coming into
use IN nurseries; and. though for chill
| dren the Georgian four-poster is'not
yet the fashion. the gayest beds are
made to fit in with the schemes of 7lur-
Sery decoration Charmingly carved
and painted wooden beds are newly
introduced, or they have brass or some
times silver let into the dark wood in
appropriate scenes and inscriptions
| On the headbOard of a light-colored
/ bed will, for example, be painted a
night scene of clouds across the moon
and flight Of owls. On the foOtboard
a long line OF carolling cocks greeting
the sun typifies morning.
so prominently do beds figure in
splendidly appointed bedrooms nova
days that it is no wonder their cloth
ing shows all the art and lavish beauty
and lace of fashionable woman's
wearing apparel. Sheets of any fine
ness are always made with broad bands
! of drawn work running about the fou
sides and linen lace whipped on the
| edges.
| Costly blankets are PINT to a needle
woman before they are ready for use
1 to have the edges scalloDed and but.
ton-hOle stitched with silk and a mono.
! gram worked in the corners. Counter.
| panes covered with China silk show 2
I fluff of Valeuciennes frills and pinke6
! f1Ounces about their edges and the
| huge sham pillows used by day are
upholstered to exactly accord with the
| cOunterpane