Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-20
MAKING UP THE BED
ESSENTIALS FOR COMFORT ON A
HOT NIGHT.
Proper Arrangement of Clothes and
Mattress Means Healthy and Rest
full Sieep-Linen Sheets Are
Cooler Than Cotton.

One Of the essential conditions for
comfort on hot nights is to sleep in
a perfectly made bed. An lily made
bed is bad at any time. but il is most
Objectionable and causes more suffer
ing in hot weather than In cold
Far better take the time to do IL
right in the early morning. even
though it is warm, than to try to sleep
in II when IL is warm, during eight
hours of the night.
Ii is rather remarkable how bad the
majority of beds are in the way they
are made, in the kind of materials
used, in the shape of the mattress and
in the formation of the springs.
Each one of these defects is dis
tinct thorn in the flesh when one is
trying to WOO sleep on warm night.
Ii is probable that given a com
Portable, refreshing bed more than
one-half Of the people would sleep
soundly during the summer season.
In some houses the beds are not
made up until after night fall at this
time of the year. The sheets and
HlllcN cases are SpIedu Oul an ucN
in the coolest, darkest room.
The bed is made up only an hour be-
fore retiring SO that it will be fresher
and cooler than If the bed clothes had
remained in position all day
One should be more eXtravagant
about bed linen in July and August
than in any other months of the year
Even people who have small purses
try to arrange these frequent changes.
If 1t is a question OF too much laundry,
then they economic by alternating
with sheets and pillow cases every
night, letting one set always hang in
the fresh air.
Every effort should be made to have
comfortable mattress and even
springs. When both are sold at such
small prices now ii would surely be
worth the investment TO even a per
son who is not well-to-do.
In summer sleep and baths are the
great personalities of endurance
against the heat, and doctors say they
rarely know of case of serious pros
tration among any set of people who
sleep all night and bath twice day.
In making yourself comfortable for
the night. remember these sugges-
| tons: Have linen sheets If you can,
for they are twice as cool as cotton.
II the latter, keep two or three sets
going. Never put the same pair back
on the bed from which they have just
been taken. AS sheets keep sweeter
in summer without ironing, press them
smooth with a cold iron while still
damp, fold and put away in lavender.
| Do not have pillow cases too large
for the pillows. This is irritating.
When making the bed, tuck the first
sheet under the mattress with fiI.l
hand and smooth it with a broom han
die until every wrinkle is removed.
Do not tuck the upper sheet and the
spread under the mattress, for when
they are turned down, they pull the
first sheet out with them and make ii
| wrinkle.
DO not put a fancy spread on the
bed. which will heat il during the day
Never put feather pillows in the sun
as the heat draws the oil from the
quilts and greases the ticking.
! Never let the head of the bed rest
against the wall. Put ii in the middle
of the floor if possible; if not, give ii
as much space from the wall as pos
sible, so the air can circulate back Of
the bed and keep the head cool.