Author: Edith A. Barnett

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781230310503

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. ODDS AND ENDS. 149. Odds and Ends.--The scope of the foregoing chapters has compelled us to leave unmentioned certain matters relating to clothing that have, nevertheless, a considerable importance. And the size of this volume does not permit us to add further chapters. We have, therefore, assembled here certain odds and ends of information or advice for clothing under special circumstances, as bed-clothes, the laying-by of clothes for winter and summer, and other details. They have no more connection one with the other than odds and ends usually have. Our idea is that they may have some connection with the various and varied wants of our readers. 150. Bed-clothing.--Too little attention is paid to bed-clothing. One-third of life is, or should be, spent in bed, and if the immediate surroundings of the body influence health during the day, they are likely to exercise greater, rather than less, influence during the night. For at no other time are we unconscious, unable to rectify anything that may be wrong, and at no other time do we pass so many consecutive hours in the same place, under the same conditions. Bed-clothing should be warm but light, and should not retain the perspiration. Many of the more expensive kinds of white cotton counterpanes, so much in use, have the reverse of these qualities; and it is a good plan to turn them back from the bed and to replace them by blankets or quilts. For an invalid or bedridden person they should never be used. Some folks accustom themselves to sleep under heavy clothing. Anecdotes are related of travellers who are unable to sleep under a French duvet unless weighted by the superposition of an open portmanteau, and of agricultural poor who, in default of warmer covering, place a...