Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — The Beds of Royalty. [ARTICLE]

The Beds of Royalty.

Clarence House is one of the most comfortable houses in London, and is famous for its good beds, for the only daughter of Alexander 11. of Russia is, like many Muscovit-*- very particular about her beds, and wiil tolerate in her house none but the very best. Even when a mere child, and long before her marriage, she was so particular about this very important item in domestic comfort that, to insure the sheets being tightly stretched over the mattress, she used to have them sewn down, for even the slightest crease or wrinkle would entirely destroy the repose of this imperial spoilt child for the night. Her Royal Highness used to be greatly chaffed al>out this weakness by members of our royal family when first she came to this country, but the Queen, who is also very particular about her beds, stuck up for her, and, although now the sheets are no longer sewn down to the mattress, they are composed, of the most exquisitely fine linen that can be procured, and stretched like a tight rope over the most perfect mattresses that can be manufactured in Paris, in which capital the making of mattresses has been brought up to the level of a fine art.

A curious aud amusing chapter might indeed be written about the bedrooms of illustrious personages. The ex-Em-press Eugenie is quite as particular about her beds as the Duchess of Edinburgh or our gracious sovereign, and quite agrees with the first-named lady as to the fineness of the linen and the tightness of the drawing of the sheets, but her Imperial Majesty has an odd fancy to have her bed so low as to give a visitor to the imperial bedchamber the impression that the widow of Ciesar is almost sleeping on the floor. It is, indeed, hardly elevated more than a foot from the floor, as all who have visited in old days the private apartments at St. Cloud, Compiegne, and the Tuileries will remember. Another curious bed is that of Sarah Bernhardt. It is nearly fifteen feet broad, and when the great comedienne is indisposed and receives her intimate friends reposing on her couch, she looks like a little gold-en-liaired bird lost in a great sea of white satin.— Modei'n Society. What In the world Is the use of sitting around waiting for something to turn up? You might just as well sit down in the meadow and wait for the cow tQ come up to be milked. Get up and shake yourself and make up your mind to turn up something. If you have nothing delinite in your mind, then write to 15. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., and they will tell you a thing or two that will make you jump for joy.