Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — No Use for a Bed. [ARTICLE]

No Use for a Bed.

“I have never slept in a bed since the war,” remarked an old soldier recently. “The reason,” he continued, “is not because lam a crank. I simply am unable to go to sleep in a bed, and for twenty years I have not tried. During the war I was in service four years, and in all that time never slept in a bed. I had no home and consequently had no furloughs. The habit of rolling in a blanket and sleeping grew so fixed with me that when I got back from the war and settled down a bed was a nuisance. I have rolled and tossed and tried hard to sleep night after night, but was not able to keep my eyes closed until I sought the floor. For ten years I have tried to reconcile myself to a bed, but it was no use. Finally I gave it up, and now in my home in Boston I sleep in a room in which there is no bed. I simply roll myself in a blanket or two, according to the temperature, and I sleep soundly. My health is good, and I am sure that I shall live just as long as if I slept on a down mattress.”