Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — Comfortable Beds. [ARTICLE]

Comfortable Beds.

Mattress and pillow used fn the berths of sailors and firemen aboard government-operated merchant vessels are of the most approved type for sea use, for besides making good bedding, they'are the best sort of life preservers. Their filling is a soft, resilient tropical fiber known as kapoC, which can sustain 25 times its own weight In salt water for -|8 hours. On bach of the new merchant ships built under the direction of the United States shipping board, s'hower bflths are provided for the crew, there being one for the firemen and another for the deck force,—Merchant (Marine.