People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — NEW VIEW OF HALL BEDROOM. [ARTICLE]

NEW VIEW OF HALL BEDROOM.

How It Appears in the Eyes of an Old Soldier. “The hall bedroom has always seemed to me rather a spacious and comfortable apartment than otherwise,” said qn old soldier. “This feeling ■is due, I suppose, in some degree, to more or less experience of still smaller quarters. Whoever has slept under a shelter tent, for instance, where he has had to lie on edge to get any shelter at all, will easily realize that the hall bedroom may seem a fine room, indeed. And as compared with even the A tent, seven feet square at the base and rising, wedge-shaped, seven feet to the ridge pole, in which four men commonly slept, and sometimes five, the hall bedroom has greatly the advantage. At the same time it is undoubtedly better to sleep in an A tent than outdoors, though one does get there a very much bigger room. But it is a room that has its drawbacks. It is sure, for one thing, to be damp and uncomfortable in case of rain, and in reality you would prefer a smaller room that was less leaky. No. The hall bedroom does not seem to me to be the worst thing in the world; and when you come to add that by the very nature of things the dweller in it has no guard duty to do, and no picket duty, and no fighting: that in it he lives as it were in a state of perpetual arbitration, why, you can readily see how it would be quite possible for it to appear acceptable in some eyes.”