Healthful Beds | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1875

Healthful Beds.

GERMANY excels any other country with which I am familiar in the cleanliness of its beds. It seems as much a part of yearly house-cleaning with them to have the hair removed from the mattresses, to have it well beaten and sunned, and the cover washed, as it is with us to have carpets whipped and freed from their disease-begetting dust. I grant that it would be a difficult and expensive undertaking for an American housekeeper, for skilled laborers are rare, and when found must be well paid, as they should be. Knowing the obstacle, then, in the way of a thorough renovation of our beds, we should take all the more care to protect and air them. Every bed should have especially made for it, the size of a tick, a white, tacked comforter, not too thick, so as to be unmanageable in washing; over this the sheet is spread. Every bed in daily use should be subjected to the purifying rays of the sun at least once a week, and should be left open for the reception of air and light some time before being made up. Beds not frequently used are often found very musty and disagreeable to guests. The parlor beds that swallow their own contents by a magic touch, are fair without, but in time, for the lack of proper airing, they become foul within.—Science of Health.